Lee's Pharma to commerce Italy's Vit D3 in China

Singapore: Italian firm, Abiogen Pharma, focused on bone metabolism, has partnered with Hong Kong based Lee's Pharmaceut...

September 9, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Tobacco prevalence in Asia raising death toll

Singapore: According to a study in PLOS Medicine, by Prof Wei Zheng, professor of Medicine and director of the Vanderbil...

June 17, 2014 | Tuesday | News
LG Lifesciences enters the China market

Singapore: LG Lifesciences has signed an exclusive pact with China's Weijian pharma group obtaining exclusive rights to ...

December 18, 2014 | Thursday | News
Sinovac to supply Hep A vaccine to Jiangsu province

Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a leading China-based vaccine manufacturer, has been selected by the Jiangsu Centers for Dis...

November 11, 2013 | Monday | News
China firms, GE setup medical imaging center

Singapore: Concord Medical Services, a leading specialty hospital management solution provider and operator of radiother...

November 27, 2013 | Wednesday | News
China's fourth batch of aid to West Africa

Singapore: As the Ebola epidemic across the west African nations is showing no healing signs, member nations have rushed...

October 31, 2014 | Friday | News
Tecan to work with China blood transfusion society

Singapore: Tecan is collaborating with the Chinese Society of Blood Transfusion in order to improve both the capabilitie...

May 23, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Ampio takes drug candidate to preclinical stage

Singapore: Ampio Pharmaceuticals has taken its candidate NCE001 from its proprietary methylphenidate derivatives family ...

July 16, 2012 | Monday | News
Sihuan gets China SFDA nod for ulcer drug

Singapore: China-based Sihuan Pharmaceutical's Anaprazole Sodium has received approval for clinical studies from State F...

July 18, 2013 | Thursday | News
Suzhou Amerigen launches Mecobalamin in China

Singapore: US-based Amerigen Pharmaceuticals' Chinese subsidiary, Suzhou Amerigen Pharmaceuticals has received Chinese F...

August 21, 2014 | Thursday | Regulatory
China tops list of fastest growing companies

In June this year, BioSpectrum published the list of Top 20 lifescience companies in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. The...

August 21, 2014 | Thursday | Opinion
WuXi PharmaTech appoints William Keller to Board

Singapore: China bioscience service provider, WuXi PharmaTech, has appointed Mr William Robert Keller as an independent ...

October 1, 2014 | Wednesday | Influencers
ShangPharma appoints new CSO, president

Singapore: China's ShangPharma appointed Dr Art Taveras as president and chief scientific officer (CSO). He will be resp...

October 28, 2013 | Monday | Influencers
Dehaier gets SFDA nod for sleep apnea treatment device

Singapore: Dehaier Medical has obtained State Food and Drug Administration's approval in China for DHR-CPAP-C5, one of D...

September 19, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Indian state of MP to get tech know-how from China

Singapore: The Madhya Pradesh State Livelihood Forum, India, and Indo-China Economic and Culture Council are goignt o pa...

September 23, 2013 | Monday | News
China FDA halts import of Pfizer drug

Singapore: The China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has suspended the import of a drug manufactured by the US drug ...

January 7, 2014 | Tuesday | News
FDA warns against Chinese flu medicine

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning against buying Bo Ying compound-Chinese medica...

September 30, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Contrary to reports GSK will not leave China

Singapore: British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has said that it is committed to China and denied reports ...

September 11, 2013 | Wednesday | News
WuXi, OMT to develop therapeutic antibodies

Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech, a leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device R&D outsourcing company with ...

October 7, 2012 | Sunday | News
Perkin Elmer opens a new medical lab in China

Singapore: Perkin Elmer, a global leading service provider for the biosciences industry, announced the opening of a new ...

January 21, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan-China to collaborate on new drug discovery

Singapore: The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) recently announced that Taiwan and China have reached a concrete consensus...

September 5, 2014 | Friday | News
100-yr old test overestimates TB cases: Study

Singapore: In a critical study done by researchers of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medica...

February 15, 2015 | Sunday | 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
GSK inks deal with China drugmaker for HIV drugs

Singapore: In a bid to rebuild its presence in China's lucrative pharma industry, British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline(GSK)...

July 3, 2015 | Friday | News
Amgen, Sanofi, Ono, collaborate with academia on proteins project

Singapore: Three pharma giants, US-based Amgen, France's Sanofi and Ono pharmaceuticals Japan have entered into strategi...

October 29, 2014 | Wednesday | News