China eliminates import duties on 28 Indian medicines

China has removed import duties on as many as 28 medicines, including all cancer drugs, from May 1, a move which would h...

May 4, 2018 | Friday | News
Refuge Biotechnologies secures $25M funding from Chinese investors

Refuge Biotechnologies, Inc., a cell therapy company based in California bay area leveraging gene engineering technologi...

May 4, 2018 | Friday | News
HKUST researchers identify the cause behind bacterial resistance

Researchers at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have identified for the first time the culprit...

May 3, 2018 | Thursday | News
Medical AI startup Synyi raises $15.7 M

Venture capital firm GGV Capital has led a RMB100 million ($15.7 million) series B round in Shanghai-based artificial in...

May 3, 2018 | Thursday | News
Cellmid inks deal with China's Fukangren Bio-pharm

Australia based Cellmid has recently announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Advangen Limited (“Advangen”...

May 2, 2018 | Wednesday | News
WuXi Biologics to build biomanufacturing facility in Ireland

WuXi Biologics is set to invest $392 million to build a new biologics drug substance manufacturing facility in Ireland. ...

May 2, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Innovent secures funding worth $150M

Leading biotech company in China, Innovent Biologics has announced the completion of its $150 million Ser...

May 1, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Zeotis to expand vaccine research facility in China

Zoetis Inc. recently started the construction of a combined global manufacturing and supply and research and development...

May 1, 2018 | Tuesday | News
WuXi STA to build new R&D centre in Shanghai

STA Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of WuXi AppTec (WuXi STA), has signed an investment agreement with the govern...

April 27, 2018 | Friday | News
Werfen sales Increases over 13 per cent

Werfen, a global leader in healthcare and life sciences, achieves revenues of 1,337 million euros in 2017, a 1...

April 27, 2018 | Friday | Company results
FM, Roche, DIAN collaborate for Personalized Cancer Care in China

Foundation Medicine, Inc. (FM), F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd (Roche) and DIAN Diagnostics Group, Co., Ltd. (DIAN), have anno...

April 27, 2018 | Friday | News
Zai Lab in-licenses Entasis's broad-spectrum antibiotic in APAC

Singapore – Shanghai-based Zai Lab Limited inks an exclusive license agreement with privately held Entasis Therape...

April 26, 2018 | Thursday | News
MilliporeSigma receives CRISPR patent in China

MilliporeSigma, a leader in genome editing, has announced that the Chinese Patent Office has issued a notice granting Mi...

April 24, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Tocagen inks commercialisation deal with ApolloBio

Singapore- Tocagen enters into a license agreement with ApolloBio affiliate Beijing Apollo Venus Biomedical Te...

April 20, 2018 | Friday | News
HK startup acquires DNAFit to expand footprint

Prenetics, a HongKong-based genetic testing and digital health company, has announced acquisition of DNAFit, a UK-based ...

April 20, 2018 | Friday | News
Sinovac Announces Preliminary Results of Phase III Trial on sIPV

Sinovac Biotech, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, has announced preliminary results of a phase...

April 19, 2018 | Thursday | News
WuXi AppTec to expand drug development testing services

WuXi AppTec is a leading global pharmaceutical and medical device open-access capability and technology platform company...

April 19, 2018 | Thursday | News
JHL Biotech submits application for Bevacizumab Biosimilar

JHL Biotech recently announced that the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) have accepted for review JHL's Clinica...

April 17, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Philips launches Tele-Radiology services in China

Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, and Digital China Health, the largest provider of cloud-based healt...

April 16, 2018 | Monday | News
AK Medical buys JRI Orthopedics for $24M

AK Medical Holdings, a Beijing orthopedic implant maker, has paid $24 million to acquire JRI Orthopedics, UK.&...

April 14, 2018 | Saturday | News
Biocytogen secures $65M Series C funding

CMB International Capital Corporation Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank, recently led a $65 million...

April 12, 2018 | Thursday | News
Morphotek inks license deal with BlissBio

Morphotek Inc., a subsidiary of Eisai Inc., has licensed its eribulin-linker payload to Bliss Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd...

April 11, 2018 | Wednesday | News
BeiGene appoints J. Samuel Su to its Board of Directors

China-based  BeiGene, , a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing inno...

April 9, 2018 | Monday | News
Ubiquigent, Forma Therapeutics collaborate for DUB inhibitors

Ubiquigent Limited has entered into a multi-year strategic R&D collaboration agreement with FORMA Therapeutics for t...

April 6, 2018 | Friday | News
CICC invests $238M in Concord Medical

CICC Capital Management Company Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China International Capital Corporation Limited (C...

April 5, 2018 | Thursday | News