Taiwan develops carbohydrate-based cancer vaccine

Singapore: A research team led by Academia Sinica President, Dr. Chi-Huey Wong, and associate research fellow, Dr Chung-...

August 13, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Fearing MERS, Bahrain doubles flu vaccine orders

Singapore: Bahrain's health ministry has almost doubled its annual order of flu vaccines following fears of MERS corona...

June 23, 2014 | Monday | News
Phase III trial of $1 vaccine RotaVac completed

Pune: The phase III trial of RotaVac, India's first indigenously developed rotavirus vaccine, has been completed and the...

March 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan's Adimmune to release H7N9 vaccine soon

Singapore: Leading vaccine provider from Taiwan, Adimmune Corp has passed the third phase of clinical trials for H7N9 Av...

July 10, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Hexaxim vaccine gets EMA nod for global use

Singapore: The European Medicines Agency has issued a scientific opinion recommending that the benefits of the vaccine H...

June 25, 2012 | Monday | News
We are going to reduce Injectible Polio Vaccine cost, says Dr Cyrus Poonawalla

Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SIIL), one of the largest providers of affordable quality vaccines in the world, ha...

July 15, 2013 | Monday | Influencers
We need to focus on diseases unique to China: Dr Chi-huey Wong

Academia Sinica is an autonomous research institution in Taiwan that is doing pioneering work in the field of science an...

July 9, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
Novartis infant meningococcal vaccine gets FDA nod

Singapore: The US FDA has approved Novartis' Menveo (Meningococcal Group A, C, W-135 and Y conjugate vaccine) for the p...

August 2, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
GSK's quadrivalent flu vaccine gets FDA nod

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has received approval from the US FDA for Flulaval Quadrivalent (influenza virus vaccin...

August 20, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Ebola: Scientists brainstorm on prevention & cure

Singapore: The US NIH announced that it is all set to launch an early-stage clinical trial of an experimental vaccine ag...

August 4, 2014 | Monday | News
Simcere reports 8.4% growth in Q1 2013

Singapore: China-based Simcere Pharmaceutical clocked $85.1 million revenue for the first quarter of 2013, representing ...

May 10, 2013 | Friday | Company results
Taiwan to get Adimmune bird flu vaccine by July

Singapore: Taiwan-based Adimmune has highlighted that it can begin supplying vaccines against the current strain of H7N9...

April 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
VIANZ merges with Medicines New Zealand

Singapore: The Vaccines Industry Association of New Zealand (VIANZ) has merged with the industry body Medicines New Zeal...

August 9, 2013 | Friday | News
Positive result for PaxVax's oral cholera vaccine

Singapore: US-based PaxVax, a specialty vaccine company, has confirmed positive efficacy results from 90-day challenge s...

July 8, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Transgene, Tasly joint venture begins operations

Singapore: Transgene's Chinese 50:50 equity joint venture with Tasly Pharmaceutical has started its operations. The join...

July 27, 2012 | Friday | News
BioDiem to create new non-influenza vaccines

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company BioDiem has signed an agreement with Th...

July 20, 2012 | Friday | News
Biological E cuts vaccine cost by 30% for GAVI

Bangalore: The GAVI Alliance signed a supply agreement with Biological E, India, according to which it will receive the ...

April 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
Scientists in Japan make progress in vaccine against norovirus

Singapore: Even as a new strain of stomach flu is infecting many across the world, scientists in Japan seem to have made...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
China: Hepatitis B vaccines not cause of deaths

Singapore: Concluding an elaborate probe that started late last year, China has now said that the hepatitis B vaccines w...

January 7, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Shimadzu pharma summit concurs that innovation is the key

Singapore: The Shimadzu Global Pharma Summit 2012 held in Singapore sent out an unaninmous message that it is high time ...

November 2, 2012 | Friday | News
Sinovac reports positive results from EV71 trial

Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a provider of vaccines in China, reported preliminary top-line data from its phase III clin...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | News
Indian remedy for Caribbean cholera outbreak

Singapore: The annual cases of cholera in the Caribbean Islands was reduced by 75 percent in the first quarter of 2014, ...

June 25, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Dr Kumar: Nobody in my family passed 10th grade

"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held very high." This famous quote of Nobel winning poet Rabindranath Ta...

January 22, 2013 | Tuesday | Influencers
Single-use technology: The way forward in vaccines

Single-use technologies are a particularly smart way of manufacturing vaccines during a pandemic, when there is urgency ...

July 17, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
GSK vaccine gets positive opinion from FDA committee

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee vot...

November 19, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
India's National Vaccine Policy: What next?

A year after India released its National Vaccine Policy, industry experts say it is time to draw up a plan to put the gu...

June 4, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Vaxxas appoints David Hoey as CEO

Singapore: Vaxxas, a biotechnology company commercializing a novel vaccine-delivery platform that activates immunologica...

October 10, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Aeras signs deal with GSK to develop TB vaccine

Singapore: Aeras, a not-for-profit fully integrated tuberculosis vaccine development organization, has signed an agreeme...

October 11, 2012 | Thursday | News
Rush Gene Service helps develop H7N9 vaccine

Singapore: GenScript, global provider of synthetic genes, has collaborated with NASDAQ listed Novavax in developing an a...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Seasonal wave of Meningococci begins in Australia

Singapore: The deadly meningococcal disease that affects hundreds in Australia annually, has begun to show its presence ...

June 17, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Corning launches microcarriers for efficiency in bioprocess

Singapore: US-based material science company, Corning, launched a new line of microcarriers for large-scale vaccine and ...

November 8, 2012 | Thursday | News
Seattle BioMed develops malarial vaccine

Singapore: Researchers at Seattle BioMed have developed a new kind of malarial vaccine, comprising of whole-parasite pre...

September 17, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Sanofi to launch first dengue vaccine this year

Singapore: Sanofi Pasteur is in the process of finalizing tests for its first vaccine against dengue in Africa and Asia....

July 22, 2013 | Monday | News
Bharat Biotech launches world's first Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine

Singapore: Hyderabad based company, Bharat Biotech has launched the world's first typhoid vaccine that can be given to i...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Medicago, IDRI shows +ve results for bird flu vaccine

Singapore: Vaccine development company Medicago and Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI), US, reported positive ...

April 22, 2013 | Monday | News
GE explores plant-based technologies for vaccine

Singapore: Biotechnology application provider iBio and GE Healthcare have formed a new global alliance to commercialize ...

July 27, 2012 | Friday | News
Multi-year investigation of flu vaccine clinched'

Singapore: CSL announced that it had successfully completed the four year investigation, probing into the side effects c...

June 13, 2014 | Friday | News
Global immunization coverage reaches 84 percent : WHO

Singapore: According to the new estimates by WHO and UNICEF, 84 percent of the world's children have been vaccinated in ...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
AIDS 2014 kicks off in Melbourne

Singapore: 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014), kicked off in Melbourne on July 20th, with a gathering of ove...

July 21, 2014 | Monday | News
Allied sales rise 13% to $3.7 mn in H2, 2012

Singapore: Australia-based Allied Healthcare has marked a stronger sales with revenues up at 13 percent to $3.7 million ...

February 22, 2013 | Friday | News
MERS coronavirus kills four more in Saudi

Singapore: The Saudi Arabia Health Ministry on Monday confirmed four more deaths from the new SARS-like coronavirus MERS...

June 18, 2013 | Tuesday | News
IVI promotes vaccine awareness through video

Singapore: The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) broadcasted a new integrated video to promote awareness on vaccinat...

July 2, 2014 | Wednesday | News
What ails vaccine manufacturing in India?

After the India government suspended the licenses of three private sector units on January 15, 2008, it drew a lot of fl...

June 4, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Novavax, CPL Biologicals, ICGEB join hands for malaria research

Bangalore: Novavax, CPL Biologicals (CPLB) and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB...

July 20, 2012 | Friday | News
China's national vaccine production base takes safety enhancement measures

Singapore: UK based UV disinfection specialist Hanovia has supplied three UV water disinfection systems, PharmaLine PQL,...

July 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
WHO confirms new H7N9 cases

Singapore: Even as China reported eight new cases of H7N9 earlier this week, the World Health Organization has posted tw...

February 20, 2014 | Thursday | News
Japan Vaccine begins operation

Singapore: Japan Vaccine, a joint venture created by equal investments from Daiichi Sankyo and GlaxoSmithKline, started ...

July 3, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Sanofi appoints Dr Gary Nabel as chief scientific officer

Singapore: Sanofi appointed Dr Gary J Nabel as the senior vice president, chief scientific officer and deputy to the pre...

November 15, 2012 | Thursday | News
Study compares efficacy of oral, injectable polio vaccines

Singapore: NanoPass Technologies, a pioneer in intradermal vaccine delivery solutions, is collaborating with the US Cent...

May 17, 2013 | Friday | News
Alnylam achieves RNAi milestone

Singapore: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, a Cambridge-based biotechnology firm, has received a $3.2 million milestone payment ...

August 2, 2012 | Thursday | News
Chinese to get first-ever oral rotavirus vaccine

Singapore: The not-for-profit organization, International Medica Foundation, that works towards the development of a saf...

July 3, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Chinese, Hong Kong scientists map H7N9 risk infection

Singapore: A map of avian influenza (H7N9), comprising of bird migration patterns and estimations of poultry production ...

May 8, 2013 | Wednesday | News
GSK flu vaccine makes girl sleep 30 times a day

Singapore: A report by Australia's News Limited has revealed that a 15-year-old girl named Chloe Glasson has been suffer...

January 8, 2014 | Wednesday | News
A pandemic awaits!

Singapore: With hajj pilgrimage nearing, the panic button is hit. As faithful Muslims over the globe gear up for their o...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Hepatitis B infections soar in Tibet

Singapore: In a latest news report, Dr Lhamo Sharpa, a Nepal based Tibetan doctor has sounded a warning about the increa...

June 9, 2014 | Monday | News
Asia vaccine strategists call for collaboration

Asia needs a solution, that goes beyond traditional structure, models and pathways, to meet the essential vaccine supply...

June 18, 2013 | Tuesday | News
CSIR head: Indian bioscience education disappoints me

In 2002, biotechnology was just in its nascent stage and was considered to be a small industry. However, the success sto...

May 13, 2013 | Monday | Opinion
Sanofi-Merck launches 6-in-1 infant vaccine in Europe

Singapore: A two month old baby from Germany is the first infant in Europe to receive Sanofi Pasteur-MSD's 6-in-1 paedia...

July 12, 2013 | Friday | News
Biological E to supply vaccine to Vacsera of Egypt

Singapore: Biological E has entered into a long term supply agreement with Vacsera (and its subsidiary Egyvac), an Egypt...

July 1, 2013 | Monday | News
WHO affirms that China is polio free

Singapore: The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed China's polio-free status following the country's successf...

December 4, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Novartis confident in safety and efficacy of its influenza vaccines

Singapore: Novartis has confirmed its confidence in the safety and efficacy of its seasonal influenza vaccines Agrippal ...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Progress achieved in obesity vaccine research

Singapore: Though still some years away from clinical development in humans, a new study conducted at Braasch Biotech, a...

July 12, 2012 | Thursday | News
CSL makes a settlement in Perth vaccine victim case

Singapore: In an ongoing case where Perth-based Ms Saba Button suffered severe disability following a flu vaccine manufa...

June 9, 2014 | Monday | News
Novartis MenB vaccine gets approval in Australia

Singapore: Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has approved Novartis' Bexsero, a multi-component Meningoco...

August 15, 2013 | Thursday | News
Chickungunya can soon be prevented with a vaccine

Singapore: Australian biotech firm, Themis Bioscience GmbH declared the successful interim results of their prophylactic...

June 13, 2014 | Friday | News
India's H1N1 vaccine demand to grow by 2.1%

Singapore: Business intelligence provider GlobalData estimates that India is expected to exhibit a great surge in H1N1 ...

January 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
China develops world's first vaccine for enterovirus

Singapore: The world's first vaccine against a strain of enterovirus has now been developed by Chinese researchers. The ...

June 7, 2013 | Friday | News
Encephalitis vaccine to be China's first WHO prequalification

Singapore: The World Health Organization (WHO) is on the verge of approving a Chinese-made vaccine for Japanese encephal...

October 8, 2012 | Monday | News
Dendritic cells behind immune responses discovered

Singapore: Scientists at A*STAR's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), in collaboration with Newcastle University, UK, t...

July 17, 2012 | Tuesday | News
NIH gives Altravax $3.45 mn to make AIDS vaccine

Singapore: Altravax has been awarded two research grants worth a total of $3.45 million from the NIH's National Institut...

December 4, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Aeras, Oxford Uni, Okairos club $2.9 mn on TB, HIV, Malaria vaccine

Singapore: Aeras, a nonprofit biotech advancing TB vaccines for the world, the University of Oxford and Okairos, a bioph...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
BioDiem expands antimicrobial profile

Singapore: Infectious disease therapies developer, BioDiem has expanded its local partnership network by signing an agre...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
NIH develops groundbreaking dengue vaccine

Singapore: A dengue vaccine candidate developed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has shown to be safe and has ...

January 25, 2013 | Friday | News
GSK's malaria vaccine might be reality in two years

Singapore: The results of the phase III clinical trials of a malaria vaccine being developed by British pharmaceutical m...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Sanofi working to bring dengue under control

Singapore: Sanofi announced that the phase III clinical trials for its dengue vaccine was successful, in a press confere...

July 15, 2014 | Tuesday | News
CSL Biotherapies awarded Pandemic Preparedness Contract by US Government

Singapore: CSL Biotherapies has been awarded by the United States (US) Department of Health and Human Services to supply...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Serum Institute acquires Dutch biologics company

Mumbai: Serum Institute of India, the flagship company of the over $1 bn Poonawalla Group and India's largest vaccine co...

July 4, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Mitsubishi to acquire Medicago at $1.16 per share

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

July 17, 2013 | Wednesday | News
H7N9 claims more lives in China

Singapore: Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) and the provincial health department have reported eight new h...

February 20, 2014 | Thursday | News
Vaccines do not cause autism: Study

Singapore: Researchers from the University of Sydney, have dismissed any link between development of autism and childho...

May 30, 2014 | Friday | News
EU join hands to develop personalized cancer vaccines

Singapore: Europe has established Glioma Actively Personalized Vaccine Consortium, (GAPVAC), a project designed to creat...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Focus on needs of society: Dr Weidong Yin

Dr Weidong Yin, the man behind Sinovac, was honoured with BioSpectrum Asia Pacific Bioscience Industry Entrepreneur of t...

March 15, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
Panacea gets govt order worth $34 million

New Delhi: India's second largest producer of vaccines, New Delhi-based Panacea Biotec, has received a government order ...

December 17, 2012 | Monday | News
Emergent to market VaxInnate flu vaccine

Singapore: Emergent BioSolutions has signed a license agreement with VaxInnate under which Emergent acquired the exclusi...

December 31, 2012 | Monday | News
WHO: Bird flu is back in China

Singapore: Three cases of human infection with influenza A (H7N9) has erupted in China, notified China Health and Family...

April 2, 2013 | Tuesday | News
FDA approves Flucelvax, a cell-culture vaccine against seasonal influenza

Singapore: US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Flucelvax (Influenza Virus Vaccine), the first cell-cultur...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Takeda acquires LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals at $60 mn

Singapore: LEO Pharma plans to establish five long-term, strategic research collaborations in four countries by the end ...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
FDA approves GSK's combo meingitis vaccine

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

June 18, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Biodiem gets US patent allowance for antifungal therapy

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company BioDiem has received notice of Allowanc...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Arterial Remodeling Technologies receives regulatory approval

  Australian vaccine development company BioDiem Ltd has announced that it has begun research collaboration with Franc...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
'China's H7N9 outbreak an epidemic'

Singapore: While experts and health ministries in various Chinese provinces have declared the on-going second wave of H7...

March 17, 2014 | Monday | News
MR vaccine drive for all

To quell the rumours around the measles-rubella vaccine, UNICEF has reached out to Islamic civil society organisations, ...

April 13, 2017 | Thursday | News
Globally Zika Virus vaccines market expected to reach $18,697 mn by 2022

A new report published by Allied Market Research, titled, “Potential Market for Zika Virus Vaccines: Global Opport...

January 4, 2017 | Wednesday | News
CEPI board meeting with a focus on identifying disease priorities and future strategy

The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) will be partnering in the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovations (CEP...

December 19, 2016 | Monday | News

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