Novartis gets FDA nod for influenza vaccine

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of Flucelvax, an influenza virus vaccine by No...

November 21, 2012 | Wednesday | News
MenAfriVac wins BioSpectrum product award for fight against meningitis

Neisseria meningitidis (meningococcus) is a cause of the contagious bacterial meningitis that can lead to life-threateni...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Sinovac to supply Hep A vaccine for immunization program

Singapore: China vaccine firm, Sinovac Biotech, is selected by Beijing Health Bureau as the sole supplier of inactivated...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
India pledges unabridged eradication of Encephalitis

Singapore: The recent outbreak of Encephalitis in India has claimed 102 children in the past 14 days. Majority of the ca...

June 19, 2014 | Thursday | News
Medicago boosts VLP based vaccine technology

Singapore: Immune Design, a leader in the field of therapeutic vaccines for cancer, infectious diseases and allergy, and...

July 3, 2013 | Wednesday | News
China's Sinovac marks 68% sales rise in Q1 2013

‎Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, has touched sales of $10.1...

May 30, 2013 | Thursday | Company results
Allied increases stake in herpes vaccine firm

Singapore: Australia's Allied Healthcare has increased its holding in the platform vaccine development company, Coridon ...

July 1, 2013 | Monday | News
New vaccines for emerging diseases

China-based start-up company Shanghai BravoBio is dedicated to developing new types of human vaccines to fight against e...

March 22, 2012 | Thursday | News
How Sanofi is using social media for its vaccines

Mumbai: Marketing practices of the pharmaceutical industry have been unlike any other sector, due to the sensitive and ...

October 2, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Dr Weidong Yin: Leading Sinovac's vaccine initiative

In the 1980s, a lot of people in China suffered due to the outbreak of hepatitis A. There was no effective method to con...

March 15, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
BioDiem: WHO deal helped us penetrate China, India

Vaccines along with better hygiene are among the most effective solutions to reduce epidemics. It's a tried and tested f...

October 8, 2012 | Monday | Opinion
BioDiem gets paid for its vaccine technology

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company, BioDiem, has received an early annual ...

February 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
First-ever WHO prequalification for China vaccine firm

Singapore: PATH, a global health nonprofit organization, and China National Biotec Group, a leading vaccine manufacturer...

October 11, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Merck to use Vaxxas platform for vaccine candidate

Singapore: Vaxxas, a biotechnology company commercializing a novel vaccine delivery platform, has initiated a research c...

October 9, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Director of Chinese firm Simcere resigns

Singapore: Mr Gary Siu Kwan Sik, an independent director of China-based Simcere Pharmaceutical, has resigned, effective ...

October 15, 2012 | Monday | News
Sanofi launches JE vaccine in Thailand

Singapore: Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi has introduced its Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccine in Thai...

December 18, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Allied Herpes vaccine progresses to phase I

Singapore: Allied Healthcare has announced that its Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-2) vaccine has received ethical approval t...

June 20, 2013 | Thursday | News
Gene-tweaking key to new vaccines

The US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an institute that draws national attention on developing and app...

July 12, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
World Vaccine Congress Asia 2012 kicks off

Singapore: The World Vaccine Congress Asia 2012 kicked off on June 11 at Singapore. In its 6th consecutive year, the eve...

June 12, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Aus vaccine firm helps US army fight bio-terrorism

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company BioDiem's novel antimicrobial (BDM-I) w...

February 15, 2013 | Friday | News
Potential new tool against aggressive brain cancer

Singapore: Researchers at the Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute (NBTI) are trying to understand if a vaccine made from ...

July 25, 2012 | Wednesday | News
NIH, US army hospital: Sanaria malaria vaccine is safe

Singapore: A investigational malaria vaccine known as PfSPZ vaccine developed by scientists at US-based Sanaria has been...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
'Vaccine business: A game of snakes-and-ladders'

India: The annual revenue of the global vaccine industry is expected to be $35 billion for 2014. With Compounded Annual...

April 2, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
ICAR transfers vaccine technology to Sanvita

New Delhi: The Indian Council of Agricultural Research signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sanvita Biotechno...

July 26, 2012 | Thursday | News
Maiden AIDS vaccine could soon be a reality

Singapore: At the AIDS 2014 Conference in Melbourne, Australia, scientists declared that they had identified a biomarker...

July 22, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Sinovac Biotech appoints Nan Wang as CFO

‎Singapore: China's vaccine company, Sinovac Biotech has appointed Ms Nan Wang, who is presently the VP of Sinovac...

June 4, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Vaccine shot to keep JE at bay to become reality

Singapore: Chinese scientists have discovered a new vaccine for Japanese encephalitis that kills millions every year acr...

July 22, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Sinovac reports 7% decrease in sales

Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a leading provider of vaccines in China, reported that its hepatitis vaccines sales in priva...

November 16, 2012 | Friday | News
Sanofi to supply 1.7 bn polio vaccines to GPEI

Bangalore: Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, will provide 1.7 billion doses of oral polio vaccine (OPV) t...

April 26, 2013 | Friday | News
Dutch biotech firm raises $6.9 mn in China

Singapore: Clinical-stage Dutch biotechnology company, Mucosis has entered into a long-term collaboration and license ag...

April 16, 2014 | Wednesday | News
IVI appoints new board members

Singapore: South Korea-headquartered International Vaccine Institute (IVI) has appointed Professor Fred Binka, Dr Josep...

November 20, 2013 | Wednesday | Influencers
Milestone payment for NTS vaccine project

Bangalore: Bharat Biotech and The University of Maryland Center for Vaccine Development have received a $4 million strat...

June 18, 2012 | Monday | News
New antibodies against MERS: Saudi Arabia

Singapore: Saudi health officials declared that they had finally discovered new antibodies to combat the MERS virus. The...

June 24, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Eisai collaborates with Brazilian agency for vaccines

Singapore: Tokyo-headquartered Eisai has signed a global agreement with Brazil's Fundação Oswaldo Cruz for collabo...

October 31, 2012 | Wednesday | News
One third of world's unimmunized children in India

Singapore: Marking the start of the World Immunization Week, the Hilleman Laboratories, an equal joint-venture partnersh...

April 29, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Singapore's first flu vaccine clears phase I trial

Singapore: Influenza vaccine (gH1-Qbeta) developed by Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) a...

January 30, 2014 | Thursday | News
Dr Vijay Datla to get FABA award at BioAsia 2013

Hyderabad: Dr Vijay Kumar Datla, chairman and managing director of Biological E, will be given FABA Special Award 2013 ...

January 30, 2013 | Wednesday | News
How well is the industry prepared to fight H7N9 bird flu?

During March 2013, the world woke up to yet another dreaded bird flu attack that infected humans through poultry. Two mo...

May 14, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Major breakthrough in Hep C vaccine development

Singapore: Researchers at the Burnet Institute have solved a hepatitis C vaccine mystery which, once developed, could b...

August 15, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Biodiem develops killer for drug-resistant microbes

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company BioDiem is developing an antimicrobial ...

October 18, 2012 | Thursday | News
New drug to halt flu virus mutation

A better flu drug is on its way. This new class of specific, mechanism-based anti-influenza drug works by preventing the...

March 11, 2013 | Monday | News
Medicago, tobacco giant in vaccine deal for China

Singapore: Medicago has granted Philip Morris Products (PMP) an exclusive license to develop, commercialize and manufact...

October 4, 2012 | Thursday | News
Takeda to acquire Inviragen for $250 mn

Singapore: Japanese company, Takeda Pharmaceutical is looking to acquire Inviragen for an upfront payment of $35 million...

May 8, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Allied has big plans for its HPV vaccine in 2013

Allied Healthcare Group's investment company, Coridon, which is led by Professor Ian Frazer, is in the process of develo...

January 2, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Bill Gates gives Duke Univ $2.9 mn to make HIV vaccine

Singapore: Duke University has received a grant of up to $2.9 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to pr...

December 11, 2013 | Wednesday | News
MerLion completes phase I of finafloxacin study

Singapore: Following successful first-in-man phase I and two phase IIa clinical studies with the oral formulation of fin...

November 8, 2012 | Thursday | News
David Johnston to lead PPD's lab services

Singapore: Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) has appointed Dr David Johnston as executive vice president of globa...

August 9, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Starpharma gets $5K grant for targeted drug delivery research

Singapore: Australia's Starpharma has secured grant of $548,000 from Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage grant. St...

July 11, 2013 | Thursday | News
GSK malaria vaccine to soon become a reality

Singapore: Agenus presented phase III data for GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) RTS,S malaria vaccine candidate, which contains A...

October 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Scientists in China develop TB-HIV vaccine

Singapore: Chinese scientists have developed a vaccine that acts simultaneously against HIV-1 and M. tuberculosis (Mtb)....

May 28, 2012 | Monday | News
Sinovac makes progress in EV71 clinical trial

Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, is conducting double-blinded, ran...

June 27, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Baxter recalls nitroglycerin in 5% Dextrose Injection in US

Singapore: Baxter International has initiated a voluntary recall of one lot of Nitroglycerin in 5 percent Dextrose Injec...

November 29, 2013 | Friday | News
Flu vaccine reduces heart attack risk

Singapore: Regular shots of influenza injections have the added benefit of reducing the risk of heart attacks in people ...

August 22, 2013 | Thursday | News
Biolife HER-Vaxx B cell peptide vaccine hailed

Singapore: Biolife Science's strategy of targeting the tumour-associated antigen HER-2/NEU has been the focus of a recen...

March 25, 2013 | Monday | News
Ranbaxy to sell vaccine business Biovel after facing loss

Bangalore: Ranbaxy is going to exit its Bangalore-based vaccine manufacturing company, Biovel, according to Business Sta...

November 26, 2013 | Tuesday | News
mRNA vaccines can protect against influenza virus

Singapore: Messenger (m)RNA vaccines (RNActive), which is based on RNA technology platform and has been developed by Cur...

November 26, 2012 | Monday | News
India revives public sector units in vaccines

Keeping health security of the country in mind and the success of the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP), India has ...

June 4, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Packing smart for better reach of vaccines

Over the past decade, the world has invested enormous resources and energy into the development of new and life-saving v...

July 16, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Boehringer Ingelheim invests in vet vaccines in China

Singapore: Research-based pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim and Taizhou China Medical City in China have signe...

May 31, 2012 | Thursday | News
Medigen shows the way to low cost vaccine production

At a time when there is a need to reduce the cost of vaccination and meet the huge demand, Taiwan-based Medigen has show...

July 13, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Novartis gets positive opinion for MenB vaccine in Europe

Singapore: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion for Novartis' Bexsero (meningococcal grou...

November 19, 2012 | Monday | News
Taiwan develops new vaccine against EV 71

Singgapore: Taiwanese researchers have claimed that they have developed a new vaccine against Enterovirus 71 (EV 71). Ta...

August 10, 2012 | Friday | News
3M, Aussie firm collaborate to develop vaccine technology

Singapore: Australia based Ascend Biopharmaceuticals has collaborated with 3M Drug Delivery Systems to evaluate 3M's Tol...

November 29, 2013 | Friday | News
What are the new vaccines on the horizon for India?

Vaccines are considered among the most important medical inventions made by man. Indian vaccine manufacturers, who are w...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
WHO gives nod to Panacea Biotec's Easyfive TT

New Delhi: India-based drugmaker Panacea Biotec said it is preparing to resume supplies of its pentavalent vaccine Easyf...

September 20, 2013 | Friday | News
Bill Gates pays $2.9mn for TB, malaria, HIV vaccine

Singapore: Aeras, a nonprofit biotech firm that is advancing TB vaccines, the University of Oxford and Okairos, a biopha...

May 8, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Medicago H7N9 vaccine trial shows progress

Singapore: Medicago, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing highly effective and competitive vaccines based o...

June 10, 2013 | Monday | News
Taiwan's residents to get flu vaccinations

Singapore: As the current flu season reaches its peak in Taiwan, residents of the Changhua County have been told by the ...

March 3, 2014 | Monday | News
FDA approves GSK meningococcal vaccine

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved GlaxoSmithKline's vaccine MenHibrix (meningococcal gr...

June 15, 2012 | Friday | News
Germany, Taiwan sign biotechnology MoU

Singapore: Pingtung Agricultural Biotechnology Park under Taiwan's Council of Agriculture (COA) has signed a memorandum ...

July 10, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Inviragen DENVax dengue vaccine shows promise

Singapore: Inviragen initiated second stage of an ongoing phase II, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study o...

February 28, 2013 | Thursday | News
Takeda to acquire LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals

Singapore: The wholly owned subsidiary of Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical, Takeda America Holdings, has entered into a...

October 5, 2012 | Friday | News
BMS seeks Hep C therapy approval in Japan

Singapore: Bristol-Myers Squibb has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to Japan's Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices...

November 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
NZ, Aus govt commit $2.5 mn for rheumatic vaccine

Singapore: The decision by New Zealand and Australian Prime Ministers to investigate potential vaccines against rheumati...

February 22, 2013 | Friday | News
Big potential in Asia market: Envirotainer CEO

According to industry estimates, healthcare cold-chain market is growing by 10 percent per year since companies producin...

October 16, 2012 | Tuesday | Influencers
Daiichi, Sanofi seeks nod for baby vaccine in Japan

Singapore: Kitasato Daiichi Sankyo, a member of the Daiichi Sankyo Group, has applied for approval of its tetravalent co...

February 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
Zoetis China receives Swine vaccine approval

Singapore: UK Animal health company Zoetis has announced that its joint venture in China has received regulatory approva...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
Pakistan renews fight against Polio

Singapore: After 60 comeback cases of Polio this year, Pakistan has ultimately taken a step to eradicate the crippling d...

May 27, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Medicago enters $15 million loan agreement

Singapore: Medicago executed a $15 million loan agreement with a major pharmaceutical company. The principal of the loan...

January 21, 2013 | Monday | News
Medicago vaccine to protect from all bird flu strains

Singapore: US-based vaccine development company Medicago demonstrated that a single, non-adjuvanted, intramuscular dose ...

November 22, 2012 | Thursday | News
Developing nations vaccine network lauds Bio Farma

Singapore: The Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers Network (DCVMN) has lauded the initiatives and cooperation of...

October 31, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Astellas Pharma launches new vaccine in Japan

Singapore: Astellas Pharma has launched the combined vaccine for the prevention of pertussis, diphtheria, tetanus, and p...

November 6, 2012 | Tuesday | News
How has India been able to keep Polio at bay?

India, which was once considered as the world's epicenter of polio, successfully interrupted the transmission of the wil...

April 23, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Sanofi launches JE vaccine in Australia

Singapore: Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, has launched IMOJEV vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (J...

December 10, 2012 | Monday | News
Imugene expands scientific advisory board

Singapore: Australian biopharmaceutical company Imugene has appointed Dr Christoph Zielinski and Dr Ursula Wiedermann to...

January 20, 2014 | Monday | Influencers
NIH tests Sanofi, Novartis, GSK bird flu vaccine

Singapore: Researchers at nine sites have begun testing in humans an investigational H7N9 avian influenza vaccine. The t...

September 19, 2013 | Thursday | News
Astellas, UMN pharma to curb influenza in Japan

Singapore: In a bid to curtail the growing cases of influenza in Japan, Astellas announced that it has submitted an app...

June 3, 2014 | Tuesday | News
A vaccine that will make alcoholics quit drinking

Singapore: Researchers at the Institute for Cell Dynamics and Biotech at Universidad de Chile are developing a new vacci...

January 30, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Massive cancer vaccination starts in Aus schools

Singapore: Australian schoolboys have begun receiving the first-of-three vaccinations to protect them against cancers a...

February 22, 2013 | Friday | News
WHO aims to eliminate TB by 2050

Singapore: WHO along with European Respiratory Society (ERS), has outlined a framework to work on pre-elimination of tub...

July 8, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
Patrys cancer drug gives hope to patients

Singapore: Patrys, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, has confirmed anti-cancer properties of PAT-SM6 and has d...

May 8, 2013 | Wednesday | News
China National Biotec, Riboxx ink collaboration

Singapore: Germany's Riboxx Pharmaceuticals and China National Biotec Group (CNBG) have initiated a research collaborati...

March 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Roche, Inovio enter $422 mn cancer, HBV vaccine deal

Singapore: Roche and Inovio Pharmaceuticals entered into an exclusive worldwide license agreement to R&D and commerc...

September 11, 2013 | Wednesday | News
BioDiem partners with VIVALIS for vaccine development

Singapore: Australian vaccine development company BioDiem announced that it has begun research collaboration with France...

May 16, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Kitasato Daiichi Sankyo to shut animal vaccine unit

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo's animal vaccine unit, Kitasato Daiichi Sankyo Vaccine is discontinuing its animal vaccine bus...

September 21, 2012 | Friday | News
Cornavirus pioneers lauded by Nature magazine

Singapore: The editor of Nature Medicine has acknowledged Lindsley F Kimball Research Institute, which is located at NYB...

August 16, 2013 | Friday | News
Inovio malaria DNA vaccine shows +ve results

Singapore: Inovio Pharmaceuticals revealed that its SynCon DNA vaccine has demonstrated strong and durable antibody and ...

August 16, 2013 | Friday | News
AUCMA to enhance vaccine supply chain in developing countries

Singapore: China based manufacturer and supplier of refrigeration and cold chain equipments, AUCMA, has partnered with G...

July 11, 2013 | Thursday | News
Dr Chi-huey Wong: Pushing biotech growth in Taiwan

Scientist, entrepreneur, administrator, adviser. Dr Chi-Huey Wong, the ninth president of Academia Sinica, has donned ma...

July 9, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
GSK pneumococcal vaccine to be introduced in Pakistan

Singapore: A pneumococcal vaccine, Synflorix, by GlaxoSmithKline will be be introduced into the national immunization pr...

October 12, 2012 | Friday | News

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