Top 20 APAC Country Analysis: Korea

India |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 20 Jun, 2015

Singapore: South Korea is the fourth largest contributor to the lifescience market in the region. • Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) stated that medicine exports of th...Read more

Lupin gets FDA nod for anti-depression generic

India |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 14 Sep, 2012

Mumbai: Pharma major, Lupin, announced that its subsidiary Lupin Pharmaceuticals has received final approval for its Escitalopram tablets (Escitalopram oxalate) 5mg, 10mg, and 20mg, from t...Read more

A time to rethink talent management

India |  Opinion | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 29 May, 2012

        Year 2011 was an action-packed-year for HR professionals in Asia Pacific life sciences industry. It tested their skills to keep pace with the high level of investment and ...Read more

ABLE, BioTecNika join hands to develop industry-academy collaboration

India |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 12 Aug, 2013

Singapore: BioTecNika, India's biotechnolgy professional network has joined hands with ABLE - Association of Biotech led enterprises, to develop speedy collaboration between academia and in...Read more

Bangalore Bio: Regulation must enable progress

India |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 06 Feb, 2013

Bangalore: Day two of India's premier biotech event, Bangalore India Bio 2013, saw several eminent individuals discuss on the topic of 'Biosimilar guidelines for development of safe, afford...Read more

Frost & Sullivan awards life science leaders

India |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 01 Oct, 2012

Mumbai: The 4th Annual Frost & Sullivan India Healthcare Excellence Awards 2012, were held in Mumbai to recognize companies that showed innovative growth strategies and solutions in the...Read more

New strategy tests for active TB stage in Asia

India |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 21 Aug, 2013

Singapore: More than 20,000 people in Pakistan are being tested for the potentially deadly stage of tuberculosis using a new strategy developed at UC Davis Health System, US, to effectively...Read more

Ranbaxy may fire 1/3rd of its global sales staff

India |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 24 May, 2013

Singapore: Ranbaxy Laboratories is contemplating on slashing its global sales staff by about a third, with a majority of the job cuts expected to be in the US, according to a report by Busi...Read more

Mazumdar Shaw in Forbes most powerful woman list

India |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 23 Aug, 2012

Bangalore: Dr Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, chairman and managing director, Biocon, has been ranked 80th on Forbes' list of the most powerful women in the world. The list, which is published on an a...Read more

Hiring freeze in pharma industry

India |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 07 Sep, 2012

New Delhi: The overall economic crunch has resulted in companies adopting a cautious approach in their hiring plans. Naukri.com, a major job site in India, in its survey on the pharma secto...Read more

Global nutra market growing at 6.3 percent

India |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 05 Jul, 2014

Singapore: Nutraceutical, a portmanteau of the words "nutrition" and "pharmaceutical", is a food or food product that provides health and medical benefits, including the prevention and trea...Read more

India clears Mylan's $760 mn acquisition deal

India |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 04 Sep, 2013

Singapore: The Indian Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) gave its final clearance to US-based Mylan to acquire Indian company Agila Specialties on September 3. The $760 million ac...Read more

Karnataka to host National Biofuel conference

India |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 19 Feb, 2014

Bangalore: The Karnataka State Biofuel Development Board has announced that the national conference on Biofuels will be held in Bangalore on February 22 this year. The board stressed that t...Read more

India's Orchid Pharma completes debt recast

India |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 07 Jul, 2014

Singapore: Indian company, based in Chennai, Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals has said that it completed the debt recast scheme that it had initiated last year. As per the process, Orc...Read more

IIT Madras, Forus to develop image computing system

India |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 31 May, 2013

Bangalore: The Healthcare Technology Innovation Center (HTIC) at IIT Madras, India, has created Eye-Pac, a computing technology for extracting information from eye images.HTIC is collaborat...Read more

What bioscience trends do the industry leaders predict for 2013?

India |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 03 Jan, 2013

The bioscience industry is about to step into 2013 and the year is predicted to unfold with new opportunities and trends that were so far just talk in the laboratories. First and foremost, ...Read more

Siro deploys Oracle's Health Sciences InForm

India |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 03 Dec, 2012

Singapore: Siro Clinpharm, a leading full service clinical research organization, has deployed one-of-the-biggest IT advancement projects in the Asia Pacific region, Oracle Health Sciences...Read more

ABLE calls entries for innovation awards

India |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 24 Dec, 2012

Singapore: The executive council of the Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises (ABLE), the apex body of the biotech sector in India, announced that entries for its prestigious biotec...Read more