We are going to reduce Injectible Polio Vaccine cost, says Dr Cyrus Poonawalla

Vaccines |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 6 Comment | 15 Jul, 2013

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

We need to focus on diseases unique to China: Dr Chi-huey Wong

Vaccines |  Influencers | By Piyusha Chatterjee | 4 Comment | 09 Jul, 2012

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

Novartis infant meningococcal vaccine gets FDA nod

Vaccines |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 3 Comment | 02 Aug, 2013

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

GSK's quadrivalent flu vaccine gets FDA nod

Vaccines |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 3 Comment | 20 Aug, 2013

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

Ebola: Scientists brainstorm on prevention & cure

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 04 Aug, 2014

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

Simcere reports 8.4% growth in Q1 2013

Vaccines |  Company results | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 10 May, 2013

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

Taiwan to get Adimmune bird flu vaccine by July

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 23 Apr, 2013

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

VIANZ merges with Medicines New Zealand

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 09 Aug, 2013

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

Positive result for PaxVax's oral cholera vaccine

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 08 Jul, 2014

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

Transgene, Tasly joint venture begins operations

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 27 Jul, 2012

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

BioDiem to create new non-influenza vaccines

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 20 Jul, 2012

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

Biological E cuts vaccine cost by 30% for GAVI

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 25 Apr, 2013

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

Scientists in Japan make progress in vaccine against norovirus

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 24 Apr, 2014

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

China: Hepatitis B vaccines not cause of deaths

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 07 Jan, 2014

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

Shimadzu pharma summit concurs that innovation is the key

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 02 Nov, 2012

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

Sinovac reports positive results from EV71 trial

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 15 Mar, 2013

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

Indian remedy for Caribbean cholera outbreak

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 25 Jun, 2014

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

Dr Kumar: Nobody in my family passed 10th grade

Vaccines |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 6 Comment | 22 Jan, 2013

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