Sinovac receives China's approval for varicella vaccine

Sinovac Biotech, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, has announced that the China National Medica...

December 31, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Merck gets FDA nod for Ebola vaccine

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the approval of Ervebo, the first FDA-approved vaccine for the preve...

December 23, 2019 | Monday | News
Vaccitech provides update for its Phase 2 Universal Influenza studies

Vaccitech Ltd, a clinical-stage T cell immunotherapy company developing products to treat and prevent cancer and infecti...

November 25, 2019 | Monday | News
NEC, VAXIMM to advance personalized neoantigen cancer vaccines

Japan based NEC Corporation, a leader in IT and network technologies, and VAXIMM AG, a Swiss/German biotech company focu...

November 15, 2019 | Friday | News
Takeda’s Dengue vaccine candidate reveals protection in children

Japan based Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced that results from the primary endpoint analysis of ...

November 8, 2019 | Friday | News
FDA approves Sanofi’s Influenza Vaccine for older people

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a supplemental Biologics License Application for Fluzone®&n...

November 5, 2019 | Tuesday | News
The Union reports efficacy of its TB Vaccine Candidate

International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) headquartered in France, announces the Phase IIb T...

October 30, 2019 | Wednesday | News
NIH awards contracts to advance tuberculosis immunology research

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarde...

September 27, 2019 | Friday | News
Alwaleed Philanthropies invests $5 M in global fight for vaccines

Alwaleed Philanthropies, chaired by HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz AlSaud, the global philanthropic fo...

September 2, 2019 | Monday | News
Crozet partners with PHV to develop Nipah virus vaccine

Crozet BioPharma has announced a $10.8 million total value partnering agreement with Public Health Vaccines (P...

August 28, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Zuellig Pharma, NICVB, NIHE team up for accessibility of vaccines

The National Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals (NICVB), the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (...

April 23, 2019 | Tuesday | News
The Govt. of EG, US Energy Companies & Sanaria collaborate for malaria vaccine

Sanaria Inc. and the Government of Equatorial Guinea last week signed an agreement that continues their joint ...

April 11, 2019 | Thursday | News
Serum Institute launches biggest immunisation awareness drive in India

Serum Institute of India (SII), vaccine manufacturer launched a nation-wide vaccination and immunisation campaign called...

February 22, 2019 | Friday | News
Vertex announces EC approval for ORKAMBI

Global Biotechnology company, Vertex Pharmaceuticals has announced that the European Commission has granted approval of ...

January 24, 2019 | Thursday | News
Exelixis announces USFDA approval of CABOMETYX

Oncology focused biotechnology company, Exelixis has announced that USFDA has approved CABOMETYX tablets for patients wi...

January 16, 2019 | Wednesday | News
AstraZeneca’s Bevespi Aerosphere approved in the EU

AstraZeneca has announced that the European Commission (EC) has approved Bevespi Aerosphere (glycopyrronium/formote...

January 3, 2019 | Thursday | News
FDA approves Sanofi & MSD’s VAXELIS™

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved VAXELIS™ (Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussi...

January 3, 2019 | Thursday | News
Philip Gutry appointed as Chief Business Officer by Kronos Bio

U.S. based Kronos Bio has announced that it has appointed Philip Gutry as its Chief Business Officer. In this newly cre...

November 28, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Esco, Nuvonis enter into MoU to support novel vaccines in Asia

Singapore - Esco Aster (Singapore) and Nuvonis Technologies (Austria) will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for ...

October 4, 2018 | Thursday | News
Enesi, Public Health England carry out R&D collaboration

Singapore - Enesi Pharma, an innovative pharmaceutical company developing unique injectable solid dosevac...

October 3, 2018 | Wednesday | News
GSK TB vaccine shows promise in phII study

Pharma giant GSK and Aeras reported that GSK’s candidate vaccine significantly reduced the incidence of pulmonary ...

September 30, 2018 | Sunday | News
Rotavirus vaccine options expand with WHO’s prequalification

PATH welcomes the World Health Organization's (WHO's) prequalification of the thermostable rotavirus vaccine, ROTASIIL, ...

September 28, 2018 | Friday | News
Inovio Pharma, Geneone Lifesciences announce Ph1 study of Hep C vaccine

Inovio Pharmaceuticals and Korea's GeneOne Life Science have announced that they have dosed the first patient in a Phase...

September 13, 2018 | Thursday | News
India loses its vaccine export sheen

India, once called as the vaccine capital, is slowly losing its sheen because of various reasons, primarily the aggressi...

August 14, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Changchun Changsheng Life Sciences to stop output after drug safety scandal

China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has issued an announcement asking Changchun Changsheng Life Sciences, China&rs...

July 23, 2018 | Monday | News
Esco, Konkuk University cooperate on pigs vaccine in Asia

Singapore – Esco Aster, a leading independent contract development and manufacturing organization with its patent ...

July 2, 2018 | Monday | News
FDA grants priority review to Merck's sBLA for HPV vaccine

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) h...

June 13, 2018 | Wednesday | News
UNAIDS calls for an increase in vaccine research

On HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, 18 May, UNAIDS is calling for an increase in research and investment to find an effective ...

May 18, 2018 | Friday | News
Experts team up during Pneumonia Awareness Week

Researchers, doctors and patients have teamed with Lung Foundation Australia during this week’s Pneumonia Awa...

May 14, 2018 | Monday | News
WHO starts its first Cholera vaccine campaign in Yemen

The first vaccine campaign against cholera in Yemen has been started by the World Health Organization (WHO), a year and ...

May 8, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Sinovac Announces Preliminary Results of Phase III Trial on sIPV

Sinovac Biotech, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, has announced preliminary results of a phase...

April 19, 2018 | Thursday | News
Oxford Vacmedix raises $12.5 M from Chinese & Korean investors

Oxford Vacmedix UK Limited (OVM), a UK-based biopharma company and a spin out of Oxford University Innovation, is commer...

March 8, 2018 | Thursday | News
McGill scientists develop a TB vaccine that induces innate response via Bone Marrow Stem Cells

Attempts to stimulate the adaptive immune system against TB have yielded uneven results. The existing BCG vaccine is onl...

January 17, 2018 | Wednesday | News
CCMD offers inexpensive treatment for Hepatitis C

CCM Duopharma Biotech Berhad (CCMD) is a subsidiary of Chemical Company of Malaysia Berhad that has seven pharmaceutical...

January 1, 2018 | Monday | News
NIH study finds clues about why common cancer drug causes hearing loss

Scientists at NIH have found a new way to explain the hearing loss caused by cisplatin, a powerful drug used to treat ma...

December 21, 2017 | Thursday | News
New vaccine technology shows promise as a tool to combat the opioid crisis

Researchers with the U.S. Military HIV Research Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) report tha...

December 19, 2017 | Tuesday | News
NKY Pharmaceuticals to buy BioVision

With the aim of focussing on precision medicine China based public chemical manufacturing firm NKY Pharmaceuticals is pl...

December 12, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Malaysia's AJ Biologics to build new vaccine facility

As per reports in a leading Malaysian daily, a Saudi vaccine manufacturer will invest more than RM138.2 million in the n...

November 21, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Locus Biosciences raises $19 million series A for CRISPR-Cas3 Antimicrobials

Locus Biosciences has closed $19 million in Series A funding led by venture capital firm ARTIS Ventures with additional ...

November 15, 2017 | Wednesday | News
New treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus infection now in trials

Research at the Southwest National Primate Research Center (SNPRC) on the campus of Texas Biomedical Research Institute ...

November 8, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Researchers design a vaccine for Streptococcus

A pioneering research has revealed that the development of a vaccine against an infection commonly carried by pregnant w...

November 6, 2017 | Monday | News
Experimental vaccine may protect against HIV infection

Scientists have developed a novel vaccine candidate that may prevent HIV infection by stimulating an immune response aga...

October 30, 2017 | Monday | News
Defining standards & measures for AMR is the need of the hour

Kindly tell us something about Sustainable Development Programme of DSM Sinochem Pharma? It is a programme that basical...

October 17, 2017 | Tuesday | Opinion
Johnson & Johnson to exit insulin pump market

Animas Corporation which is one of the Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Care Companies has recently announced that it inte...

October 9, 2017 | Monday | News
GSK's Shingles vaccine gets unanimous recommendation from FDA Panel

According to reports, GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) shingles vaccine candidate, Shingrix was unanimously recommended for appro...

September 14, 2017 | Thursday | News
Notable Labs nets $10M funding for personalized cancer treatment tech

Notable Labs picked up $10 million in series A financing to advance its drug-testing service that helps oncolo...

September 7, 2017 | Thursday | News
AMAL Therapeutics raises Series B funding

AMAL Therapeutics (AMAL), the Swiss biotech developing novel, peptide-based therapeutic cancer vaccines, has completed t...

September 5, 2017 | Tuesday | News
"Indian manufacturers account for 60% of vaccine supplies made to UNICEF”

Undoubtedly, India is the epicentre for vaccine manufacturing in the world. With many top vaccine giants supplying basic...

August 22, 2017 | Tuesday | Opinion
‘Asia is the fastest growing vaccine market in the world’

What according to You are upcoming trends in Asia’s vaccine business? We have noticed an increased interest in th...

August 14, 2017 | Monday | Opinion
Global shortage of Hepatitis B vaccines : PHE

Singapore: According to reports, Public Health England has recently announced a global shortage of hepatitis B vaccine. ...

August 9, 2017 | Wednesday | News
The Vaccine Debate

Considered a medical boon, vaccination is the most efficient way to prevent a disease outbreak. History has witnessed th...

August 3, 2017 | Thursday | Opinion
Janssen Enters Collaboration with Bavarian Nordic to Develop Vaccines Against Hepatitis B Virus and HIV-1

Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., part of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, announced today th...

August 1, 2017 | Tuesday | News
The VACCINE DEBATE

Considered a medical boon, vaccination is the most efficient way to prevent a disease outbreak. History has witnessed th...

July 26, 2017 | Wednesday | Analysis
New personalized vaccines promise to keep cancer at bay

Singapore: In a recent paper published in the journal Nature, American and German oncologists have proven that personali...

July 7, 2017 | Friday | News
Takeda, Biological E ink pact to develop and commercialize vaccines

Singapore: Japan’s Takeda pharmaceuticals have inked two licensing pacts with Biological E for development and del...

June 27, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Bacteriophages, natural drugs to combat superbugs

Viruses that specifically kill bacteria, called bacteriophages, might one day help solve the growing problem of bacteria...

April 24, 2017 | Monday | News
Ghana, Kenya and Malawi to pilot GSK malaria vaccine from 2018

The injectable vaccine, called RTS,S or Mosquirix, was developed by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline to protect childre...

April 24, 2017 | Monday | News
GSK 'real world' drug test has second success in asthma

GlaxoSmithKline has notched up a second win for its pioneering "real world" approach to testing new drugs as its inhaled...

May 11, 2017 | Thursday | News
Fighting Arthritis | Researchers design CRISPR-SMART cells that secrete Anti-arthritis drug

A large number of elderly individuals experience inflammation of one or more joints in the form of arthritis every day. ...

May 3, 2017 | Wednesday | News
‘Indian firm’s Zika virus vaccine 100% efficient in animal trials’

The Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech’s ‘killed Zika virus vaccine’ using an African strain has shown 100...

April 27, 2017 | Thursday | News
Sanofi and Regeneron Announce FDA Approval of Dupixent (dupilumab)

Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc has recently announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approv...

April 3, 2017 | Monday | News
A new cost effective vaccine against rotavirus

Rotavirus is a contagious virus that can cause gastroenteritis or inflammation of the stomach and intestines. Infants an...

March 24, 2017 | Friday | News
SRL Diagnostics conducts its first National Symposium on Renal Transplant

SRL Diagnostics, one of the leading diagnostic chains in India, organized the first specialized national symposium on re...

March 23, 2017 | Thursday | News
Silicone, saline breast implants linked to rare form of cancer: warns US FDA

US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently warns about both silicone and saline breast implants as they can cause a ...

March 23, 2017 | Thursday | News
Asia Dengue Summit starts in Manila

Singapore: Over the past year, many countries in Asia have witnessed an alarming rise in the number of dengue cases that...

March 1, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Globally Zika Virus vaccines market expected to reach $18,697mn by 2022

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

January 4, 2017 | Wednesday | News
New chikungunya vaccine brings in hope!

Singapore: Bringing in much needed relief to millions of people suffering from chikungunya every year, researchers from ...

December 20, 2016 | Tuesday | News
GE Healthcare, Valneva delivers optimized cell culture medium for vaccine production

Singapore: GE Healthcare's Life Sciences business and Valneva SE, vaccine biotech company, are sharing the results of a ...

November 2, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Bharat Biotech's Zika vaccine to enter phase-I trials

Singapore: Giving a further boost to Modi governemt's Make in India initiative, India's Bharat Biotech recently announce...

October 10, 2016 | Monday | News
Zydus Cadila, Takeda to co-develop vaccine for chikungunya

Singapore: Japan's Takeda pharmaceuticals has joined hands with India-based Zydus Cadila in an aim to co-develop a vacci...

September 23, 2016 | Friday | News
Emirates SkyCargo launches facility for pharma logistics

Dubai: Emirates SkyCargo has launched Emirates SkyPharma, a facility designed and equipped to transport temperature sens...

September 19, 2016 | Monday | News
Dengue vaccine now available in Mexico

Singapore: Dengvaxia, the dengue vaccine by Sanofi Pasteur, is now available in private healthcare clinics of Mexico for...

September 14, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Sanofi gets Philippines nod for first dengue vaccine

Singapore: Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, has recieved marketing approval in Philippines for its dengu...

December 23, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Thai JE vaccine receives WHO nod

Singapore: The Government of Pharmaceutical Organization, Thailand, recently announced that the attenuated Japanese ence...

January 14, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Malaria vaccine may be available by October

Singapore: The world's first malaria vaccine may be available by October, as the vaccine candidate (RTS,S/AS01) is the f...

May 1, 2015 | Friday | News
Vaxxas' painless vaccine delivery tech fetches BioSpectrum award

Prof Mark Kendall, a scientist at the Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology under University of Quee...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Thai vaccine institute: Our nation needs robust vaccine alliances

According to the WHO, Thailand has nearly 520,000 people (aged 5-to-49) living with HIV and AIDS and the country has the...

June 20, 2013 | Thursday | Influencers
Chinese Ebola vaccine enters clinical trials

Singapore: According to a Chinese news agency, the country's regulators have approved a domestically developed experimen...

December 19, 2014 | Friday | News
Sanofi begins dengue immunization program in South Brazil

Singapore: Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, has launched the first public dengue immunization program in...

July 29, 2016 | Friday | News
Driving public health impact with vaccines: the past, present and way forward

Living in a time of unprecedented medical interventions, it is difficult to fully appreciate the contribution vaccines h...

May 31, 2016 | Tuesday | Opinion
China launches nationwide inspection of vaccines

Singapore: Ahead of a huge recent vaccine scandal racket revealing China's vaccine black market in March this year, Chin...

July 27, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Fake vaccine scandal jolts Indonesia

Singapore: Indonesian Children may have to go through the pain of vaccination again as there is a recent police discover...

July 1, 2016 | Friday | News
Protein Sciences, UNIGEN to source Flublok Influenza Vaccine from Japan

Tokyo: North American pharmaceutical companies Protein Sciences Corporation and UMN Pharma Inc. have announced that Prot...

February 16, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Teva recalls amikacin sulfate injection

Singapore: Teva Pharmaceuticals has announced a voluntary recall of one lot of amikacin sulfate injection USP, 1 gram/4m...

March 14, 2016 | Monday | News
ABIVAX to market typhoid, meningococcus vaccines in Asia

Singapore: ABIVAX, Europe-based clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing and commercializing anti-viral compo...

November 18, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Global respiratory syncytial virus treatment market to touch $2.3 bn by 2024

Singapore: The global Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) treatment market will expand to unprecedented levels over the ne...

January 14, 2016 | Thursday | News
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports Takeda with $38 m to eradicate polio

Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation t...

May 10, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Merck gets FDA nod for Bridion

Singapore: Merck (MSD) has recieved US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for Bridion (sugammadex) Injection 10...

December 22, 2015 | Tuesday | Regulatory
BioDiem gets hepatitis vaccine tech from Canberra univ

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

June 29, 2012 | Friday | News
Infect mosquitoes with Wolbachia, stop diseases

Singapore: Scientists at Melbourne University and University of California have found that mosquito that are infected wi...

April 11, 2013 | Thursday | News
Takeda close to releasing Norovirus vaccine

Singapore: Japan's drug major Takeda Pharmaceutical has said that they are set to finish the early stage human studies o...

July 8, 2013 | Monday | News
China to set up a new vaccine tracking system

Singapore: According to a recent decision publicized by the Chinese government, wholesalers will no longer be allowed to...

April 27, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Yisheng BioPharma gets positive result in rabies vaccine trial

Singapore: Yisheng Biopharma, China based biopharmaceutical company, has recieved positive topline results from Phase I ...

January 4, 2016 | Monday | News
China's Hualan Bio gets WHO nod for influenza vaccine

Singapore: China based Hualan Bio has recieved world health organization (WHO) pre-qualification approval for influenza ...

June 18, 2015 | Thursday | News
Teikoku Pharma gets USFDA nod for non-alcohol docetaxel injection

Singapore: Japan's Teikoku Pharma has recieved USFDA approval for Docetaxel injection, a non-alcohol formula for the tre...

January 4, 2016 | Monday | News
German firm proceeds on ebola vaccine trial

Singapore: Germany based complex biologics development and manufacturing specialist, ProBioGen, has proceeded on the cli...

June 4, 2015 | Thursday | News
Merck's Ebola vaccine found promising in clinical trials

Singapore: In a recent interim study published in the Lancet medical journal, Merck's Ebola vaccine was found to be "hig...

August 3, 2015 | Monday | News
Teva recalls Adrucil injection for potential foriegn particle presence

Singapore: Teva Parenteral Medicines has recalled six lots of Adrucil (fluorouracil injection) due to the potential pres...

July 28, 2015 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Drug resistance keeps malaria threat alive in India

The current anti-malarial market in India is approximately $80 million (Rs 450 crore) with an annual growth rate of 17 p...

July 2, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
New vaccine against Hepatatis B developed by Cuba

Singapore: Researchers from Cuba have developed a new vaccine for treatment of chronic hepatitis B. The vaccine HeberNas...

August 17, 2015 | Monday | News

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