Proteomics International unites with CPR Pharma Services

MedTech pioneer Proteomics International has entered into a strategic alliance with CPR Pharma Services (CPR), targeting...

February 12, 2018 | Monday | News
Australian researchers identify drug to reverse alcohol effect

A group of researchers from Queensland University of Technology, Australia has identified a drug that could potenti...

February 10, 2018 | Saturday | News
Allergan to acquire Australian biotech startup Elastagen

Global pharma giant Allergen has struck a deal to acquire Australia's Elastagen , a clinical stage company developing me...

February 9, 2018 | Friday | News
Japan, Australia researchers work on early Alzheimer’s detection

Researchers at Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, and University of Melbourne, Australia and Japanese N...

February 6, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Starpharma to commence DEP cabazitaxel phase 1/2 trial

Australia’s Starpharma today announced that it has received regulatory and ethics approvals to commence its phase ...

January 31, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Cynata signs MoU with US biotech company

Cynata Therapeutics has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Celularity Inc., a US-based biotech company focu...

January 23, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Patent is awarded to RNAi Technology of FuturaGene

FuturaGene is a wholly owned subsidiary of Suzano Pulp and Paper, and Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Indu...

January 18, 2018 | Thursday | Regulatory
Australian researchers develop a method to supercharge antibiotics

A team of scientists at University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Australia has modified an o...

January 16, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Biocept got patent for its Molecular Biomarker Technology

Biocept, Inc. is a molecular diagnostics company with commercialized assays for lung, breast, gastric, colorectal and pr...

January 8, 2018 | Monday | News
Women Achiever's Spl: Seizing opportunity however small it may be: DR DEBORAH RATHJEN CEO, Bionomics, Australia

A seasoned biotech executive of over 20 years, Dr Deborah Rathjen joined Bionomics in June 2000 from Peptech Limited, wh...

December 20, 2017 | Wednesday | Influencers
Proteomics and Dimerix partner to improve the treatment of kidney disease

Ausstralia-based Proteomics International (PI) has developed PromarkerD, a predictive and diagnostic test for diabetic k...

December 18, 2017 | Monday | News
MNX acquires Healthcare logistics provider

MNX Global Logistics has acquired international logistics solutions provider Logical Freight Solutions P/L (LFS). ...

November 21, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Hydroponics to partner with Israel’s BOL Pharma

The Hydroponics Company Ltd, a star performer since listing in the surging medical cannabis sector, is entering into a p...

November 20, 2017 | Monday | News
Australia's research efforts get further boost

In a bid to further promote Australia’s research and development in medicine, the Australian government is plannin...

November 3, 2017 | Friday | News
Australia: A thriving lifescience hub with a global reach

Biotechnology may not have been Australia’s forte for the past few years, but the Land Down Under is racing up the...

October 20, 2017 | Friday | Analysis
Australia launches national cancer programme

A new, Australia-wide initiative intends to wipe out childhood cancer in a program that will see multiple healthcare fac...

September 20, 2017 | Wednesday | News
CWCF introduces app for ovarian cancer patients

The Cherish Women’s Cancer Foundation, a Brisbane-based charity, has launched a smartphone app to help women with ...

September 20, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Australian researchers develop novel therapies for cancer spread

In a breakthrough against skin cancer, Australian researchers have developed a combination of new treatments to stop mel...

September 13, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Australia, Brazil, China join forces to advance research in science

In a bid to advance research and tackle rising diseases in  an ageing society, Australian government has announced ...

September 12, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Strides Shasun subsidiary Arrow Pharma acquires Australia's Amneal Pharma

Arrow Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Strides Shasun recently announced that it has acquired Australian operations of U...

September 1, 2017 | Friday | News
AstraZeneca to expand production at its Australian facility

If reports are to be believed, global pharma giant Astrazeneca is planning to spend nearly $100 million to expand its Sy...

July 18, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Australia’s Cochlear plans expansion in China

Bionic ear implant maker Cochlear is expanding its global manufacturing capacity with a new $50 million facility in Chin...

July 14, 2017 | Friday | News
Researchers in Melbourne provide new biotechnology tool

Researchers at the University of Melbourne have demonstrated a way to detect nuclear spins in molecules non-invasively, ...

July 4, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Starpharma sells crop chemical business to Agrium for $26m

Australia based biotech firm Starpharma Holdings has recently sold its agro-chemicals unit to Agrium which deals with fa...

June 14, 2017 | Wednesday | News
New leukemia treatment outperforms standard chemotherapies

Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) are working on a new treatment for an aggressive type of leukemi...

June 12, 2017 | Monday | News
Ace swimmer Micheal Phelps joins Australia's Medibio board

Singapore: Ace American Swimmer and one of the most celebrated athlete in Olympic history, Mr Micheal Phelps has joined ...

June 9, 2017 | Friday | News
QIC Consortium to buy Australian Icon Group for A$1 Billion

A consortium comprising QIC Ltd., Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s private equity arm and China’s Pagoda Investmen...

May 23, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Funds for new stroke research

Stroke Foundation will provide more than $205,000 to eight Australian researchers, underpinning new research projects an...

May 12, 2017 | Friday | News
New imaging technique for removing tumors

Researchers at BRITElab at Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and the University of Western Australia have deve...

May 12, 2017 | Friday | News
Ex-Telstra executive Ballantyne takes charge of Healthscope

Gordon Ballantyne, previously at Telstra, is joining the top ranks of Australia’s healthcare sector following the ...

April 27, 2017 | Thursday | News
Australia slashes prescription drug prices

Singapore: Bringing in much needed relief for millions of consumers, the Australian government announced that is reducin...

March 31, 2017 | Friday | News
Pfizer announces closure of its Australian facility

Singapore: Global pharma giant Pfizer recently announced its plans to close an Australian manufacturing plant by 2021 th...

February 16, 2017 | Thursday | News
Bionomics progresses to develop novel drug for CNS

Singapore: Bionomics, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative therapeutics fo...

February 10, 2017 | Friday | News
Australian research receives A$125 mn funding boost

Singapore: In a bid to further boost research and development, Australian government has announced afresh series of fund...

February 9, 2017 | Thursday | News
Medicines Australia, MTP Connect ink MoU to boost innovation

Singapore: In a bid to boost the country's pharmaceutical sector and encourage new drug invention, The Medical Technolog...

January 31, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Google launches health cards in Australia

Singapore: Making a foray into healthcare, Google has recently launched health condition cards in Australia, that is tou...

February 2, 2017 | Thursday | News
Mainstay Medical seeks Australian approval to sell ReActiv8

Singapore: As per reports, global medical device firm Mainstay Medical has sought approval to market i its implantable d...

January 18, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Australia approves drug that can 'melt away' cancer cells

Singapore: Australian authorities have just approved a new drugvenetoclax that is touted to have the power to "melt away...

January 10, 2017 | Tuesday | News
GSK to shut down its Sydney plant by 2020

Singapore: According to reports, British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline will close its Sydney plant by 2020 after a review d...

November 7, 2016 | Monday | News
Australia changes drug approval norms to speed up approval process

Singapore: With a view to speed up the approval process and improve access to breakthrough drugs, the Australian federal...

September 21, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Hypoglycaemia monitor for diabetics wins award

AIMEDICS, an Australian medical device company, has come up with a device that help people with insulin-dependent diabe...

March 14, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Research and innovation critical for productivity'

Singapore: The report, entitled 'The role of science research and technology in lifting Australian productivity,' makes ...

June 16, 2014 | Monday | News
Phosphagenics patch delivers Oxymorphone for 72 hours

Singapore: Australian drug delivery technology company, Phosphagenics highlighted that it has achieved all end points of...

March 26, 2013 | Tuesday | News
New Australian facility to translate research into products

Singapore: Australian life sciences researchers will now be able to translate their discoveries into commercial products...

August 21, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Specialized Therapeutics grants sublicense to Mundipharma for anti-emetic products

Singapore: Specialized Therapeutics Pty Ltd and Mundipharma Pty Limited announce a sublicense agreement enabling Mundiph...

March 8, 2016 | Tuesday | News
CardioCel heals the heart by attracting stem cells

Singapore: Australia-based Allied Healthcare has demonstrated that its cardiovascular patches, CardioCel, promote healin...

November 28, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Novogen progresses on drugs against genetic, degenerative disorders

Singapore: Australian company Novogen, engaged in a pilot program aimed at breakthrough development of drugs to treat a ...

November 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
It's all in the genes!

Singapore: WHO estimates that globally, nearly 350 million people suffer from depression. As explained by the health gov...

August 19, 2016 | Friday | News
Lab-to-market is a challenge for Aussie researchers

Australia: Mr David Henderson, MD of UniQuest, which is one of the technology transfer companies in the Asia Pacific reg...

October 12, 2012 | 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
Bone Medical reveals results of arthritis study

Singapore: Australia-based Bone Medical, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of new medicines for mus...

January 30, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Stem cell study reveals potential diabetes cure

Singapore: A research conducted by Australian scientists on stem cells has shown that patients suffering from type 1 dia...

December 3, 2012 | Monday | News
Aussie firm grows human tendons in lab

Australia: Australia based regenerative medicine company, Orthocell, has successfully grown human tendons in a laborator...

November 10, 2014 | Monday | News
Australia announces victory over AIDS

Singapore: Ahead of the 21st International AIDS Conference, a team of Australian researchers and experts from the Austra...

July 14, 2016 | Thursday | News
There's still time to stop TPP from cutting off critical affordable generic medicines: MSF

Singapore: As representatives from the United States and 11 other Pacific-Rim countries gather in New Zealand to sign th...

February 5, 2016 | Friday | News
Luye Medical integrates Australia's Healthe Care to its group

Healthe Care, Australia's third largest private healthcare group, officially became a member of Singapore-headquartered,...

May 5, 2016 | Thursday | News
India, Australia partner to foster sugar research

Singapore: Sugar Research Australia recently announced a new research partnership with India to further research and fos...

May 4, 2016 | Wednesday | News
QRxPharma, FDA clarify steps for Moxduo release

Singapore: QRxPharma has clarified with the US FDA about the steps necessary for approval of immediate release Moxduo. ...

January 17, 2013 | Thursday | News
Australia's power woman Deborah Rathjen wins BioSpectrum award

Steering Bionomics' focus towards large markets where there is a defined clinical need for new treatments, Dr Rathjen he...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Cytori, Lorem to commercialize Cytori Cell Therapy

Singapore: US-based Cytori Therapeutics and China-based Lorem Vascular have formed a partnership to commercialize Cytori...

November 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Australian TGA nod for superbug antibiotic

Singapore: An effective new antibiotic designed to specifically treat Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea will be...

April 26, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Generon initiates phase I clinical study for F-652 in Australia

Singapore: Generon (Shanghai)has initiated phase I clinical trial for F-652 in Australia. F-652 is a recombinant protein...

September 6, 2012 | Thursday | News
Aus drug delivery technology gets Chinese patent

Singapore: Australian drug delivery technology company Imugene has received key Chinese patent application for the compa...

April 30, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Post-chemotherapy pain killer trial begins

Singapore: Spinifex Pharmaceuticals, an Australian pain drug development company, announced that the first set of patie...

December 11, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Reva begins trial for bioresorbable scaffold

Singapore: Australia-based Reva Medical has initiated enrolment of patients for its ReZolve 2 bioresorbable scaffold at ...

July 1, 2013 | Monday | News
CSL files marketing plea for Privigen in Europe

Singapore: Australian company CSL Behring has submitted a variation application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) f...

June 1, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
Australia registers leukaemia drug in benefit scheme

Singapore: A treatment for patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) and Philadelphia chromosome positive acute lymp...

November 2, 2015 | Monday | Regulatory
Breast cancer market will rise to $3.4 billion by 2021'

Singapore: The Asia-Pacific (APAC) breast cancer market is set to experience considerable expansion from $1.9 billion in...

February 16, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Aspirin use increases risk of age-related eye disease

Singapore: Researchers at the Centre for Vision Research from the Westmead Millennium Institute for Medical Research (WM...

January 23, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Orthocell gets patent in Canada

Singapore: Regenerative medicine company, Orthocell, has been granted a patent in Canada covering the combination of bio...

December 14, 2015 | Monday | News
Bioxyne acquires Vitality

Singapore: Bioxyne has entered into a non-binding term sheet for the proposed acquisition of 100 percent of the shares a...

February 22, 2013 | Friday | News
Mid-sized companies are able to achieve much better than big pharma companies in drug development'

Singapore: Australia-based Clinuvel has developed SCENESSE, its proprietary first-in-class photo protective drug, for in...

January 19, 2016 | Tuesday | Opinion
Aussie firm gets FDA nod to supply cancer antibody in US labs

Singapore: Sienna Cancer Diagnostics, Melbourne-based biotechnology company focused on developing novel in-vitro diagnos...

May 29, 2014 | Thursday | Regulatory
Circadian's new diagnosis tech to be launched in July

Singapore: A novel technology for aiding the diagnosis of Cancers of Unknown Primary (CUP), by Circadian Technologies, w...

June 28, 2012 | Thursday | News
Johnson & Johnson in innovation collaboration with the Queensland Government

Singapore: The Queensland Government has announced a collaboration with the US pharmaceutical and healthcare giant, John...

October 14, 2015 | Wednesday | News
APAC multiple myeloma market to value $2.8 bn by 2021: Report

Singapore: The treatment market for multiple myeloma across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries of China, India, Japan, an...

October 23, 2015 | Friday | Analysis
Aussie anesthetic firm gets patent from 7 nations

Singapore: Australia-based Drawbridge Pharmaceuticals has been granted patent for its anesthetic formulation Phaxan in t...

October 29, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Inex iGeneScreen Prenatal Test hits Australia

Singapore: Singapore's Inex Innovations Exchange, a fetal health diagnostics company, signed a distribution agreement fo...

February 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Mr Mario Pennisi, LifeScience Queensland: Aus govt will provide stimulus amidst slow economy

There is no doubt that the world is still in a delicate financial balance, with no significant chance of that improving ...

December 25, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
Lignol to invest $1 mn in largest Aus biodiesel plant

Singapore: Lignol Energy, a leading technology company in the advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals sectors, will in...

August 26, 2013 | Monday | News
Nohla Therapeutics raises $21mn

Singapore: Nohla Therapeutics, a developer of cellular therapies for haematological disorders and immunological diseases...

December 23, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Australia's TransBio, DendroCyte to develop antibody for transplant rejection

Singapore: Australia based TransBio and DendroCyte BioTech have entered into a multi-year collaboration to discover and ...

September 22, 2015 | Tuesday | News
New technologies push growth of Cochlear

Innovation, passion and expertise have brought recognition to Cochlear for its niche focus on hearing aids medical devic...

June 28, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Australian body launches research translation initiative

Singapore: Australia's body for supporting health and medical research National Health and Medical Research Council (NHM...

November 2, 2012 | Friday | News
CSL marks a billion dollar in profits

One of Asia Pacific's biggest names in the pharmaceutical industry, CSL, retained its second position in BioSpectrum A...

May 31, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
Pharmaxis, NovaQuest enter $40 mn agreement

Singapore: Pharmaceutical company Pharmaxis announced the signing of a financing agreement with NovaQuest Pharma Opport...

February 1, 2013 | Friday | News
Innate Immunotherapeutics completes $9mn IPO

Singapore: Innate Immunotherapeutics has raised $8.9 million (AUD10 million) through its Initial Public Offer (IPO) that...

December 18, 2013 | Wednesday | News
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
NZ gets drug that glows brain tumour

Singapore: A novel drug, GLIOLAN (aminolevulinic acid HCl), that helps neurosurgeons to better visualise and remove mali...

September 21, 2015 | Monday | News
Australia's Alchemia announces sale of Fondaparinux IP

Singapore: Alchemia, an Australian drug discovery and development company, has announced that it has entered into a bind...

September 28, 2015 | Monday | News
UBI quarterly service fees increase by 311%

Singapore: Medical diagnostics company Universal Biosensors (UBI) published its quarterly cash flow report for the quart...

January 25, 2013 | Friday | Company results
Mayne pharma to expand its Greenville facility; add 110 jobs

Singapore: Australia-based specialty pharmaceutical company, Mayne pharma, recently announced plans to invest $65 millio...

August 28, 2015 | Friday | News
LBT Innovations inks partnership with French tech firm

Singapore: Australian medical technology company, LBT Innovations, has signed a license agreement with French in vitro d...

August 27, 2015 | Thursday | News
Garvan Institute develops first-ever biologically stable antibodies

Singapore: One of the most challenging tasks ahead of pharmaceutical companies is to create antibodies that are stable e...

October 3, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Future of Healthcare in Asia

Healthcare industry is in a period of evolution accelerated by changing demographics and market forces propelled by insu...

May 5, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
Phylogica appoints CEO, CSO, CFO

Singapore: Leading Australian peptide drug discovery company Phylogica appointed Dr Richard Hopkins as the company's new...

July 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
New South Wales govt launches Medical Devices Fund

Singapore: The New South Wales (NSW) Government in Australia has established a Medical Devices Fund under which it will ...

September 4, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Anteo Diagnostic to enter Korea market

Singapore: Australia based global medical technology company, Anteo Diagnostics, has entered into a non-exclusive distri...

October 20, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Australia's Anteo Diagnostics to acquire Belgium Dx firm

Singapore: Australia based Anteo Diagnostics has decided to acquire DIAsource ImmunoAssays, (DIAsource), a global specia...

August 27, 2015 | Thursday | News

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