Ranbaxy claims FDA form '483' not a show stopper

Singapore: Soon after reports of Ranbaxy's Mohali manufacturing plant being issued a Form 483 by the US US FDA broke out...

June 28, 2013 | Friday | News
Phyto-pharmaceuticals to hit Indian markets soon

Singapore: The Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has notified the draft rules on a new domain of medicines ca...

December 2, 2013 | Monday | News
R&D activities in Asia need attention: Dr Syed Shams Yazdani

The International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) is a global organization dedicated to advance...

July 10, 2012 | Tuesday | Influencers
IT, telecom innovations fuel healthcare accessibility

Conventional solutions to address health related problems worldwide have been rising enormously. In many cases the hea...

August 29, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion
What functional roles do CROs play in APAC?

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Cipla launches Qvir kit for HIV/AIDS

Mumbai: Cipla, India's leading pharmaceutical company, launched Qvir, a novel four-drug kit for the treatment of HIV/AID...

August 15, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Indian patent office revokes Pfizer patent

Bangalore: In a blow to pharma giant Pfizer, the Delhi Patent Office has revoked its patent for sunitinib (brand name Su...

October 5, 2012 | Friday | News
Venus' generic antibiotic gets French nod

Singapore: India's fast growing research-based pharmaceutical company, Venus Pharma received marketing authorization (MA...

August 21, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Bayada acquires stake in India Home Health Care

Bangalore: US firm Bayada has acquired 26 percent stake in Chennai-based India Home Health Care (IHHC), according to an ...

September 20, 2013 | Friday | News
BMS gives $1.69 Mn hepatitis grant to India and China

Singapore: The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation has awarded four new grants totaling $1.69 million to improve prevention,...

July 27, 2012 | Friday | News
Mitra Biotech keeps focus on personalized cancer care

Using its proprietary platform technology Oncoprint, India-based Mitra Biotech is developing personalized treatment opti...

March 14, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Biopectrum award winner Novo Informatics brings speed to drug discovery

Novo Informatics is the brainchild of a group of students and researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Generic sodium tablets from Dr. Reddy's, Mylan hit US market

Mumbai: Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, India's leading pharmaceutical company, recently launched Montelukast Sodium Tablets a...

August 8, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Strand CTO: Big data brings big challenges

Our ability to make simultaneous measurements on several tens of thousands of genes or even on the entire DNA in a biolo...

February 19, 2013 | Tuesday | Opinion
Industry Records 11% Growth

Singapore: The bioscience industry in the major markets of Asia-Pacific region, excluding Japan and comprising Australia...

June 22, 2015 | Monday | Analysis
BSA-CMR Survey: New CRO players emerge in APAC

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
LifeCell to soon launch dendritic cell cancer vaccine

Bangalore: LifeCell, one of India's largest stem cell banking companies recently revealed that in addition to facilitati...

December 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Agilent, Trivitron to setup high-end lab in IIT Chennai

Bangalore: Agilent Technologies India and Trivitron Healthcare are going to establish a world class Partner Lab within t...

September 6, 2013 | Friday | News
UN: Child deaths down by half since 1990

Singapore: In 2012, approximately 6.6 million children worldwide, died at the rate of 18,000 per day before reaching the...

September 16, 2013 | Monday | News
Bangalore Nano to be held from Dec 06-07

Bangalore: The Department of information technology (IT), biotechnology (BT) and science and technology (S and T), Gover...

November 23, 2012 | Friday | News
Shasun Pharma, SeQuent enter veterinary JV

Singapore: In an effort to expand into global markets, two Indian companies have inked a deal on veterinary products man...

July 15, 2013 | Monday | News
Pharma sales is getting strong'

Singapore: Despite concerns around declines in R&D, there would be a surge in global sales in the coming years reach...

August 4, 2015 | Tuesday | Analysis
India's FIPB to take up six pharma proposals

Singapore: After approving the Mylan-Strides deal last week, which became one of the biggest foreign investment proposal...

September 13, 2013 | Friday | News
Pipeline for colorectal, prostate cancer

There were more than three million new cancer cases and over two million cancer deaths between 1993 and 2006, in Asia, w...

August 9, 2012 | Thursday | Opinion
DNA sequencing market to grow at 20%: Report

Singapore: Analysis firm Research and Markets predicts the global DNA sequencing equipment and services market to grow a...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis