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