Novartis to invest KRW 140 B in Korea’s radioligand therapy ecosystem

The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MoHW), South Korea, and Novartis have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) und...

July 23, 2026 | Thursday | News
China's Greater Bay Area opens first international clinical trial centre

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK); the People’s Government of Nansha District, Guangzhou; and Guangzhou F...

July 22, 2026 | Wednesday | News
ING podcast examines China’s biotech rise and shifting global pharma order

ING has examined the shifting global pharmaceutical landscape in a podcast discussion focused on China’s biotech b...

July 22, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Singapore-based biotech startup Tikva Allocell closes $8 M Series A funding round

Tikva Allocell, a Singapore-based biotechnology startup developing engineered, allogeneic (donor-derived) cell therapies...

July 22, 2026 | Wednesday | News
BIONET Therapeutics Pioneers AI-Powered Exosomes for the Next Era of Precision Medicine

Exosomes are rapidly emerging as one of the most promising frontiers in regenerative medicine, offering the therapeutic ...

July 21, 2026 | Tuesday | Influencers
Australia injects $18 M into novel CAR-T cell therapy

A “precision guided” CAR T-cell therapy designed at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia’s on...

July 21, 2026 | Tuesday | News
BIO Asia–Taiwan 2026: Taiwan’s Strength Lies in Building the Future of Medicine from Every Side

Antibody-drug conjugates, GLP-1, dementia. Three Special Forums at BIO Asia-Taiwan 2026, three unrelated areas of medici...

July 17, 2026 | Friday | Analysis
BIO Asia–Taiwan 2026 Day 3 Round-Up: Biotech’s Next Great Race Begins Where Discovery Ends

On Wednesday the keynote argued that when AI compresses discovery, the constraint simply relocates: to manufacturing, ca...

July 17, 2026 | Friday | Analysis
Taiwan’s Biotech Ambition Gets a Presidential Signal as Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim Visits BIO Asia–Taiwan 2026

  Taiwan’s ambition to become one of Asia’s most consequential biotechnology hubs received a powerful ...

July 17, 2026 | Friday | News
Hong Kong and Indonesia deepen partnership to nurture top-tier scientific talent

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology...

July 17, 2026 | Friday | News
From Science to Scale, Taiwan Stakes Its Claim on the Exosome Economy

BIOSPECTRUM ASIA  ·  DAY TWO ROUND-UP Day 1 belonged to the plenaries and the press. Day 2 was when ...

July 16, 2026 | Thursday | Analysis
Japan's GHIT injects $18 M in Malaria, Tuberculosis and NTD R&D projects

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund has announced a total investment of approximately JPY 2.86 billion (...

July 16, 2026 | Thursday | News
CEPI, University of Oxford and Serum Institute of India launch trials for Bundibugyo ebolavirus vaccine

A CEPI-backed vaccine candidate developed by the University of Oxford’s Oxford Vaccine Group has become the first ...

July 16, 2026 | Thursday | News
Delonix doses first participant in China trial of MenB OMV vaccine

Delonix Bioworks has dosed the first participant in its Phase 1 clinical trial of DX-104, a next-generation Group B meni...

July 14, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Closing cervical cancer implementation gaps through coordinated financing in Asia

Cervical cancer is largely preventable, yet it continues to place a disproportionate burden on women across Asia. The re...

July 14, 2026 | Tuesday | Opinion
GEM and Senhwa Biosciences execute share purchase agreement for up to NT$500 M

US-based GEM Global Yield LLC SCS has executed a Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) with the existing shareholders of Taiwan...

July 15, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Boostimmune secures Japanese patent for sequence-independent TCTP antibody technology

South Korea-based startup Boostimmune has secured a Japanese patent covering technology that uses antibodies to inhibit ...

July 14, 2026 | Tuesday | News
ARIA Bioscience collaborates with A*STAR to explore mitochondria-focused research for longevity aesthetics

ARIA Bioscience, Singapore’s longevity biotech commercialisation firm, is collaborating with the A*STAR Institute ...

July 13, 2026 | Monday | News
Korea's Samsung Bioepis enters into agreement with Proteina for AI-based antibody therapeutics

South Korea-based Samsung Bioepis has entered into a license agreement with Proteina Co. to collaborate on a government-...

July 13, 2026 | Monday | News
Godavari Biorefineries secures Japanese patent for advanced stem-cell targeted anti-cancer molecule

India's Godavari Biorefineries has been granted a patent by the Japan Patent Office for its breakthrough invention, "5-H...

July 9, 2026 | Thursday | News
Aegros builds Australia’s second human plasma fractionation facility

Australian biotech Aegros has completed Australia’s second human plasma fractionation facility, joining CSL’...

July 9, 2026 | Thursday | News
Seegene's global clinical study for shaping disease-specific testing standards to begin in Korea

Seegene has announced the launch of the Global Million Clinical Study (GMCS), aiming to evaluate the clinical utility an...

July 8, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan's HanchorBio teams up with InxMed Shanghai to expand value of lead oncology asset

Taiwan-based HanchorBio, Inc. is taking another step to broaden the development path for HCB101, its lead oncology asset...

July 9, 2026 | Thursday | News
Australia's breakthrough in search for Motor Neurone Disease treatment

Australia-based University of Queensland (UQ) researchers have developed a drug that activates a hard-to-target immune r...

July 8, 2026 | Wednesday | News
The Manufacturing Shift Powering In Vivo Gene Therapy

The rapid expansion of in vivo gene therapy is reshaping expectations for viral vector manufacturing, placing greater em...

July 5, 2026 | Sunday | Influencers