ADB provides $1.5B to support Thailand's COVID-19 response

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 06 Aug, 2020

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a $1.5 billion loan to support the Government of Thailand’s response...Read more

Sanofi, GSK to supply up to 300 M COVID-19 vaccine doses to EU

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 05 Aug, 2020

Sanofi and GSK are in advanced discussions, with the European Commission (EC) for the supply of up to 300 million doses ...Read more

COVID R&D Alliance announces first patients enrollment in I-SPY trial

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 04 Aug, 2020

Recently, members of the COVID R&D Alliance AbbVie, Inc. (ABBV), Amgen Inc. (AMGN), and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Lt...Read more

6th Asia Healthcare Week: A note on “COVID-19 and the NHS UK Response”

COVID19 |  Influencers | 0 Comment | 04 Aug, 2020

Informa Connect Singapore recently conducted its first live webinar to complement the main conference offering. Hosted a...Read more

Australia issues new information for vaccine manufacturers

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 05 Aug, 2020

Vaccine manufacturers seeking listing on the National Immunisation Program (NIP) Schedule must ask for advice from ...Read more

Taiwan develops robot to perform nasal swab tests

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 04 Aug, 2020

Brain Navi, a biotechnology startup based in Taiwan's Hsinchu's Biomedical Science Park, has developed a ...Read more

Pfizer, BioNTech to supply 120M doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Japan

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 03 Aug, 2020

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE have announced an agreement with the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan ...Read more

NTU speeds up gold-standard COVID-19 diagnostic test

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 03 Aug, 2020

Clinician-scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore’s (NTU Singapore) Lee Kong Chian School of Med...Read more

Atomo Diagnostics collaborates with Access Bio for rapid COVID-19 testing

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 03 Aug, 2020

Australia based Atomo Diagnostics has announced that it has signed a binding agreement with US-based diagnostics special...Read more

Seegene receives expanded EUA for COVID-19 diagnostic assay

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 31 Jul, 2020

South Korean firm Seegene, Inc. has announced that U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has further expanded the emer...Read more

Affinity’s COVID-19 antibodies ready for clinical trials

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 31 Jul, 2020

Melbourne-based Affinity Biosciences Pty Ltd (Affinity) has lodged a pre-publication submission to the scientific journa...Read more

NEJM study demonstrates Safety and Efficacy of mAb to treat Yellow Fever

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 30 Jul, 2020

Tychan, a Singapore-based clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing life-saving treatments through disr...Read more

Pictor furthers R&D in COVID-19 and M. bovis

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 31 Jul, 2020

New Zealand's Auckland-based biotechnology company Pictor is embarking on a NZ$2.5 million fundraising round to enable i...Read more

Dynavax, Medigen to develop adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine candidate

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 30 Jul, 2020

US based Dynavax Technologies Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel v...Read more

A*STAR & partners roll out breakthrough COVID-19 test

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 30 Jul, 2020

DSO National Laboratories and A*STAR's Diagnostics Development (DxD) Hub in Singapore have jointly developed RESOLUTE 2....Read more

Japanese Beta Glucan recommended for clinical trial in COVID-19 patients

COVID19 |  News | By BioSpectrum Infomercial | 0 Comment | 29 Jul, 2020

A unique Beta 1,3-1,6 Glucan produced by the AFO-202 strain of a black yeast Aureobasidium pullulans is worth considerin...Read more

Heroic-Faith focuses on remote patient monitoring

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 28 Jul, 2020

Taiwan based Heroic-Faith which uses deep learning and other forms of AI to develop algorithms that assist in the identi...Read more

Singapore develops highly specific COVID-19 test to detect neutralizing Abs in 1hr

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 24 Jul, 2020

Singapore researchers have developed a unique and rapid SARS-CoV-2 surrogate virus neutralisation test (sVNT) to determi...Read more