Australia faces challenge of ageing population

Singapore, July 04, 2012: The growing elderly population and its associated disease burden add to the economic challenge...

July 4, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
Delhi to host Australian lifesciences trade delegation

Singapore: As a part of Australian Business Week in India (ABWI) 2015, the 19 member Australian Health and Life Sciences...

January 8, 2015 | Thursday | News
Aus, Brazil, Canada, US setup joint audit program

Singapore: The medical device regulators of Australia, Brazil, Canada and the US have all signed on to a statement of co...

December 27, 2012 | Thursday | Regulatory
Alzheimer's research gets a push from Servier

Singapore: Research on treatment of Alzheimer's disease received a fillip with Australian scientists working on it recei...

October 2, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Top 20 APAC Country Analysis: India

Singapore:  India generated the nearly one-fourth of the global revenue of the lifescience market in APAC.  Highlig...

June 18, 2015 | Thursday | Analysis
Top 20 APAC Country Analysis: Australia

Singapore: Australia was the third largest contributor to the lifescience market in the region Highlights • An ...

June 19, 2015 | Friday | Analysis
Brisbane biotech secures $14 mn for drug discovery

Singapore: The University of Queensland-based biotechnology company Protagonist Therapeutics has secured $14 million in ...

July 10, 2013 | Wednesday | News
AdiStem platelet rich plasma to cure joint pain

Singapore: AdiStem, a provider of photo activation technology and medical solutions, highlighted that platelet rich pla...

October 9, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Patent duration too short in Australia: AusBiotech

Singapore: AusBiotech, the bioscience industry organization of Australia, has told the government that patent length in ...

January 29, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Helmedix: Using helminthes to treat autoimmune diseases

Valentine's Day, which is marked as a day to commemorate the death anniversary of Saint Valentine, saw the birth of a ve...

March 11, 2013 | Monday | Influencers
NZ firm migrates to Aus to capitalize on MS drug

Singapore: New Zealand-based biopharmaceutical company Innate Immunotherapeutics is migrating to Australia in a move to ...

September 11, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Dr Anna Lavelle gets ATSE fellowship

Singapore: Dr Anna Lavelle, CEO, AusBiotech, has been elected to Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Technological S...

October 21, 2014 | Tuesday | Influencers
Admedus increases share in Ian Frazer vaccine tech

Singapore: Australia's healthcare company focused on investing in and developing next generation technologies, Admedus, ...

July 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Top 20: AUSTRALIA - Achieves marginal growth

With 11 percent share and $11.65 billion is revenue, Australia grew marginally. It has been a bad year or Australia's...

July 7, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
Mayne Pharma to buy Doryx from Actavis

Singapore: Australia-based Mayne Pharma has struck a deal to acquire Doryx acne-treatment brand and assets in the US for...

February 11, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Australia's Orthocell gets Chinese patent for scaffold technology

Singapore: Australia's regenerative medicine company, Orthocell, has recieved Chinese patent for its Collagen Scaffold f...

January 16, 2015 | Friday | News
SII seeks WHO consent to export flu vaccines

Singapore: Serum Institute of India (SII) has applied for permits to export flu vaccines produced using Australia's BioD...

December 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
QRxPharma refiles Moxduo NDA with FDA

Singapore: Australia-based QRxPharma has resubmitted its Moxduo new drug application (NDA) after the US Food and Drug Ad...

November 26, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Japan's NEC to exploit Prima BioMed's cancer immunotherapeutic technology

The press release indicated that Immutep is a French company and is a 100 percent subsidiary of Prima BioMed. Immutep de...

May 12, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Phosphagenics to start opioid pain patch study

Singapore: Melbourne-based Phosphagenics has resolved all crystallisation issues associated with its opioid patch devel...

December 3, 2012 | Monday | News
Australia to finalize a policy on naming biosimilars

Singapore: In July 2013, Therapeutics Goods Administration, Australia, had published a guidance on biosimlar naming base...

January 22, 2015 | Thursday | News
Novotech expands in Asia

Singapore: Australia based Novotech has strengthened its Hong Kong operation with expansion of its manpower base. The c...

January 16, 2015 | Friday | News
Bridge to the DNA vaccine dream

Can DNA vaccines be the answer to diseases such as malaria and influenza? Though DNA-based vaccines have emerged as appe...

June 6, 2012 | Wednesday | News
AirStrip enters the Australian market

Singapore: US-based AirStrip recently inked a pact with Life Monitor, a subsidiary of Cardioscan, to sell AirStrip solut...

February 19, 2015 | Thursday | News
No vaccination, No benefits, says Australian PM

Singapore: Australian government has recently made an announcement that parents who refuse to vaccinate their children m...

April 21, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Vaxxas' Nanopatch is the future of needle-free vaccine

One of the challenges in the R&D of next generation vaccines is the development of a delivery technology that will b...

October 17, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
The unconventional side of vaccines

When we talk about vaccines, most people think of an injection to prevent childhood infectious disease. However, in rece...

July 23, 2012 | Monday | Opinion
Viralytics melanoma trial meets primary endpoint

Singapore: Australia-based biotech company, Viralytics, achieved the primary endpoint in its phase II clinical trial of ...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | News
QRxPharma, Paladin sign $25.5 mn morphine deal

Singapore: Australia's QRxPharma has collaborated with Canadian specialty pharmaceutical company, Paladin Labs on licens...

October 10, 2012 | Wednesday | News
BioAsia 2014: Innovation, collaboration identified as success keys

Hyderabad: With emphasis on cutting-edge innovations this year, BioAsia 2014 under the theme 'Innovate. Evolve.' kick-st...

March 5, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
Gilead commercial operations head to retire

Singapore: Gilead Sciences' head of commercial operations for the past decade, Mr Kevin Young, who oversaw tremendous sa...

January 8, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Ebola: Australia pledges $17m for treatment centre

Singapore: Australian Prime Minister Mr Tony Abbott said that the nation is contracting a private company to staff and o...

November 6, 2014 | Thursday | News
URMC launches new heart device trial in Asia

Singapore: Cardiologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center, US, are launching a new study in an effort to im...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Viralytics' new CAVATEK study to be held in the UK

Singapore: The next Viralytics clinical study evaluating multi doses of CAVATAK administered by the intravenous route ...

December 10, 2012 | Monday | News
FDA doesn't approve Pharmaxis' Bronchitol

Singapore: Pharmaxis received a complete response letter from the US FDA confirming that Bronchitol cannot yet be appro...

March 20, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
APAC coronary stent sector to touch $1.5 bn in 2015

Singapore: Asia-Pacific, including Japan, China, India, New Zealand, South Korea and Australia, is the fastest growing r...

April 9, 2015 | Thursday | Analysis
Track the walk: a fall-proof method

Singapore: CDC predicts that every year, one in every three adults in the age group of 65 or older falls and around 2 mi...

November 22, 2014 | Saturday | Analysis
MNCs on medtech growth trail

Industry forecasts by market analysts state that 80 percent of the multinational companies expect to gain a good share i...

November 5, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Biochips market to be worth $11.4 bn by 2018

Singapore: A recent report released by RnRMarketResearch.com has analyzed the Global Biochips Industry and forecasted th...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Physicians, consumers lack trust in Aus healthcare

Singapore: Australia boasts an advanced healthcare system supported by both the public and private sector involvement. T...

February 13, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
EMA gives Patrys cancer drug orphan status

Singapore: Australia-based Patrys, a clinical stage biotechnology company, has been granted orphan drug designation by t...

September 12, 2013 | Thursday | News
Novogen drug candidate effective as anti-cancer agent in preclinical studies

Singapore: US-Australian drug discovery company, Novogen's drug candidate, Anisina, has progressed successfully in pre-c...

May 14, 2015 | Thursday | News
Australian biotech firm makes stem cell breakthrough

Singapore: Australia-based Cynata Therapeutics has made a breakthrough by devising a technique to mass manufacture stem ...

February 19, 2015 | Thursday | News
Translation of ideas is Australia's key to growth'

Over the past decade the world's centre of economic gravity has shifted from US and Europe to Asia at a speed and scale ...

September 30, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
CSL to expand its Melbourne plant

Singapore: CSL announced that it has clinched a deal with the Victorian government to expand its Melbourne plasma manufa...

October 9, 2014 | Thursday | News
TGA approves Telezon's SoloFlow

Singapore: Telezon's flagship SoloFlow Reconstitution Needle (polymer needle) has been accepted by Therapeutic Goods Aus...

October 18, 2013 | Friday | News
Allied commences Cardiocel sale in Europe

Singapore: Australia based Allied Healthcare has started commercializing CardioCel into Europe after the Company receive...

November 8, 2013 | Friday | News
China and Australia grant patent to NBB nicotine biosynthesis gene

Singapore: 22nd Century Group, a company that has developed pioneering technology for tobacco harm reduction and smoking...

July 10, 2012 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Australia grants $7 mn to uplift cancer research

Singapore: Cancer Council NSW, Australia's non-government cancer research funder, has granted almost $7 million to resea...

May 11, 2015 | Monday | News
Novogen progresses on drug for paediatric brain cancer

Singapore: US-Australian drug discovery company, Novogen, in conjunction with Australian paediatric cancer researchers, ...

May 8, 2015 | Friday | News
Novogen develops drug to enhance chemotherapy effect

Singapore: Australian drug discovery company, Novogen, has developed anti-tropomyosin drug candidate, Anisina, which has...

July 15, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Eloxatin shows +ve results in tumor inhibition

Singapore: Australia-based Starpharma Holdings has achieved improved tumor-inhibiting efficacy and reduced overall toxic...

September 11, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Biosensis introduces new ELISA kits

Singapore: Biosensis has announced the launch of its new range of Rapid ELISA kits. The company has released fifteen new...

November 24, 2014 | Monday | News
Oxycodone patch resumes clinical development

Singapore: Australian drug delivery technology company, Phosphagenics, will be returning to the clinic with its oxycodo...

April 5, 2013 | Friday | News
Lack of funding-A major healthcare challenge

Singapore: An extensive study commissioned by Polycom, a global service provider, highlighted that lack of funding and g...

June 9, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Starpharma appoints Robert Thomas as board member

Singapore: Australia based pharmacuetical company, Starpharma, has appointed Mr Robert Thomas to the Board as a non-exec...

November 11, 2013 | Monday | News
Australia supports budding medical researchers

Singapore: Australia's Balnaves Foundation has donated $450,000 to the University of Sydney's medical school to help pro...

May 11, 2015 | Monday | News
TGA approves chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting drug

Singapore: Australian biopharmaceutical company, Specialised Therapeutics Australia (STA), and Helsinn, a Swiss group fo...

May 11, 2015 | Monday | News
Study: Drinking coffee can make you fat

Singapore: A study conducted by Australian researchers from the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR...

May 29, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Celgene to acquire Mesoblast shares at $45 mn

Singapore: US based Celgene Corporation, a global biopharmaceutical, has agreed to acquire shares of Australia's regener...

April 15, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Marina Biotech boosting worldwide expansions

Singapore: Leading nucleic acid-based drug discovery and development firm Marina Biotech has announced a worldwide expan...

September 15, 2014 | Monday | News
Australian scientists solve autoimmume puzzle

Singapore: Australian scientists have confirmed a 'weak link' in the immune system, identifying the exact conditions und...

November 12, 2012 | Monday | News
Australian Life Sciences & Health Care Mission visiting lndia

Singapore: A 12 member Australian Life sciences & Health care delegation is visiting India from 15 to 19 September t...

September 16, 2014 | Tuesday | News
NIH: Gilead's sofosbuvir + ribavirin cures hepatitis C

Singapore: Phase II clinical trials by scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)...

August 29, 2013 | Thursday | News
Australia to boost clinical trial landscape

Singapore: Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has taken up the task of implementing initia...

August 22, 2014 | Friday | News
First-of-its kind radiotherapy in Australia

Singapore: An 82-year-old prostate cancer patient has become the first person in Australia to be treated using the fast ...

July 17, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Aussie man contracts dengue in Japan

Singapore: As per a recent news report, an Australian traveler to Japan has been diagnosed with dengue fever. As per the...

September 15, 2014 | Monday | News
Pacific Edge's Cxbladder achieves sales in the US

Singapore: New Zealand-based cancer diagnostic specialist Pacific Edge has completed the first commercial sales of Cxbla...

October 18, 2013 | Friday | News
Medtronic pursues PMA for IN.PACT Admiral

Singapore: Medtronic announced the submission of its first pre-market approval (PMA) module to the US Food and Drug Admi...

August 21, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Regeneus clears procedures to initiate Progenza trial for osteoarthritis treatment

Sydney-headquartered Regeneus announced the completion of enrolment of all 20 patients in the STEP trial. Further, a rev...

May 17, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Point-of-care diagnostics is revolutionary

In 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation rolled out a new grant of $31 million to fund innovation in point-of-ca...

December 17, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
ITC charged Apex for infringement on Resmed

Singapore: ResMed has won an import ban in the US against a Taiwanese device manufacturer alleged to be infringing on th...

June 12, 2014 | Thursday | News
US CRO appoints new Asia director

Singapore: US-based Harlan Laboratories, a leading contract research organization (CRO) and research models and service...

February 5, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Technology that seals heart valve

Endoluminal Sciences, an Australia-based company, is developing a breakthrough technology for the treatment of failing h...

May 16, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
Forbes 50 list features only 2 Asian pharma firms

Singapore: India's Sun Pharmaceuticals and Australia's CSL are the only two drugmakers that have been featured in the Fo...

August 31, 2012 | Friday | News
Prana gets +ve results in phase II Huntington trial

Singapore: Australia-based Prana Biotechnology has achieved positive result in its phase II clinical trial investigating...

February 19, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Avita Medical wins US contract for cell renew technology

Singapore: Australia based Avita Medical, a medical device company specializing in the treatment of wounds and skin defe...

September 30, 2015 | Wednesday | News
ITC enters consent decree against Apex on ResMed request

Singapore: A US government investigation started at the request of ResMed against Taiwanese manufacturer Apex Medical ha...

July 19, 2013 | Friday | News
AmpliPhi, SPH to combat antibiotic-resistant super bugs

Singapore: Australia-based AmpliPhi Biosciences is looking to acquire Brookvale, a Sydney-based Special Phage Services (...

September 11, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Embryonic stem cells remain a sticky wicket

Dr Shinya Yamanaka and Sir John Gurdon's discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) has given the world an altern...

January 31, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Nutraceutical cure for migraine

Singapore: Researchers at Griffith Health Institute's Genomics Research Center have entered the final phase in an extens...

January 22, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Aus Medtech association: Reimbursements remain constrained

The Medical Technology Association of Australia (MTAA) is the national association of Australia representing companies i...

April 29, 2013 | Monday | Influencers
STA to commercialize leukemia drug in Australia

Singapore: US-based Ariad Pharmaceuticals has granted Specialised Therapeutics Australia (STA), a specialty pharmaceutic...

January 30, 2014 | Thursday | News
Australia reviews pharma patenting

Singapore: The federal government in Australia has initiated a review of the patenting of pharmaceuticals in the country...

November 28, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Takeda initiates Ph3 trial for Ixazomib in Asia

Singapore: Takeda Development Center Shanghai (TDC Shanghai) and Takeda Development Center Asia has commenced TOURMALINE...

January 28, 2014 | Tuesday | News
CSL progresses on Novartis influenza vaccine biz acquisition

Singapore: Australia based drug development company, CSL, has secured the necessary approvals required to proceed with t...

July 31, 2015 | Friday | News
Aussie's IDT to manufacture 23 generic drug

Singapore: US FDA has accepted the transfer of ownership of 23 generic drug products to Australia based IDT. Formalising...

April 14, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Catalant acquires Australia's packaging giant Pharmapak

Singapore: US-based Catalant Pharma Solutions announced the acquisition of Pharmapak Technologies, an Australian pharmac...

April 1, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Australia grants support for TB research

Singapore: In a bid to eradicate the menace of TB, The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has ann...

March 27, 2015 | Friday | News
Bionomics initiaties trial of anxiety drug in France

Singapore: Australia-based Bionomics has initiated a Phase 1b clinical trial in healthy volunteers of BNC210, the drug c...

February 3, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Hatchtech gets $6 mn for head lice R&D

Singapore: Specialty pharmaceutical company Hatchtech has completed a $6 million financing led by OneVentures Innovatio...

December 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Australian sandalwood maker buys two US pharma firms

Singapore: West Australian sandalwood producer TFS Corporation has announced the acquisition of two US pharma firms in a...

June 22, 2015 | Monday | News
Saluda Medical secures $5 mn from NSW Govt

Singapore: NICTA start-up company Saluda Medical has been awarded $5 million by the New South Wales Government to suppor...

July 22, 2013 | Monday | News
Invion completes patient enrolment for asthma drug trial

Singapore: Australian drug development company, Invion, has completed the enrolment in its phase II clinical trial of IN...

November 2, 2015 | Monday | News
CPR ventures into large molecule analytics

Singapore: Clinical research company, CPR Pharma Services, launched a new laboratory, in Adelaide, Australia, to provide...

March 26, 2013 | Tuesday | News
BioDiem, US NIAID advance TB research

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company BioDiem has detailed a new phase of res...

February 1, 2013 | Friday | News
India, Australia to collaborate on science and research

Singapore: There must have been many Indian prime ministers who have visited Australia before. But this one by the curre...

November 18, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Gene therapy for leukemia, blood cancer patients

Singapore: Over six research groups have treated more than 120 patients with many different types of blood and bone-marr...

December 9, 2013 | Monday | News
Monash-GSK partnership wins collaboration award

Singapore: Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) has been recognised for the Monash-GSK Australian Centre f...

November 11, 2013 | Monday | News
GSK eyes emerging markets with $27 mn investment

Singapore: Recently GlaxoSmithKline has announced introduction of a new technology to its Boronia manufacturing site in ...

November 21, 2014 | Friday | News

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