Sihuan, NeuroVive to develop heart and brain products

Singapore: Sihuan Pharmaceutical entered into a collaboration agreement with NeuroVive Pharmaceutical to develop two in...

November 21, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Generics market to touch $231 bn by 2017: Report

Singapore: The global generic pharmaceuticals market is likely to witness strong growth in the next few years owing to t...

June 4, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Alibaba to fund pharma information platform

Singapore: Chinese eCommerce giant, Alibaba Group has announced that it would help fund a pharmaceutical information pla...

January 24, 2014 | Friday | News
India, China to appeal against EU regulation on API

Bangalore: Following a change in rules for importing active substances into the European Union for medicinal products fo...

August 10, 2012 | Friday | News
Mindray and HealthTrust renew agreement

Singapore: The HealthTrust Purchasing Group is renewing its agreement for the entire range of physiological patient moni...

May 18, 2012 | Friday | News
Bayer to acquire China's OTC firm

Singapore: Bayer plans to acquire 100 percent of the shares of Dihon Pharmaceutical, a privately held pharmaceutical com...

February 28, 2014 | Friday | News
Sihuan gets SFDA nod for Nalmefene HCl

Singapore: Sihuan Pharmaceutical's new category 3.1 drug, Nalmefene Hydrochloride Injection (Nalmefene Hydrochloride), ...

January 17, 2013 | Thursday | News
Consortium to sequence pediatric brain tumors

Singapore: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), US, and BGI-Shenzhen, China, announced a formal agreement to...

January 15, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Start-ups redefining the industry

Life sciences industry in the Asia Pacific recorded the double digit growth of 16.6 percent, reaching $128.26 billion in...

May 30, 2012 | Wednesday | News
MicuRx next gen antibiotic gets US patent

Singapore: MicuRx Pharmaceuticals, a privately-held biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation antibiotics, ha...

May 24, 2012 | Thursday | News
Scientists in China develop TB-HIV vaccine

Singapore: Chinese scientists have developed a vaccine that acts simultaneously against HIV-1 and M. tuberculosis (Mtb)....

May 28, 2012 | Monday | News
ShangPharma announces receipt of 'going private'

Singapore: ShangPharma highlighted that its board of directors received a non-binding proposal letter dated July 6, 2012...

July 9, 2012 | Monday | News
China medtech firm gets ISO and CE for PET systems

Singapore: Neusoft Positron Medical Systems, which is a joint venture between Neusoft Medical Systems and Positron Corpo...

August 20, 2012 | Monday | News
Shanghai Fosun buys 50% stake in Guangzhou Nanyang Tumour Hospital

Singapore: Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical has purchased a 50 percent stake in Guangzhou Nanyang Tumour Hospital. Fosun P...

October 16, 2013 | Wednesday | News
GC-Rise attracts investors at China conference

Singapore: GC-Rise Pharmaceutical attracted the attention of investors at the annual China Healthcare Investment Confere...

March 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Sinovac makes progress in EV71 clinical trial

Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, is conducting double-blinded, ran...

June 27, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Triple -ve breast cancer study gives +ve results

Singapore: EntreMed, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing targeted therapeutics for the treatment of cance...

November 27, 2012 | Tuesday | News
M&A activity slows down in APAC

In 2011, the number of mergers and acquisitions in the life sciences field of Asia Pacific witnessed a fall. An indepen...

June 19, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis