Breckenridge announces approval of Hep B virus tablets

Drug Discovery |  News | 0 Comment | 02 Apr, 2018

  Singapore – Breckenridge Pharmaceutical announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted final approval for its Abbreviated New Drug Application for Entec...Read more

Esco, Max Planck cooperate on research of flavivirus vaccines

Drug Discovery |  News | 0 Comment | 02 Apr, 2018

Singapore - Esco Aster, a leading independent contract development and manufacturing organization underpinned by its patent Tide Motion bioreactor technology, has signed a cooperation agree...Read more

Merck to launch three new products at INTERPHEX 2018

Drug Discovery |  News | 0 Comment | 29 Mar, 2018

Merck, a leading science and technology company, will introduce three new products for the flexible manufacturing of biologics at INTERPHEX, April 17-19, in New York City, USA. Pellicon&re...Read more

Ablynx’ vobarilizumab fails in lupus trial

Drug Discovery |  News | 0 Comment | 28 Mar, 2018

Singapore - Ablynx’ vobarilizumab has failed to hit targets in a mid-stage trial assessing its safety and effectiveness as a treatment for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The Pha...Read more

Carna Bio, Sumitomo collaborate for neurological drug discovery

Drug Discovery |  News | 0 Comment | 28 Mar, 2018

Carna Biosciences, Inc. and Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd. have signed an agreement on joint research with the aim of discovering novel kinase inhibitors for psychiatric and neurologic...Read more

Syngene inks drug discovery agreement with GSK

Drug Discovery |  News | 0 Comment | 27 Mar, 2018

Biocon's contract research arm Syngene International inked a drug discovery agreement with global drug firm GSK. The multi-year R&D agreement between the two companies will focus on ac...Read more

Male birth control pill shows promise

Drug Discovery |  News | 0 Comment | 27 Mar, 2018

  Singapore - Researchers from the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute and the University of Washington in a study, showed that an experimental oral male contraceptive...Read more

Suven Life Sciences secures 3 product patents

Drug Discovery |  News | 0 Comment | 22 Mar, 2018

Suven Life Sciences has announced that it has been granted a patent each by Norway, South Korea and Singapore corresponding to new chemical entities&...Read more

Allergan launches Ozurdex in China

Drug Discovery |  News | 0 Comment | 22 Mar, 2018

Allergan plc announces the launch of Ozurdex® (dexamethasone intravitreal implant 0.7 mg) in China for the treatment of adult patients with macular edema secondary to retinal vein occlu...Read more

Inovio Pharma, Apollo Bio ink deal for cervical cancer drug

Drug Discovery |  News | 0 Comment | 21 Mar, 2018

Inovio Pharmaceuticals, today announced that it has inked an agreement providing ApolloBio with the exclusive right to develop, manufacture and commercialize VGX-3100, Inovio’s DNA im...Read more

USFDA grants priority to XTANDI's sNDA

Drug Discovery |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Mar, 2018

Pfizer and Astellas Pharma announced that a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for XTANDI (enzalutamide) has been accepted for filing and granted Priority Review designation by the U....Read more

Biogen acquires Schizophrenia investigational drug candidate form Pfizer

Drug Discovery |  News | 0 Comment | 16 Mar, 2018

Biogen recently announced that it has inked an agreement to acquire investigational candidate for schizophrenia from Pfizer. The drug candidate is a first-in-class, Phase 2b ready AMPA rece...Read more

JW Pharma develops tablet formulation for hair loss and BPH

Drug Discovery |  News | 0 Comment | 13 Mar, 2018

Korea’s JW Pharmaceutical, a subsidiary of JW Holdings, announced that it has developed a tablet formulation of Dutasteride, treatment for hair loss and benign prostatic hyperplasia (...Read more

'Cancer is an increasingly important health issue in the APAC region’

Drug Discovery |  Influencers | By Aishwarya venkatesh | 0 Comment | 09 Mar, 2018

Globally, the radiopharmaceutical medicine market is expected to reach USD 13.8 billion by 2024, according to a new report by Grand View Research. The market is driven by increasing number ...Read more

USFDA approves Taiwan's HIV drug

Drug Discovery |  News | 0 Comment | 08 Mar, 2018

A biologically-based alternative HIV treatment developed in Taiwan and manufactured in China has won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), becoming the first such made-...Read more

FDA approves Prometic’s inter-alpha-inhibitor-proteins

Drug Discovery |  News | 0 Comment | 06 Mar, 2018

Singapore-  Prometic Life Sciences Inc. announced that the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a Rare Pediatric Disease Designation to its Inter-Alpha-Inhibitor-Proteins...Read more

Novo Nordisk’s diabetes pill presents the first successful data

Drug Discovery |  News | 0 Comment | 26 Feb, 2018

Novo Nordisk, the world’s largest diabetes drugmaker has presented the first successful data from a large final-stage study of a pill it hopes will transform the diabetes market. The...Read more

STA Pharma, Regulus team up for mRNA targeting drugs

Drug Discovery |  News | 0 Comment | 23 Feb, 2018

A WuXi AppTec group company, STA Pharmaceutical Co., the leading open-access capability and technology platform for small molecule pharmaceutical development and manufacturing, and Regulus ...Read more