Heartbeat grows 350% year-over-year

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

May 31, 2013 | Friday | News
Gene expression for personalized medicine: Report

Singapore: Gene expression profiling can bring significant improvements to disease profiling and diagnoses based on gene...

June 10, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
H7N9 China bird flu update: 38 infected, 10 dead

Singapore: The National Health and Family Planning Commission of China has notified WHO of an additional 10 laboratory-...

April 12, 2013 | Friday | News
Jeffery Bacha: DelMar targets orphan cancer drugs

DelMar Pharmaceuticals was founded in 2010 to rapidly develop and commercialize proven cancer therapies in new indicatio...

November 7, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
HUYA partners with Shanghai Zhangjiang Biotech

Singapore: HUYA Bioscience International has entered into a collaborative partnership with Shanghai Zhangjiang Biotech a...

March 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
BGI Shenzhen uses NGS to find mutation in IVF embryo

Singapore: China's BGI Shenzhen along with Reproductive and Genetic Hospital Citic-Xiangya has successfully applied Next...

July 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
BIO China kicks-off in Beijing

Singapore: Executives from biotech and pharmaceutical companies, along with investment firms from North America, Europe ...

November 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
APAC Epilepsy Therapeutics market to touch $1.5 bn by 2019

Singapore: The epilepsy therapeutics market value in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, Australia, China, India and Japan, ...

February 28, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
GLP leases 13,000 sqm to Shanghai Pharma

Singapore: Global Logistic Properties (GLP), one of the world's leading providers of modern logistics facilities, with a...

June 4, 2013 | Tuesday | News
BGI launches tool for tumor xenograft research

Singapore: Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), the world's largest genomics organization, has successfully developed a new...

July 20, 2012 | Friday | News
North China moves from generics to innovation

North China Pharmaceutical Group (NCPC) is a nationwide provider of bulk pharmaceuticals in China, including antibiotics...

June 8, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Pharma head arrested for illegal drug distribution

Singapore: The head of the Chinese pharmaceutical company Hanwei Yaoye has been arrested for allegedly helping illegal b...

July 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
China's Concord Medical partners with US cancer centre

Singapore: China based Concord Medical Services, a hospital management solution provider has signed a multi-year strateg...

May 8, 2015 | Friday | News
Taiwan FDA nods Ph II trial of Hep C drug

Singapore: China based Ascletis has received Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) approval to start phase II clini...

September 2, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Sinopharm demonstrates king size growth, yet again

Sinopharm, a dominant name in the distribution of pharmaceutical and healthcare products in China, continues to grab a...

May 31, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
German company gets Chinese patent for antiviral polymer

Singapore: Marinomed Biotechnologie, a German company focused on the development of innovative therapies for respiratory...

November 19, 2012 | Monday | News
CRO survey: India, China dominate market

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November 24, 2012 | Saturday | Analysis
FDA issues warning letter to China API plant

Singapore: The Food and Drug Administration has recently issued a warning letter to China-based Novacyl Wuxi Pharmaceuti...

January 6, 2015 | Tuesday | News
2014's Top 20 Companies: RANK 1

  Sinopharm is jointly owned by China National Pharmaceutical Group and Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical. Directly contro...

July 14, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
Gilead allows sublicense of HIV drug to generic firms

Singapore: HIV drug developer, Gilead Sciences has partnered with Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) to expand access to Gilead...

July 25, 2014 | Friday | News
UK SFO launches formal probe against GSK

Singapore: Days after China concluded its probe against British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline and charged certain executive...

May 28, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Half a million people in China are battling HIV

Singapore: Ahead of the World AIDS Day, Mr Wang Guoqiang, vice director of the National Health and Family Planning Commi...

December 1, 2014 | Monday | News
Pfizer to stop selling Prevnar in China

Singapore: US-based drugmaker Pfizer recently announced plans to stop selling Prevnar vaccine in China. The vaccine is a...

April 6, 2015 | Monday | News
WuXi Pharma launches mobile app for research services

Singapore: China's research contract service provider, WuXi PharmaTech, has launched WuXi V-Lab, a mobile app available ...

January 6, 2015 | Tuesday | News
China to offer personalized chemotherapy

Singapore: China-based Fosun diagnostics and Saladax Biomedical announced the launch of MyCare assay tests for chemother...

August 26, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Liposome to begin phase-II trials for its cancer drug

Singapore: Taiwan-based drugmaker, Liposome announced that it had received approval from the Chinese government to begin...

September 16, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Study: Bacteria is root cause of obesity, diabetes

Singapore: A new research conducted by researchers at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China, revealed that cer...

December 24, 2012 | Monday | News
China's Wuzhou to buy 10 percent stake in Isreali Oramed

Singapore: According to reports, China's Guangxi Wuzhou Zhongheng Group recently announced plans to purchase a 10 percen...

July 7, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Public Chinese trial for GSK-tied investigators

Singapore: The Chinese government has now officially announced that the trial of the two private investigators tied to G...

July 31, 2014 | Thursday | News
China BIO convention to be held on Oct 24-25

Singapore: The 2nd annual BIO Convention in China, a partnering and investor conference that will bring together execut...

August 8, 2012 | Wednesday | News
China's Tigermed acquires bioanalysis firm

Singapore: China based Hangzhou Tigermed Consulting has acquired a majority of Frontage Laboratories, a company providin...

July 31, 2014 | Thursday | News
China reports 11 new H7N9 cases

Singapore: After six new human cases of Avian Influenza H7N9 bird flu were reported from China last week, this week too ...

February 6, 2014 | Thursday | News
Asia bioscience grows 11 percent, crosses $150 bn

During the year 2012, the bioscience industry in the Asia Pacific region clocked $154.40 billion in revenues, recording ...

June 21, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
Beijing announces Sinovac as the supplier of flu vaccine

Singapore: Beijing government recently announced China's Sinovac Biotech as the supplier of the seasonal influenza vacci...

September 15, 2015 | Tuesday | News
GSK China scandal: Chairman urged to resign

Singapore: Even though the chairman of British drug major GlaxoSmithKline had announced that he would be resigning in 20...

September 2, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Glioblastoma therapeutics market to double in APAC by 2020

Singapore: Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) therapeutics market in Asia-Pacific (APAC) is estimated to grow double from USD...

September 19, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
ICGC launches four new projects in China

Singapore: The International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) announced four new projects in China to identify the genomi...

December 5, 2012 | Wednesday | News
China, Taiwan call for deeper pharma ties

Singapore: Pharma companies from China and Taiwan have recently convened a forum, co-organized by the Taiwan-based Insti...

November 12, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Boehringer sets up veterinary vaccine plant in China

Singapore: Pharmaceutical company, Boehringer Ingelheim has established the foundation of veterinary vaccine manufacturi...

August 19, 2013 | Monday | News
Asia's Fastest 50 bio-firms shine

The annual list of Asia's fastest growing pharma companies, compiled painstakingly by the BioSpectrum Asia team, is out....

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Opinion
Merck Serono pumps in €80 million to erect China plant

Singapore: The plant represents an investment of €80 million, and will be Merck's largest manufacturing facility o...

September 4, 2014 | Thursday | News
China Botanic suspends stock trading on NYSE

Singapore: China Botanic Pharmaceuticals, a developer, manufacturer and distributor of botanical products, bio-pharmaceu...

June 10, 2013 | Monday | Company results
Now, Vietnam on H7N9 bird flu red alert

Singapore: A new finding revealed from a mapping study conducted by researchers has predicted that Avian Influenza H7N9 ...

March 18, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Siberian Ginseng extract recognized as safe medicine

Singapore: Developer, manufacturer and distributor of botanical products, bio-pharmaceuticals and traditional Chinese me...

July 4, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Shanghai univ's collaboration lab with Metabolon begins operation

Singapore: The Joint Metabolomics Laboratory set up as a collaboration between Metabolon and Shanghai Jiao Tong Univer...

May 14, 2012 | Monday | News
China claims that it has Ebola cure

Singapore: Sihuan Pharmaceutical Holdings Group, a China-based drugmaker, recently announced that it has developed a dru...

October 15, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Telangana, China Medical City ink a MoU

Singapore: Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TSIIC) and China Medical City (CMC) on Tuesday inked a...

February 4, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Smartphones preferred channel for healthcare'

Singapore: Smart phones are the preferred tool for patient's engagement and communication with their healthcare provider...

July 6, 2014 | Sunday | Analysis
PATH officials visit Chengdu for progress review

Singapore: In a step forward, PATH senior project officer Ms Amie Bishop, accompanied by PATH Beijing Director Mr Zhang ...

December 3, 2012 | Monday | News
China & Ireland enter major biomedical deals

Singapore: National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway's Network of Excellence for Functional Biomaterials signs memora...

August 16, 2012 | Thursday | News
China initiates crackdown on pharma industry

Singapore: China has announced a nationwide crackdown on the sale of illegal medicines, ahead of the GlaxoSmithKline bri...

July 18, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
China targets Sanofi's operations, probe begins

Singapore: Beijing municipal authorities have begun investigations into the bribery allegations made against French drug...

August 13, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Brazil, Mexico dengue vaccine market to grow'

Singapore: While Sanofi has progressed to phase III clinical trials for its dengue vaccine and is expecting to launch it...

July 17, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
DHL beefs up its cold chain logistic solution

Singapore: Low temperature logistic provider, Cryoport, has partnered with LifeConEx, a part of DHL, to enhance and supp...

July 17, 2014 | Thursday | News
Industry records all time high mergers and acquisitions

Singapore: Pharmaceutical, medical technology and biotech sector witnessed a euphoria when mergers and acquisition activ...

May 14, 2015 | Thursday | Analysis
Lack of terrorism hinders respiratory market

Singapore: A new study by Frost & Sullivan's Chemicals, Materials and Food practice finds that the respiratory prote...

February 19, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Chinese govt delay hinders GMP plant set up

Singapore: China Biologic Products, a leading fully integrated plasma-based biopharmaceutical company in China, announc...

January 3, 2013 | Thursday | News
Concord acquires stake in Texas university PTC

Singapore: China-based Concord Medical Services acquired 19.98 percent of indirect ownership of the Proton Therapy Cente...

December 14, 2012 | Friday | News
3SBio announces changes in its board of directors

Singapore: 3SBio, a leading China-based biotechnology company focused on researching, developing, manufacturing and mark...

August 10, 2012 | Friday | News
Sinovac wins $5.1 mn vaccine contract in China

Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a China-based vaccine manufacturer, has been selected by the Beijing Health Bureau and the S...

September 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Baxter recalls four lots of IV solutions

Singapore: Baxter is subjected to recall four lots of intravenous (IV) solutions to the hospital/user level that have be...

July 18, 2014 | Friday | Regulatory
Sinovac to supply flu vaccines to Mexico for 5 years

‎Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a leading provider of vaccines in China, has received Certificate of Approval to comm...

April 19, 2013 | Friday | News
Dehaier signs deal with Beijing Kanglian Medicine

Singapore: Dehaier Medical has obtained a medical equipment procurement agreement valued at approximately $320,580 (RMB...

December 14, 2012 | Friday | News
China Cord Blood Corp reports $15.8 Mn growth in revenue

Singapore: China Cord Blood Corporation, China's leading provider of cord blood collection, laboratory testing, hematopo...

June 13, 2012 | Wednesday | Company results
US history museum, China gene bank enter deal

Singapore: China National Genebank (Shenzhen), also referred to as CNGB-Shenzhen, and National Museum of Natural History...

January 18, 2013 | Friday | News
ShanghaiBio, Ingenuity to address challenges of China's genomics data

Singapore: ShanghaiBio and information solution provider, Ingenuity Systems, signed a collaboration agreement enabling S...

September 6, 2012 | Thursday | News
Oramed gets oral protein delivery patent in China

Singapore: Oral drug delivery systems developer, Oramed Pharmaceuticals, announced that it received approval for a key p...

September 11, 2013 | Wednesday | News
China to set up its version of US FDA

Singapore: According to the South China Morning Post, China is going to establish a single regulatory to watch over the ...

March 7, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
China SFDA acknowledges Sinovac phase III trial sites

Singapore: Sinovac Biotech revealed that the SFDA expert, who inspected the three phase III study sites of its proprieta...

June 12, 2012 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Sihuan Pharma revenue surges 36%

Singapore: Sihuan Pharmaceutical, a leading pharmaceutical company with the largest cardio-cerebral vascular (CVV) drug ...

March 26, 2013 | Tuesday | Company results
FDA warns Tianjin Zhongan for cGMP lapses

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has slapped a warning letter to China based Tianjin Zhongan Pharma...

June 26, 2014 | Thursday | Regulatory
Four new cases of H7N9 reported in China

Singapore: The National and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) announced four cases of human infection with the Avian In...

May 26, 2014 | Monday | News
3SBio acquires patents for kidney failure drug

Singapore: China-based 3SBio, which is focused on R&D, manufacturing and marketing biopharmaceutical products, acqu...

October 31, 2013 | Thursday | News
Asia leverages on the biologics opportunity

Many companies in India, China and to an extent Korea have established a strong position in contract manufacturing of ac...

March 7, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Novartis pledges to eliminate leprosy

Singapore: Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development (NFSD) has launched a new leprosy strategy focused on interru...

December 2, 2013 | Monday | News
Pressure BioSciences signs agreements to expand

Singapore: Pressure BioSciences has entered into distribution agreements with three companies having combined sales cove...

July 16, 2012 | Monday | News
China cracks down on high-priced drugs

Singapore: As per a recent report published in the Shanghai Securities News, China's leading price regulator will crack ...

December 10, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Top 20: CHINA - Growth Despite Crackdowns

China has cracked down on high prices and corruption in the healthcare sector. Nonetheless, the revenue growth of publ...

July 4, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
Sinovac to supply Hep A vaccine for immunization program

Singapore: China vaccine firm, Sinovac Biotech, is selected by Beijing Health Bureau as the sole supplier of inactivated...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
BioPharma Asia: Marken wins Best Life Science Logistics Service Provider

Singapore: Logistics firm, Marken, is awarded the Best Life Science Logistics Service Provider at BioPharma Asia Industr...

March 18, 2014 | Tuesday | News
China Kanghui reports 23.6% rise in revenue

Singapore: China Kanghui Holdings, a leading domestic developer, manufacturer and marketer of orthopedic implants in Chi...

August 22, 2012 | Wednesday | Company results
3SBio to develop JenKem's novel drug for cancer

Singapore: 3SBio, China based biotechnology company, has signed license agreement with JenKem Technology to develop, man...

September 18, 2014 | Thursday | News
Biostar to supply drugs to Chinese military hospital

Singapore: Biostar Pharmaceuticals, a China-based manufacturer and marketer of pharmaceutical and health supplement prod...

October 4, 2012 | Thursday | News
Dehaier to continue as only IMD X ray distributor in China

Singapore: Dehaier Medical Systems, an emerging leader in the development, assembly, marketing and sale of medical devic...

May 25, 2012 | Friday | News
China's Sinovac marks 68% sales rise in Q1 2013

‎Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, has touched sales of $10.1...

May 30, 2013 | Thursday | Company results
New vaccines for emerging diseases

China-based start-up company Shanghai BravoBio is dedicated to developing new types of human vaccines to fight against e...

March 22, 2012 | Thursday | News
Dr Weidong Yin: Leading Sinovac's vaccine initiative

In the 1980s, a lot of people in China suffered due to the outbreak of hepatitis A. There was no effective method to con...

March 15, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
China pharma driving revenue for global drug firms: Report

Singapore: A recent analysis conducted jointly by McKinsey & Co and the China Pharmaceutical Association, the countr...

October 22, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Cameron discusses GSK issue with China

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline, the British drug maker that is facing accusations of bribery and corruption in China seems t...

December 5, 2013 | Thursday | News
Sinochem to sell Amerigen generic drug in China

Singapore: Amerigen Pharmaceuticals's Chinese subsidiary, Suzhou Amerigen Pharmaceuticals, entered into a marketing and ...

September 27, 2013 | Friday | News
China revises its Good Supply Practice for pharma

Singapore: The newly revised policy on Good Supply Practice for Pharma Products (GSP) was recently adopted at the execu...

February 22, 2013 | Friday | News
Non-small cell lung cancer therapeutics APAC market to touch $2.9 bn by 2019'

Singapore: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) therapeutics market value in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, Australia, Ch...

March 19, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
BioDiem gets paid for its vaccine technology

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company, BioDiem, has received an early annual ...

February 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Medical device packaging demand to exceed $25.7 billion in 2017

Singapore: Western Europe, the US and Japan will continue to account for almost 60 percent of the total market, accordin...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
GSK CEO: London HQ 'knew nothing' of the fraud

Singapore: Addressing the global media for the first time after allegations were leveled out against Britain's largest d...

July 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
Biotech solutions for the modern world

Biotechnology has helped Jiangxi Copper, China's largest producer of copper, remove tons of copper from waste water at i...

June 21, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
China eyes 20% growth rate in biotech

Singapore: China plans to boost its biotechnology industry and hopes to keep the average annual rate of growth of the in...

January 8, 2013 | Tuesday | News
China fines J&J for illegitimate trade

Singapore: Johnson & Johnson is the next multinational company after GSK and many others to fall into China's corrup...

June 4, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Fight between local and global CROs intensifies

Mr Malcolm Burgess relocated to Hong Kong in 2011 to take up the role of executive vice president of ICON with special r...

September 3, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
Teva CEO: We will expand in Brazil, China

Singapore: Teva Pharma CEO, Mr Jeremy Levin, has revealed that Brazil and China are the next target markets for the firm...

August 19, 2013 | Monday | News

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