Chugai Pharma enters China Medical City

Singapore: Chugai Pharmaceutical has announced that it has signed an agreement with the Taizhou Medical High-Tech Indust...

December 31, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Promega opens new facility in Shanghai

Singapore: Promega opened a new facility in Shanghai for its China operations. The new site for Shanghai Promega Biologi...

November 19, 2012 | Monday | News
Tianyin Pharma Qionglai facility will be ready by April

Singapore: Tianyin Pharmaceutical revealed that the progress made in the construction of its Qionglai facility (QLF) is...

April 8, 2013 | Monday | News
Lilly expands partnership with Novast

Singapore: In support of its commitment to maximize growth opportunities in China, Eli Lilly has decided to increase its...

June 13, 2012 | Wednesday | News
China to reduce prices of drugs by up to 20%

Singapore: After India, now China has decided to cut prices of about 400 drugs for respiratory diseases, fever and pain...

January 9, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
First-ever fusion cage launched in China

Singapore: Bonovo Orthopedics launched the first PEEK (PEEK-OPTIMA polymer from INVIBIO) lateral interbody fusion cage, ...

August 22, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Celsion, Hisun Pharma enter tech development deal

Singapore: Celsion, a leading oncology drug development company, and Zhejiang Hisun Pharmaceutical, a leading Chinese p...

January 23, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Consistent clinical trial quality is key for China

China's pharmaceutical market has grown steadily in the last few years and is projected to grow by an average 19 perce...

September 5, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion
Kimball's China facility achieves ISO certification

Singapore: Kimball Electronics Group, a subsidiary of Kimball International, announced that the company's production fac...

August 2, 2013 | Friday | News
GSK research paper on China retracted

Singapore: British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline that has been surrounded by unending controversy for allegations made agai...

December 10, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Li Xiting appointed CEO of Mindray

Singapore: Mr Xu Hang has resigned from the position of co-chief executive officer (co-CEO) at Mindray Medical Internati...

November 28, 2012 | Wednesday | News
ProMetic to get $10 mn equity from Chinese firm

Singapore: ProMetic Life Sciences has finalized the $10 million strategic equity investment by Shenzhen Hepalink Pharma...

January 10, 2013 | Thursday | News
Bioplasma World Asia 2012 to be held in July

Singapore: Recognizing the region's need to work towards self-sufficiency in plasma products, Bioplasma World Asia 2012 ...

May 22, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Chugai gives cancer drug license to Debiopharm

Singapore: Chugai Pharmaceutical and Debiopharm Group entered into a licensing agreement regarding FF284 (called Debio ...

January 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
ASKLEP joins Medidata partner program

Singapore: ASKLEP, a leading Tokyo-based provider of clinical research services, has joined the Medidata Solutions Part...

December 20, 2012 | Thursday | News
Medistem in collaboration with China firm subsidiary

Singapore: US-based Medistem has entered into a collaboration with Superview Biotechnology, a subsidiary of Yinhuan Hold...

October 11, 2012 | Thursday | News
CHRI issues final termsheet to Herborium

Singapore: China Health Resource Incorporation (CHRI) issued a final termsheet to Herborium Group and is now awaiting re...

June 6, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Sinovac 2012 AGM highlights

Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, held its 2012 annual general meet...

August 24, 2012 | Friday | News
Theravance, Alfa Wassermann collaborate

Singapore: Theravance and Alfa Wassermann entered into an exclusive development and commercialization agreement in cert...

October 4, 2012 | Thursday | News
H7N9 bird flu update- 130 cases, 32 deaths

Singapore: National Health and Family Planning Commission, China, has notified the WHO of two additional laboratory-conf...

May 22, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Garth Tierney is executive VP of INC CRO

Singapore: INC Research has promoted Mr Garth Tierney to executive vice president, Asia Pacific. He will be responsible...

March 4, 2013 | Monday | News
Boehringer China sees 32% rise in prescription drugs

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim China's prescription medicine business has outperformed the market with a growth rate of...

April 26, 2013 | Friday | Company results
Herbalife will do direct-selling in China

Singapore: Herbalife received eight licenses by China's Ministry of Commerce to conduct its direct-selling business in H...

May 23, 2012 | Wednesday | News
China Jo-Jo Drugstores collaborates with Wyeth

Singapore: Hangzhou Jiuzhou Grand Pharmacy Chain, subsidiary of China Jo-Jo Drugstores, has signed a sales incentive agr...

April 29, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Aetna, Starr International form alliance in Hong Kong

Singapore: Aetna, a global diversified healthcare benefits company, and Starr International Insurance have formed a stra...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | News
China: Hepatitis B vaccines not cause of deaths

Singapore: Concluding an elaborate probe that started late last year, China has now said that the hepatitis B vaccines w...

January 7, 2014 | Tuesday | News
China cracks the whip on big pharma

Two separate but equally important developments took place in China this month. One, intensification of investigations i...

June 2, 2014 | Monday | Opinion
GSK China's former head assisting in investigations

Singapore: British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline that has been facing bribery allegations in China has now said that its for...

October 17, 2013 | Thursday | News
Sinovac reports positive results from EV71 trial

Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a provider of vaccines in China, reported preliminary top-line data from its phase III clin...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | News
China Biologic names David Gao as CEO

Singapore: China Biologic Products, one of the leading plasma-based biopharmaceutical companies in China, has appointed ...

May 14, 2012 | Monday | News
GlobalData: China pharma to reach $315 bn in 2020

Singapore: GlobalData has in its latest report on China's healthcare industry highlighted that the country's pharmaceuti...

July 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
Shanghai Pharma revenue rises 17.6% to $3.17 bn

‎Singapore: Shanghai Pharmaceuticals has maintained a steady growth in first quarterly result of 2013 touching ope...

April 30, 2013 | Tuesday | Company results
China Botanic hires Zhao to gain NYSE compliance

Singapore: China Botanic Pharmaceutical has appointed Mr Jack Zhao as a member of the company's board of directors. Mr Z...

January 25, 2013 | Friday | News
Sanofi opens insulin pen plant at Beijing

Singapore: Sanofi inaugurated a new assembling and packaging line to produce its flagship pre-filled insulin injection p...

May 28, 2012 | Monday | News
DKSH launches Dr Wolff's Alpecin in Hong Kong

Singapore: DKSH's Business Unit Healthcare, the leading market expansion services provider for healthcare companies seek...

July 4, 2013 | Thursday | News
ScinoPharm, TaiGen collaborate for stem cell drug

Singapore: Taiwan based ScinoPharm, engaged in development and manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients has clos...

June 9, 2014 | Monday | News
MNCs bet on China to tide over patent cliff

Even as most emerging economies in Asia Pacific are trying to grab a foothold in the global biopharma space, China has e...

May 16, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
Whats up with the BGI-Complete acquisition deal?

In perhaps the largest move in the sequencing services industry to date, BGI Shenzhen entered into a definitive merger a...

March 14, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Why did mergers & acquisitions plunge in APAC?

The global bioscience industry, in 2012, reported 450 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions valued at $67 bill...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Thermo Fisher opens $20 mn manufacturing facility in China

Singapore: Thermo Fisher Scientific has opened its new facility in Suzhou, China, for the manufacturing of life sciences...

November 16, 2012 | Friday | News
Anaphore changes corporate name to RuiYi

Singapore: Anaphore changed its corporate name to RuiYi. As part of the company's shift in strategy to the R&D of n...

October 5, 2012 | Friday | News
Simcere receives going private proposal

Singapore: Simcere Pharmaceutical's board of directors received a non-binding proposal letter from Mr Jinsheng Ren, New ...

March 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
China Botanic to get patent for traditional medicine

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

August 29, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Dr Xiaochuan Wang: Nurturing Sundia

Sundia, a Shanghai-based integrated pharmaceutical contract research organization is the brainchild of a highly motivate...

March 19, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
China gets its first international trial sourcing firm

Singapore: Komtur Pharmaceuticals, a German specialist in clinical trial sourcing, has invested in Chinese firm HengHeKa...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
TaiGen gets TFDA nod for bacterial pneumonia drug

Singapore: Taiwan based TaiGen Biotechnology has recieved Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) approval for new dr...

March 18, 2014 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Beijing Drug Admin, Zimmer sign musculoskeletal MoU

Singapore: Zimmer Holdings, a global leader in musculoskeletal health, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), w...

November 16, 2012 | Friday | News
Cipla launches first rheumatic drug biosimilar in India

Mumbai: Cipla launched the first biosimilar of Etanercept in India under the brand name, Etacept, indicated for the trea...

April 18, 2013 | Thursday | News
Dr Jianping Dai joins Cellular Biomedicine board

Singapore: Cellular Biomedicine appointed Dr Jianping Dai to the board of directors. Dr Dai is a professor of radiology...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | News
Chinese govt grant for DelMar, Guangxi Wuzhou

Singapore: DelMar Pharmaceuticals announced that the Chinese Bureau of Foreign Experts has approved the application for ...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
China summit to promote biomedical industry

Singapore: BioMed Innovation Summit 2013 will launch on March 14-15, 2013, in Shanghai, China, in order to promote the ...

December 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News
James Thorburn to lead UK CRO TranScrip in Hong Kong

Singapore: TranScrip Partners, a UK-based specialist contract research organization (CRO) that started its operation in ...

October 3, 2013 | Thursday | News
Low R&D output, patent cliffs drives big pharma nuts

Singapore: According to the latest global report from industry experts, GBI Research, low R&D productivity, combined...

September 5, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
Cord Blood expands in China

Singapore: China Cord Blood (CCB), which is the first and largest cord blood banking operator in China, highlighted that...

February 8, 2013 | Friday | News
GSK's Mark Reilly to return to China shortly

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline's former China head Mr Mark Reilly would be returning to China shortly to assist the police w...

July 29, 2013 | Monday | News
3SBio retains Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton as legal counsel

Singapore: 3SBio, a leading China-based biotechnology company focused on R&D, manufacturing and marketing biopharma...

September 18, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Mr Steven Kaufman, SHL Group: 2013 will be an exciting year for drug delivery devices

Pharmaceutical companies in the region are starting to take more interest in biologics and biosimilars, and of course wi...

December 25, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
China Cord Blood revenues up 57% to $24.0 mn

Singapore: China Cord Blood, China's leading provider of cord blood collection, laboratory testing, hematopoietic stem c...

February 27, 2013 | Wednesday | Company results
Sanjiu Medical keeps focus on R&D

Sanjiu Medical and Pharmaceutical is a manufacturing and marketing company for medicines, healthcare products, and medic...

June 21, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
GSK executives confessed to bribery charges: China

Singapore: Two weeks after intense investigations into GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) operations across China, the country's se...

July 12, 2013 | Friday | News
J&J puts all Chinese units under single local chairman

Singapore: The business heads of Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) three Chinese operations would report to one local ch...

August 29, 2013 | Thursday | News
China develops revolutionary TCM migraine medication

Singapore: China Health Resource (CHRI) has developed a revolutionary TCM migraine medication called Toufeng Migraine ta...

July 18, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Can-Fite APIs to be manufactured by China CRO

Singapore: Israel-based Can-Fite BioPharma announced that the active pharmaceuticals ingredients (API) of CF101 and CF1...

January 24, 2013 | Thursday | News
X-Change to launch Phytiva in China, SE Asia

Singapore: X-Change, a US-based boutique company whose niche is extract-based cosmeceutical and nutraceutical solutions ...

January 28, 2013 | Monday | News
OrbusNeich launches dual therapy heart stent

Singapore: Hong Kong-based OrbusNeich has launched dual therapy stent to address the challenges of delayed healing of th...

May 29, 2013 | Wednesday | News
China vitamin C manufacturer fined by US court

Singapore: A US court has fined North China Pharmaceutical (NCPC), a vitamin C manufacturer and antibiotics supplier, $1...

March 20, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Daewoong buys China's Liaoning Baifeng for $20 mn

Singapore: Daewoong Pharmaceutical is going to acquire Liaoning Baifeng, a Shenyang (Liaoning Province)-based manufactur...

August 6, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Charles River grows $286 mn in Q1 2013

Singapore: Charles River Laboratories has reported an increase of 1.8 percent in first quarter of 2013, clocking $286.0 ...

May 2, 2013 | Thursday | Company results
Shenzhen Accord all set to go beyond China

China is undergoing healthcare reforms and, in the process, industry regulations are becoming strict. Adopting a new bus...

June 7, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
India, China top 2013's GMP failures: EMA

Singapore: In a bid to bring about transparency, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has released the public version of ...

January 9, 2014 | Thursday | News
Dehaier reports decrease in revenue in Q3'12

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

November 15, 2012 | Thursday | Company results
MedImmune, WuXi form joint venture

Singapore: MedImmune, the global biologics arm of AstraZeneca, and WuXi AppTec, a research and development outsourcing c...

September 10, 2012 | Monday | News
HUYA, Sanzao Park partner for drug development

Singapore: HUYA Bioscience, a leader in globalizing China's biopharmaceutical innovations, has signed a strategic partne...

June 11, 2012 | Monday | News
Baird Capital invests in Kedu Healthcare in China

Singapore: Investment firm Baird Capital has invested in Kedu Healthcare, one of China's largest independent medical equ...

August 28, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Police: Sexual favours spurred GSK's $1.5 bn China sales

Singapore: A day after making the allegations against GlaxoSmithKline's senior executives public, China's Public Securit...

July 16, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Asia bags $6.6 bn M&A deals in 2013

Singapore: The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region attracted around 101 M&A deals in pharma, medical, and biotech industry in...

March 28, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
CyberKnife System earns over 1 mn in revenue

Singapore: CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System, located in Changhai Hospital, along with da Vinci Surgical System, ha...

June 20, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Novozymes to help build bio-refinery in China

Singapore: Europe-based Novozymes has partnered with M&G Chemicals to supply enzyme technology for glycols bio-refin...

November 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Medtronic, LifeTech alliance to serve heart patients

Singapore: Medtronic and LifeTech Scientific have entered into a strategic alliance to serve cardiovascular patients an...

October 18, 2012 | Thursday | News
3SBio posts 31% revenue growth in Q2 2012

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

August 15, 2012 | Wednesday | Company results
ActiViews gets SFDA nod for needle guidance system

Singapore: ActiViews, a company pioneering the development of simple, accurate, and cost-effective surgical navigation s...

May 23, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Swedish radiation therapy solution gets CFDA nod

Singapore: Swedish medical technology company RaySearch Laboratories that develops advanced software solutions for impro...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Novartis posts 20 percent rise in Q1 profit

Singapore: Novartis announced that it has recorded a 20 percent rise in its first-quarter profit. Reports said that the...

April 29, 2014 | Tuesday | Company results
Ventana gets CFDA nod for cancer antibody assay

Singapore: Ventana Medical Systems, which is a member of the Roche Group, received approval for its Ventana ALK (D5F3) R...

September 12, 2013 | Thursday | News
ShangPharma appoints committee chairman

Singapore: ShangPharma, a leading China-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology research and development outsourcing comp...

July 18, 2012 | Wednesday | News
BGI study gives insight into human gut microbiota

Singapore: A novel metagenomic study on human gut microbiota and their potential impact on type 2 diabetes, the most com...

September 27, 2012 | Thursday | News
BioTime director passes away

Singapore: Mr Abraham (Barry) E Cohen, member of BioTime's board of directors, passed away at the age of 76. BioTime is ...

November 27, 2012 | Tuesday | Influencers
Dehaier develops portable oxygen inhaler

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

June 15, 2012 | Friday | News
China SFDA drug lab gets WHO prequalification

Singapore: The World Health Organization (WHO) has included China's National Institutes for Food and Drug Control (NIFD...

January 10, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
APAC stem cell therapy market to reach $972mn in 2018

Singapore: A new study by Reports and Reports predicted that the stem cell therapy market in Asia Pacific (APAC) will gr...

January 1, 2013 | Tuesday | News
BGI-Shenzhen gets clearnace from NDRC for BGI's acquisition

Singapore: BGI-Shenzhen and Complete Genomics have obtained clearance from the National Development and Reform Commissi...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
GSK CEO accompanies UK PM on China visit

Singapore: After facing a storm of controversy in China, Sir (Dr) Andrew Witty, CEO, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) visited the c...

December 2, 2013 | Monday | News
How Chinese economy will impact its life sciences?

During a January 2013 economic forum in Beijing, Lou Jiwei, chairman of the China Investment Corporation (CIC), presente...

March 13, 2013 | Wednesday | Opinion
ShangPharma completes in-house merger

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

March 28, 2013 | Thursday | News
China CRO facility undergoes US FDA inspection

Singapore: For the first time, the US FDA has completed an inspection in China under its combined clinical trial and bi...

March 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
Why does NYSE want to delist China Botanic?

Singapore: China Botanic Pharmaceutical received a notice of failure to satisfy continued listing standards from the New...

February 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
China's national vaccine production base takes safety enhancement measures

Singapore: UK based UV disinfection specialist Hanovia has supplied three UV water disinfection systems, PharmaLine PQL,...

July 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Mindray to acquire ZONARE Medical Systems

Singapore: Mindray Medical International has announced a definitive agreement to acquire ZONARE Medical Systems (Zonare)...

June 19, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Is China bioscience really slowing down?

Is China bioscience slowing down? From the numbers that have been put together by the BioSpectrum Asia Pacific Bioscienc...

June 19, 2013 | Wednesday | Opinion
US-based TriReme looks for big growth in Asia

TriReme Medical, a US-based start-up medical devices company dedicated to the development and manufacturing of innovativ...

May 31, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers

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