Spinifex phase II postherpetic neuralgia trial is a success

Singapore: Spinifex Pharmaceuticals, an Australian pain drug development company, revealed positive headline results ...

August 30, 2012 | Thursday | News
Australia is 3rd largest in terms of total company revenues

Australia emerged as the third largest country in terms of the total revenue generated by companies during the calendar ...

June 18, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Real-Time Location Systems are a big hit in Asia

Singapore: Rising costs are compelling hospitals in South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) to streamline their...

March 1, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
Genetic Technologies gets US patent update

Singapore: The US patent and trademark office (US PTO) has issued an action reaffirming the validity of certain claims c...

March 18, 2013 | Monday | News
Japanese I'rom acquires 18% in Australian IDT

Singapore: Japanese company I'rom Holdings will acquire an 18.8 percent stake in IDT Australia. I'rom is listed on the T...

May 7, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Nancy Millis - 'First Lady' of Australian biotech - passes away

Singapore: Eminent Australian microbiologist Emeritus Professor Nancy Millis AC, who served as the chancellor of La Trob...

October 3, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Prima recruits patients for cancer vaccine trial

Singapore: Prima BioMed has commenced recruitment of patients into the Canvas (Cancer Vaccine Study) trial in Europe....

March 1, 2013 | Friday | News
Merck pays Bionomics $172mn for pain molecules

Singapore: Bionomics entered in an agreement with Merck, which is also known as Merck Sharp and Dohme outside the US and...

August 1, 2013 | Thursday | News
Phosphagenics gearing up to enter South East Asia

Singapore: Australian drug delivery technology company Phosphagenics will launch its TPM technology in the global rac...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Alchemia demerges Audeo on NASDAQ, ASX

Singapore: Alchemia has demerged its subsidiary, Audeo Oncology, on NASDAQ and the ASX. The company has announced that i...

January 2, 2013 | Wednesday | News
FDA approves clinical trial of EndoBarrier

Singapore: GI Dynamics has received full approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to commence a 25-site...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
AusBiotech appoints new board member

Singapore: AusBiotech announced the appointment of Mr Lawrence Gozlan as a non-executive director, bringing to the Bo...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
FDA agrees to Mesoblast MPC supply in the US

Singapore: Mesoblast announced that US FDA is in agreement for the supply of its proprietary Mesenchymal Precursor Ce...

February 15, 2013 | Friday | News
Academy discusses future of Australian science

Singapore: The Australian Academy of Science's recently established Early-Mid Career Researcher Forum held its first nat...

September 25, 2012 | Tuesday | 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
Lose weight and treat diabetes at the same time

Singapore: Doctors at St Vincent's Clinic and Macquarie University Hospital (MUH) in Sydney are now offering EndoBarrier...

September 24, 2012 | Monday | News
Transgene out-licenses TG1042 to Ascend Pharma

Singapore: French biotech firm Transgene SA has granted Ascend Biopharmaceuticals, an emerging privately-held Australian...

July 8, 2013 | Monday | News
NeuClone, Serum Institute join hands

Singapore: Sydney-based biotechnology firm, NeuClone has signed a major licensing agreement and joint development partne...

July 7, 2014 | Monday | News
Victoria is on mission to tap the Indian market

Hyderabad: BioAsia 2013, which was held recently from January 28-30, 2013, at Hyderabad, India, saw participation from 5...

February 4, 2013 | Monday | Analysis
Muted growth for Australia in 2011

Despite concerns over the operating environment in Australia and predictions of receding demand in the domestic market, ...

May 29, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
New drug delivery polymer to treat cancer

Singapore: Dr Lingxue Kong and research colleagues at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, have combined two polym...

January 1, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Study visualizes link between gluten and immune system

Singapore: A link between gluten and the immune system has literally been visualized in new research published in the sc...

October 12, 2012 | Friday | News
Phylogica, Cubist evaluate antimicrobial phylomers

Singapore: Phylogica is collaborating with Cubist Pharmaceuticals in order to evaluate several of its antimicrobial Phyl...

July 26, 2013 | Friday | News
Kevin Buchi joins Benitec board

Singapore: Benitec Biopharma appointed Mr Kevin Buchi to its board of directors. Mr Buchi served as CEO of Cephalon, thr...

April 11, 2013 | Thursday | Influencers
Osiris successfully defends patent challenge in Australia

Singapore: Osiris Therapeutics, a Columbia-based company focused on developing and marketing stem cell products to treat...

February 26, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory