BioTaiwan 2014: Business and biotech evolves

As is true to the nature of this island state, its annual biotech event - BioTaiwan 2014 too, left no stone unturned in ...

August 4, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
Demand for generics in Asia is drawing pharma majors

The clinical trials market in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region has been steadily growing with increased focus primarily on...

September 14, 2012 | Friday | Opinion
Taiwan to step up food safety, disease control measures

Singapore: Taiwan's new health minister Mr Chiang Been-huang recently said that his major priority would be to improve f...

October 23, 2014 | Thursday | News
Genovate, ScinoPharm co-develop Hep B Drug

Singapore: Taiwan based Genovate Biotechnology and ScinoPharm have jointly developed the highly potent oral generic drug...

November 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
Taiwan finds genetic marker for pancreatic cancer

Singapore: Scientists at the National Health Research Institute of Taiwan have discovered genetic markers that can predi...

October 30, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Biotechnology, medicine is Taiwan's next star industry

Singapore: Taiwan is striving to elevate its biotechnology and medicine industry with a combined support from both the p...

September 4, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
DaVita to provide dialysis services in Taiwan

Singapore: DaVita, the kidney care division of US-based DaVita HealthCare Partners and a leading provider of kidney care...

January 21, 2013 | Monday | News
Researchers prove hypothesis in population genetics

Singapore: A research team led by Dr Jun-Yi Leu, an associate research fellow at the Institute of Molecular Biology in T...

September 20, 2012 | Thursday | News
H7N9 strikes again: Taiwan CDC

Singapore: The Center for Disease control Taipei has reported two laboratory confirmed cases of H7N9 human infection. Wi...

July 2, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan FDA nods Ph II trial of Hep C drug

Singapore: China based Ascletis has received Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) approval to start phase II clini...

September 2, 2015 | Wednesday | News
CRO survey: India, China dominate market

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November 24, 2012 | Saturday | Analysis
Siemens inks MoU with Taiwan's Yuanpei University

Singapore: In a bid to improve and promote industry academic partnerships, Taiwan's Yuanpei University has inked a Memor...

July 7, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan CDC issues travel 'alert' to West Africa

Singapore: Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (CDC) warned that Taiwanese should avoid unnecessary travel to West Afri...

July 30, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Liposome to begin phase-II trials for its cancer drug

Singapore: Taiwan-based drugmaker, Liposome announced that it had received approval from the Chinese government to begin...

September 16, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Doctors to be sent to Nigeria to assist Taiwan nationals

Singapore: The Taiwan Center for Disease Control (CDC) has announced that a team of physicians will be sent to Nigeria, ...

August 26, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan hospital operator convicted on fraud charges

Singapore: Following reports that a hospital operator in Changhua County, Taiwan was convicted for alleged defrauding, t...

September 29, 2014 | Monday | News
Taiwan steps up rabies surveillance

Singapore: In wake of the nation's first rabies vaccine infection reported in an animal this year, the Taiwan Center for...

January 1, 2015 | Thursday | News
Taiwan researchers find link between obesity and arterial stiffness

Singapore: According to a recent research at Taiwan based National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), obesity leads to a redu...

December 29, 2014 | Monday | News
FDA flags GMP issues at Impax's Taiwan facility

Singapore: Regulatory hurdles continue to haunt Impax Laboratories and its experimental drug, Rytary, that treats idiopa...

July 31, 2014 | Thursday | News
Asia bioscience grows 11 percent, crosses $150 bn

During the year 2012, the bioscience industry in the Asia Pacific region clocked $154.40 billion in revenues, recording ...

June 21, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
TWi Pharma's CEO to step down

Singapore: President and CEO of Taiwan's TWi Pharmaceuticals, Ms Tina Guilder, has decided to resign from her current ro...

August 31, 2015 | Monday | Company results
China, Taiwan call for deeper pharma ties

Singapore: Pharma companies from China and Taiwan have recently convened a forum, co-organized by the Taiwan-based Insti...

November 12, 2014 | Wednesday | News
FDA's call on Rytary delayed by 3 months

Singapore: Impax laboratories in Taiwan recently announced that FDA had delayed its decision on Rytary, the first non-ge...

September 18, 2014 | Thursday | News
Sanofi Taiwan recalls one lot of Thymoglobulin

Singapore: Sanofi-aventis Taiwan has recalled one lot of Thymoglobulin (Antithymocyte immunoglobulin of rabbit origin), ...

September 7, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
Taipei to enhance regulatory knowledge on wearables

Singapore: As the medical device companies are bringing innovation in wearable devices, getting through regulation and s...

September 18, 2014 | Thursday | Regulatory
Beximco pharma receives TFDA approval

Singapore: Beximco pharmaceuticals, a Bangladeshi pharma giant announced that it had received Good Manufacturing Practic...

July 4, 2014 | Friday | News
Milestones in drug delivery technology in Asia

In 2007, Dabur Pharma, one of India's leading manufacturers of anti-cancer drugs, launched Nanoxel, a novel drug deliver...

March 14, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Auto injector company SHL hires over 600 employees

Singapore: In response to increased customer orders and the signing of long-term contracts, Taiwan-based SHL has hired m...

August 1, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Biohit taps Taiwan market for its Acetium capsules

Singapore: Biohit Oyj a global Finnish company has signed a distribution agreement with Giraffes Pharmaceutical, Taiwan....

July 7, 2014 | Monday | News
PAREXEL inks services deal with Taiwan hospital

Singapore: Taiwan's PAREXEL International, a biopharmaceutical services provider, and National Taiwan University Hospita...

November 28, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan's new medical image visualization tech

Singapore: Advanced imaging technology developed by an Republic of China academic is expected to foster greater global c...

June 21, 2013 | Friday | News
BioTaiwan 2014 to be held in Taipei

Singapore: BioTaiwan 2014 the major venue for promoting regional strengths and opportunities in biotech, is all set to b...

June 4, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan researchers develop transgenic zebrafish model

Singapore: Researchers at the Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology (ICOB) in Taiwan, working with collaborators ...

August 16, 2012 | Thursday | News
Taiwan identifies focus areas for medical devices industry

Singapore: Taiwan has pinpointed five focus areas to boost its medical devices industry. The industry, which generated n...

November 5, 2012 | Monday | News
Probi to launch health products in Taiwan with Alvogen

Singapore: Probi has signed a distribution agreement with Alvogen IPCO, a multinational pharmaceutical company, to launc...

July 9, 2012 | Monday | News
NCKU, Novo Nordisk sign research and license agreements

Singapore: A southern Taiwan-based National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) research team led by Ming-Shi Chang, NCKU profe...

May 16, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Academia Sinica showcases latest discoveries

Singapore: The Office of Public Affairs, Academia Sinica, held an event to present the outcomes of the latest discoverie...

June 6, 2013 | Thursday | News
Taiwan research centre to develop dengue vaccine with Janssen

Singapore: BRIM Biotechnology has collaborated with Janssen Pharmaceutica to pursue research, development and commercial...

June 15, 2015 | Monday | News
Taiwan grants trademark protection to MediPurpose

Singapore: MediPurpose, a medical product manufacturer and master distributor, has received trademark protection in Taiw...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | News
Taiwan gets first-of-its-kind cancer device

Singapore: Doctors at the Cheng Ching General Hospital, Taiwan, are treating liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) wit...

October 16, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan pharma industry to be $4.8 bn by 2020: GlobalData

Singapore: Although a challenge for the national government, a growing aging population combined with the country's univ...

September 3, 2012 | Monday | News
SHL grows to 2000 employees in Taiwan

Singapore: SHL, Taiwan based designer, developer and manufacturer of advanced drug delivery devices, has touched 2,000 e...

October 8, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Which domain of clinical research do APAC CROs focus on?

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
TCC's ExAblate procedure for cancer treatment

Singapore: Taipei Cancer Center (TCC) announced that it would be offering a new non-invasive procedure to treat patients...

July 9, 2014 | Wednesday | News
TaiMed Biologics taps on humanized mAb for HIV therapy

Publicly-held biotech company TaiMed Biologics was set up in 2007 with the mission to discover, develop and deliver inno...

March 14, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Scientists make historic discovery about corals

Singapore: An international research team has discovered that a species of coral called Stylophora pistillata is in fact...

April 19, 2013 | Friday | News
Taiwan scientists discover vaccinia protein structure

Singapore: Scientists at Academia Sinica have solved the crystal structure of a vaccinia envelope A27 protein and showed...

August 27, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Tekon is Ion Field's new distributor

Singapore: IonField Systems (IonField), the pioneer in plasma cleaning treatment for life science applications, has sel...

January 14, 2013 | Monday | News
Taiwan pharma firm gets US patent for glucose drug

Singapore: Taiwan-based TWi Pharmaceuticals has received US patent allowance for its metformin controlled release formul...

July 17, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Ultra-fast DNA sequencer to detect bird flu

Singapore: A team of scientists from the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu City, Taiwan, developed a rapid,...

May 9, 2013 | Thursday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: Oncology is the top therapeutic focus area for CROs in APAC

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Center to promote organic crops in Taiwan

Singapore: A Refined Agriculture and Biological Resources Research Center has been set up at National Cheng Kung Univers...

May 23, 2012 | Wednesday | News
SHL, Schreiner partner to make custom sample labels

Singapore: Taiwan's drug delivery technology firm, SHL, has partnered with Germany-based Schreiner MediPharm to develop ...

August 19, 2013 | Monday | News
Taiwan hosts global wound repair symposium

Singapore: National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Taiwan hosted International Symposium on Wound Repair and Regenerati...

October 18, 2013 | Friday | News
Afatinib proves efficacy in lung cancer treatment

Singapore: The LUX-Lung 3 Phase III results showed that lung cancer patients taking the novel compound afatinib, an irre...

June 5, 2012 | Tuesday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: India, China lead in APAC CRO sector

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Yaskawa Electric invests in ReWalk exoskeleton

Singapore: Israel-based ARGO Medical Technologies has partnered with innovative robotics experts Yaskawa Electric, Japan...

October 3, 2013 | Thursday | News
What's with the medtech registration scenario in Taiwan?

Taiwan is a major economic player in the domain of electronics, information and communication technology, and is also co...

April 19, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
Taiwan researchers find cause of Lou Gehrig's disease

Singapore: A research team led by Dr C K James Shen, a research fellow at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Taiwan, ha...

August 22, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Policy reforms boost biotech talent pool

Reforms in government policies and initiatives have helped in setting focus for bioscience companies, which has resulted...

May 25, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Genesis Genetics is GVK Bio distributor in Taiwan

Hyderabad: GVK Biosciences has selected Genesis Genetics Asia (GGA) as its distributor for its informatics database pro...

February 27, 2013 | Wednesday | News
GE installs biomanufacturing platform in Taiwan

Singapore: GE Healthcare has installed its FlexFactory biomanufacturing platform at JHL Biotech's Research Center and ma...

December 3, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Exlites eyes more medtech deals from China, Taiwan, Japan

Singapore: Exlites Holdings from the US has entered into an agreement with a company that will source new cutting edge m...

August 13, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Optimer Pharma to sell stakes in Taiwan affiliate

Singapore: Global biopharmaceutical company Optimer Pharmaceuticals will sell its stake in Taiwan-based Optimer Biotech...

October 9, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan researchers tweak yeast gene to produce ethanol

Singapore: A research group in Taiwan led by academician Wen-Hsiung Li, distinguished research fellow and director of th...

August 15, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Academia Sinica fellows elected members of TWAS

Singapore: Three Academia Sinica academicians from the field of life sciences have been elected to the Academy of Scienc...

September 26, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
Eurofins acquires Pan Labs unit to expand

Singapore: Eurofins Scientific, which provides analytical support to the global pharmaceutical market, has signed an agr...

September 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News
What is the revenue size, range of CROs in APAC?

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Stretchable ROM leg Immobilizer Pro

Company: I-Ming Sanitary Materials Dimension: 20x57-72 cmWeight: 1.07kg OH-752 adjustable length knee ROM splint is de...

June 14, 2012 | Thursday | News
ScinoPharm clocks $167 mn in 2013

Singapore: ScinoPharm, Taiwan-based active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) specialty company, has clocked $167.60 millio...

February 17, 2014 | Monday | Company results
PharmaEssentia acquires rights to Kinex inhibitor

Singapore: US-based Kinex Pharmaceuticals and PharmaEssentia have entered a licensing agreement granting the Taiwanese ...

December 6, 2012 | Thursday | News
Taiwan univ, Quanta unveil cloud solution for neonatal care

Singapore: National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) of Taiwan has collaborated with Quanta Computer to launch a cloud solut...

May 29, 2013 | Wednesday | News
H7N9 bird flu spreads from China to Taiwan

Singapore: One laboratory-confirmed case of human infection with the virus has been reported by the Taipei Centres for D...

April 26, 2013 | Friday | News
TaiGen files NDA for Nemonoxacin in Taiwan, China

Singapore: Taiwan's TaiGen Biotechnology has submitted New Drug Application (NDA) for the oral formulation of nemonoxaci...

May 16, 2013 | Thursday | News
Tensys, Zhejiang sign patient monitoring system deal

Singapore: Tensys Medical, a leader in the development and commercialization of continuous, non-invasive hemodynamic pa...

February 11, 2013 | Monday | News
Takeda R&D filed 7 NDAs in the last 8 months

Singapore: Takeda Global Research and Development, a wholly owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical, has filed seven n...

October 5, 2012 | Friday | News
BS Survey: Healthcare is getting smarter in Asia

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November 30, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Swissray to invest over $20 million in Taiwan

Singapore: Swissray International, a major developer and maker of medical imaging equipment headquartered in Switzerland...

November 22, 2012 | Thursday | News
Taiwan FDA's new fast-track review process attracts more trials

The loss of patents on the last generation of blockbuster products has forced multinational pharmaceutical companies t...

September 13, 2013 | Friday | Opinion
Medigen shows the way to low cost vaccine production

At a time when there is a need to reduce the cost of vaccination and meet the huge demand, Taiwan-based Medigen has show...

July 13, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Taiwan develops new vaccine against EV 71

Singgapore: Taiwanese researchers have claimed that they have developed a new vaccine against Enterovirus 71 (EV 71). Ta...

August 10, 2012 | Friday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: APAC CROs stick to an average of 50 clients

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
US FDA finds cGMP violation at Taiwan facility

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning letter to Taiwan Three Mast Pharmaceutical aft...

January 11, 2013 | Friday | News
ScinoPharm ready with $113 mn unit in China

Singapore: Taiwan's leading maker of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) has announced that the construction of its...

December 13, 2013 | Friday | News
ITRI biomed lab working with China on guidelines

Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has one of the largest medical technology and device research l...

December 17, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
What services do APAC CROs offer to their clients?

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Taiwan's residents to get flu vaccinations

Singapore: As the current flu season reaches its peak in Taiwan, residents of the Changhua County have been told by the ...

March 3, 2014 | Monday | News
India, Taiwan set up funds to boost investments

Countries in Asia are pushing policies to attract investments. India has taken many steps to encourage investments and t...

June 28, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Excess plasticizers in body ups breast cancer risk'

Singapore: Taiwanese scientists have revealed that overexposure to plasticizers doubled the risk of a women contracting ...

July 21, 2014 | Monday | News
WuXi Pharma to manufacture Ibalizumab for TaiMed

Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech entered into a contract manufacturing agreement with TaiMed Biologics for the manufacture of...

August 29, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Pharmigene leads in adverse drug reaction tests

Treatment of Pompe disease, an inherited disorder caused by build-up of a complex sugar called glycogen in the body's ce...

March 16, 2012 | Friday | Opinion
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
Right partner is key to combination products

Extensive project management expertise and logistical control know-how are obviously required when working on a combinat...

December 11, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
Events gala in Taiwan for medical devices industry

Singapore: Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA), Department of Health, Executive Yuan, is hosting a series of inte...

November 6, 2012 | Tuesday | Regulatory
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
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
Dengue breaks 11 year records: Taiwan CDC

Singapore: Taiwan's Center for Disease Control (CDC) declared that dengue cases had swelled in the country in the past m...

July 8, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Icon, Taiwan's national clinical trials center sign deal

Singapore: Icon, a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical d...

August 8, 2013 | Thursday | News
Association to promote biopharma R&D in Taiwan

Singapore: Twenty-five pharmaceutical companies of Taiwan have come together to set up an association to promote the dev...

December 5, 2012 | Wednesday | News
SHL to invest $40 mn in Taiwan drug delivery industry

Singapore: Taiwan based SHL Group, a designer, developer and manufacturer of advanced drug delivery devices, has plans t...

October 2, 2013 | Wednesday | News

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