Cardiovascular disease (CVD) impact on Asia-Pacific markets

HONG KONG Prevalence CVD, including heart attack and stroke, is the third leading cause of death in Hong Kong (aft...

June 23, 2020 | Tuesday | Analysis
EIU launches APAC Economist Intelligence Unit report for heart ailments

  The Cost of Inaction: Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Asia-Pacific   Rehabilitation ...

June 23, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Clover Biopharma initiates Ph 1 trial for COVID-19 vaccine

Clover Biopharmaceuticals, headquartered in China, has announced that the first participants have been dosed in the Phas...

June 22, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia uses digital tools for personalised health support

Treatment effectiveness, health care costs and quality of life outcomes for the two to four percent of Australians with ...

June 19, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia approves novel medical device to treat chronic back pain

Medical professionals will soon have access to a new device to treat the 3.24 million Australians who suffer chronic pai...

June 18, 2020 | Thursday | News
SpeeDx, Roche to expand access to antibiotic resistance tests

Australia based SpeeDx, a developer of innovative molecular diagnostic solutions, has partnered with Roche, a global pio...

June 17, 2020 | Wednesday | News
TrialTrove Data Shows Australia is Open for Business says Avance Clinical

The leading Australian CRO for biotechs, Avance Clinical announced at BIO Digital on 10 June 2020 that Australia current...

June 10, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Atomo and NG Biotech expand COVID-19 partnership

Australian firm Atomo Diagnostics Limited is pleased to announce it has expanded its existing COVID-19 rapid test p...

June 10, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Novavax receives $60m from DOD to secure 10 million COVID-19 vaccine doses

Novavax commenced Phase I clinical trial for their COVID-19 vaccine "NVX-CoV2373" a stable prefusion protein antige...

June 7, 2020 | Sunday | News
University of Queensland, CEPI and CSL partner for COVID-19 vaccine

CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, CSL and The University of Queensland (UQ) have announced that...

June 5, 2020 | Friday | News
Thermo Fisher, CSL to provide best-in-class pharma services

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, and Australia headquartered CSL Limited have announc...

June 1, 2020 | Monday | News
4DMedical receives FDA clearance for lung imaging technology

4DMedical, an Australian medical technology company specializing in medical imaging innovation software, announced it ha...

May 29, 2020 | Friday | News
Novavax begins Ph 1/2 trial of COVID-19 vaccine

US based Novavax, Inc., a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious di...

May 28, 2020 | Thursday | News
Vaxine announces COVID-19 vaccine collaboration with Medytox

Vaxine Pty Ltd., Adelaide, Australia announced that it has entered into a formal collaboration with Medytox Inc., a Kore...

May 27, 2020 | Wednesday | News
APA to digitally collect patient outcomes in real-time

The Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA), the 26,000+ member strong industry body for some of the world’s mo...

May 25, 2020 | Monday | News
Australian firm Mayne Pharma launches migraine drug in US

Australia based Mayne Pharma Group Limited is pleased to announce the launch of butalbital acetaminophen and caffeine (B...

May 26, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Big Start helps businesses secure PPE gear

Australian medical supply innovator Big Start is being inundated with orders from around the world as companies seek to ...

May 18, 2020 | Monday | News
Mesoblast to scale up remestemcel-L manufacturing for COVID-19 ARDS

Australia based Mesoblast Limited, leader in cellular medicines for inflammatory diseases, announced that it has success...

May 15, 2020 | Friday | News
Avance reports 34% rise in clinical trials in Aus, NZ

The Australian CRO, Avance Clinical, said there was a 34% increase in the number of international trials registered in A...

May 12, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Essence deploys technology to keep seniors safe

Essence Group, the leading provider of Internet of Things (IoT) based telecare solutions, have announced that their adva...

May 6, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Tessara Therapeutics raises $2.7 M to develop Mimetic Brain Tissue

Tessara Therapeutics Pty Ltd, a Melbourne-based biotechnology company developing human mimetic tissues, has closed its R...

May 7, 2020 | Thursday | News
CEPI invests $3.5M in Clover Australia for COVID-19 vaccine

Norway based CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations has announced a ninth worldwide collaboration to ...

May 1, 2020 | Friday | News
360biolabs supports first Australian COVID-19 vaccine trial

In one of the first COVID-19 clinical vaccine trials, US-based clinical-stage biotechnology company Novavax has selected...

April 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
GeoMap Clinical launches "Patient Enrollment Guarantees" Platform

Award-winning digital patient recruitment Platform GeoMap Clinical has announced the Patient Enrollment Guarantee for sp...

April 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia boosts COVID-19 response with additional $3M

The Australian Government will provide a further $3 million to support frontline health workers with training and inform...

April 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Agilex Biolabs appoints Patrick Hughes as Immunobiology R&D Manager

Award-winning Australian bioanalytical laboratory Agilex Biolabs announced on 22 April 2020 that it has appointed PhD an...

April 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia starts new drug trial to treat COVID-19

The trial, led by Associate Professor Steven Tong, Infectious Diseases clinician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) i...

April 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia uses anti-microbial copper to beat COVID-19

Australian company SPEE3D has successfully developed and tested a fast and affordable way to 3D print anti-microbial cop...

April 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia to test COVID-19 vaccine

The first COVID-19 vaccine to be tested outside of the USA, and only the third vaccine clinical trial in the world,...

April 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Australia’s CDD Cures Crohn’s Disease

The Centre for Digestive Disease (CDD) headed by Professor Thomas Borody has cured Crohn’s Disease as reported on ...

April 15, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Biocon and Mylan launch Fulphila in Australia

Biocon and Mylan have announced the launch of Fulphila®, a biosimilar to Neulasta® (pegfilgrastim) in Australia....

April 15, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia pitches $2M additional funds for COVID-19 research

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) in Australia will provide an additional $2 million of funding f...

April 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia offers financial aid to early phase clinical trials in APAC

Leading Australian CRO Avance Clinical on 3 April 2020 detailed the top reasons it's APAC biotechs selected Australia fo...

April 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia to use intravenous zinc in COVID-19 fight

A world-first trial will see researchers from Australia's Austin Health and the University of Melbourne, use i...

April 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia to develop rapid test for COVID-19 detection

A team, led by Associate Professor Menno van Zelm from Australia's Monash University’s Central Clinical ...

April 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia bolsters response to COVID-19

With the increasing threat of diseases spreading from animals to humans, including COVID-19, $220 million will be direct...

April 6, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia COVID 19 : Confirmed Cases Coronavirus tracker

Daily new confirmed cases of COVID-19 per million people : China   ...

April 3, 2020 | Friday | News
Icon Group, Varian to advance cancer care

The Icon Cancer Centre Wahroonga in Australia has treated its first cancer patient with Varian Ethos™. T...

April 3, 2020 | Friday | News
CSIRO begins testing COVID-19 vaccines

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency, has...

April 2, 2020 | Thursday | News
Agilex Biolabs appoints Dr Caroline Popper for Board Chair

Award-winning Australian bioanalytical laboratory Agilex Biolabs announced on 2 April 2020 that it has appointed US-base...

April 2, 2020 | Thursday | News
360biolabs to join R&D efforts to combat COVID-19

Australia based 360biolabs has announced that it is excited to offer assays to support COVID-19 vaccine development and ...

April 1, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia to roll out trial for TB vaccine against COVID-19

Professor Kathryn North AC, Director of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) in Melbourne, A...

March 30, 2020 | Monday | News
Ethicon launches new absorbable adjunctive hemostat

Ethicon, part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, has announced the strategic regional launch of SUR...

March 25, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Novotech nominated for Citeline Award for being excellent APAC CRO

Asia-Pacific's largest specialist biotech CRO Novotech has been selected as a finalist in two categories for the Citelin...

March 23, 2020 | Monday | News
Avance Clinical to deliver rapid results for urgent COVID-19 trials

Australian CRO Avance Clinical has said that Australia’s fast regulatory approval environment, key opinion leader ...

March 20, 2020 | Friday | News
Kannalife receives Australian Patent

US based Kannalife a biopharmaceutical med-chem company specializing in the research and development of potent...

March 18, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Luina Bio, Griffith University team up to develop coronavirus vaccine

With COVID-19 now declared as a pandemic and world financial markets stumbling, the collaboration between Luina Bio and ...

March 19, 2020 | Thursday | News
NICE inContact expands support to Australia, NZ during COVID-19 outbreak

NICE inContact has announced expanded support for Australia and New Zealand contact centre...

March 16, 2020 | Monday | News
Agilex Biolabs expands to accommodate biotech and CRO demand

Award-winning Australian bioanalytical laboratory Agilex Biolabs announced on 13 March 2020 it has expanded its lab faci...

March 13, 2020 | Friday | News
Orion Health develops platform to monitor further spread of COVID-19

Orion Health has developed the first comprehensive pandemic outbreak monitoring platform to alleviate demand on health s...

March 11, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Do not give up, Be professional and Believe in Your Own Abilities #Women’s Day 2020

International Women’s Day 2020 embracing the world with its new campaign #EachForEqual, aiming...

March 8, 2020 | Sunday | Opinion
ACADIA & Neuren Pharma announce Rare Pediatric Disease Designation for Trofinetide

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals and Neuren Pharmaceuticals Limited has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

March 9, 2020 | Monday | News
Merck & WEHI discover novel class of Candidate Anti Malaria Agents

Merck and Australia’s leading biomedical research organisations Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Researc...

March 6, 2020 | Friday | News
Aragen, UTS to accelerate biologics R&D in Australia

US based Aragen Bioscience which is a fully owned subsidiary of Hyderabad based GVK BIO and University of Technology Syd...

March 4, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Nanox signs agreement with The Gateway Group

Israel based medical imaging technology company Nanox has announced that it has secured an exclusive distribution deal w...

March 3, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Life Sciences Queensland inks MoU with India

At the ongoing Life Sciences and Biotechnology convention BioAsia 2020, being held in Hyderabad, India from 17th to...

February 18, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia to prosper in stem cell research

The recently published final roadmap for Stem Cell Therapies Mission (SCTM), grant opportunities and stem cell research ...

February 17, 2020 | Monday | News
SpeeDx raises additional $15M in Series B funding round

Australia based SpeeDx Pty Ltd, developer of innovative clinical diagnostic solutions for better patient outcomes, has a...

February 12, 2020 | Wednesday | News
AstraZeneca invests $200M for manufacturing in Australia

AstraZeneca has committed $200 million to the company’s manufacturing facility in North Ryde, Sydney, Australia. T...

February 10, 2020 | Monday | News
Novotech Wins Australian-Korean Business Excellence Award 2020

Asia-Pacific specialist CRO Novotech has won the Australian-Korean Business Awards 2020 - Award for Excellence, in ...

February 5, 2020 | Wednesday | News
GE Healthcare joins CMRI to optimize gene therapy manufacturing

GE Healthcare Life Sciences and Children’s Medical Research Institute will jointly drive the develo...

February 7, 2020 | Friday | News
MediPharm Labs receives Australian licence to import drugs

Canada based MediPharm Labs Corp., a global leader in specialized, research-driven cannabis extraction, distillation, pu...

February 5, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Pelican Biothermal expands reach to Australia

US based Pelican BioThermal, the global name in temperature controlled packaging, announced the further expansion of its...

February 3, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia grows coronavirus in the lab

Scientists from the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity – a joint venture between the Uni...

January 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
Zelira Therapeutics collaborates with Parkinson's Foundation

Zelira Therapeutics Limited, PERTH, Australia is pleased to announce collaboration with the Parkinson's Founda...

January 31, 2020 | Friday | News
Noxopharm to transform cancer treatment space

Headquartered in Australia, Noxopharm Limited is a clinical stage drug development company that has been in the limeligh...

January 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
YMVSV invests in Australian health tech startup loop+

Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley (“YMVSV”), the strategic business development and...

January 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Medtronic gets FDA nod for PulseSelect trial for Atrial Fibrillation

Medtronic in collaboration with leading clinicians, researchers and scientists worldwide offers the broadest range of in...

January 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Propanc Biopharma gets advance overseas finding from BIS Australia

Australia based Propanc Biopharma, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing new cancer treatments for patients suffe...

January 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
3B Scientific to acquire iSimulate

Germany based 3B Scientific, a portfolio company of J.H. Whitney Capital Partners, LLC and the world's leading manu...

January 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
International research collaboration reveals treatment of leukemia

International research collaboration between the United States and Australia has revealed a promisin...

January 20, 2020 | Monday | News
InterVenn Biosciences advances glycoproteomics for complex disease therapies

US based InterVenn Biosciences has announced multiple achievements in its development of AI-enabled glycoproteomics, as ...

January 17, 2020 | Friday | News
AVROBIO announces clinical and regulatory progress for Gaucher Disease Program

US based AVROBIO, a leading clinical-stage gene therapy company with a mission to free people from a lifetime of genetic...

January 17, 2020 | Friday | News
Agilex Biolabs announces new pharmacodynamics services

Award-winning Agilex Biolabs, the Asia-Pacific region’s leading bioanalytical laboratory based in Australia, ...

January 15, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia explores novel way to detect infections and cancers

Melbourne researchers have determined the molecular basis for how an important component of the immune system, called ga...

January 13, 2020 | Monday | News
Griffith University to develop new drug for parainfluenza virus

Australia based Griffith University’s Institute for Glycomics has partnered with Hong Kong listed China ...

January 6, 2020 | Monday | News
AlayaCare acquires Procura to strengthen its healthcare platform

AlayaCare, an award-winning technology platform for home and community care, has announced the acquisition of Procura, a...

January 3, 2020 | Friday | News
Avita Medical gets FDA approval for Recell device

UK based AVITA Medical Limited, a regenerative medicine company with a technology platform positioned to address unmet m...

January 3, 2020 | Friday | News
Genetic data offers risk indications for ischaemic stroke

A group of investigators from Australia, Germany, and the UK have shown that genetic data obtained from a single blood d...

January 1, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Adelaide researchers to develop novel Zika vaccine

Researchers from the University of Adelaide, Australia have made significant advances in developing a novel vaccine agai...

December 30, 2019 | Monday | News
Investors inject $45M into South Australia biotech industry

The Adelaide China Biotech Investment Fund has been launched – a new $45 million investment fund that will acceler...

December 27, 2019 | Friday | News
Glenmark announces approval for Ryaltris in Australia

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has announced that Seqirus Pty. Ltd. (Seqirus) has received marketing approval for Ryaltris®...

December 23, 2019 | Monday | News
Australia's MRCF leads $8.8M funding for Pathios Therapeutics

UK based Pathios Therapeutics Limited, an innovative biotech company focused on the development of first-in-class therap...

December 20, 2019 | Friday | News
Biocon & Equillium expand collaboration to Australia, NZ

India headquartered Biocon Ltd and US based Equillium Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company leveraging deep under...

December 13, 2019 | Friday | News
NeuClone announces Positive Ph I results of Herceptin® (Trastuzumab) Biosimilar

NeuClone Pharmaceuticals Ltd, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company exclusively focused on developing high-quality ...

December 13, 2019 | Friday | News
Mainstay Medical receives approval for ReActiv8 from Australian TGA

Ireland based medical device company Mainstay Medical International plc has announced that it has received regulatory ap...

December 11, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Novotech collaborates with PPC Group

Novotech and PPC Group (PPC), two leading, Asia-Pacific contract research organisations (CROs), have formed a strat...

December 3, 2019 | Tuesday | 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
Indian traditional medicine legacy reaches Australia

All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Western Sydney University, Australi...

November 25, 2019 | Monday | News
Imagion Biosystems receives patent from India

Imagion Biosystems Limited, an Australian company dedicated to improving healthcare through the earlier detection of can...

November 14, 2019 | Thursday | News
Spectrum Therapeutics focuses on Real World Evidence research

Spectrum Therapeutics, the medical division of Canopy Growth Corporation (Canopy Growth), is pleased to announce an Aust...

November 12, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Icon Group expands footprint in Asia Pacific

Icon Group (Icon), Australia’s largest dedicated provider of cancer care has announced the completion of a debt ra...

November 11, 2019 | Monday | News
FIND Collaborates with SpeeDx and QuantuMDx

Australia based SpeeDx Pty. Ltd. and UK headquartered QuantuMDx Group Ltd. have announced a collaboration with the Found...

November 7, 2019 | Thursday | News
Icon Group expands cancer care capabilities

Icon Group, Australia's largest dedicated provider of cancer care, with a growing reach into New Zealand&...

November 4, 2019 | Monday | News
Mallinckrodt, Terumo BCT announce UVADEX approval in Australia

Mallinckrodt plc, a global biopharmaceutical company, and Terumo BCT, a global leader in blood component, therapeut...

November 1, 2019 | Friday | News
Kazia raises A$4.0 M to progress R&D programs

Kazia Therapeutics Limited, an Australian oncology-focused biotechnology company, on 28 October 2019, announced that the...

October 29, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Fresenius Medical Care expands services in Western Australia

Fresenius Medical Care, the world's leading provider of dialysis products and services, has announced the further enhanc...

October 30, 2019 | Wednesday | News
World first clinical trial commences in alcohol use disorder

A medication currently used to treat insomnia may also be effective in preventing alcohol intake and relapse in alcohol ...

October 28, 2019 | Monday | News
Osteopore gets recognition for innovative healthcare product

Osteopore, an Australian medical device company that designs and manufactures regenerative implants made via 3D printing...

October 24, 2019 | Thursday | News
NeuClone announces First Human dose of Stelara® (Ustekinumab) Biosimilar candidate

NeuClone, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company exclusively focused on developing high-quality biosimilar products,...

October 21, 2019 | Monday | News

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