Exlites launches e-commerce website with core products

Singapore: Exlites Holdings launched its new online e-commerce website. The new website will be a convenient way for pat...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Money, sex and drugs: GSK Scandal Highlights

As an irony of sorts, one of the biggest scandals witnessed by the pharmaceutical industry took place in the country w...

August 23, 2014 | Saturday | Analysis
China biotech firm to develop antibody drug candidate

Singapore: Biotech firm, China MicroConstants, has signed a licensing agreement to gain the global rights for the develo...

February 2, 2015 | Monday | News
China to double its number of doctors by 2020

Singapore: While announcing its five-year road map for the healthcare sector, the Chinese State Council mentioned that t...

April 7, 2015 | Tuesday | News
FBI: Healthcare industry has lax cyber protection

Singapore: One of the leading hospital groups from the US came under a cyber attack emerging from China. The criminals a...

August 22, 2014 | Friday | News
Chinese firm to promote MSD cancer vaccine Gardasil

Singapore: Chongqing Zhifei Biological Product will work together with Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD), to supply, promote a...

October 18, 2012 | Thursday | News
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 Medical ...

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
Chinese scientists sequence cotton genome

Singapore: An international research team, led by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and BGI, completed the ge...

August 31, 2012 | Friday | News
GSK appoints new team in China

Singapore: Leading British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline announced that it has appointed two new executives in China to ove...

April 28, 2014 | Monday | 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
China plans to phase out mandatory cosmetics animal testing

Singapore: China's Food and Drug Administration plans to remove its mandatory animal test requirements for domestically ...

November 11, 2013 | Monday | News
China bird flu: Detection of new H7N9 strain is hard

Singapore: Since February 2013, more than 20 people in Shanghai in three provinces in China have been infected with the ...

April 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Boehringer to educate heart doctors in China

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim in co-operation with the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Sessions launch...

March 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
China Pharma's Q2 2014 revenue dips by 24%

Singapore: China Pharma has marked revenue of USD 6.1 million in the second quarter of 2014, sliding down 24 percent fro...

August 19, 2014 | Tuesday | Company results
HUYA, Changzhou to harbour biotech innovation

Singapore: China's HUYA Bioscience has struck a partnership with Changzhou Center for Biotech Development (CZCBD) to foc...

August 19, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Heartbeat reports 350% growth in emerging markets

Singapore: Heartbeat Experts, the global leader in stakeholder management solutions for the life sciences industry, has ...

May 7, 2013 | Tuesday | News
WuXi PharmaTech appoints new director

‎Singapore: China based R&D service provider, WuXi PharmaTech, has appointed Mr Walter Teh-Ming Kwauk as an in...

August 11, 2014 | Monday | Influencers
Pfizer's Lycria effective in shingles pain: China study

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, has achieved positive result from its phase 4 study of pain reducing d...

August 13, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Hong Kong's Luye Pharma acquires Beijing's Jialin

Singapore: Hong Kong based-Luye Pharma has entered into an agreement to purchase a majority stake into Beijing's Jialin ...

September 4, 2014 | Thursday | News
China reports 436,800 cases of HIV/AIDS in 2013

Singapore: China is facing the burden of HIV and AIDS as the country's health authority reported 436,800 people infected...

August 18, 2014 | Monday | News
China firm attracts global talent to boost M&A potential

Singapore: China-based GC-Rise Pharmaceutical, in which European healthcare venture capital fund INVENTAGES holds a majo...

August 3, 2012 | Friday | News
GSK-linked investigators will not appeal jail term

Singapore: British corporate investigator Mr Peter Humphrey and his American wife Ms Yu Yingzeng have decided to accept ...

August 18, 2014 | Monday | News
Chipscren Biosciences receives CFDA nod

Singapore: A Chinese biotech firm, Chipscreen Biosciencees has received the China FDA nod for its flagship drug Epidaza ...

January 13, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Shortage of Pediatric resources in China

Singapore: In a recently held press conference, the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) in China decl...

September 15, 2014 | Monday | News
Bloomage BioTech, GIC to invest in China

Singapore: Bloomage BioTechnology Corporation ("Bloomage BioTech" or "the Company"; together with its subsidiaries, coll...

November 9, 2015 | Monday | News
Boston Scientific asthma device gets China FDA nod

Singapore: Boston Scientific has received China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) approval for Alair Bronchial Thermop...

October 30, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Fosun sells ex-China rights of two drugs for $531 mn

Singapore: China-based Shanghai Fosun Pharma is planning to sell ex-China rights for two of its drug candidates to Sella...

October 23, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Slump in GSK China sales caused by probe

Singapore: British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline that has been facing bribery, corruption and sexual favours allegations in...

October 23, 2013 | Wednesday | News
India renews 'dumping' charges against Chinese

Singapore: The Indian Government has said that it would continue to levy import duties on Chinese analgesic API paraceta...

October 31, 2013 | Thursday | News
Novartis drug-A game changer for COPD

Singapore: A study presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress at Munich, Germany, by Novartis highlighted th...

September 8, 2014 | Monday | News
Biostar recalls tainted capsule batch in China

Singapore: Following an onsite inspection by Xianyang's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), China, samples from a...

May 31, 2012 | Thursday | News
Waters, Chinese Pharmacopoeia Commission establish joint lab

Singapore: Waters Corporation, in association with the Chinese Pharmacopeia Commission (ChP) has established a Joint Ope...

February 5, 2015 | Thursday | News
Healthcare delivery revolution in APAC

Asian countries face the challenge of wide demographics, resource accessibility and disruptive connection between health...

May 30, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
Georgia State University partners with Cisen

Singapore: Georgia State University has inked a pact with Cisen pharmaceuticals in China to develop cancer fighting comp...

February 24, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Peking University expands partnership with Medidata

Singapore: China's Peking University Clinical Research Institute (PUCRI) recently announced the expansion of its partner...

April 14, 2015 | Tuesday | News
HUYA Bioscience partners with Fudan University

Singapore: HUYA Bioscience International has signed an exclusive license with Fudan University for the ex-China rights t...

March 15, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Sartorius inaugurates its new application center in Shanghai

Singapore: Recently, Sartorius has inaugurated a new application center in Shanghai. The leading international laborator...

November 4, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Alibaba Group to build China's first cloud hospital

Singapore: Aliyun, Alibaba's cloud computing subsidiary, has inked a deal with Xi'an International Medical Investment an...

April 24, 2015 | Friday | News
China's first cloud-based hospital inaugurated in Ningbo

Singapore: Ningbo Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission and Neusoft Xikang Healthcare Technology recently inau...

March 16, 2015 | Monday | News
Sanofi to license two of its pre-clinical drugs

Singapore: Sanofi is licensing two of its preclinical respiratory compounds to China's ZAI Lab, as per reports. Financia...

August 28, 2014 | Thursday | News
NovaBay's NeutroPhase receives China FDA nod

Singapore: The Chinese drug regulatory body, the Food and Drug Administration has provided its approval for NovaBay's Ne...

September 4, 2014 | Thursday | Regulatory
China to allow private hospitals in 7 cities

Singapore: The Chinese ministry of commerce (MOC) has announced that China would allow private hospitals, solely owned b...

August 29, 2014 | Friday | News
US diagnostic lab expands in China

Singapore: ACM Global Central Laboratory, US-based diagnostic central laboratory, has expanded in China with the opening...

September 10, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Mundipharma launches OxyNorm injections

Singapore: Mundipharma, a pain-management and drug-delivery company launched OxyNorm injections, a product for post-oper...

January 9, 2014 | Thursday | News
Sihuan Pharmaceuticals inks a deal with Covance

Singapore: Sihuan Pharmaceuticals recently announced that its subsidiary Shandong Xuanzhu has partnered with Covance, a ...

April 7, 2015 | Tuesday | News
How to get your drug registered in China?

The domain of biosciences in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region offers several opportunities for companies that are looking ...

September 25, 2012 | Tuesday | Regulatory
China houses 25 percent of diabetics worldwide

Singapore: Researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong have come up with a new study that has made some stark c...

September 12, 2014 | Friday | News
WuXi Pharma ventures into Israel

Singapore: China headquarterd WuXi PharmaTech has expanded its presence in Israel to provide integrated R&D services...

November 4, 2014 | Tuesday | News
RBS chief to chair GSK

Singapore: Royal Bank of Scotland chief, Mr Philip Hampton, is getting on board of drug giant GlaxoSmithKline as non-exe...

September 26, 2014 | Friday | News
TNI BioTech, Qianjiang Pharma join hands

Singapore: US-based TNI BioTech, a biotechnology company focused on autoimmune diseases in emerging nations, has partner...

August 14, 2014 | Thursday | News
DS Healthcare opens first store in China

Singapore: Leading personal care products and specialty pharmaceuticals developer, DS Healthcare Group has opened its fi...

July 21, 2014 | Monday | News
GSK slashes its growth forecasts

Singapore: GSK lacerated its growth forecasts as its CEO, Sir Andrew Witty expressed concern over falling sales. Sir Wit...

July 25, 2014 | Friday | News
WuXi buys NextCode Health for $65M

Singapore: China based WuXi PharmaTech has acquired NextCODE Health, a genomic analysis and bioinformatics company with ...

January 12, 2015 | Monday | News
CFDA approves peripheral T-cell lymphoma drug

‎Singapore: Chinese Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has approved Chidamide (Epidaza), an orally administrated ...

January 12, 2015 | Monday | Regulatory
Hong Kong firm develops anti-pruritus nanopatch

Singapore: Hong Kong based drug company, Comprehensive Drug Enterprises, has developed and registered high-performance a...

January 12, 2015 | Monday | News
China reports new H7N9 cases

Singapore: New cases of H7N9 being reported from China's Guangdong province has raised the number of people infected by ...

January 30, 2015 | Friday | News
GSK fined $490m in Chinese bribery scandal

Singapore: Concluding the long drawn probe into British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline's operations in China, the country ha...

September 19, 2014 | Friday | News
Telstar adds yet another product to its portfolio

Singapore: Telstar, a leading service provider, recently announced that its subsidiary will manufacture loading and unlo...

January 2, 2015 | Friday | News
3SBio, DiNonA to develop leukemia drug

Singapore: China-based biotech 3SBio declared that it has signed an exclusive license with DiNonA for the development, p...

April 24, 2016 | Sunday | News
China healthcare IT market to reach $3.97 bn by 2020

Singapore: China healthcare IT market earned revenues of $1.24 billion in 2013 and is estimated to reach $3.97 billion b...

December 2, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Exit from China for foreign pharma executives?

Singapore: Ahead of the charges levelled out against British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline in China, other foreign executiv...

June 16, 2014 | Monday | News
Dishman might sell China plant to clear debts

Singapore: India's Ahmedabad based contract research and manufacturing services (CRAMS) company Dishman Pharmaceuticals ...

January 13, 2014 | Monday | News
What's the stem cell regulatory scenario like in APAC?

The pioneering work of Nobel Laureates Sir John Gurdon and Dr Shinya Yamanaka on reprogramming adult stem cells has open...

January 31, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Quintiles officially opens regional HQ in China

Singapore: Quintiles has officially opened Greater China Regional Headquarters, further expanding its ability to help Ch...

April 24, 2016 | Sunday | News
Illumina join hands with Amoy Diagnostics

Singapore: Amoy Diagnostics (ADx) and Illumina has announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate the adoption of pre...

October 1, 2015 | Thursday | News
Luye pharma to acquire Beijing Jialin Pharmaceuticals

Singapore: Hong Kong-based drug maker, Luye pharma group has announced the acquisition of the remaining 42.02 percent st...

October 28, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Sinovac clocks $17.5 mn sales in Q2 2013

Singapore: China's biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech has clocked 86.4 percent increase in total sales valued at ...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | Company results
Vectorite, Grandhope Biotech ink a deal

Singapore: Vectorite Biomedicals,a Taiwan based firm announced that it had signed a technology transfer agreement worth ...

July 1, 2014 | Tuesday | News
US firm to develop inhaled insulin products for Asia‎

Singapore: Dance Biopharm, US based privately-held biotechnology company focused on the development of inhaled insulin p...

October 16, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Tech drive demand for 3D medical imaging

Singapore: Global Industry Analysts (GIA) announces the release of a comprehensive global report on 3D medical imaging m...

July 12, 2013 | Friday | News
Stay wary of fake cancer drugs sold online: CFDA

Singapore: The Chinese Food and Drug Administration(CFDA) recently issued a warning to consumers against purchasing ille...

June 16, 2014 | Monday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: CROs hopeful despite stifled growth

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Sinovac mumps vaccine facility gets SFDA-GMP

Singapore: Nasdaq-listed Sinovac Biotech has received GMP certification from the China State Food and Drug Administratio...

September 19, 2012 | Wednesday | News
China Biologic raises equity share to 76%

Singapore: China Biologic Products has acquired an additional 19.84 percent equity interest in Guizhou Taibang Biologica...

September 9, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Cipla divests its stake from a Chinese firm

Singapore: Indian pharma major, Cipla recently announced that the company's wholly owned subsidiary Meditab holdings ent...

December 11, 2014 | Thursday | News
Asia gets $15 mn donation for better sanitation

Singapore: Last year, the Asian Development Bank created the Sanitation Financing Partnership Trust Fund to help provide...

March 21, 2014 | Friday | News

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