Invitrocue creates Joint Venture with A*STAR scientist Dr Chen Qingfeng

Invitrocue, a leading healthcare bio-analytic solutions provider, is pleased to announce the establishment of InvivoCue,...

February 12, 2019 | Tuesday | News
“An efficient approach to clinical trial design will have the greatest impact”

The annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference is the premier investor conference focused exclusively on companies definin...

February 6, 2019 | Wednesday | Opinion
Strides to exit investment in Arrow

Strides Pharma Science Limited (Strides) has announced that its step-down subsidiary Strides Pharma Global Pte, Limited,...

February 4, 2019 | Monday | News
The iQ Group Global launches saliva glucose biosensor

The iQ Group Global, a consortium of life science and financial services companies which span the biopharma value chain ...

February 1, 2019 | Friday | News
Mayne Pharma launches Tolsura capsules in the US

Australia-based Mayne Pharma is pleased to announce the launch of TOLSURA (SUBA®-itraconazole) 65mg capsule in the U...

January 30, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Resistance-guided therapy for Gonorrhoea now available

UK patients with N. gonorrhoeae (GC) now have the option of receiving the cheap and easily-administered o...

January 25, 2019 | Friday | News
Novel device to diagnose and treat patients much faster

Scientists from Monash University have developed a new device that can rapidly screen the blood in just minutes to detec...

January 23, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Invitrocue declares changes in board

Invitrocue Limited, a leading healthcare bio-analytic solutions provider, announces the appointment of Dr. Steven Fang a...

January 9, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Immutep collaborates with CYTLIMIC

Immutep Limited has announced that it has entered into a clinical trial collaboration agreement, a supply agreement and ...

January 8, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Scientists discover a molecule that predicts patient's ability to survive melanoma

Doctors may be able to assess the survival rates of melanoma patients following the discovery of a molecule that allows ...

January 2, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Patrys’s drug suppresses breast cancer brain metastases, increases survival

Singapore -  Patrys Limited, a therapeutic antibody development company, is pleased to announce further pre-clinica...

December 24, 2018 | Monday | News
Australian researchers to start clinical trials for dementia ultrasound treatment

Safety testing of a pioneering ultrasound technique that could delay the effects of dementia will begin in Brisbane late...

December 20, 2018 | Thursday | News
NeuClone discloses its sixth biosimilar candidate of Pertuzumab

NeuClone Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (NeuClone), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company exclusively focused on developing h...

December 18, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Novotech CRO launches largest Oracle TMMCS in APAC

Asia-Pacific specialist CRO Novotech announced as part of its ongoing IT infrastructure investment program that it has i...

December 17, 2018 | Monday | News
“Diabetic kidney disease could overwhelm our health systems”: Dr Richard Lipscombe

Globally, the diabetic nephropathy market is witnessing significant growth due to rise in the incidence of diabetes and ...

December 17, 2018 | Monday | Opinion
Mayne Pharma receives FDA approval of Tolsura

Australia-based Mayne Pharma announced that the US FDA has approved the New Drug Application (NDA) for Tolsura 65mg...

December 12, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Sienna embarks on ambitious M&A strategy

Singapore - ASX-listed, cancer diagnostics company, Sienna, has emerging cancer diagnostics in sight as it embarks on M&...

December 11, 2018 | Tuesday | News
APLIDIN gets world-first approval for Multiple Myeloma

Multiple myeloma patients from Australia will have world-first access to a new first-in-class drug developed to treat th...

December 11, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Australian researchers develop novel technology for cancer detection

A group of researchers from the University of Queensland, Australia has developed a new method that will enable quick an...

December 5, 2018 | Wednesday | News
BlackBerry to help improve digital infrastructure for healthcare

Singapore – BlackBerry Limited announced it has become a HIMSS Analytics Certified Consultant to help address the ...

December 3, 2018 | Monday | News
Osprey awarded purchasing agreement for DyeVert PLUS

Singapore – Osprey Medical announced that its DyeVert Plus Contrast Reduction System was awarded a group purchasin...

December 3, 2018 | Monday | News
Health Care Originals announces strategic alliance with Healthport for Australia, NZ

Health Care Originals (HCO) announces its strategic alliance with Healthport. HCO is a leading manufacturer of medical w...

November 28, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Admedus appoints Matthew McDonnell as interim CFO

Medical technology company Admedus  has appointed former KPMG partner Matthew McDonnell as its interim CFO. With ov...

November 26, 2018 | Monday | News
Phebra announces new UK subsidiary company

Leading Australian pharmaceutical firm Phebra has announced the expansion of its international operations, with the esta...

November 21, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Immuron appoints Gary S. Jacob as CEO

Immuron Limited, an Australian-based microbiome biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing oral...

November 20, 2018 | Tuesday | News
BVT successfully restores vision with its bionic eye

Bionic Vision Technologies Pty Ltd (BVT) announced medical researchers had successfully restored a sense of vision ...

November 19, 2018 | Monday | News
Five hospitals recognized at 6th HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Awards

Singapore – Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, and HIMSS Asia Pacifi...

November 8, 2018 | Thursday | News
Enesi Pharma, Sementis enter into R&D collaboration

UK based Enesi Pharma, an innovative pharmaceutical company developing unique injectable solid dose drug-device vaccine ...

November 5, 2018 | Monday | News
Flagship life sciences conference demonstrates strength and value of sector

Singapore - The AusBiotech 2018 annual national three-day conference concluded in Brisbane after attracting over 1,000 d...

November 2, 2018 | Friday | News
AusBiotech, J&J announce Innovation Industry Excellence Awards

Singapore - The AusBiotech and Johnson & Johnson Innovation Industry Excellence Awards were announced at the AusBiot...

November 1, 2018 | Thursday | News
Novotech, CNS to expand CRO services to biopharma across APAC

Singapore - Novotech the largest Asia-Pacific-based CRO has acquired Australasian specialist CRO Clinical Network Servic...

October 17, 2018 | Wednesday | News
New technology to revolutionise healthcare

A team at Swansea University Medical School has developed a technology that enables the secure storage and sharing of la...

October 17, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Resident Doctor Mario Pennisi joins Elo-Australia

Elo Life Systems Inc. has announced that Mario G. Pennisi joined Elo Life Systems as a Resident Director of its Australi...

October 11, 2018 | Thursday | News
Alphamab starts phase I clinical trial in Australia

Alphamab Oncology has announced that its proprietary humanized PD-L1 - CTLA-4 bispecific antibody program, the first of ...

October 11, 2018 | Thursday | News
MGC Pharma receives TGA approval to market epilepsy drug in Australia

Australia's MGC Pharmaceuticals is pleased to announce the receipt of formal authorisation for the availability of its p...

October 11, 2018 | Thursday | News
One-third unplanned pregnancies aborted in Australia, says a survey

One in three unwanted pregnancies end in abortion, if recent research undertaken in Australia is any indication. The re...

October 8, 2018 | Monday | News
RMIT, Atmo sign licence agreement for gut sensors

RMIT University in Australia has signed a commercial licence agreement with start-up Atmo Biosciences for ingestible sen...

October 3, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Invion spin-off selects leading CRO for nadolol development

Singapore - Chronic Airway Therapeutics (CAT), a proposed spin-off from Invion Limited, has selected leading Chinese con...

September 27, 2018 | Thursday | News
Virtus appoints new non-executive director

Singapore – Virtus Health announces the appointment of Shane Solomon to its Board as a Non-Executive Director. Sol...

September 27, 2018 | Thursday | News
Sun Pharma announces Australian TGA approval of ILUMYA

India's Sun Pharmaceutical recently announced that Sun Pharma has received the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administrati...

September 25, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Minomic announces demerger of Glytherix

Minomic International Ltd has announced that it received strong shareholder approval to approve the demerger of its...

September 25, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Immutep collaborates with Merck, Pfizer for Efti

Immutep Limited has announced that it has entered into a clinical trial collaboration and supply agreement with Merck KG...

September 25, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Daily intake of Aspirin has little effect on cardiovascular disease, says a study

Three groundbreaking papers published in New England Journal of Medicine, led by a team of Monash University researchers...

September 17, 2018 | Monday | News
Invion to spinout respiratory assets, advance clinical development in China

Australia-based Invion recently announced plans to  spin off its two assets aimed at treating chronic airway diseas...

September 12, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Cancer Australia releases new diagnostic data

For the first time, national data on childhood cancer stage at diagnosis has been released, showing that a high proporti...

September 11, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Photosoft granted patent protection in Australia

Singapore - ASX-listed life- sciences company, Invion Limited announces the grant in Australia of the patent for chlorin...

September 10, 2018 | Monday | News
Centre marks new era in Israel-Australia research

Singapore - A new Israel-Australia research centre involving a major collaboration with Monash University will...

September 6, 2018 | Thursday | News
Vertex announces reimbursement agreement in Australia for ORKAMBI

Vertex Pharmaceuticals announced the finalization of an agreement with the Australian Government that allows for reimbur...

September 5, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Cadrock gets $5M seed funding for heart therapy

Cadrock Pty Ltd, which owns an investigational prevention and treatment therapy for coronary artery disease (CAD), has s...

September 4, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Australian scientists detect cancer with gold plated nanoparticles

Researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) in Australia have used gold-plated nanoparticles to det...

August 30, 2018 | Thursday | News
BGI, Xing Tech to advance diagnostic technologies

Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Australian firm Xing Technology aim...

August 27, 2018 | Monday | News
Merck receives Australian CRISPR Nickase Patent

Merck, the vibrant science and technology company has announced that the Australian Patent Office has allowed the compan...

August 16, 2018 | Thursday | News
Star Combo Pharma acquires Ausway Group of Companies

Star Combo Pharma recently announced that it has signed a Heads of Agreement to acquire the Ausway Group of compani...

August 10, 2018 | Friday | News
Scientists use nanoparticles to detect deep-tissue cancers

Australian and Chinese scientists have developed a method using coded nanoparticles to detect and help diagnose disease....

August 9, 2018 | Thursday | News
Australia gives its nod to Trastuzumab Biosimilar

Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TAG) has approved Celltrion’s Herzuma, the country’s fir...

August 9, 2018 | Thursday | News
Stem Cell Research For Cystic Fibrosis Moves Forward

The fight against cystic fibrosis (CF) has taken a major step forward, with pioneering research by University of Adelaid...

August 8, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Australian Stem Cell Researchers Receive $3 Million Funding

Stem Cells Australia and The University of Melbourne have welcomed $3 million Federal Government funding to advance stem...

August 1, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Marken Opens Clinical Trial Logistics Hub in Melbourne

Marken has announced the opening of a new branch located in Melbourne. The new location joins Sydney and Brisbane as the...

August 1, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Research reveals Beckman Coulter's Access hsTnI's diagnostic accuracy

A recent article in the Annals of Emergency Medicine reported on the diagnostic accuracy of the newly released Beckman C...

July 25, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Scientists develop the first blood test for melanoma detection

Scientists at the Edith Cowan University (ECU), Australia, have developed a blood test to detect melanoma in its early s...

July 23, 2018 | Monday | News
Novotech partners with Asian Eye Institute

Asia-Pacific specialist CRO Novotech has partnered with the Asian Eye Institute, Inc (AEI), a private eye centre in the ...

July 17, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Glenmark to commercialise Ryaltris in Australia, NZ

Glenmark Pharma’s subsidiary Glenmark Specialty has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Australia's...

July 6, 2018 | Friday | News
UNSW student's pioneering artificial intelligence boosts IVF success

A problem first posed in a UNSW lecture has driven a current Medicine student to design a pioneering artificial intellig...

July 4, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Western Australia to get new biotech hub

An initiative to grow Western Australia’s life sciences and innovation sector and boost local research capability ...

July 4, 2018 | Wednesday | News
AFDR, Kadimastem to receive bi-national grant to explore diabetes solution

Israeli biotechnology company Kadimastem has announced the approval of the Australian Government and the Israel Innovati...

July 3, 2018 | Tuesday | News
HIMSS, eHealth Queensland sign treaty for Healthcare Anytime, Anywhere

eHealth Queensland and HIMSS Asia Pacific have signed an agreement for eHealth Queensland to assist with the facilitatio...

July 2, 2018 | Monday | News
Cell-in-a-Box encapsulated cells to produce interleukin-2

Singapore- When it was first discovered in 1976, the cytokine interleukin-2 (IL-2) was characterized as a soluble factor...

June 25, 2018 | Monday | News
Australia's Health Engine allegedly shares clients information with lawyers

According to Australia’s leading news portal ABC news, the country’s largest online doctor appointment servi...

June 25, 2018 | Monday | News
Sydney based start-up HealthMatch raises $1.3M

HealthMatch, an Australian start-up aiming to become the go-to platform linking sick patients with clinical trials of po...

June 18, 2018 | Monday | News
Moxidectin gets USFDA nod to treat River Blindness

Medicines Development for Global Health (MDGH) and the World Health Organisation Special Programme for Research and Trai...

June 14, 2018 | Thursday | News
Spin-outs from University of Queensland generate $600 million

UniQuest, The University of Queensland’s commercialization company, is leading Australia and competing global...

June 4, 2018 | Monday | News
Melbourne-based Company to invest more than £3M in Wales

A Melbourne-based life science research and development company has invested more than £3 million in Wales. The m...

May 25, 2018 | Friday | News
Startup Indee Labs raises $2.6 M in seed funding

Indee Labs has announced that it has received $2.6 million in venture financing extending its seed-stage funding to more...

May 21, 2018 | Monday | News
Australian Government signs J Roughhead for the clinical trials campaign

The Turnbull Government is launching a national awareness campaign to get to get more Australians into ground-breaking c...

May 17, 2018 | Thursday | News
Researchers reduce childhood asthma with tailored intervention

Asthma is one of the most common childhood diseases and impacts children’s quality of life, leaving them more susc...

May 17, 2018 | Thursday | News
Australia allocates $393 M to Nanotechnology & Genomics

After recommendations by an expert group led by the chief scientist, Alan Finkel, the federal government in Australia re...

May 15, 2018 | Tuesday | 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
NeuClone Announces Preclinical Results for Stelara Biosimilar Candidate

Australian biopharmaceutical company NeuClone has announced positive preclinical results of its biosimilar to Johnson &a...

May 11, 2018 | Friday | News
Strides, Apotex merge their Australian business

India based Strides has inked a deal with Apotex, to merge their respective Australian business operations. The merged e...

May 10, 2018 | Thursday | News
Cellmid inks deal with China's Fukangren Bio-pharm

Australia based Cellmid has recently announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Advangen Limited (“Advangen”...

May 2, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Medibio launches corporate mental health platform

Mental health technology company, Medibio has launched the Company’s Corporate Mental Health for business product ...

May 1, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Starpharma completes US New Drug Application for VivaGel BV

Australian pharma giant Starpharma  today announced that its rolling new drug application (NDA)i for VivaGel BV inc...

April 30, 2018 | Monday | News
Dubai, Australia tie up for cancer research

The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Council of the Queensland Institute o...

April 25, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Tandem announces Australia, New Zealand distribution deals

Singapore - Tandem Diabetes Care, a medical device company and manufacturer of the only touchscreen insulin pumps availa...

April 24, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Indee Labs receives funding for revolutionary gene therapy

MTPConnect and the Minister for Health, the Hon Greg Hunt MP, recently announced that Indee Labs will be receiving grant...

April 24, 2018 | Tuesday | News
SpeeDx, Serosep sign distribution agreement

Australia based SpeeDx has announced a distribution agreement with Serosep Ltd, a leading manufacturer and distributor o...

April 23, 2018 | Monday | News
Cancer Australia launches Lung Cancer Framework

Cancer Australia has launched a Framework to improve the outcomes and experiences of people affected by lung cancer &nda...

April 17, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Telix, INSERM, ARRONAX enter into translational research partnership

Singapore – Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development o...

April 16, 2018 | Monday | News
Australian researchers invent tiny fibre optic probe

A team of researchers at the University of Adelaide has invented a world-first tiny fibre-optic probe that can simultane...

April 13, 2018 | Friday | News
PSA appoints Belinda Wood as new GM

Outgoing CEO of the Generic and Biosimilar Medicines Association (GBMA), Belinda Wood has been appointed to the role of ...

April 12, 2018 | Thursday | News
Australian University research gives hope to thalassemia patients

Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia, have used CRISPR gene editing technology t...

April 6, 2018 | Friday | News
Cellmid inks deal for anti-aging skin brand

Cellmid Limited announced that it has entered into an agreement with Labo International S.r.l to undertake the exclusive...

April 4, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Biocon gets European nod for its insulin to market globally

Indian biotech major Biocon said that the biosimilar insulin glargine co-developed with US drug major partner Mylan rece...

March 28, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Mayne pharma launches generic version of Monodox in Australia

Australia's Mayne Pharma Group recently announced the launch of  doxycycline monohydrate immediate release (IR...

March 19, 2018 | Monday | News
Propanc Biopharma Completes Reproduction run for its pancreatic drug

Propanc Biopharma Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focusing on development of new and proprietary treatm...

March 15, 2018 | Thursday | News
Fresenius Medical Care gets recognition by ACHS

The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS), Australia's leading independent authority on healthcare, has reco...

March 15, 2018 | Thursday | News
Merck inks deal with Australian biotech firm Immutep

Australia’s biotech giant Immutep has announced that it has entered into a clinical trial collaboration and supply...

March 13, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Kerry Corning initiates phase 1 trial for narcoleptic drug

Phase I clinical trials to assess its safety, human tolerance, and pharmacokinetic properties. XW10172 is the first comp...

March 13, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Australian scientists to develop blood test for lung cancer

A team of scientists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Australia have discovered a unique ...

March 11, 2018 | Sunday | News
'Cancer is an increasingly important health issue in the APAC region’

Globally, the radiopharmaceutical medicine market is expected to reach USD 13.8 billion by 2024, according to a new repo...

March 9, 2018 | Friday | Influencers

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