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
BGI gets CFIUS nod to acquire Complete Genomics

Singapore: BGI-Shenzhen (BGI) and Complete Genomics have obtained clearance from the Committee on Foreign Investment in ...

December 31, 2012 | Monday | News
Mystic gets Japan, China patent nod for containers

Singapore: Mystic Pharmaceuticals, US, received key notices of allowance from Asian patent offices in the company's ong...

October 3, 2013 | Thursday | News
Stem cell industry has substantial growth potential

The Nobel prize for Physiology to two stem cell research scientists in 2012 has firmly put the spotlight on this promisi...

January 31, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Deyu subsidiary joins China Food Industry Association

Singapore: The wholly-owned subsidiary of Deyu Agriculture, Detian Yu Biotechnology, Beijing, was elected a member of th...

July 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Medtronic opens facility to support R&D in China

Singapore: Medtronic, a medical technology company, officially opened its innovation center in Shanghai, China. The new ...

September 4, 2012 | Tuesday | News
GSK China scandal: What have been the highlights?

What started early in February this year, as a seemingly small scale price check by the Chinese regulator into the funct...

July 31, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Shenzhen Neptunus invests in drug innovation

Shenzhen Neptunus Bioengineering is a well-recognized name in manufacturing and distribution of pharmaceutical product...

June 4, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Asia biologics manufacturers face the 'quality challenge'

Biologics manufacturers in Asia have to be more vigilant and give higher priority to product safety and product efficacy...

March 7, 2012 | Wednesday | News
H7N9 bird flu spreads from China to Taiwan

Singapore: One laboratory-confirmed case of human infection with the virus has been reported by the Taipei Centres for D...

April 26, 2013 | Friday | News
Aurora Imaging Technology signs China distribution agreement

Singapore: US-based Aurora Imaging Technology has signed an exclusive China distribution agreement with SUMEC. SUMEC is ...

August 2, 2012 | Thursday | News
TaiGen files NDA for Nemonoxacin in Taiwan, China

Singapore: Taiwan's TaiGen Biotechnology has submitted New Drug Application (NDA) for the oral formulation of nemonoxaci...

May 16, 2013 | Thursday | News
Tensys, Zhejiang sign patient monitoring system deal

Singapore: Tensys Medical, a leader in the development and commercialization of continuous, non-invasive hemodynamic pa...

February 11, 2013 | Monday | News
Orchid exits 10-year-old JV in China due to competition

Chennai: Chennai-based global pharma major, Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals has exited its 50:50 manufacturing joi...

November 15, 2012 | Thursday | News
Quintiles appoints new VP for Asia lab

Singapore: Quintiles appointed Ms Jenny Zhang as VP and general manager of Asian laboratories. She will be responsible f...

September 4, 2012 | Tuesday | News
What are the hurdles before stem cell research?

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

January 31, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
United Laboratories evolves with market dynamics

The year 2011 marked a period of challenges for pharmaceutical companies in China due to the complex business environmen...

June 29, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Baxter's Advate gets SFDA nod

Singapore: Baxter International got the approval of Advate (recombinant human coagulation factor VIII for injection) for...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | Regulatory
Takeda R&D filed 7 NDAs in the last 8 months

Singapore: Takeda Global Research and Development, a wholly owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical, has filed seven n...

October 5, 2012 | Friday | News
China Cord Blood repurchases shares

Singapore: China Cord Blood Corporation repurchased an aggregate of 2,191,412 ordinary shares for a total consideration ...

July 6, 2012 | Friday | News
3SBio to join global ph III trial for Voclosporin

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

June 29, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
China Botanic products get $0.8 mn order

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

May 18, 2012 | Friday | News
Shenzhen Neptunus rides on reformed business model

Shenzhen Neptunus Bioengineering, engaged in manufacturing and distribution of pharmaceuticals in China, is currently pr...

June 27, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
Mindray clocks 23% rise in Q2 2012

Singapore: Mindray Medical, a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices worldwide, published its s...

August 7, 2012 | Tuesday | Company results
Johns Hopkins to collaborate with Chinese university

Singapore: The training of next-generation clinical investigators in China is at the core of a new collaboration between...

March 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Simcere Pharma sells Boda subsidiary for $65 mn

Singapore: Simcere Pharma has agreed to sell its 99.99 percent stake in Jilin Boda Pharma for $65 million. The company f...

July 2, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Now AstraZeneca executives arrested in China

Singapore: Days after British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline faced allegations of a wide-ranging bribery scandal in China, t...

July 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
BS Survey: Healthcare is getting smarter in Asia

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November 30, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Boehringer Ingelheim invests in vet vaccines in China

Singapore: Research-based pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim and Taizhou China Medical City in China have signe...

May 31, 2012 | Thursday | News
APAC medtech market valued at $55 billion: Report

Singapore: A new report by the UBM Canon Medtech World team, has highlighted that the Asia Pacific medical technology ma...

January 8, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
Life Tech to set up new manufacturing unit in China

Singapore: Life Technologies has completed its manufacturing facility in Beijing where the most advanced DNA testing sol...

September 21, 2012 | Friday | News
Hengrui, X-Body sign AMD antibody deal

Singapore: X-Body Biosciences entered into an exclusive alliance with Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine, in which Hengrui will de...

April 8, 2013 | Monday | News
QIAGEN, Lepu to provide rapid emergency heart attack tests

Singapore: QIAGEN announced an agreement with Lepu Medical Technology, Beijing, a leading medical device company in Chi...

September 17, 2012 | Monday | News
F&S: Double-digit growth for APAC pharma

Singapore: The pharmaceuticals industry in the Asia Pacific is thriving on the back of escalating population and increa...

December 5, 2012 | Wednesday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: APAC CROs stick to an average of 50 clients

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Solasia appoints Yoshihiro Arai as president

Singapore: Mr Yoshihiro Arai, currently general manager and head of development of Solasia Pharma, has been promoted to...

February 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
Hot investment destinations in Asia

Asia's two leading economies, India and China are actively working on new strategies to attract money into the bioscienc...

June 26, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
New medtech market infographic published

Singapore: Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry (MD+DI) recently published an original infographic and supporting arti...

June 10, 2013 | Monday | News
Hong Kong records second H7N9 case in a week

Singapore: Hong Kong's Center of Health Protection authorities have quarantined 19 people who were in contact with the s...

December 9, 2013 | Monday | News
EntreMed seeks SFDA nod for cancer trial

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

January 8, 2013 | Tuesday | News
DKSH to provide logistics services to Nordic Bioscience

Singapore: DKSH's Business Unit Healthcare, market expansion services provider for healthcare companies seeking to grow ...

December 18, 2013 | Wednesday | News
China holds largest pharma revenue share in APAC

In 2011, China maintained its top position in the Asia Pacific's region for pharmaceutical industry, with the largest sh...

June 11, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
ScinoPharm ready with $113 mn unit in China

Singapore: Taiwan's leading maker of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) has announced that the construction of its...

December 13, 2013 | Friday | News
Australian CRO expands its operations in HongKong

Singapore: Australia-based contract research organization, Novotech, recently announced that it has expanded its Hong Ko...

January 23, 2015 | Friday | News
China secures rank 1 in terms of total company revenues

China emerged as the third country in terms of the total revenue generated by companies during the calendar year 2012 in...

June 18, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Biostar, military varsity to tie up for drug trial

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

June 14, 2012 | Thursday | News
UK, China firms sign JV for stem cell therapies

Singapore: Cell Therapy Limited (CTL), which is based in Cardiff, UK, entered into a joint venture (JV) agreement with C...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
What services do APAC CROs offer to their clients?

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Marken opens pharma depot next to Beijing airport

‎Singapore: Clinical supply chain solutions provider, Marken has built a new pharmaceutical depot in Beijing, Chin...

March 8, 2013 | Friday | News
China Cord Blood consolidates corporate structure

Singapore: China Cord Blood's (CCBC) non-wholly owned subsidiary, Favorable Fort, entered into a definitive agreement w...

December 7, 2012 | Friday | News
Ziehm Medical opens office in Guangzhou

Singapore: Ziehm Medical Shanghai (ZMS), daughter company of the German manufacturer of mobile C-arms Ziehm Imaging, has...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Chinese and Dutch firm to jointly develop antibodies

Singapore: ShangPharma, a leading China-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology R&D outsourcing company, and Harbour...

September 14, 2012 | Friday | News
Why big pharma is busy acquiring injectables firms?

Big pharma companies are gearing up to combat the shortage of injectables in the US through acquiring companies with app...

March 20, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
China medtech giant enters Ukraine market

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

September 24, 2012 | Monday | News
Past R&D shortfalls in China fixed: GSK

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline revealed that the shortcoming that it faced in China with respect to drug research in China i...

July 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
WuXi among top 10 outsourcing firms in China

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

June 29, 2012 | Friday | News
China Kanghui net revenue increases by over 21%

Singapore: China Kanghui, a developer, manufacturer and marketer of orthopedic implants in China, disclosed its unaudite...

May 25, 2012 | Friday | Company results
China Pharmaceutical sails smart in tough times

China Pharmaceutical Group is one of the largest manufacturers in the world known for its bulk drug products and is also...

June 19, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Mindray acquires Zonare for $101 mn cash

Singapore: Medtech firm Mindray Medical has acquired Zonare Medical Systems, an ultrasound technology leader in the high...

July 18, 2013 | Thursday | News
Germany, Taiwan sign biotechnology MoU

Singapore: Pingtung Agricultural Biotechnology Park under Taiwan's Council of Agriculture (COA) has signed a memorandum ...

July 10, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Andrew Cunningham to lead PPD central lab

Singapore: Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) has appointed Dr Andrew Cunningham as vice president of central labo...

November 21, 2013 | Thursday | Influencers
Pig genome similar to humans, good for drug testing

Singapore: The availability of a reference genome for a species is extremely important in the deeper understanding of it...

November 16, 2012 | Friday | News
Stem cell therapy effective in liver cirrhosis

Singapore: A study conducted by Beike Biotechnology Company in conjunction with physicians and researchers at two Chines...

July 4, 2012 | Wednesday | News
China, Australia dominate APAC pharma market

The pharmaceutical market in several nations of the Asia Pacific (APAC) region witnessed a significant growth during 201...

June 11, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
MicuRx, Zhangjiang partner to kill MDR bacteria

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

October 25, 2012 | Thursday | News
China BIO to be held from Nov 11-13, 2013

Singapore: Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) is all set to organize 3rd annual BIO Convention in China, an affil...

September 17, 2013 | Tuesday | News
China to surpass Japan as 2nd largest medtech market

Singapore: As the world's largest population, prospects for medical device spending in China is huge. Government healthc...

April 15, 2013 | Monday | Analysis
WuXi facility gets SFDA certificate

Singapore: The toxicology facility of WuXi PharmaTech at Suzhou, China, has received a certificate of Good Laboratory Pr...

August 17, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
Merck to set up $107 mn plant in China

Singapore: In a bid to strengthen its operations and base in China, German drug maker Merck has said that it is planning...

November 18, 2013 | Monday | News
Australia, China team up to promote healthy ageing

Singapore: Senior scientists from Australia and China are meeting at the Australian Academy of Science on July 23 and 24...

July 23, 2012 | Monday | News
GSK probe leads to capture of main suspect

Singapore: A main suspect in the Chinese economic violations and bribery case involving GlaxoSmithKline has been capture...

October 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
ScinoPharm constructs $113 mn R&D and API center

Singapore: ScinoPharm has completed construction of its Changshu plant on a 16-acre (6.5-hectare) site in China, which i...

December 18, 2013 | Wednesday | News
WuXi PharmaTech partners with Pharmacyclics

Singapore: Shanghai SynTheAll (STA) Pharmaceutical, subsidiary of WuXi PharmaTech, a leading pharmaceutical, biotechnolo...

November 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
WuXi Pharma to manufacture Ibalizumab for TaiMed

Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech entered into a contract manufacturing agreement with TaiMed Biologics for the manufacture of...

August 29, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Zoetis China receives Swine vaccine approval

Singapore: UK Animal health company Zoetis has announced that its joint venture in China has received regulatory approva...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
World Health Assembly on holistic care approach

Singapore: World Health Organzination is looking forward to integrate holistic patient care in global healthcare system ...

May 27, 2014 | Tuesday | News
WuXi facility gets Belgian GLP certificate

Singapore: The toxicology facility of WuXi PharmaTech in Suzhou, China, has received a statement of Good Laboratory Prac...

May 31, 2012 | Thursday | News
China pharma scrutiny widens, Novo probed

Singapore: Amid constant scrutiny of local operations of drugmakers in China, now Danish drug maker Novo Nordisk was pai...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
Molecular diagnostics is key to future

China, Japan, India and Singapore are leveraging on genetic technologies to develop molecular diagnostic platform which ...

June 18, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
AstraZeneca boosts drug discovery through partnership

Singapore: Pharmaron, a premier R&D service provider for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, has formed a dru...

October 15, 2012 | Monday | News
Mr Danny Chung takes charge as Sinovac CFO

Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, has appointed Mr Danny Chung as chief f...

May 15, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Partnerships promote quality talent

While many multinational companies have reduced their manpower to cut costs in 2011, regional companies in Asia have gon...

May 25, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Neurotez, GCAT to develop Leptin derivatives

Singapore: US based Neurotez intends to develop Leptin derivatives for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and oth...

May 27, 2014 | Tuesday | News
BHR expands brain injury treatment trial

Singapore: BHR Pharma has started recruiting patients, who are suffering from severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), for t...

June 13, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Bulgaria boosting medical, pharma exports to China

Singapore: In a bid to broaden its economic relations with China, Bulgaria has announced its plans to boost exports of m...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | News
China Cord Blood Corporation to partner with Cordlife Group

Singapore: China Cord Blood Corporation (CCBC), the first and largest cord blood banking operator in China, and Cordlife...

August 17, 2012 | Friday | News
WuXi genomics lab gets CLIA certification

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

October 18, 2013 | Friday | News
DHL expands secure cold chain network

Singapore: DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist, has expanded its Qualified Envirotainer Provider...

April 18, 2013 | Thursday | News
NovaBay, China Pioneer announce expansion plans

Singapore: Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, announced that it has expanded its NeutroP...

December 3, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Sinovac reports unaudited Q2 financial results

Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, published its unaudited second qu...

August 16, 2012 | Thursday | Company results
F&S: China pharma market to touch $280 bn by 2016

Singapore: China pharmaceutical market has earned revenue of $131.63 billion in 2012 and this will more than double to $...

May 29, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Medical tourism market to reach $32.5 bn globally in 2019: Report

Singapore: The global medical tourism market was valued at $10.5 billion in 2012 and is estimated to reach a market wort...

October 3, 2013 | Thursday | News
Boston Scientific opens IAS, innovation center in Shanghai

Singapore: Reinforcing its ongoing commitment to leadership in the global medical technology market, Boston Scientific h...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | News
China now probes Bayer for unfair competition

Singapore: Chinese authorities led by a local branch of China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) vi...

September 16, 2013 | Monday | News
Biostar to establish call center for new B2C platform

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

August 9, 2012 | Thursday | News
Biomaterials market will be worth $88.4 bn by 2017

Singapore: A new report by MarketsAndMarkets titled 'Biomaterials market and applications - Global forecasts to 2017', e...

March 26, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Medtronic to acquire China Kanghui for $816 mn in cash

Singapore: Medtronic and China Kanghui Holdings have entered into a merger agreement whereby Medtronic will acquire Kang...

September 28, 2012 | Friday | News
Simcere appoints Dr. Zang Jingwu as CSO

Singapore: China based Simcere Pharmaceutical has appointed Dr. Zang Jingwu as Chief Scientific Officer, effective Octob...

October 17, 2013 | Thursday | Influencers
BioSpectrum Asia launches 5th CRO survey

Singapore: After four consecutive successful annual surveys on the developments in the clinical research industry, BioSp...

July 30, 2013 | Tuesday | News

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