Japanese–European research team discovers novel genetic mitochondrial disorder

Japanese-European team of scientists, including researchers from Fujita Health University, describe mutations in the&n...

April 19, 2021 | Monday | News
Singapore develops innovative non-integrating CAR T vector system

Proteona, a Singapore-based single-cell precision medicine company, has announced the publication of the results of a lo...

April 16, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan invents novel cell therapy for type I diabetes mellitus

Researchers from The University of Tokyo have developed a novel device for the safe and effective long-term transplant...

April 16, 2021 | Friday | News
Scotland researchers deploy AI to automate tumor assessment in CT scans

Canon Medical Research Europe, a Scottish firm specializing in next-generation medical imaging software, and the Univers...

April 14, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore studies risk of blood clot formation in COVID-19 patients

People who have recovered from COVID-19, especially those with pre-existing cardiovascular conditions, may be at risk of...

April 14, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea’s SNU Medicine bags $50K ATMI Grant by Terumo

Singapore's 'Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies' has announced its Asia Pacific Advanced Therapy Manufacturing & Inn...

April 12, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea pushes R&D of infectious disease therapeutics and vaccines

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and the Institut Pasteur Korea (IPK) have signed a memorandum of understanding...

April 12, 2021 | Monday | News
Hyundai Bioscience repurposes Niclosamide for treating intractable diseases

A research paper by a South Korean biotech company Hyundai Bioscience that demonstrated the drug repurposing of Nic...

April 9, 2021 | Friday | News
Personalized Cancer Treatment – the New Way of Treating the Patient of Tomorrow

There are predictions that the number of cancer cases in Asia will keep rising, as people in this region become wealthie...

April 8, 2021 | Thursday | Opinion
Australia conducts world-first precision-based medicine therapy for brain lymphoma

An Australian research team conducted the world-first precision-based medicine therapy to cure brain lymphoma at th...

April 8, 2021 | Thursday | News
International researchers identifies a globally accessible treatment strategy for COVID-19

An international research collaboration involving researchers from the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (...

April 1, 2021 | Thursday | News
AbCellera, Gilead Sciences to expedite multi-target antibody discovery programs

British Columbia-based biotechnology firm, AbCellera announced agreements to expand its collaboration with Gilead S...

April 6, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore creates Magnesium-based bioresorbable implant technology for surgeries

SRS Life Sciences, a global company headquartered in Singapore focused on lessening disease burden across emerging natio...

April 8, 2021 | Thursday | News
Daiichi Sankyo starts Ph 1 Trial for Nafamostat Inhalation Formulation to treat COVID-19

Daiichi Sankyo, based in Japan, has announced that it has initiated in Japan a first-in-human phase 1 trial for nafamost...

April 5, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea invents soft brain implant for treating neuro diseases

Researchers have invented a smartphone-controlled soft-brain implant that can be recharged wirelessly from outside the b...

April 1, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia's Starpharma's launches COVID-19 antiviral nasal spray VIRALEZE in the UK

Melbourne-based biotech Starpharma has launched its antiviral nasal spray VIRALEZE™ into the UK via a large nation...

April 1, 2021 | Thursday | News
Gracell Bio leverages Lonza's expertise in CAR-T cell therapy manufacturing

China based Gracell Biotechnologies Inc., a global clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering and...

April 1, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore creates 3D models to fine-tune radiation dose for nasopharyngeal cancer

Singapore, A*STAR’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) has teamed up with Singapore Institute of...

March 31, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Bright Peak Therapeutics and Ajinomoto to create novel immunocytokines

Bright Peak Therapeutics Inc., a biotechnology company developing next-generation immunotherapies for cancer and autoimm...

March 26, 2021 | Friday | News
POSTECH produces artificial lung model using 3D printing

Scientists at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea have succeeded in producing ...

March 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore SMART researchers develop rapid immune-profiling assay

Researchers from Critical Analytics for Manufacturing Personalized-Medicine (CAMP), an Interdisciplinary Research...

March 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore study reveals variation in SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody longevity

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School, the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and the Agency for Science, ...

March 24, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore develops AI platform to assess blood vessel anomalies

An international team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), Brown Un...

March 24, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia invests $2.6 M in life-improving research for brain cancer survivors

The Australian government is providing $2.6 million to researchers at the University of Melbourne to use the latest info...

March 23, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore finds way to improve treatment outcomes for breast cancer

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide and the second most common cancer overall. Although...

March 19, 2021 | Friday | News
Cancer drug delivery system receives US FDA approval for trials

A first-in-class cancer drug delivery system developed by Taiwan's National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) has receiv...

March 18, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea identifies genetic pathway that suppresses neurodegenerative diseases

Nucleocytoplasmic transport (NCT) defects have been implicated in neurodegenerative diseases, such as C9ORF72-associated...

March 17, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Govt launches $15 M grant for development of innovative therapies for mental illness

The Australian government is launching a $15 million competitive grant round to kick start Australian clinical trials ex...

March 17, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore identifies chemotherapy-resistant cancers’ escape mechanism

ETC-159, a made-in-Singapore anti-cancer drug that is currently in early phase clinical trials for use in a subset ...

March 16, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Fujitsu, Kyoto University build AI system to detect genetic disorders

Fujitsu Limited and Kyoto University research group led by Professor Yasushi Okuno of the Kyoto University Graduate Scho...

March 15, 2021 | Monday | News
HSA approves first commercial CAR-T therapy by Novartis

Novartis has announced that Singapore Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has approved Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel) as th...

March 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Setsuro Tech gets access to ERS Genomics’ CRISPR/Cas9 patent portfolio for Japan

ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property co-...

March 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Hong Kong unveils next-gen drug for cancers associated with Epstein–Barr virus

A Hong Kong Baptist University-led (HKBU) research team has developed a novel drug which has the potential to ...

March 3, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia invests $100 M for major advances in medical research technology

The Australian Government is investing $100 million into the development of new technologies to improve diagnosis and tr...

February 26, 2021 | Friday | News
Korean, Swiss firms leverage oncology expertise to initiate research collaboration

Genome & Company, a global leading immuno-oncology firm based in South Korea, and Debiopharm, a Swiss-based biopharm...

February 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
Whole-genome sequencing improves diagnosis of broader range of genetic diseases

Illumina, Inc. on Feb 19, 2021 announced an agreement with the Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics at the...

February 19, 2021 | Friday | News
Taiwan reveals new findings to treat Parkinson's disease

Bened Biomedical, a leading Taiwanese probiotic company, has announced a successful clinical study for its PS128 psychob...

February 19, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan discovers potential therapeutic stem cells to cure neurodegenerative disease

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease resulting in the gradual loss of motor nerve cells (n...

February 17, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Bia-Echo Foundation invests $8M in Singapore to study women’s reproductive longevity

The Centre, to be established at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at Singapore's National University of Singapore (NU...

February 16, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore discovers brain enzyme that activates dormant neural stem cells

Singapore's Duke-NUS Medical School researchers studying an enzyme in fruit fly larvae have found that it plays an ...

February 12, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia invests $8 M for research into neurofibromatosis

The Australian Government is investing $8 million to support the Children’s Tumour Foundation and research into ne...

February 11, 2021 | Thursday | News
Olympus supports dissemination of endoscopic procedures for Colorectal Cancer in Russia

Olympus Corporation announced on Feb 4, 2021 that it has been selected by Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare...

February 9, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan invests in development program for skin microbiome

MyBiotics Pharma, a microbiome therapeutics company based in Israel, announced that it has received an investment from&n...

February 8, 2021 | Monday | News
Thermo Fisher, JW Therapeutics announce CAR-T partnership in China

Thermo Fisher Scientific has signed an agreement with JW Therapeutics, a leading cell therapy company, to ensure non-exc...

February 4, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore provides important clinical implications for COVID-19 management

Antibodies and T cells are components of the human immune system that directly act against viral infections and eliminat...

February 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore designs tool to investigate hospital borne bacterial infections

Researchers from the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-M...

January 28, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore designs armoured anti-cancer T cells against immunosuppressants

Duke-NUS Medical School researchers, together with collaborators in Singapore, have designed armoured immune cells that ...

January 19, 2021 | Tuesday | News
TenNor, Janssen plan new treatments for non-tuberculous mycobacteria diseases

TenNor Therapeutics (Suzhou) Limited, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to research and development o...

January 19, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore finds new mechanism of cancer formation

A team of scientists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) led by Dr Polly Leilei Chen from the C...

January 15, 2021 | Friday | News
PharmAbcine Inc collaborates with LegoChem for R&D of ADCs

PharmAbcine Inc, a clinical-stage biotech company focusing on the development of fully human antibody therapeutics, ...

January 12, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia puts $38 M for research into diabetes, heart disease

Two new medical research centres will be funded by the Australian government to produce rapid improvements in preventing...

January 12, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia reports new defence against mosquito-borne viruses

A team of researchers at Australia's The University of Queensland, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences ha...

January 11, 2021 | Monday | News
Merck acquires AmpTec expanding mRNA capabilities for vaccines and diagnostics

Merck, a leading science and technology company, on Jan 7, 2021 announced the acquisition of Am...

January 8, 2021 | Friday | News
India identifies genetic link for heart disease & diabetes among South Asians

Heart failure is a leading cause of death worldwide, shown to increasingly affect young individuals below the age of 40....

January 8, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore launches spin-off to develop treatment for intractable diseases

The Experimental Drug Development Centre (EDDC), a national platform for drug discovery and development hosted by A*STAR...

December 24, 2020 | Thursday | News
Alterity, UniQuest team up to reverse bacterial resistance to antibiotics

Alterity Therapeutics has announced it has been granted a licence by UniQuest, the commercialisation company of The ...

December 22, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Harbour BioMed licenses SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing Ab to AbbVie for COVID-19 treatment

China based Harbour BioMed and Utrecht University in the Netherlands have announced that they licensed to American firm ...

December 22, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Sosei Heptares and GSK target immune disorders of digestive system

Japanese firm Sosei Group Corporation has announced that it has entered into a global collaboration and license agr...

December 21, 2020 | Monday | News
GenScript and InnoBation enter into agreement for CAR-T therapy

A global leading biotech company GenScript Biotech Corporation announces that it has reached the agreement for cell line...

December 18, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia, UK focus on respiratory complications in recovered Covid-19 patients

CN Bio, a leading cell culture company based in the UK, has announced a collaboration with the University of Melbourne i...

December 17, 2020 | Thursday | News
Alvotech and Fuji Pharma extend biosimilar partnership in Japan

Alvotech and Japanese pharmaceutical company Fuji Pharma have announced that they have agreed on an extension on their e...

December 16, 2020 | Wednesday | News
RoosterBio inks agreement with Sartorius Korea Biotech

RoosterBio, Inc, a leading supplier of innovative cellular therapy bioprocess tools and scalable manufacturing solutions...

December 7, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore discovers role of protein in detecting common cold virus

The role of a protein in detecting the common cold virus and kickstarting an immune response to fight infection has been...

December 2, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan's AP Biosciences and LuminX develops novel cancer treatments

Taiwan's AP Biosciences and LuminX are accelerating the development of drugs and therapies for innovative cancer treatme...

December 1, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore selectively targets pathogenic bacteria using lysins

Researchers from the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-M...

December 1, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan announces breakthrough in AML treatment

Golden Biotechnology Corp., a leading Taiwanese biopharmaceutical company, announces that its new drug Antroquinonol (HO...

November 27, 2020 | Friday | News
Korea develops technology to reverse skin cell aging

Amorepacific R&D Center, together with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), developed a...

November 27, 2020 | Friday | News
Israel discovers antibody combo to fight COVID-19

Researchers at the Laboratory of Human Antibody Research at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine have...

November 26, 2020 | Thursday | News
Pfizer, LianBio collaborate to bring novel therapeutics in Greater China

US-based Pfizer, Inc. and Shanghai-based LianBio have recently announced that they have entered into a collaboration aim...

November 20, 2020 | Friday | News
AUM, Newsoara Biopharma to co-develop next-gen cancer therapeutics

AUM Biosciences (AUM), a global, clinical-stage healthcare company based in Singapore, focused on discovering, acquiring...

November 20, 2020 | Friday | News
Taiwan discovers new gastric cancer biomarkers for tailored therapy

A research team led by Professor Wang Wen-ching of the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Tsing Hua U...

November 17, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore reveals novel method for cancer treatment

Researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singa...

November 16, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia evaluates hyperimmune immunoglobulin treatment for COVID-19

Researchers from the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney, Australia together with colleagues in the United States and Europ...

November 9, 2020 | Monday | News
Celltrion's anti-COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment candidate looks promising

Korea's Celltrion Group on 5 Nov 2020 announced results from the ongoing Phase I clinical trial of CT-P59, an anti-COVID...

November 9, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore's single-cell precision medicine company 'Proteona' wins Start-up award

Singapore single cell precision medicine company Proteona has been selected as one of the ten winners of Falling Walls B...

November 9, 2020 | Monday | News
Taiwan accelerates pace of gene-editing technologies into clinical settings

In research endeavors to find a cure for many diseases, CRISPR/Cas9 has becoming a precise tool to modify the DNA in mic...

November 6, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia designs model to link heart disease with T2D

Researchers from Australia's University of Sydney’s School of Project Management within the Faculty...

November 4, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Avatamed, Macrogen focus on personalized precision medicine services in cancer treatment

AVATAMED, a precision medicine service company based in Singapore, represented by CEO Hong Boon Toh, has enter...

November 4, 2020 | Wednesday | News
SK Biopharma and LifeSci Venture Partners to push open innovation

SK Biopharmaceuticals, a global innovative pharmaceutical company based in South Korea, has announced that the company h...

November 4, 2020 | Wednesday | News
PerkinElmer to acquire Horizon Discovery for $383M

PerkinElmer, Inc. and Horizon Discovery Group plc have announced that they have reached an agreement on t...

November 2, 2020 | Monday | News
Ocumension strengthens pipeline for posterior segment eye diseases in China

Hong Kong's Ocumension Therapeutics announced that the Company has entered into a collaboration and exclusive ...

October 30, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore develops new gelatin microcarrier for cell production

Researchers from Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise i...

October 29, 2020 | Thursday | News
Samsung Biologics partners with Dinona for potential COVID-19 treatment

Samsung Biologics has entered into a partnership agreement with biotech Dinona, further expanding its CDO capabilities t...

October 21, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Axis Therapeutics, PharmaEssentia focus on providing TCR-T cell therapy in Taiwan

Axis Therapeutics Limited based in the US and Hong Kong, a joint venture between Athenex, Inc. and Xiangxue Life Science...

October 15, 2020 | Thursday | News
Merck launches VirusExpress platform to push cell and gene therapies

Merck has bolstered its viral vector manufacturing capabilities with the launch of its VirusExpress™ Lentivir...

October 14, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Antengene partners with WuXi Biologics for innovative oncology medicines

Antengene Corporation, a leading innovative biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercia...

October 14, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Korean startup Kanaph Therapeutics closes $21M Series B funding

Kanaph Therapeutics, a leading biotech in oncology, auto-immune, and eye diseases with large molecules and small molecul...

October 14, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Korea develops method to detect COVID-19 RNAs in 30 min

A joint Korean research team comprised of Professor Jeong Wook Lee and Ph.D. candidate Chang Ha Woo and Professor Gyoo Y...

October 12, 2020 | Monday | News
Bone Therapeutics introduces bone cell therapy platform in China & Southeast Asia

Bone Therapeutics, the cell therapy company based in Belgium addressing unmet medical needs in orthopedics and other dis...

October 12, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia leads project on pain research

Why back pain persists in some cases but not others will be the focus of an international study, which has received more...

October 12, 2020 | Monday | News
Gilead to present antiretroviral therapies at virtual APACC 2020 conference

Gilead Sciences, Inc. on 9 Oct 2020 announced that four abstracts have been selected for poster presentations at th...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | News
Taiwan brings hope for improving dementia treatment

A research team led by Professor Sun Yuh-Ju of the Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology, National Tsing Hu...

October 7, 2020 | Wednesday | News

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