Dr. Reddy's launches generic of Singulair oral granules

Bangalore: India-based Dr. Reddy's Laboratories has launched its montelukast sodium oral granules, a bioequivalent gene...

September 28, 2012 | Friday | News
Bruker opens 2 Centers of Excellence in India

Bangalore: Bruker, a leading provider of high-performance scientific instruments for molecular and materials research, h...

March 4, 2013 | Monday | News
Claris terminates deal with Pfizer

Ahmedabad: Claris Lifesciences has strategized to sell in the US after the approval from FDA. The company clarified that...

August 28, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Glenmark receives ANDA nod for Telmisartan

Singapore: Telmisartan is indicated for the treatment of hypertension, and the approval has been received for 20mg, 40mg...

July 18, 2014 | Friday | Regulatory
Glenmark opens new unit in Switzerland

Singapore: Leading Indian drug maker from Mumbai, Glenmark has opened a new mAb manufacturing facility in Switzerland. T...

June 6, 2014 | Friday | News
Venus Remedies bags first Mexican patent for Vancoplus

New Delhi: Chandigarh-based Venus Remedies received its first patent from Mexico for Vancoplus, a novel antibiotic formu...

November 2, 2012 | Friday | News
India gets another CyberKnife cancer center

Singapore: India's specialty institutes Medanta (Medicity Cancer Institute) and the Roentgen-BLK super speciality hospit...

November 21, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Aurobindo receives FDA approval for Nevirapine

Bangalore: India-based Aurobindo Pharma has received final approval from the US Food & Drug Administration for Nevir...

June 1, 2012 | Friday | News
Medical devices market in India may grow to $5.8 billion by 2014: Report

Mumbai: The Indian medical device and equipment market is expected to grow to around $5.8 billion by 2014 and $ 7.8billi...

October 3, 2013 | Thursday | News
West sets up manufacturing facility in South India

Bangalore: West Pharmaceutical India Packaging, an indirect subsidiary of West Pharmaceutical Services, US, hosted a ce...

August 28, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Enhanced immunity to fight cancer

'What's the single sustaining formidable challenge in modern healthcare', if someone asks me, my reply would be 'cance...

August 16, 2012 | Thursday | Opinion
UN cautions India aganist misuse of drugs

Singapore: Top UN officials have underscored the rising trend of misuse of pharmaceutical drugs in India, after cannabis...

July 28, 2014 | Monday | News
Another Indian pharma company rapped by FDA

Singapore: After reports of Indian drug majors Ranbaxy Laboratories, Aurobindo Pharma, Dr Reddy's Laboratories and Wockh...

October 22, 2013 | Tuesday | 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
Blanket ban on FDI in Indian pharma proposed

Singapore: An Indian parliamentary committee has suggested a 'blanket ban' on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in existin...

August 15, 2013 | Thursday | 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
Onco Therapies gets FDA nod for Oxaliplatin injection

Bangalore: Onco Therapies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Strides Arcolab (Strides), has received final ANDA approval fo...

August 13, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Mr Arindam Sen, Advanced Micronic Devices: Diagnostic centers move up the value chain

The diagnostic industry will witness two major trends; one is that standalone diagnostic centers are becoming obsolete a...

December 26, 2012 | Wednesday | Opinion
Unichem earned $43 mn income in Q3 FY2012-13

Mumbai: The board of directors of Unichem Laboratories approved the third quarter (Q3) unaudited results for FY 2012-13 ...

January 21, 2013 | Monday | Company results
Neuland Labs strengthens commitment to Japan

Hyderabad: Neuland Laboratories entered into a manufacturing collaboration with Tokyo-based API named Apic, which is a ...

March 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Dr Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw: India to see a surge in biomanufacturing partnerships in 2013

The year ahead holds immense promise for the Indian Biotech sector which is at an inflection point. The industry has lev...

December 26, 2012 | Wednesday | Opinion
Farhan Akhtar launches Omron diabetes monitor

New Delhi: Omron Healthcare India launched easy-to-use, no coding required, economical and ultra light weight blood gluc...

January 16, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Mylan to develop, market Biocon generic insulin

Bangalore: India's No 2 biotech company, Bangalore-based Biocon has announced a strategic partnership with global generi...

February 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
International bioenergy summit kicks off in New Delhi

New Delhi: The Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, along with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) l...

November 6, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Ranbaxy allocated site for facility in Malaysia

New Delhi: Indian drug major Ranbaxy has announced that it has been allocated the site for setting up its Greenfield man...

August 8, 2013 | Thursday | News
Innovative informatics solution for cancer research

Emerging therapies to treat cancer and prevent its recurrence are based on detection of cellular and genomic changes wit...

August 3, 2012 | Friday | Opinion
India to get world-class agri-biotech research institute

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet of India has approved a proposal of the Ministry of Agriculture for the establishment of an...

August 28, 2012 | Tuesday | News
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
Indegene acquires Canada-based Aptilon

Bangalore: Indegene Lifesystems, a leading provider of R&D, commercial and marketing solutions to top global pharmac...

November 12, 2012 | Monday | News
Merck Millipore kicks off 'EMPROVE Seminar Series'

Mumbai: Merck Millipore India launched  the 'EMPROVE Seminar Series' at Taj Lands End, Mumbai. EMPROVE is a proprietar...

October 3, 2012 | Wednesday | News
AMRI India gets Abbott Health Care award

Bangalore: AMRI India, a subsidiary of AMRI, has been recognized by Abbott Health Care for the reliable supply of generi...

July 20, 2012 | Friday | News
IPAB concludes hearing in Bayer Nexavar case

Bangalore: The Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) in Chennai, India, reserved its order during the hearing on ...

September 6, 2012 | Thursday | News
How has India been able to keep Polio at bay?

India, which was once considered as the world's epicenter of polio, successfully interrupted the transmission of the wil...

April 23, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
IKP's Deepanwita Chattopadhyay: Women, open up your mind

We were a large family with my parents, seven brothers and sisters, and our dog. Life was always busy - there was no way...

March 4, 2013 | Monday | Influencers
The US coaxing India to relax patent laws: MSF

Singapore: Medical Charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has condemned the US for mounting pressure on India's new gov...

October 20, 2014 | Monday | News
India bioservices registers 12% growth

The bioservices sector witnessed a growth of 15.5 percent in 2011-12 in spite of facing many issues from the regulatory ...

August 10, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
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
India, Canda to begin R&D collaboration in biotech

Singapore: India and Canada will soon begin research and development collaboration in all areas of biotechnology, includ...

October 17, 2013 | Thursday | News
Start-up emerges from Stanford-India Biodesign program

New Delhi: Indian Angel Network and India Innovation Fund has announced an undisclosed investment in Consure Medical, a ...

August 24, 2012 | Friday | News
OPPI appoints Ranjana Smetacek as director general

New Delhi: Ms Ranjana Smetacek has taken over as the director general of the Organization of Pharmaceutical Producers of...

October 9, 2013 | Wednesday | 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
Robust risk committee is need of the hour: Dr Mazumdar-Shaw

Bangalore: Risk management should be seen as an opportunity and innovative approaches are required to address mission cr...

August 28, 2012 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Antibody R&D: What APAC firms are working on?

Over the years, some of the Asian companies have made significant breakthroughs in antibody research and are exploring f...

October 3, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
More pharma FDI proposals cleared by India

Singapore: Providing a final nod to 17 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) proposals in India across various sectors, the co...

September 4, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Dr Saleem Mohammad, Xcode Lifesciences: DNA-based customized medical care on anvil

If you are unwell, you could visit a doctor, but no longer will you be taking general medication for a range of possible...

December 26, 2012 | Wednesday | Opinion
Sun Pharma settles Gleevec compound litigation

Singapore: Novartis Pharmaceuticals has reported to settle its litigation with US subsidiary of India based Sun Pharmace...

May 20, 2014 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Piramal Alzheimer's detector gets FDA, EMA nod

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) have accepted Piramal Imagi...

March 22, 2013 | Friday | News
Pharmacovigilance: A strategic opportunity

For many Asian pharmaceutical companies, pharmacovigilance is a critical component of any drug development program. As p...

September 6, 2012 | Thursday | Opinion
Pfenex, Agila JV to develop biosimilar

Bangalore: US-based Pfenex and India-based Agila Biotech, a subsidiary of Strides Arcolab, entered into a joint venture ...

April 17, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Lack of collective voice hampers biosupplier sector

Started in 1999, India-based GenAxy Scientific with its corporate office in New Delhi and head office in Solan, has made...

February 28, 2013 | Thursday | Influencers
MNCs boost Asia biologics industry

Entry of multinational companies has been a big boost to Asia's position in biologics manufacturing, especially with cGM...

March 7, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Lupin gets FDA approval for Lyrica generic

Mumbai: Pharma major Lupin's subsidiary, Lupin Pharmaceuticals, has received final approval for its pregabalin capsules,...

July 6, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
Bioagri inching towards saturation in India

The BioAgri sector has registered a record revenue of $621 million as compared to previous year's revenue of $140 millio...

August 6, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
LifeCell diversifies from cell banking to diagnostics, vaccine

LifeCell International, India's largest private stem cell bank and the first stem cell solution provider to bring the co...

December 31, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
Venus bags first patent from Canada for Vancoplus

New Delhi: Chandigarh-based Venus Remedies, a leading research based global pharmaceutical company secured its first pat...

September 12, 2012 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Indian state to slash prices of 348 drugs

Singapore: Tripura has become the first Indian state to announce its implementation of the country's health ministry's d...

July 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
GVK licenses its biomarker database to National Cancer Institute

Singapore: GVK Biosciences, Asia's leading contract research organization (CRO) has licensed its popular clinical bioma...

September 7, 2012 | Friday | News
FDA to India: Regulatory compliance a must

Singapore: "Make quality the top priority," was the clear message from the FDA officials to Indian Pharma companies. A ...

May 14, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Projects under Indo-Australia Biotechnology Fund

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May 18, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Advinus collaborates with P2D Bioscience for ADHD

Bangalore: Advinus Therapeutics, a Bangalore-based drug discovery and development company, and P2D Bioscience, a CNS-foc...

July 25, 2012 | Wednesday | News
India's Bodhi Health Education wins NUS-DBS Social venture challenge

Singapore: India based healthcare solution provider start-up firm, Bodhi Health Education, is among the winners of DBS-N...

June 12, 2014 | Thursday | News
Daiichi to work with US FDA to solve Ranbaxy quality issue

Singapore: As a strong reaction to the import ban placed on Ranbaxy Laboratories' third manufacturing unit in India, the...

September 25, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Intrexon announces JV with Sun Pharma

Mumbai: US-based Intrexon has entered a joint venture (JV) with Indian drug major Sun Pharma to come up with novel treat...

October 7, 2013 | Monday | News
Report: India imports 75% of its medical devices

Singapore: Emphasizing on the immediate need to reduce medical equipment imports in India, a report released by the Fede...

September 4, 2013 | Wednesday | News
A vaccine that will make alcoholics quit drinking

Singapore: Researchers at the Institute for Cell Dynamics and Biotech at Universidad de Chile are developing a new vacci...

January 30, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Global footprint is our key strategy: Philips India

Bangalore: The launch witnessed a total of 6 products including VISIQ ultrasound system, Mobile Obstetrical Monitoring (...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Big Pharma continues acquisitions

The first quarter of 2011 witnessed major deals in the global pharmaceutical space, with April proving to be a big month...

June 19, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Boehringer 'world cup' to aid anti-diabetes projects

Singapore: Healthcare Innovation and Technology Lab is organizing a 'Healthcare Innovation World Cup' in order to provid...

February 26, 2013 | Tuesday | News
All you need to know about Glivec

What is Glivec?Glivec or imatinib mesylate is the first of a class of drugs that specifically inhibits a target enzyme, ...

April 1, 2013 | Monday | Analysis
Ranbaxy aiming to sell its generics in Japan

Singapore: Leading Indian generic drug maker, Ranbaxy Laboratories, along with its owners, Japan's second largest pharma...

November 18, 2013 | Monday | News
Bindhya Cariappa: A woman has many roles to play

My father was an army officer and we saw frequent relocation, as a result of which we learned very early in life to adap...

March 8, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Lupin's oral contraceptive Kurvelo gets FDA approval

Mumbai: Lupin's subsidiary, Lupin Pharmaceuticals, received final approval for its oral contraceptive Kurvelo tablets (l...

October 22, 2012 | Monday | News
Ranbaxy claims FDA form '483' not a show stopper

Singapore: Soon after reports of Ranbaxy's Mohali manufacturing plant being issued a Form 483 by the US US FDA broke out...

June 28, 2013 | Friday | News
Phyto-pharmaceuticals to hit Indian markets soon

Singapore: The Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has notified the draft rules on a new domain of medicines ca...

December 2, 2013 | Monday | News
R&D activities in Asia need attention: Dr Syed Shams Yazdani

The International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) is a global organization dedicated to advance...

July 10, 2012 | Tuesday | Influencers
IT, telecom innovations fuel healthcare accessibility

Conventional solutions to address health related problems worldwide have been rising enormously. In many cases the hea...

August 29, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion
What functional roles do CROs play in APAC?

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Cipla launches Qvir kit for HIV/AIDS

Mumbai: Cipla, India's leading pharmaceutical company, launched Qvir, a novel four-drug kit for the treatment of HIV/AID...

August 15, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Indian patent office revokes Pfizer patent

Bangalore: In a blow to pharma giant Pfizer, the Delhi Patent Office has revoked its patent for sunitinib (brand name Su...

October 5, 2012 | Friday | News
Venus' generic antibiotic gets French nod

Singapore: India's fast growing research-based pharmaceutical company, Venus Pharma received marketing authorization (MA...

August 21, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Bayada acquires stake in India Home Health Care

Bangalore: US firm Bayada has acquired 26 percent stake in Chennai-based India Home Health Care (IHHC), according to an ...

September 20, 2013 | Friday | News
BMS gives $1.69 Mn hepatitis grant to India and China

Singapore: The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation has awarded four new grants totaling $1.69 million to improve prevention,...

July 27, 2012 | Friday | News
Mitra Biotech keeps focus on personalized cancer care

Using its proprietary platform technology Oncoprint, India-based Mitra Biotech is developing personalized treatment opti...

March 14, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Biopectrum award winner Novo Informatics brings speed to drug discovery

Novo Informatics is the brainchild of a group of students and researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Generic sodium tablets from Dr. Reddy's, Mylan hit US market

Mumbai: Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, India's leading pharmaceutical company, recently launched Montelukast Sodium Tablets a...

August 8, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Strand CTO: Big data brings big challenges

Our ability to make simultaneous measurements on several tens of thousands of genes or even on the entire DNA in a biolo...

February 19, 2013 | Tuesday | Opinion
Industry Records 11% Growth

Singapore: The bioscience industry in the major markets of Asia-Pacific region, excluding Japan and comprising Australia...

June 22, 2015 | Monday | Analysis
BSA-CMR Survey: New CRO players emerge in APAC

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
LifeCell to soon launch dendritic cell cancer vaccine

Bangalore: LifeCell, one of India's largest stem cell banking companies recently revealed that in addition to facilitati...

December 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Agilent, Trivitron to setup high-end lab in IIT Chennai

Bangalore: Agilent Technologies India and Trivitron Healthcare are going to establish a world class Partner Lab within t...

September 6, 2013 | Friday | News
UN: Child deaths down by half since 1990

Singapore: In 2012, approximately 6.6 million children worldwide, died at the rate of 18,000 per day before reaching the...

September 16, 2013 | Monday | News
Bangalore Nano to be held from Dec 06-07

Bangalore: The Department of information technology (IT), biotechnology (BT) and science and technology (S and T), Gover...

November 23, 2012 | Friday | News
Shasun Pharma, SeQuent enter veterinary JV

Singapore: In an effort to expand into global markets, two Indian companies have inked a deal on veterinary products man...

July 15, 2013 | Monday | News
Pharma sales is getting strong'

Singapore: Despite concerns around declines in R&D, there would be a surge in global sales in the coming years reach...

August 4, 2015 | Tuesday | Analysis
India's FIPB to take up six pharma proposals

Singapore: After approving the Mylan-Strides deal last week, which became one of the biggest foreign investment proposal...

September 13, 2013 | Friday | News
Pipeline for colorectal, prostate cancer

There were more than three million new cancer cases and over two million cancer deaths between 1993 and 2006, in Asia, w...

August 9, 2012 | Thursday | Opinion
DNA sequencing market to grow at 20%: Report

Singapore: Analysis firm Research and Markets predicts the global DNA sequencing equipment and services market to grow a...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Generics take center stage in South East Asia

Singapore: The South East Asian pharmaceuticals industry is forecast to witness a boost to $3.9 billion by 2016. The in...

August 21, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Shimadzu India aims at 15-20% growth

With a view of expanding their customer base, Shimadzu Analytical India has been taking concrete steps towards connectin...

October 29, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
ICRISAT celebrates 40th birthday

Bangalore: The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) held a program in its Patanche...

September 27, 2012 | Thursday | News

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