Taiwan's ITRI showcases biomedical innovations

Singapore: Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) celebrated BIO Day on August 30th with a focus on pe...

September 1, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan's MOHW launches biomedicine promotion website

Singapore: Taiwan's Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) has launched a new website introducing the country's top biote...

July 22, 2015 | Wednesday | News
TWi Pharma launches generic version of appetite loss drug

Singapore: Taiwan based TWi Pharmaceuticals, has launched generic version of Par Pharmaceutical's Megace ES (megestrol a...

July 29, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan, Asian nations ink deal to promote biotech sector

Singapore: At a recent ceremony held at the Taipei World Trade Center's Nangang Exhibition Hall, New Taipei-A city in Ta...

July 27, 2015 | Monday | News
Streamlined clinical trials regulations will boost pharmaceutical investment in Taiwan

Singapore: Taiwan will remain a key destination for clinical trials due to the government's efforts to augment the count...

October 11, 2015 | Sunday | Opinion
Taiwan market forecast

Singapore: Pricing and reimbursement will remain a challenge for pharmaceutical firms operating in Taiwan. The turnaroun...

January 19, 2016 | Tuesday | Opinion
Bayer HealthCare clocks 14.9% rise in APAC Pharma biz

Singapore: Bayer HealthCare has recorded sales hike of 14.9 percent to USD 4171 million (EUR 3016 million) in 2013 for i...

March 25, 2014 | Tuesday | News
SHL invests $40 mn in production facilities

Singapore: Taiwan-based drug delivery firm, SHL is planning to expand its production facilities with an investment of $4...

February 22, 2013 | Friday | News
PharmaEngine files NDA for metastatic cancer drug

Singapore: Taiwan's PharmaEngine has filed a New Drug Application (NDA) to the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA...

June 2, 2015 | Tuesday | News
PharmaEngine gets TFDA nod for pancreatic cancer drug

Singapore: Taiwan based PharmaEngine has recieved Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) approval of the product lic...

March 7, 2016 | Monday | Regulatory
Taiwan on high alert as MERS spreads in Asia

Singapore: In a bid to prevent the deadly MERS virus from entering its borders, the Taipei Public Health Department (TPH...

June 24, 2015 | Wednesday | News
QPS to deploy preclinical data management system, Pristima Suite

Singapore: QPS Taiwan, a global preclinical toxicology services provider, has been selected to deploy Pristima Suite, w...

October 3, 2012 | Wednesday | News
TWi's drug gets rare disease drug designation in Taiwan

Singapore: Taiwan based TWi Pharmaceutical's drug candidate AC-203 has received designation of rare disease drug by Taiw...

March 11, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan, US univ implant heart pump on baby cow

Singapore: The Heart Science and Medical Devices Research Center, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (NCKU HSDMRC),...

October 30, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Sale of wound care devices spurs in Asia-Pacific: Frost & Sullivan analysis report

Singapore: Advanced wound care and modern wound closure products are gaining an edge over traditional wound dressings in...

September 4, 2013 | Wednesday | News
TaiGen initiates clinical trial of leukemia drug in China

Singapore: Taiwan's TaiGen Biotechnology has initiated first burixafor trial for relapsed or refractory acute myeloid le...

May 4, 2015 | Monday | News
ScinoPharm, Foresee form joint venture

Singapore: Taiwanese company ScinoPharm and US-based Foresee Pharmaceuticals have signed an investment agreement to form...

February 1, 2013 | Friday | News
Genovate biotech to invest $1bn in China

Singapore: Genovate Biotechnology, Taiwan based pharmaceutical company, has started the construction of phase I of its I...

September 28, 2015 | Monday | News
Asia's largest medicare show opens in Taipei

Taipei: Asia's largest medicare show opened in Taipei, Taiwan, with a crisp opening ceremony showcasing nine of the indi...

June 14, 2012 | Thursday | News
Taiwan firm develops nano-medication to inhibit HIV replication

Singapore: Lorati, a Taiwan-based biotechnology and skincare company, has developed nano-medication to inhibit HIV-1 vir...

July 15, 2015 | Wednesday | News
New breakthrough in dementia research

Singapore: Researchers at the Taipei-based Academia Sinica announced that they have discovered a new molecule that aids ...

September 18, 2014 | Thursday | News
Vaccine of the future: Virus-like particles to trigger body's defence

Virus-like particles (VLPs) are among the most exciting emerging vaccine technologies for generating effective and long-...

July 11, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
OxOnc, Pfizer drug trial to be held in Asia

Singapore: OxOnc Development, an oncology development company founded by pharmaceutical development executives and oncol...

February 11, 2013 | Monday | News
TLC expanding to China, Japan

Taiwan Liposome Company is a specialty pharmaceutical company with a proprietary drug delivery technologies based on a l...

August 6, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
Dengue cases soar in Southern Taiwan

Singapore: With the number of dengue cases in Southern Taiwan escalating quickly, the country's Centers for Disease Cont...

August 4, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Aslan recieves Singapore, Taiwan nod for Ph II trial of bile duct cancer drug

Singapore: Singapore based ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company focused on the development of immunotherapies and ta...

September 23, 2015 | Wednesday | News
A re-think on site staff competency training required

When drugs are trialed in patients, they move into a clinical setting in which the busy routine care of patients, rath...

September 5, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion
Start-up landscape in Southeast Asia

Singapore: The findings are surprising, mentions BVGH, as often it is the big pharmaceutical companies that invest larg...

April 30, 2015 | Thursday | Analysis
TWi Biotechnology completes phase II study of AC-201

Singapore: TWi Biotechnology, the wholly owned subsidiary of Taiwan-based TWi Pharmaceuticals, has completed a multinati...

August 29, 2012 | Wednesday | News
New stress-tolerant super enzyme found in Taiwan springs

Singapore: A research team from Institute of Biological Chemistry of Academia Sinica, led by associate research fellow D...

August 5, 2013 | Monday | News
Taiwan, China firms to develop novel cancer molecule

Singapore: Taiwan-based GNT Biotech has got exclusive license from China-based Shenzhen Chipscreen Biosciences for the d...

October 10, 2013 | Thursday | News
Bio Taiwan 2013 registers 1,200 exhibitors already

Singapore: Bio Taiwan 2013, Taiwan's largest annual biotech event, which is to be held at TWTC Nangang Exhibition Center...

May 17, 2013 | Friday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: Asian CROs optimistic in a gloomy pharma market

Over the past four years, BioSpectrum Asia in association with CyberMedia Research (CMR) has been capturing the key br...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
PAREXEL Academy conducts clinical research talent development roundtable in Taiwan

Singapore: PAREXEL and PAREXEL Academy hosted a Key Opinion Leaders (KOL) roundtable in Taipei, Taiwan on November 23, 2...

March 11, 2016 | Friday | News
JHL Biotech raises $45.6 million

Singapore: Taiwan-based JHL Biotech, an emerging biopharmaceutical company, has succesfully closed a fundraising of $45....

May 12, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan sets up health information system in West Indies

Singapore: In a bid to improve healthcare in the Carribean country, Taiwan has helped its ally, St Kitts and Nevis to se...

February 18, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Hong Kong to host international TCM exhibition, conference

Singapore: Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and Modernized Chinese Medicine International Association (MCMIA ...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
Vita platform propels genomics research

The pharmacogenetics testing is a new and powerful tool in medical application. Scientists combine genomic data, pharmac...

April 12, 2012 | Thursday | News
Taiwan body, JoBen partner for anticancer drugs

Singapore: The Development Center for Biotechnology (DCB) and JoBen Bio-Medical in Taiwan have signed a licensing and co...

December 4, 2012 | Tuesday | News
URMC launches new heart device trial in Asia

Singapore: Cardiologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center, US, are launching a new study in an effort to im...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan FDA unveils new list of tainted drugs

Singapore: The Taiwan Food and Drug Administration has revealed yet another list of drugs for product warnings and recal...

April 20, 2015 | Monday | News
Biochips market to be worth $11.4 bn by 2018

Singapore: A recent report released by RnRMarketResearch.com has analyzed the Global Biochips Industry and forecasted th...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan govt inaugurates country's third biotech park

Singapore: Underscoring the Taiwan government's determination to foster biotechnology and fast-track the development of ...

December 19, 2014 | Friday | News
Foxconn expands, forays into healthcare

Singapore: If reports are to be believed, electronic giant Foxconn is teaming up with US-based Varian Medical Systems to...

April 16, 2015 | Thursday | News
HIV patients can soon donate organs

Singapore: HIV patients can soon be potential organ donors with the Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare Chief (MHW) an...

August 28, 2014 | Thursday | News
Kong Yen Biotech apologizes for the use of tainted oil

Singapore: Taiwan-based Kong Yen Biotech has apologized to its customers acknowledging the use of tainted oil in manufac...

September 9, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Exlites launches e-commerce website with core products

Singapore: Exlites Holdings launched its new online e-commerce website. The new website will be a convenient way for pat...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan's TWi to independently hit the US market

Singapore: Taiwan-based TWi Pharmaceuticals has decided to sell its products in the US market through its own US subsidi...

February 26, 2015 | Thursday | News
Taiwan researchers solve aging mystery

Singapore: A study conducted by a transnational research team at the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan, has ...

March 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Tobacco prevalence in Asia raising death toll

Singapore: According to a study in PLOS Medicine, by Prof Wei Zheng, professor of Medicine and director of the Vanderbil...

June 17, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Impax to acquire two pharma companies

Singapore: Impax Laboratories announced that it has agreed to buy private pharmaceutical companies Tower Holdings Inc an...

October 10, 2014 | Friday | News
SHL, Taipei university sign MoU to start Swiss apprentice program

Singapore: Taiwan-based drug delivery company, SHL, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Taipei ...

September 3, 2012 | Monday | News
Taiwan accuses FDA of fallacious GM foods ad

Singapore: While consumers are demanding food companies to specify the genetically modified ingredients of the food, the...

June 27, 2014 | Friday | News
UK based Ergomed opens drug development services centre in Taiwan

Singapore: UK-based Ergomed providing specialised services to the pharmaceutical industry and the development of new dru...

April 3, 2015 | Friday | News
Taiwan firm gets FDA nod for ph II trial of gout drug

Singapore: Taiwan based TWi Pharmaceuticals has received US FDA and Taiwan FDA approval of a protocol for a Phase II cli...

December 15, 2014 | Monday | News
Taiwan seeks to attract global investors

Singapore: BioBusiness Asia concluded in Taiwan on July 18, 2013, with a message that the global biotech fraternity need...

July 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Taipei firm to offer aerial medical tours

Singapore: Taipei-based healthcare company, Show 101 Royal Health Care, announced its partnership with Aerospace Industr...

July 2, 2014 | Wednesday | News
ITC enters consent decree against Apex on ResMed request

Singapore: A US government investigation started at the request of ResMed against Taiwanese manufacturer Apex Medical ha...

July 19, 2013 | Friday | News
Taiwan invents 'Smart tooth' to track smoking, drinking

Singapore: Researchers at the National University of Taiwan have developed a new 'smart tooth' that monitors an individu...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Three new avian flu viral strains detected in Taiwan

Singapore: Amid sporadic avian flu cases still surfacing in Asia, a new strain H5N3 has been now identified by the Taiwa...

January 21, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Ssu Cheng Biotech inks a pact with Taiwan COA

Singapore: Taiwan-based Ssu Cheng Biotech has signed an exclusive agreement with the Council of Agriculture (COA) in Tai...

October 16, 2014 | Thursday | News
Taiwan-China to collaborate on new drug discovery

Singapore: The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) recently announced that Taiwan and China have reached a concrete consensus...

September 5, 2014 | Friday | News
ScinoPharm's revenue falls flat in 2014

Singapore: Taiwan-based biopharmaceutical firm, ScinoPharm, had a sluggish revenue in 2014, generated $135 million (unau...

February 4, 2015 | Wednesday | Company results
Taiwanese children more prone to liver tumors

Singapore: Scientists at the Division of Hematology and Oncology of Taipei Veterans General Hospital's Department of Ped...

August 19, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan foundation announces biotech awards

Singapore: The Taiwan Bio-Development Foundation, a non-profit organization that focuses to develop the nation's biotech...

December 22, 2014 | Monday | News
Taiwan to adopt 11 healthcare facilites in Sierra Leone

Singapore: In a bid to improve healthcare facilities in Sierra Leone, the Taiwan-based Buddhist Tzu chi Foundation has o...

April 6, 2015 | Monday | News
Novartis drug-A game changer for COPD

Singapore: A study presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress at Munich, Germany, by Novartis highlighted th...

September 8, 2014 | Monday | News
TWi completes patient enrollment for gout trial

Singapore: Taiwan-based TWi Biotechnology, has completed the patient enrollment in a phase II trial of AC-201 for Gout F...

June 21, 2013 | Friday | News
Taiwan's PharmEngine initiates clinical trial of chemotherapy drug

Singapore: Taiwan's PharmaEngine licensing partner, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, and its sublicensing partner, Baxter Inte...

May 5, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Waters partners with Taiwan org to establish innovation center

Singapore: Taipei's Chang Gung University (CGU)recently held a ceremony as it has been chosen as an innovation partner i...

June 19, 2015 | Friday | News
Taiwan's PharmaEngine gets TFDA nod for cancer drug

Singapore: Taiwan's PharmaEngine has recieved Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) approval for ONIVYDE (irinoteca...

October 23, 2015 | Friday | News
TWi appoints new CEO to boost US market

Singapore: Taiwan based TWi Pharmaceuticals has appointed Ms Tina Guilder as President and CEO and Ms Eva Ho as CFO to s...

March 9, 2015 | Monday | News
Taiwanese urge for Orphan Drug Act

Singapore: The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) made an appeal to the Taiwan government, calling for the speedy passage o...

September 1, 2014 | Monday | News
Taiwan offers best medical services: Survey

Singapore: According to a recent survey, Taiwan offers the best and cheapest medical facilities for expatriates across t...

October 31, 2014 | Friday | News
NCKU Taiwan, Fujistu Taiwan ink a pact to establish cloud computing platform

Singapore: Japan-based technology giant Fujitsu Taiwan and Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) have signed a ...

August 14, 2014 | Thursday | News
Finally, Impax's Parkinson's drug gets FDA approval

Singapore: After years of rejecting approval for Impax's flagship drug Rytary, a treatment for Parkinson's disease, the ...

January 12, 2015 | Monday | News
Adimmune, Valneva join hands for JE vaccines

Singapore: Taiwan based drug maker Adimunne Corp announced that it had partnered with Valneva SE, France-based vaccine m...

August 14, 2014 | Thursday | News
Taiwan to develop cancer drug with target delivery

Singapore: US-based Molecular Targeting Technologies (MTTI) and National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) of Taiwan hav...

August 5, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Vectorite, Grandhope Biotech ink a deal

Singapore: Vectorite Biomedicals,a Taiwan based firm announced that it had signed a technology transfer agreement worth ...

July 1, 2014 | Tuesday | News
TaiGen, Russian firm to co-develop antibiotic

Singapore: Taiwan based TaiGen Biotechnology has collaborated with R-Pharm, a Russian pharmaceutical company, to develop...

January 21, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Tech drive demand for 3D medical imaging

Singapore: Global Industry Analysts (GIA) announces the release of a comprehensive global report on 3D medical imaging m...

July 12, 2013 | Friday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: CROs hopeful despite stifled growth

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
How to get your drug registered in Asia Pacific?

The life science industry in Asia Pacific (APAC) countries presents a plethora of opportunities for businesses that are ...

September 25, 2012 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Taipei mayoral candidate urge for free cervical cancer vaccines

Singapore: Mr Sean Lien, the ruling Kuomintang's (KMT's) candidate for Taipei mayor, has urged the Taiwan government to ...

November 4, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Slash ribosome subunits to halt hep C virus spread

Singapore: A research team led by Dr Michael M C Lai of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Dr Tien-Hsien Chang of th...

September 24, 2012 | Monday | News
BDSI gets nod for cancer drug in Taiwan

Singapore: BioDelivery Sciences International (BDSI) received regulatory approval for Onsolis in Taiwan for the manageme...

July 31, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Top 20: TAIWAN - Records 1 Percent Growth

Taiwan has a 3 percent share in the bioscience market of the Asia-Pacific region. The top three companies in Taiwan d...

July 8, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
Globalization, demography drive APAC healthcare industry

Singapore: The healthcare industry in Asia Pacific (APAC) is rapidly growing, fuelled by increased spending on health, l...

July 27, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Taiwan pharma market may touch $8.4 bn by 2020'

Singapore: Taiwan's pharmaceutical market will expand in value from USD5.4 billion in 2013 to reach approximately USD8.4...

July 16, 2015 | Thursday | Analysis
BSD Medical signs deal to expand in Taiwan

Singapore: BSD Medical, a provider of medical systems that utilize heat therapy to treat cancer, has signed an exclusiv...

March 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
Great plans pave way for BIOTaiwan opening

Taipei, Taiwan: With the two-day BioBusiness Asia conference (BBA) leading the way, Taipei's annual festival that brings...

July 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Regulatory mechanisms of bacterial protein secretion found

Singapore: A research team led by Dr Erh-Min Lai, an associate research fellow at the Institute of Plant and Microbial B...

October 29, 2012 | Monday | News
ScinoPharm to develop Regadenoson for China

Singapore: Taiwan-based ScinoPharm and China-based Nanjing King-friend Biochemical Pharmaceutical have entered into a co...

November 12, 2014 | Wednesday | News
MTTI, Taiwan NHRI to develop novel cancer drugs

Singapore: Molecular Targeting Technologies, (MTTI) announced that it had inked a deal with Taiwan's National Health Res...

August 7, 2014 | Thursday | News
Taiwan govt to step up efforts to combat dengue

Singapore: As dengue continues to wreak havoc in Taiwan, the country's government has decided to further heighten effort...

September 2, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan's medtech market to touch $3.1bn by 2020

Singapore: Driven by aging population and universal healthcare system, Taiwan's medical devices market value is expected...

August 7, 2014 | Thursday | News
Taiho terminates oranitib Ph III trial

Singapore: Faced with disappointing results, Japan's large drugmaker, Taiho Pharmaceutical has said that it is terminati...

August 5, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan scientists awarded for novel drug discovery

Singapore: In a grand ceremony held at the National Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, two professors Mr Tasuku Honjo ...

September 25, 2014 | Thursday | News
Taiwan to form Ebola response teams

Singapore: In wake of new Ebola cases cropping up in the US and Spain, Taiwan health officials have declared that the co...

October 8, 2014 | Wednesday | News
ScinoPharm collaborates with Raffles PharmaTech

Singapore: Taiwan-based ScinoPharm has entered into a strategic collaboration with Raffles PharmaTech to manufacture "Ce...

June 23, 2015 | Tuesday | News

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