Sihuan, NeuroVive to develop heart and brain products

Singapore: Sihuan Pharmaceutical entered into a collaboration agreement with NeuroVive Pharmaceutical to develop two in...

November 21, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Bioxyne to report COPD trial results in June

Singapore: Australian company Bioxyne closed its 320-patient study, which was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safe...

May 29, 2012 | Tuesday | News
MicuRx next gen antibiotic gets US patent

Singapore: MicuRx Pharmaceuticals, a privately-held biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation antibiotics, ha...

May 24, 2012 | Thursday | News
MedImmune, UCSF enter 3-year R&D deal

Singapore: MedImmune, the global biologics R&D arm of AstraZeneca, has entered into a three-year collaboration with ...

February 18, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Biogen to commercialize MS therapies in Asia

Singapore: Belgium based pharmaceutical company UCB and global pharmaceutical company, Biogen, have entered into an agre...

February 11, 2014 | Tuesday | News
BD launches Cell Analyzer to enhance drug discovery

Singapore: BD Biosciences, a global medical technology company, has launched BD LSRFortessa X-20 Cell Analyzer, to deliv...

July 11, 2013 | Thursday | News
Viralytics melanoma study shows +ve results

Singapore: Assistant Professor (Dr) Robert H I Andtbacka presented a summary of his ongoing study with Viralytics' Cavat...

March 25, 2013 | Monday | News
India, EU firms fight 'epidemic of drug-resistance'

Singapore: India-based Orchid Pharma entered into a strategic partnership with Europe-based Allecra Therapeutics to deve...

April 19, 2013 | Friday | News
CoDa Therapeutics raises $19.8 mn from Russian firm

Singapore: CoDa Therapeutics has raised an additional $19.8 million (NZ$24.5 million) from Russian investment firm Rusna...

August 24, 2012 | Friday | News
Chugai seeks nod for breast cancer drug in Japan

Singapore: Japanese multinational Chugai Pharmaceutical has filed a new drug application to the Ministry of Health, Labo...

February 1, 2013 | Friday | News
Viralytics presents +ve results of phase II Cavatak trial

Singapore: Viralytics reported strong interim results from its phase II clinical trial of Cavatak treatment in late stag...

July 19, 2013 | Friday | News
Competition intensifies for type 2 diabetes drugs

Singapore: The global pre-diabetes population is three times the size of the current diabetes patient population and the...

August 28, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
FDA approval gives new hope to Multiple Sclerosis patients

Singapore: Genzyme, a Sanofi company, received approval from the US FDA for AUBAGIO (teriflunomide) as a new once-daily,...

September 13, 2012 | Thursday | News
TaiGen files NDA for Nemonoxacin in Taiwan, China

Singapore: Taiwan's TaiGen Biotechnology has submitted New Drug Application (NDA) for the oral formulation of nemonoxaci...

May 16, 2013 | Thursday | News
Verinata Health joins hands with Teva in Israel

Singapore: Illumina announced that Teva Pharmaceutical has signed an exclusive agreement with Verinata Health, an Illumi...

July 2, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Merck Serono starts Phase III non-small cell lung cancer drug trial

Singapore: Global biopharmaceutical firm Merck Serono has initiated international Phase III trial of its investigational...

April 9, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Pradaxa gets EU approval for DVT

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim has recieved Euroean approval for Pradaxa (dabigatran etexilate) for the treatment and p...

June 10, 2014 | Tuesday | Regulatory
AstraZeneca, LegoChem drug to curb superbugs

Singapore: AstraZeneca has formed collaboration with Korea's LegoChem Biosciences to develop a novel antibiotic to treat...

December 21, 2012 | Friday | News
Big pharma yet to warm up to drug resistance

Singapore: Drug resistance and patent expiries are demanding that the antibacterial drug market moves forward soon, but ...

June 1, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Cancer Therapeutics reveals new targeted drug

Singapore: Cancer Therapeutics, an Australian company focused on translating cancer biology research into novel treatmen...

July 5, 2012 | Thursday | News
Eisai gets WHO prequalification, will donate 2.2 bn doses

Singapore: The WHO has prequalified Eisai's drug NTD002, a 100 mg tablet of diethylcarbamazine (DEC) for treatment of el...

September 3, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Bayer and Sanofi battle to cure colorectal cancer

Singapore: Bayer's Stivarga (regorafenib) became the second drug to have been approved in the past two months by the US ...

October 8, 2012 | Monday | News
New antibody-based drug to cure diabetes

Singapore: CSL has developed a new drug candidate that is able to prevent the development of type 2 diabetes and revers...

September 27, 2012 | Thursday | News
Novartis oncology president steps down

Singapore: Novartis oncology president, Mr Hervé Hoppenot, has stepped down from the position to pursue a career oppo...

January 13, 2014 | Monday | News
Hodgkin lymphoma therapy may lead to other cancers

Singapore: Hodgkin lymphoma survivors, who received certain radiation and chemotherapy regimens, were at increased risk ...

August 27, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Phase III data: STELARA reduces active psoriatic arthritis

Singapore: A study by Janssen Research and Development revealed that patients with active psoriatic arthritis, who were ...

June 6, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Lonza, BioWa sign research agreements with Pfizer

Singapore: Swiss chemicals and drug company Lonza and USA-based BioWa, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan's Kyowa Hakko ...

July 31, 2013 | Wednesday | News
FDA recommends Takeda's drug for Chrohn's disease

Singapore: A joint panel of members from the Gastrointestinal Drugs and Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committ...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | Regulatory
Patrys gets regulatory approval for Multiple Myeloma trial

Singapore: Australia Patrys, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, has received approval to commence its planned P...

September 20, 2012 | Thursday | News
Novartis follows Time Warner, Twitter to join malaria campaign

Singapore: Novartis and Malaria No More, a leading global charity to end malaria deaths, are joining forces on the Power...

April 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
NIH: Alcohol addiction depends on gene combination

Singapore: An experimental treatment for alcohol dependence works better in individuals who possess specific combination...

August 5, 2013 | Monday | News
Merck partners with Kenya research centre

Singapore: Merck has partnered with Kenya Medical Research Institution (KEMRI) for scientific research and development p...

October 30, 2014 | Thursday | News
Shionogi partners with six Irish universities

Singapore: Shionogi, one of Japan's biggest pharmaceutical companies, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for...

June 19, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Merck alzheimer's trial is a success

Singapore: Merck, which is known as MSD outside the US and Canada, revealed positive results from its phase Ib study sho...

July 16, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Viralytics multi-cancer drug shows +ve results

Singapore: Viralytics has finalized the clinical study report on the phase I evaluation of Cavatak, which is administere...

April 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Forest to acquire rights to Merck's Saphris

Singapore: US based Forest Laboratories plans to acquire exclusive rights in the United States for Saphris (asenapine) s...

December 5, 2013 | Thursday | News
FDA approves GSK meningococcal vaccine

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved GlaxoSmithKline's vaccine MenHibrix (meningococcal gr...

June 15, 2012 | Friday | News
Patrys gets 2nd Aus patent for cancer drug

Singapore: Australia-based Patrys, a clinical stage biotechnology company, has been granted a second Australian patent f...

November 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
BMS to develop novel therapies for Parkinsons' disease

Singapore: Vanderbilt University, US, and Bristol-Myers Squibb signed a collaboration agreement for the R&D and comm...

September 25, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Glenmark receives two ANDA approvals from the FDA

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals USA (Glenmark) has been granted final approval by the United States Food and Drug Administratio...

March 29, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Researchers working on new drug for Lupus

Singapore: It has taken the lupus research community over 50 years to produce a new therapy. Although it is now a year o...

July 20, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Stem cell therapy effective in liver cirrhosis

Singapore: A study conducted by Beike Biotechnology Company in conjunction with physicians and researchers at two Chines...

July 4, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Old drug gives hope for new treatment in autism

Singapore: Autism results from abnormal cell communication. Testing a new theory, researchers at the University of Calif...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | News
Boehringer, Swiss institute collaborate on diabetes and obesity research

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim and the Institute of Molecular Health Science and the Institute of Food, Nutrition and H...

September 7, 2012 | Friday | News
Omega-3 can reduce brain problems after stroke

Singapore: A new study by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center, US, revealed that injection of triglyceride...

February 22, 2013 | Friday | News
KHK advances DsiRNA cancer target, pays $5 mn

Singapore: Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, a RNA interference (RNAi) company focused on developing breakthrough oncology thera...

January 4, 2013 | Friday | News
Celgene halts phase III trial of cancer drug Revlimid

Singapore: Celgene has discontinued treatment with Revlimid (lenalidomide), prescribed for for multiple myeloma, in open...

July 19, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
BMS seeks Hep C therapy approval in Japan

Singapore: Bristol-Myers Squibb has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to Japan's Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices...

November 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
Daiichi US appoints Glenn Gormley as chairman

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo has appointed Dr Glenn Gormley, as president and chairman of Daiichi Sankyo, US. Dr Gormley w...

October 4, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Singapore nod for BMS, Pfizer heart drug

Singapore: Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in Singapore has approved new treatment, apixaban (Eliquis), marketed by phar...

November 25, 2013 | Monday | News
Aus firm to raise $10 mn for multiple sclerosis drug

Singapore: Australia medical biotechnology company, Innate Immunotherapeutics, plans to raise up to $10.93 million (A$12...

November 27, 2013 | Wednesday | News
WuXi PharmaTech partners with Pharmacyclics

Singapore: Shanghai SynTheAll (STA) Pharmaceutical, subsidiary of WuXi PharmaTech, a leading pharmaceutical, biotechnolo...

November 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
BHR expands brain injury treatment trial

Singapore: BHR Pharma has started recruiting patients, who are suffering from severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), for t...

June 13, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Astellas, Ambit Biosciences begin quizartinib trial

Singapore: Japan-headquartered Astellas Pharma and Ambit Biosciences have initiated the phase IIb open-label clinical tr...

June 6, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Next-Generation Pipetting

Sample preparation is a daily function in any life science research or drug discovery lab and pipetting is a fundamental...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | Influencers
Bayer stops haemophilia trial amidst drug safety concern

Singapore: Bayer HealthCare has stopped its phase II/III study testing its experimental treatment BAY 86-6150 on certain...

May 9, 2013 | Thursday | News
Boehringer seeks EU marketing nod for cancer drug

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim has submitted a marketing authorization application to the European Medicines Agency (EM...

October 18, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
SFJ Pharma, Pfizer collaborate for dacomitinib trial

Singapore: SFJ Pharmaceuticals, primarily focused on funding and executing phase III studies of drugs, has entered into ...

September 10, 2012 | Monday | News
BMS stops Hepatitis C inhibitor development

Singapore: Bristol-Myers Squibb has discontinued the development of BMS-986094 (formerly known as INX-189), a nucleotide...

August 24, 2012 | Friday | News
FDA approves Bayer thromboembolic BP drug

Singapore: Bayer HealthCare has recieved US FDA approval for Adempas (riociguat) tablets for the treatment of adults wit...

October 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
FDA red signal for Genzyme, Bayer multiple sclerosis drug

Singapore: Genzyme, a Sanofi company, received a Refuse to File letter from the US FDA in response to the supplemental B...

September 3, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
NIH funds $45 mn Alzheimer's drug development

Singapore: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is funding $45 million for research aimed at preventing Alzheimer's ...

September 19, 2013 | Thursday | News
Singapore firm to launch next-gen cancer study device

Singapore: Singapore's emerging company Clearbridge BioMedics plans to launch its ClearCell FX System at American Societ...

May 27, 2014 | Tuesday | News
CSL files biologics license plea with FDA

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted Australia-based CSL Behring's biologics license applic...

May 30, 2012 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Japanese biomedical firm sets up lab in Singapore

Singapore: Japan-based biopharmaceutical firm, Kyowa Hakko Kirin (KHK) has setup Singapore Translational Research Labora...

September 9, 2013 | Monday | News
AB Sciex launches data analysis software

Singapore: AB Sciex, a global leader in analytical technologies, has launched MasterView Software, a new software applic...

August 30, 2013 | Friday | News
LCT conducts first implant of regenerative therapy

Singapore: Australia-based Living Cell Technologies (LCT) has implanted regenerative cell therapy NTCELL, a treatment fo...

September 20, 2013 | Friday | News
GSK melanoma phase III misses co-primary endpoint

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) Dermai study, a phase III, randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled Mage-A3 cancer imm...

September 6, 2013 | Friday | News
Bayer cancer drug Stivarga gets Singapore nod

Singapore: The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) of Singapore has approved Bayer' Stivarga, the first oral targeted therap...

September 3, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Eye diseases cost upto $27bn to Europe

Singapore: European Forum Against Blindness (EFAB) has revealed the results of a six-country study which analyzed the ec...

October 2, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Gilead hepatitis drug to axe treatment time by half

Singapore: Gilead Sciences has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the US FDA for approval of sofosbuvir, a once-d...

April 9, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Gilead leukemia study gets complete response

Singapore: Gilead Sciences' phase II study (Study 101-08) evaluating idelalisib (formerly GS-1101), an investigational, ...

May 16, 2013 | Thursday | News
Advinus collaborates with P2D Bioscience for ADHD

Bangalore: Advinus Therapeutics, a Bangalore-based drug discovery and development company, and P2D Bioscience, a CNS-foc...

July 25, 2012 | Wednesday | News
All you need to know about Glivec

What is Glivec?Glivec or imatinib mesylate is the first of a class of drugs that specifically inhibits a target enzyme, ...

April 1, 2013 | Monday | Analysis
Cytomegalovirus treatments to improve

Singapore: A new report by healthcare experts GlobalData has revealed that on cytomegalovirus (CMV), which is generall...

February 1, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
Sol-Gel to treat rosacea using acne drug

Singapore: Israel-based Sol-Gel Technologies achieved positive results for a phase II trial in the US targeting mild-to-...

December 6, 2012 | Thursday | 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
Novartis' thalassemia drug Exjade get EMA nod

Singapore: The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted...

November 19, 2012 | Monday | News
FDA scraps advisory committee on Merck's drug

Singapore: The US FDA has cancelled an advisory committee meeting that was scheduled to be held on July 18, 2013, in ord...

July 17, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Patrys cancer drug gives hope to patients

Singapore: Patrys, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, has confirmed anti-cancer properties of PAT-SM6 and has d...

May 8, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Agilent, SomaLogic to expand proteomic tech

Singapore: Agilent Technologies and US-based SomaLogic have entered into an agreement to expand access to SomaLogic's un...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Boehringer and Lilly get FDA nod for add-on insulin drug

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company received approved from the US FDA for a supplemental new drug ...

August 20, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Regeneron, Sanofi brain drug has side effects: US FDA

Singapore: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi have been asked by the US FDA to assess potential neurocognitive side ef...

March 11, 2014 | Tuesday | News
TWi gets US patent for type II diabetes drug

Singapore: Taiwan-based TWi Biotechnology has received notification of patent allowance for AC-201, its lead drug candid...

September 11, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Nose cancer emerges as a potent killer in Asia

Singapore: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a rare form of cancer in Western Europe and North America and is emerging a...

September 19, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Elsevier: Prana drug among 'Top 10 CNS Projects'

Singapore: A clinical drug for Huntington's and Alzheimer's disease by Australia-based Prana Biotechnology, a global dev...

September 3, 2013 | Tuesday | 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
Taiwan to get its first biosafety level 3 plant

Singapore: Amaran Biotechnology is going to invest $33.41 million (NT$1 billion) in order to construct a plant and a res...

August 6, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Drawbridge initiates clinical trial for anaesthetic drug

Singapore: Australia-based Drawbridge Pharmaceuticals has commenced a phase 1C clinical trial of alphaxalone dissolved i...

December 18, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Clinuvel gets positive results in Scenesse trial

Singapore: Australian company Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals reported successful, statistically significant results from its U...

December 19, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Rectal cancer drug can be used to treat diabetes

Singapore: A pair of studies by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has identified a molecular pat...

September 16, 2013 | Monday | News
BioPharma Asia: Dr Deborah Rathjen wins Life Science Woman Executive of the Year award

Singapore: Dr Deborah Rathjen, CEO of Australia based Bionomics, was awarded the Life Science Woman Executive of the Yea...

March 17, 2014 | Monday | Influencers
Researchers find new link to study brain tumor

Singapore: A joint study by researchers at the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI), National University of Singapore (...

June 8, 2012 | Friday | News
BioDiem BDM-1 gets Chinese divisional patent

Singapore: BioDiem received a grant of a Chinese divisional patent, expanding the patent position for its novel antimicr...

February 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
GSK shuts phase III studies of Crohn's drug

Singapore: ChemoCentryx reported that GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) first-of-four phase III studies, called Shield-1; investig...

August 26, 2013 | Monday | News
Taiwan develops carbohydrate-based cancer vaccine

Singapore: A research team led by Academia Sinica President, Dr. Chi-Huey Wong, and associate research fellow, Dr Chung-...

August 13, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Phylogica gets patent to model libraries from protein

Singapore: Australia-based Phylogica recieved allowance of its US patent application for synthetic Phylomer libraries. T...

October 3, 2013 | Thursday | News
Mesoblast to develop neuro diseases therapies

Singapore: Australian company Mesoblast has outlined the company's strategic plans to develop adult stem cell therapies...

June 11, 2012 | Monday | News
BMS halts Hep C drug administration

Singapore: Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) has suspended study drug administration in an ongoing phase II study of BMS-986094...

August 2, 2012 | Thursday | News
Starpharma drug targets cancer more effectively

Singapore: Australia-based Starpharma reported significant tumor-targeting results with its proprietary dendrimer-doceta...

October 29, 2012 | Monday | News

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