Firms to look at emerging markets for first approval

Burrill & Company (B&C), a global financial services firm focused on the life sciences industry, is increasingly...

June 8, 2012 | Friday | Influencers
Biocon chief gets 'Mazumdar Drive' in Aussie University

Singapore: Ms Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, chairperson, Biocon has been honoured by Federation University Australia (FedUni) by ...

March 9, 2015 | Monday | Influencers
German firm buys $200 mn stake in Indian generic company

Singapore: Gland Pharma, a leading Indian pure-play generic injectable pharmaceutical products company, has signed an ag...

November 28, 2013 | Thursday | News
UST Global, Blackberry launch a telemedicine app

Singapore: UST global, in collaboration with Blackberry, has launched an advance telemedicine application that offers ru...

October 1, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Venus inks pact with Mylan

Singapore: Venus Remedies has announced that it has entered into distribution-cum-licensing agreement with Mylan for mar...

September 12, 2014 | Friday | News
FDA to review Pfizer's meningococcal disease drug

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical firm, Pfizer, has recieved US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) nod for review of Biol...

August 15, 2014 | Friday | Regulatory
Developing countries need to build HIV research pool: NIH

Singapore: National Institutes of Health (NIH) recommends that scientists and physicians in low and middle income countr...

August 15, 2014 | Friday | News
EU, too, bans Ranbaxy's injectable antibiotic

Singapore: Mounting more problems for the Indian drug maker Ranbaxy, the Europe Union has also issued a ban on Ranbaxy's...

December 5, 2014 | Friday | News
Nichi-In to halt Dendriatic cell cancer vaccine

Singapore: India's Chennai-based Nichi-In Center for Regenerative Medicine has been asked by the DCGI to stop selling th...

September 12, 2014 | Friday | Regulatory
Mr Nitin Sawant, Trivitron: Healthcare will propel towards preventive medicine in 2013

Until recently, diagnostics tests were being used more for diagnosis and management of disease as healthcare was more fo...

December 26, 2012 | Wednesday | Opinion
International Society of Cell Therapy appoints Dr Anish Majumdar as VP-Elect for Asia

Singapore: Dr Anish S Majumdar, chief scientific officer and Executive VP at India based Stempeutics Research, is electe...

March 20, 2015 | Friday | Influencers
Cells that undergo nuclear transfer can live forever, says Nobel winner

Sir John Gurdon, the 2012 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine, says that all cells in the body are made up of a...

March 12, 2014 | Wednesday | Influencers
India's pharma export growth slowest in 15 years

Singapore: The Indian pharmaceutical industry exports have registered slowest growth in at least 15 years, a news report...

April 25, 2014 | Friday | News
Indian-origin doctor gets Order of Australia medal

Singapore: Professor Ajay Rane, Townsville hospital's director of urogynecology and James Cook University professor, who...

February 7, 2013 | Thursday | Influencers
US FDA nod for Zydus Cadila's Acyclovir

Singapore: The highest regulatory body has approved Zydus Cadila's anti-viral drug, Acyclovir. The company can now go ah...

August 31, 2014 | Sunday | Regulatory
India medical devices market to touch $11 bn by 2023

Bangalore: The Indian medical devices market is expected to be worth $11 billion by 2023. According to a report by visio...

December 3, 2012 | Monday | News
Biocon: A nesting ground for biotech spinoffs

It has added one more feather to its cap by being the nesting ground to churn out new start-ups. It is an informal incub...

May 16, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
FAPA: Indian pharma to fatten in biosimilars era

Singapore: The Federation of Asian Pharmaceuticals Association (FAPA) said that the upcoming patent cliff will be advant...

August 14, 2014 | Thursday | News