Pharma giants to refocus on novel antibiotics market with $1B venture fund

On 9 July 2020, a group of pharmaceutical companies along with Pfizer, Merck (KGaA and the American Merck), Eli Lilly, N...

July 9, 2020 | Thursday | News
FDA approves Roche’s Phesgo for HER2-positive breast cancer

US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Roche's Phesgo™, a fixed-dose combination of Perjeta® ...

July 8, 2020 | Wednesday | News
BD launches rapid Ag test to detect SARS-CoV-2 in 15 mins

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, has announced that the U.S. Food and Dr...

July 8, 2020 | Wednesday | News
World’s largest conference on HIV/AIDS, "AIDS 2020: Virtual" happening from 6-10 July

Asia Pacific has long been battling a debilitating and complex epidemic – HIV/AIDS. In 2018, UNAIDS reported that ...

July 7, 2020 | Tuesday | Opinion
Freyr Launches COVID-19 Web Platform for Manufacturers

Freyr, a leading global Regulatory solutions and services company, on 1 July 2020 announced the launch of a powerful web...

July 3, 2020 | Friday | News
Sanofi, Translate Bio to develop mRNA vaccines across all infectious disease areas

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines global business unit of Sanofi, and Translate Bio, a clinical-stage messenger RNA (mRNA) th...

June 29, 2020 | Monday | News
PerkinElmer, ASH to combat sickle cell disease in Africa

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced a collaboration with the...

June 22, 2020 | Monday | News
Docquity organises SEA's First and Largest Virtual Healthcare Convention

Docquity, a breakthrough "collaboration and learning" platform for medical professionals and The Philippine Colle...

June 17, 2020 | Wednesday | News
FIND supporting rapid diagnostic tests for malaria & COVID-19

The Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) and US based Scanwell Health announced a new partnership for d...

June 17, 2020 | Wednesday | News
BioNTech secures $112.55M for COVID-19 vaccine production

Gernam firm BioNTech SE closed USD112.55 million debt financing agreement to support the development of the company&rsqu...

June 16, 2020 | Tuesday | News
FDA issues EUA to first next gen sequence test for COVID-19

FDA has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) to American company Illumina, Inc., for the first COVID-19 diagnosti...

June 15, 2020 | Monday | News
Moderna advances Late-Stage development of mRNA-1273 Vaccine against COVID-19

Moderna, Inc. announced on 11 June 2020 about progress on the late-stage development of mRNA-1273, the Company&rsqu...

June 12, 2020 | Friday | News
J&J accelerates COVID-19 vaccine candidate

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has announced that through its Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies (Janssen) it has ac...

June 12, 2020 | Friday | News
A novel method protects vaccines from heat degradation at RT for 3 yr

Heat degradation of the proteins in vaccines render these expensive and precious biomedical products ineffective. Scient...

June 11, 2020 | Thursday | News
Jan Glass is OPTIMA's new CFO

Jan Glass succeeded Dr. Juergen Kuske as Chief Financial Officer of the Optima Group on May 1, 2020.  As a result, ...

June 10, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Merck expands base for liquid crystal windows biz

Merck, a leading science and technology company, has announced a strategic partnership with US based Guardian Glass to c...

June 10, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Chances of SARS-CoV-2 carrier not showing symptoms is very low- WHO

Transmission of the novel coronavirus by people who don’t develop symptoms is “very rare,” the Wo...

June 10, 2020 | Wednesday | News
OWEAR release Open Source Software and Datasets Database for its website

Shimmer Research, a global leader in wearable technology for research applications, today announced that the Open Wearab...

June 9, 2020 | Tuesday | News