Viralytics accelerates patient recruitment for Cavatak trial

Singapore: Patient recruitment in phase II CALM trial has accelerated significantly in the past three months with 25 ...

March 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
OECD: Australia has 527 biotech firms, ranks 6th

Singapore: According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) directorate for Science, Tec...

January 17, 2013 | Thursday | News
Dr John Ballard: Angel of Australia biotech

Veterans in the life sciences industry in Australia distinguish Dr John Ballard as one of the founding and most signific...

March 13, 2012 | Tuesday | Influencers
AtCor Medical wins $3.2 mn contract

Singapore: AtCor Medical, developer and marketer of the SphygmoCor system which measures central aortic blood pressures ...

October 8, 2012 | Monday | News
BioSA awards for Aussie innovators

Singapore: BioSA revealed that names of the awardees of the BioSA Bioscience Achievement Awards at its Welcome Reception...

March 28, 2013 | Thursday | News
iSonea updates its AsthmaSense app

Singapore: Medical technology company iSonea has unveiled an updated version of its AsthmaSense asthma management sma...

December 7, 2012 | Friday | News
Abraxane cancer trial shows positive results in Australia

Singapore: Specialised Therapeutics Australia (STA) is going to publish abstracts related to its phase III metastatic me...

October 29, 2012 | Monday | News
Aus govt gives Mesoblast $4.3 mn for stem cell work

Singapore: Mesoblast has received approximately $4.3 million under the Australian Government's Innovation Australia Rese...

July 19, 2013 | Friday | News
Paul Ramsay leaves $3 bn to Ramsay Healthcare

Singapore: The founder of Ramsay Health Care, Mr Paul Ramsay breathed his last and even during his last moments left mor...

May 12, 2014 | Monday | News
Australia develops intelligent hi-res retinal camera

Singapore: The Australian Government's Cooperative Research Center (CRC) Program is providing susbtantial amounts of fun...

February 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
IDT appoints Paul MacLeman as CEO

Singapore: IDT Australia appointed Dr Paul MacLeman as CEO, effective April 15, 2013. Dr MacLeman was recently the CEO o...

April 8, 2013 | Monday | News
Obese children more prone to Asthma: Study

Singapore: Researchers from the UK and Australia proved in a study that excess weight and obesity among children was a m...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Dr Brian McNamee to step down from CSL

Singapore: After 23 years of being at the helm of CSL, Dr Brian McNamee will leave the firm in July 2013 and will be suc...

August 6, 2012 | Monday | News
Canada's investment giant enters Aus life science

On October 25, 2012, Canada-based international investment bank, Canaccord Genuity, expanded its Australian operations w...

November 8, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
Celgene's anti-cancer drug reactivates dormant HIV: Study

Singapore: A study presented by Danish scientists at the AIDS 2014 conference, indicated that an anti-cancer drug made b...

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
Pharma companies set eyes on China

China reported total of 97 deals worth $6.5 billion, the highest in Asia Pacific, according to a mergermarket report. Th...

June 19, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Alchemia cancer trial gets nod from drug safety board

Singapore: Alchemia announced that the independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) responsible for reviewing the ...

November 8, 2012 | Thursday | News
Alchemia gets new CEO

Singapore: Brisbane drug discovery and development company Alchemia announces that Mr Charles Walker has been appoint...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Doctors now offer GI Dynamic's EndoBarrier Therapy to treat diabetes

Singapore: GI Dynamics announced that doctors at St. Vincent's Clinic and Macquarie University Hospital (MUH) in Sydn...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
What the future holds for the APAC CRO market?

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Indo-Aussie research to find ovarian cancer cure

Singapore: Scientists at Australia's Queensland University of Technology (QUT) are hot on the trail of a genetic pathway...

October 4, 2012 | Thursday | News
Changes in PBS to help Aussies save $20 mn

Singapore: The listings and price changes that came into effect in Australia this August through the Pharmaceutical Bene...

August 5, 2013 | Monday | News
Intl anesthesia society appoints board members

Singapore: SmartTots, a research initiative sponsored by International Anesthesia Research Society, a non-political medi...

December 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Australian firm registers 25 disease specific stem cell lines at NIH

Singapore: Australia's Genea Stem Cells, a supplier and developer of disease-specific human stem cells, has been success...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News