Tychan to begin Ph 1 trials for mAb against COVID-19

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 12 Jun, 2020

With approval from the Health Sciences Authority (HSA), Tychan,  a Singapore-based clinical-stage biotechnology com...Read more

Gilead's Veklury gets approval for COVID-19 treatment in Singapore

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 11 Jun, 2020

Gilead Sciences, Inc. has announced that the Health Sciences Authority of Singapore (HSA) has granted conditional approv...Read more

Japan explores Nafamostat inhalation formulation for COVID-19 treatment

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 10 Jun, 2020

The University of Tokyo, RIKEN, Nichi-Iko Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited have reached a ba...Read more

Atomo and NG Biotech expand COVID-19 partnership

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 10 Jun, 2020

Australian firm Atomo Diagnostics Limited is pleased to announce it has expanded its existing COVID-19 rapid test p...Read more

Chances of SARS-CoV-2 carrier not showing symptoms is very low- WHO

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 10 Jun, 2020

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

Singapore assessing virus survival based on air quality

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 10 Jun, 2020

uHoo, an air quality management company based in Singapore and Hong Kong, has launched the "uHoo Virus Index" - the worl...Read more

New Zealand announces no active cases of COVID-19

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 08 Jun, 2020

Ministry of Health is very pleased to report no active cases of COVID-19 in New Zealand. The Ministry has been notified...Read more

Novavax Expands Large-Scale Global Manufacturing Capacity

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 01 Jun, 2020

Novavax, Inc., a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, o...Read more

MERS vaccine shows promise for COVID-19 vaccine development

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 07 Jun, 2020

A recent Phase I clinical trial performed at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf for a Middle East respirato...Read more

BIO kick-starts digital conference on COVID-19 R&D programs

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 07 Jun, 2020

The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), the largest trade organization to serve and represent the eme...Read more

AstraZeneca Commits to 2 Billion Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 07 Jun, 2020

UK-based AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford partnered on the global development and distribution ...Read more

Interferon-lambda has the potential to reduce transmission of COVID-19

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 07 Jun, 2020

The spread of the COVID-19 can be slowed by the use of interferon-lambda, which has the ability to inhibit replication o...Read more

Novavax receives $60m from DOD to secure 10 million COVID-19 vaccine doses

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 07 Jun, 2020

Novavax commenced Phase I clinical trial for their COVID-19 vaccine "NVX-CoV2373" a stable prefusion protein antige...Read more

AbbVie, Harbour BioMed to develop Ab therapy for COVID-19

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 08 Jun, 2020

US based company AbbVie, Harbour BioMed (HBM) with operations in US and China, Utrecht University (UU) in Europe and Era...Read more

INOVIO, IVI to start Ph 1/2 trials of COVID-19 vaccine in South Korea

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 08 Jun, 2020

US based INOVIO, the International Vaccine Institute (IVI), and Seoul National University Hospital have announ...Read more

Taiwan's first domestic COVID-19 Ab reagent gets FDA approval

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 05 Jun, 2020

Taiwan on 5 June 2020 licenced it's first domestically-developed and produced antibody reagent for SARS-CoV-2 detec...Read more

Singapore's portable wearable devices to assist in COVID-19 contact tracing

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 05 Jun, 2020

Singapore is reviewing the possibility to distribute a "portable contact tracing device" to assist in its meth...Read more

Singapore builds vaccine manufacturing capacity

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 08 Jun, 2020

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced on 5 June 2020 while participating in 'Global Vaccine Summit 2020' th...Read more