etherna Immunotherapies and Dropshot Therapeutics Partner in $950M Deal to Drive RNA Therapeutic Innovation

etherna immunotherapies NV (“etherna”), a technology platform leader pioneering mRNA and lipid-based nanopar...

January 10, 2025 | Friday | News
Abu Dhabi announces AED 19 M in grants through Healthcare Research and Innovation Fund

The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH), the regulator of the healthcare sector in the Emirate, in partnership ...

January 7, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Singapore boosts chemotherapy uptake in breast cancer treatment with localised magnetic fields

Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a non-invasive method to improve the effectiven...

January 6, 2025 | Monday | News
Entrepreneur of the year 2024- Dr Jogin Desai (Eyestem Research)

A native of Ahmedabad and an expert in the field of drug development, Dr Jogin Desai incorporated his startup Eyestem Re...

January 2, 2025 | Thursday | Analysis
Australian startups receive $18.5 M to commercialise research to cure blindness, find cancer, and make childbirth safer

The Australian government is investing $18.5 million to help eight Australian startup companies to commercialise their r...

December 23, 2024 | Monday | News
Singapore bioengineers yeast microbes as targeted drug delivery systems

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) in Singapore have developed a groundbreaking way to ...

December 18, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Major milestone for UQ spin-out’s promising MND drug in Australia

A potential new treatment for motor neurone disease (MND) developed by a company spun-out of The University of Queenslan...

December 11, 2024 | Wednesday | News
First international progressive supranuclear palsy research and treatment centre opens in Korea

Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH), CurePSP, Inc. and GemVax & KAEL Co., have announced the est...

December 9, 2024 | Monday | News
Alamar Biosciences establishes commercial presence in Asia Pacific region

Alamar Biosciences, a company powering precision proteomics to enable the earliest detection of disease, has announced i...

December 7, 2024 | Saturday | News
World-first cream to treat skin cancer moves closer to reality

A topical cream to help prevent and treat skin cancers in organ transplant patients is a step closer to development. The...

November 30, 2024 | Saturday | News
Australian government invests $50 M towards finding cure for Type 1 diabetes

The Albanese government is supporting the next phase of the search for a cure for Type 1 Diabetes through a $50.1 millio...

November 28, 2024 | Thursday | News
CADENCE and Medera launch Asia’s First Multi-Centre Gene Therapy Trial in Singapore for Heart failure

The Cardiovascular Disease National Collaborative Enterprise (CADENCE) and Medera Inc. (“Merdera”)’s S...

November 19, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Kaken Pharmaceutical and Numab Therapeutics collaborate on inflammatory bowel disease treatment

Numab Therapeutics AG, a clinical stage biotechnology company advancing a proprietary pipeline of multi-specific antibod...

November 15, 2024 | Friday | News
Lilly expands R&D footprint in Singapore with S$42 M investment in new Digital Health Innovation Hub

Lilly Digital Health and Lilly Centre for Clinical Pharmacology (LCCP), a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S.-based Eli Lill...

November 14, 2024 | Thursday | News
Scientists in Singapore use microcellular drones to deliver lung cancer-killing drugs

A team of researchers, led by Assistant Professor Minh Le from the Institute for Digital Medicine (WisDM) and Department...

November 13, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Singapore's Duke-NUS research unlocks precision therapy for drug-resistant leukaemia

Scientists from Singapore's Duke-NUS Medical School and their collaborators have identified an inherited genetic variati...

November 7, 2024 | Thursday | News
“Moving forward, cancer may not be a death threat but a manageable disease with strong control”

Could you explain more about the advantages of using iPSCs from cord blood for creating your ‘off-the-shelf’...

October 31, 2024 | Thursday | Opinion
Digital Innovations in Diabetes Care

Diabetes affects 1 in 11 adults, or about 90 million people, in South-East Asia, with this number projected to rise to 1...

October 31, 2024 | Thursday | Analysis
Merck invests $76 M to expand ADC manufacturing for novel cancer therapies

MilliporeSigma, the US and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, has announced a $76 million e...

October 30, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Seaport Therapeutics secures $225 M funding to develop neuropsychiatric medicines using prodrug technology

The clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, Seaport Therapeutics, which uses a unique drug delivery platform orig...

October 26, 2024 | Saturday | News
HELP Therapeutics Secures FDA Approval for Phase I Study of HiCM-188 in Heart Failure Treatment

HELP Therapeutics Co. Ltd, a clinical-stage cell therapy company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administrat...

October 22, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Isolere Bio by Donaldson Launches Research-Grade IsoTag™ AAV Reagent for Rapid, Non-Chromatographic Viral Vector Purification

Isolere Bio by Donaldson, an innovative bioprocessing technology provider, proudly announces the availability of researc...

October 18, 2024 | Friday | News
Singapore discovers novel gene therapy offering hope for epilepsy patients

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) are working on a t...

October 15, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Caring Cross Champions Healthcare Equity: Dr. Boro Dropulić on Reshaping CAR-T Cell Therapies Through Decentralized Manufacturing

In a candid conversation with Ankit Kankar from BioSpectrum Asia, Dr. Boro Dropulić, Executive Director of Caring Cross...

October 14, 2024 | Monday | News
CEPI supports advancement of open-access coronavirus vaccines R&D roadmap with $3.2 M funding

The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota, US will receive $3.2 mill...

October 13, 2024 | Sunday | News
National University of Singapore and Imperial College London establish major research partnership

National University of Singapore (NUS) and Imperial College London have announced a new partnership to strengthen resear...

October 13, 2024 | Sunday | News
Andelyn Biosciences Chosen by Hubble Therapeutics to Manufacture Gene Therapy for Rare Childhood Blindness Disorder

 Andelyn Biosciences, Inc., a leading and patient-focused cell and gene therapy Contract Development and Manufactur...

October 11, 2024 | Friday | News
$18 M investment for world-first Australian research project for heart attack protection

The government is investing almost $18 million in a world-first Australian research project that will trial a drug disco...

October 7, 2024 | Monday | News
Singapore strategises advance modalities for cancer- and age-related muscle degeneration

The global population is aging rapidly, and sarcopenia, a condition that severely diminishes quality of life in older ad...

September 26, 2024 | Thursday | News
Bio-Sourcing secures EIC Accelerator funding to enhance biomanufacturing

Bio-Sourcing, a pioneering Belgian biotherapeutic company, announces the award of €2.5M in grants and €10M in ...

September 24, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics Asia 2024: A Premier Gathering for Cutting-Edge Antibody Research and Innovation

Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics Asia: Date: October 21 – 23, 2024Location: The Westin Miyako Kyoto Antib...

September 1, 2024 | Sunday | News
Australia designs world first wearable device to record impact of artificial light for sound sleep

In a world first, a new wearable device developed by Australia's Monash University researchers will help to record the i...

August 25, 2024 | Sunday | News
Singapore approves GSK's Jemperli plus chemotherapy as first frontline immuno-oncology treatment

GSK Singapore has announced that the Singapore Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has approved a new indication for Jemperl...

August 8, 2024 | Thursday | News
Andelyn Biosciences Expands AAV Curator™ Platform with Broad Institute's MyoAAV Plasmids

Andelyn Biosciences, Inc., a leading and patient-focused cell and gene therapy Contract Development and Manufacturing Or...

August 7, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Abu Dhabi announces first gene transfer therapy for duchenne muscular dystrophy

Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH) has provided revolutionary gene transfer therapy for Duchenne muscular dyst...

August 6, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Boston Oncology to advance localised cell and gene therapies in Saudi Arabia

Under an important initiative aimed at transforming healthcare in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Boston Oncology and King ...

August 2, 2024 | Friday | News
Singapore MOH includes Roche’s spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) drug in MAF framework

EVRYSDI® (risdiplam) has been added to the Singapore Ministry of Health’s (MOH) list of medicines covered...

August 1, 2024 | Thursday | News
Addressing Root Causes of Brain Disorders with Innovative Therapeutics

The global CNS disorders market, in 2022, was valued at $116 billion, ranking it as the fourth largest therapy area behi...

August 1, 2024 | Thursday | Analysis
Hong Kong researchers suggest novel treatment approaches for glaucoma

Dr Samantha SHAN, Research Assistant Professor of the School of Optometry of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU...

July 27, 2024 | Saturday | News
China-based startup Triastek to advance 3D printed oral RNA therapeutics in $1.2 B deal with BioNTech

Triastek Inc., a global leader in 3D printing pharmaceuticals, has entered into a research collaboration and platform te...

July 23, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Australia, UK develop new antidote for snake bites using CRISPR technology

Scientists at the University of Sydney, Australia and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK have made a remarkable d...

July 23, 2024 | Tuesday | News
GC Cell, Lukas jointly tap into innovative cell therapy in Korea and Taiwan

GC Cell Corporation and Taiwan-based Lukas Biomedical has formally signed an international strategic cooperation agreeme...

July 22, 2024 | Monday | News
Funding boost for study on early childhood allergies in Singapore

A team of scientists led by Associate Professor Ashley St John from Duke-NUS’ Emerging Infectious D...

July 15, 2024 | Monday | News
Researchers from Japan discover new enzyme with promising antibacterial activity

Acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) is a medical condition that occurs when donor immune cells attack the recipient'...

July 15, 2024 | Monday | News
Hong Kong identifies novel gut microbiome biomarkers to facilitate diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)'s Faculty of Medicine (CU Medicine) has conducted a large cohort study among ...

July 12, 2024 | Friday | News
TMS partners with Hokkaido University in Japan to develop treatment for spinal cord injury

TMS Co. has entered into an exclusive worldwide license agreement with Hokkaido University concerning a therapeuti...

July 9, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Australia-India strategic research fund lays focus on combatting AMR and microbial infections

Union Minister for Science and Technology, Government of India, Dr Jitendra Singh has unveiled the results of the 15th r...

July 5, 2024 | Friday | News
Australia develops new transparent blood vessel-on-a-chip

A University of Sydney team have successfully created a transparent microchip with the potential to reduce the testing o...

July 3, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Scientists in Singapore discover unexpected molecular heterogeneity in same liver tumours, provide better understanding of disease

A study led by clinician-scientists and scientists from the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) and A*STAR’s G...

June 24, 2024 | Monday | News
Hong Kong develops innovative mRNA drug for treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a cancer type strongly associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection. The Chinese...

June 21, 2024 | Friday | News
New biotech company in Australia to tackle hard-to-treat cancers

A new biotech company launched on 18th June in Australia will use a world-leading technology to target cancers that are ...

June 18, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Thermo Fisher, NUH, Mirxes collaborate to enhance access to early cancer detection genomic tests in Singapore

To increase patient access to affordable, advanced genomic testing for cancer in Singapore, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc...

June 14, 2024 | Friday | News
Emergence of Cell and Gene Therapy Community in Singapore

Having previously pivoted towards medical devices more than 10 years ago, Singapore has recently seen a biotech resurgen...

June 14, 2024 | Friday | Opinion
Breakthrough research in New Zealand offers hope for treating aggressive leukaemia

Researchers at University of Auckland in New Zealand are working on an innovative way to treat an aggressive blood cance...

June 13, 2024 | Thursday | News
Australia to invest $5 M over next 4 years to prevent rheumatic heart disease across Pacific

While in Geneva to advance Australia’s interests at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health Assem...

June 11, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Novartis partners with Abu Dhabi govt to advance genomics research in oncology

The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH), the regulator of the healthcare sector in the Emirate, has signed a Me...

June 7, 2024 | Friday | News
Singapore's NUS Medicine researchers engineer bacteria for targeted chemotherapy delivery

Traditional chemotherapy often poses significant challenges, including severe side effects, damage to healthy tissue and...

June 6, 2024 | Thursday | News
Singapore-Japan team finds common virus that triggers growth of nasopharyngeal cancer

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Chiba University in Japan have shown how...

June 6, 2024 | Thursday | News
Evolving Market Dynamics in Biopharma and Genomic Medicines

Precision medicine is becoming more prevalent, with pharmaceutical companies and healthcare regimen to develop highly ta...

June 5, 2024 | Wednesday | Opinion
Abu Dhabi government collaborates with Pfizer to advance research in sickle cell disease

The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH), the regulator of the healthcare sector in the Emirate, ...

June 4, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Singapore study reveals surprising twist in how diabetes drugs help the heart

A randomised, placebo-controlled clinical trial led by a collaboration between Duke-NUS Medical School, National Heart C...

May 31, 2024 | Friday | News
OBiO Tech launches Clinical Evaluation and Translation Centre for rare diseases in China

OBiO Technology, a world leading contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) for cell and gene thera...

May 30, 2024 | Thursday | News
Evotec and CHDI Extend 20-Year Collaboration to Advance Huntington’s Disease Therapeutics

Longstanding alliance between Evotec and CHDI to enable the development of therapeutics for Huntington’s disease...

May 30, 2024 | Thursday | News
Astatine to emerge as Japan-originated therapy for prostate cancer patients

A research team at Osaka University, Japan will start an investigator-initiated clinical trial for refractory prostate c...

May 28, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Singapore designs new genetic tool to investigate brain function and psychiatric disorders

Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore have found that a new class of light-sensitive proteins are capabl...

May 24, 2024 | Friday | News
Singapore opens doors for new developments in cancer biomarker discovery

A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Alfredo Franco-Obregón from the NUS Institute for Health Innovat...

May 22, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Traverse the rapid evolution of AI in combating the pediatric myopia epidemic in Asia

The urgency to address the myopia epidemic among children has never been more pressing. Recent studies reveal an al...

May 21, 2024 | Tuesday | Opinion
Australia launches new specialist ophthalmic clinical trial facility

To mark World Clinical Trials Day on May 20, Victorian Deputy Premier and Minister for Medical Research, Ben Carro...

May 21, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Singapore's AI potential and prospects to emerge as a premier clinical trials hub

As Asia establishes itself as the global hub for clinical trials, Singapore is bolstering its position as the preferred ...

May 17, 2024 | Friday | Opinion
Achieving optimal therapeutic modalities for NCDs in the APMA region

The Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMA) region represents almost half of the world's population but healthcare a...

May 16, 2024 | Thursday | Opinion
Singapore approves J&J's Bispecific Antibody treatment for Multiple Myeloma

Johnson & Johnson’s first-in-class, bispecific B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)-directed CD3 T-cell-redirectin...

May 15, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Singapore unveils first public-private partnership center for speciality molecular testing

Singapore's National University Hospital (NUH) and leading RNA technology company, Mirxes have officialy unveiled the NU...

May 13, 2024 | Monday | Company results
Singapore suggests repurposing of existing cancer drugs to treat aggressive brain cancer

Glioblastoma is an often fatal form of brain cancer, with only five per cent of patients surviving beyond five years. Th...

May 13, 2024 | Monday | News
New biotech research and manufacturing hub opens at University of Queensland, Australia

A range of hyper accurate cancer drugs is in production at a newly opened research and manufacturing hub at The Universi...

May 10, 2024 | Friday | News
RBobay Pharma boosts CRDMO offerings with Cytiva's FlexFactory platform

Ribobay Pharma, a leading Chinese biopharmaceutical contract research, development, and manufacturing organization (CRDM...

May 9, 2024 | Thursday | News
Navigation and evaluation of the 'Long COVID' impact on Asia's public health

The SARS CoV-2 infection can cause a wide range of recurring or persistent health concerns among the populations infecte...

May 8, 2024 | Wednesday | Opinion
Singapore scientists develop high-precision tissue analysis AI tool to support drug discovery, diagnosis

A team of scientists from A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and Bioinformatics Institute (BII) has deve...

May 8, 2024 | Wednesday | News
GIBF invests $10 M in Israel-based startup Nectin Therapeutics to advance Antibody Drug Conjugates

Guangzhou-Israel Biotechnology Fund (GIBF) has invested $10 million in Nectin Therapeutics. Israel-b...

May 6, 2024 | Monday | News
An integrated approach to combat canine rabies in Southeast Asia

Rabies is a neglected zoonotic disease caused by RNA virus from Rhabdoviridae family, potentially fatal if not treated. ...

May 6, 2024 | Monday | Opinion
Singapore unveils ways for novel therapeutic interventions in Alzheimer’s disease

In a groundbreaking study published in Cell Research, researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the Nation...

May 6, 2024 | Monday | News
Nanotech opens door to future of insulin medication in Australia

Research led by the University of Sydney and Sydney Local Health District has developed a new type of oral insulin bas...

May 3, 2024 | Friday | News
Ora and Singapore Eye Research Institute to propel ophthalmology innovation globally

Ora, Inc., a US-based ophthalmology contract research organisation (CRO), has announced a strategic, exclusive partnersh...

May 3, 2024 | Friday | News
“We are exploring opportunities to collaborate with startups and incubators”

How is Agilent advancing cell and gene therapy modalities to enable next-gen therapeutics and applications? What are A...

May 1, 2024 | Wednesday | Opinion
GenScript Singapore's Open Day reveals pioneering AI capabilities in recombinant protein production and drug discovery

GenScript, a global leader in life sciences and biotechnology, successfully hosted an Open Day event at its Singapore fa...

April 25, 2024 | Thursday | News
Australia invests $152.4 M to nationally boost melanoma care and research

The Paula Fox Melanoma and Cancer Centre, a partnership between Monash University, The Alfred and Minderoo Foundation, i...

April 24, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Hong Kong develops machine learning model to predict risk of severe hypoglycemia in diabetics

In Hong Kong, one in three adults over the age of 65 have diabetes. To improve the management of this group of older adu...

April 23, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Korean firms OSR Holdings and SillaJen ink deal to develop innovative therapies and enter US market

South Korea-based biotech startup OSR Holdings has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with SillaJen, a Kosdaq-li...

April 23, 2024 | Tuesday | News
SCG Cell Therapy and A*STAR launch joint labs for cellular immunotherapies in Singapore

SCG Cell Therapy (SCG) and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have announced the launch joint labo...

April 17, 2024 | Wednesday | News
New centre for digestive health in Singapore to focus on early cancer detection

The National University Hospital (NUH) in Singapore is embarking on a major initiative to establish the N...

April 16, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Australia's Seaport Therapeutics receives funding worth $100 M for development of neuropsychiatric medicines

Seaport Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based around a unique drug delivery platform originally...

April 12, 2024 | Friday | News
Serum Institute of India partners with Univercells to make personalised cancer treatments more accessible

Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, has joined forces with Univercells,...

April 12, 2024 | Friday | News
Global collaboration to combat chronic lung infection

Scientists have discovered a target for the development of a drug to combat a bacterium that can cause chronic lung infe...

April 10, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Monash University in Australia awards innovation grants to propel precision cancer treatment

Monash Partners Comprehensive Cancer Consortium (MPCCC) has announced the recipients of the Precision Treatment Accelera...

April 10, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Ascend Advanced Therapies Acquires CMC Team and Facility in Florida from Beacon Therapeutics

 Ascend Advanced Therapies (Ascend), a total solutions gene therapy development partner, has acquired the CMC ...

April 9, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Singapore scientists grow ‘mini kidneys,’ revealing potential therapy for polycystic kidney disease

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore have successfully grown ‘mini kidneys’ in th...

April 8, 2024 | Monday | News
New Zealand announces new trial for treatment-resistant depression

Researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand are recruiting for a novel trial, combining use of the drug ketami...

April 5, 2024 | Friday | News
New discovery by Australia unravels malaria invasion mechanism

In a significant breakthrough, researchers from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) and...

April 4, 2024 | Thursday | News
Lion TCR partners with NUSGRTII in Singapore to drive innovation in biomedical research

Lion TCR has forged a strategic partnership with the National University of Singapore Guangzhou Research Translation and...

March 28, 2024 | Thursday | News
Breakthrough antibiotic by Singapore shows promise against obstinate mycobacterial infections

Researchers from the Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials (I-FIM) at the National University of Singapore (NUS...

March 28, 2024 | Thursday | News
Charles River extends gene therapy manufacturing alliance with NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in Singapore

US-based Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. and National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Yon...

March 21, 2024 | Thursday | News