Eisai, Toyama get marketing approval for iguratimod

Singapore: Eisai and Toyama Chemical have received approval from Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to marke...

July 2, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Jazz Pharma clocks $208 mn in Q2 2013

Singapore: Jazz Pharmaceuticals reported earnings worth $208.3 million in revenue during the second quarter of 2013, an...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | Company results
Charles River to acquire Galapagos at USD 179 mn

Singapore: Charles River Laboratories is soon to acquire CRO services division of Galapagos, which includes both Argenta...

March 19, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Chugai, Nippon Shinyaku tie up for drug development

Singapore: Tokyo-headquartered Chugai Pharmaceutical and Kyotobased Nippon Shinyaku have entered into an agreement to co...

December 6, 2012 | Thursday | News
EMA recommends MSD's melanoma drug

Singapore: European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended granting a marketing authorization for Merck Sharp And Dohme'...

May 27, 2015 | Wednesday | Regulatory
10 top global pharma firms join hands for drug discovery

Singapore: Ten leading biopharmaceutical companies have formed a non-profit organization to accelerate the development ...

September 20, 2012 | Thursday | News
Nuvilex, Lincoln Park Fund sign $27 mn stock deal

Singapore: Nuvilex, an international biotechnology company providing cell and gene therapy solutions for the treatment o...

February 21, 2014 | Friday | News
Korea to spend $8.9 bn to develop 20 drugs by 2017

Singapore: South Korea will channelize a combined $8.9 billion (10 trillion Won) on developing 20 new drugs over the nex...

July 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Abbott reveals 10-year study data for HUMIRA

Singapore: Abbott revealed the results from two long-term, open-label studies, which evaluated the results of HUMIRA (ad...

June 6, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Edinburgh Univ, Biogen to study neuro diseases

Singapore: Experts from University of Edinburgh, UK, and Massachusetts-based biotechnology company Biogen Idec have join...

July 22, 2013 | Monday | News
Admedus acquires Genzyme manufacturing site

Singapore: Admedus, formerly Allied Healthcare, has signed a share purchase agreement to acquire an established manufact...

December 12, 2013 | Thursday | News
AstraZeneca halts development of obesity drug

Singapore: Palatin Technologies collaboration with AstraZeneca is to be discontinued for the further development of AZD2...

September 10, 2012 | Monday | News
Trajenta shows blood glucose improvements

Singapore: Results from a two-year study has demonstrated that Boehringer Ingelheim's Trajenta (linagliptin) provides si...

July 2, 2012 | Monday | News
One drug for three diseases

VM202 is a DNA-based drug that is designed to produce two isoforms of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) - HGF 728 and HGF ...

August 1, 2012 | Wednesday | Opinion
China invests $160 bn in biomedicine sector

Singapore: A report filed by Lux Research that tracks emerging technologies has said that China has invested a staggerin...

July 12, 2013 | Friday | News
BioDiem gets positive results for eye disease drug

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company BioDiem received positive results from ...

July 23, 2012 | Monday | News
Australia strengthens scientific collaboration with Indonesia

Singapore: Australian Academy of Science and the Indonesian Academy of Sciences have signed a new memorandum of understa...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | Influencers
China, Taiwan firms join hands for cancer drugs

Singapore: Taiwan's PharmaEngine has signed research collaboration with Guangzhou BeBetter Medicine Technology to design...

March 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Amgen terminates AstraZeneca psoriasis drug partnership

Singapore: Amgen has terminated the partnership with AstraZeneca for co-development and commercialization of brodalumab,...

May 27, 2015 | Wednesday | Regulatory
UCLA finds new compound to curb Alzheimer's

Singapore: Researchers at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), US, have reported the development of a molecular...

November 30, 2012 | Friday | News
Dainippon, Nippon Shinyaku sign deal for new drug

Singapore: Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma (DSP), headquartered in Japan, and Nippon Shinyaku, also a Japanese company, have c...

March 18, 2013 | Monday | News
AVEO, Astellas file NDA for tivozanib

Singapore: US-based AVEO Oncology and Astellas Pharma have submitted a new drug application (NDA) to the US Food and Dru...

October 1, 2012 | Monday | News
Sanofi seeks approval for Lyxumia in Japan

Singapore: Sanofi has submitted the marketing authorization application for Lyxumia, (lixisenatide), an investigational ...

June 11, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Cadila, Swedish firm develop arthritis drug

Singapore: NovaSAID, part of Sweden-based Karolinska Development, and India- based Cadila Pharmaceuticals have entered i...

January 13, 2014 | Monday | News
Diabetes drug Actos doubles risk of bladder cancer

Singapore: Canadian scientists have revealed that the diabetes drug pioglitazone, also known as Actos, doubles the risk ...

June 4, 2012 | Monday | News
Taiwan, China firms to co-develop cancer NCEs

Singapore: Taiwan's PharmaEngine has collaborated and signed research agreement with China's Guangzhou BeBetter Medicine...

January 3, 2013 | Thursday | News
Eisai to launch breast cancer drug in India

Singapore: With an agenda to expand its footprint in the emerging markets, Japan's Eisai Pharma is launching its novel a...

November 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Prana Biotech readies to progress PBT2 to market

Singapore: Australia-based Prana Biotechnology is to make senior appointments as it prepares to advance its key drug to ...

August 2, 2013 | Friday | News
Oramed recruits patients for oral insulin trial

Singapore: Oramed Pharmaceuticals initiated patient recruitment for a new clinical trial of its orally ingestible insuli...

August 22, 2013 | Thursday | News
GlobalData: New Zealand focuses on generics

Singapore: A new study by GlobalData has revealed that New Zealand's Pharmaceutical Management Agency's (PHARMAC) is emp...

February 27, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Allied to soon get CE mark approval from EU

Singapore: Australia's Allied Healthcare is progressing in the regulatory process for obtaining European CE Mark approva...

February 15, 2013 | Friday | News
Rockefeller University finds genetic link to autism

Singapore: A collaborative research effort at Duke University Medical Center and Rockefeller University has pinpointed t...

December 14, 2012 | Friday | News
GSK, Theravance COPD drug gets FDA nod

Singapore: The US FDA's Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee (PADAC) has approved GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Therav...

April 19, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Bayer gets Japan's nod for gastro tumor drug

Singapore: Bayer has received Japan's approval for Stivarga indicated for the treatment of patients suffering from gastr...

August 22, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
Theravance, Alfa Wassermann collaborate

Singapore: Theravance and Alfa Wassermann entered into an exclusive development and commercialization agreement in cert...

October 4, 2012 | Thursday | News
Epilepsy Foundation asks DEA to better review process

Singapore: Epilepsy Foundation of US has called on the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), US, to revise its process ...

August 22, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
Fight against TB needs $1.6 bn funding annually

Singapore: WHO and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria said that strains of tuberculosis with resistance to mu...

March 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi to aid drug discovery projects

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo has launched TaNeDS (Take a New challenge for Drug diScovery) collaborative drug discovery pro...

March 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Queensland to get a new drug development center

Singapore: At the recent international BIO Conference in Philadelphia, Queensland's Premier Ms Annastacia Palaszczuk ann...

June 17, 2015 | Wednesday | News
FDA follows EU, declares Patrys drug as 'orphan'

Singapore: Australia-based Patrys, a clinical stage biotechnology company, has received confirmation of Orphan Medicinal...

November 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
AbbVie, Galapagos to make drugs for cystic fibrosis mutations

Singapore: Europe-based Galapagos and AbbVie entered into a global alliance to discover, develop and commercialize novel...

September 30, 2013 | Monday | News
Mylan to produce generic of Gilead's HIV drug

Singapore: Mylan signed a new agreement between its subsidiary Mylan Laboratories and Gilead Sciences. According top thi...

August 3, 2012 | Friday | News
MNCs bet on China to tide over patent cliff

Even as most emerging economies in Asia Pacific are trying to grab a foothold in the global biopharma space, China has e...

May 16, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
Anaphore changes corporate name to RuiYi

Singapore: Anaphore changed its corporate name to RuiYi. As part of the company's shift in strategy to the R&D of n...

October 5, 2012 | Friday | News
Phylogica gets $400K grant to boost drug discovery

Singapore: Australia's peptide drug discovery company, Phylogica has received linkage grant from Australian Research Cou...

July 22, 2013 | Monday | News
Daiichi gets positive results in prasugrel trial

Singapore: Japanese company Daiichi Sankyo has received positive results for a double-blind randomized phase III trial c...

March 18, 2013 | Monday | News
AstraZeneca acquires Pearl Therapeutics

Singapore: AstraZeneca has completed its acquisition of Pearl Therapeutics, a privately held company based in Redwood Ci...

July 1, 2013 | Monday | News
Target for potent first-strike influenza drugs identified

Singapore: Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reported details of how certain drugs can precisely ...

August 3, 2012 | Friday | News
TaiGen gets TFDA nod for bacterial pneumonia drug

Singapore: Taiwan based TaiGen Biotechnology has recieved Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) approval for new dr...

March 18, 2014 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Bionomics to raise $16.4 mn for Alzheimer's R&D

Singapore: Bionomics plans to raise up to approximately $16.4 million of funds to advance development programs across d...

March 4, 2013 | Monday | News
Advinus gets $36 mn research funding from Takeda

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical and Advinus Therapeutics jointly announced that they would be initiating a three-year d...

October 3, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Aslan gastric cancer phase II study shows +ve results

Singapore: Aslan Pharmaceuticals has revealed the results of its phase II clinical trial with Aslan001, a small-molecule...

May 28, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Sanofi, Regeneron cancer drug Zaltrap gets EU nod

Singapore: European Commission has granted marketing authorization for Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (EC)'s Zaltr...

February 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Low R&D output, patent cliffs drives big pharma nuts

Singapore: According to the latest global report from industry experts, GBI Research, low R&D productivity, combined...

September 5, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
Bayer, Compugen enter $500 mn cancer deal

Singapore: Israel-based Compugen and global pharmaceutical company Bayer are to jointly pursue a preclinical research pr...

August 6, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Taiho to start ph III trial in colorectal cancer

Singapore: Japan based-Taiho Pharmaceutical is starting global phase III clinical trial (RECOURSE) for the novel combina...

May 31, 2012 | Thursday | News
FDA nod for Genentech pre-surgical cancer drug

Singapore: Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, has recieved US FDA approval for Perjeta (pertuzumab) regimen for neo...

October 1, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
FDA issues complete response letter for PREZISTA

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a complete response letter to Janssen Therapeutics for ...

May 31, 2012 | Thursday | News
Pharma majors join hands to find new cure for TB

Seven pharmaceutical companies and four research institutions, working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, rec...

June 29, 2012 | Friday | News
GSK to publish clinical study reports of drugs

Singapore: Demonstrating its commitment to clinical trial transparency, multinational pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithK...

February 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
Ex-sanofi cancer head is PharmaEngine advisor

Singapore: Taiwan's PharmaEngine appointed Dr Alain Herrera as senior advisor for clinical strategy, operations, corpora...

March 5, 2013 | Tuesday | Influencers
Cold Spring Harbor Lab uses cancer drugs to treat Alzheimer's

Singapore: A team of American and Chinese neuroscientists at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have carried out r...

September 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Chugai expands in Singapore with research institute

Singapore: Japan's Chugai Pharmabody Research (CPR) has started its operations in Singapore. The company started operati...

July 16, 2012 | Monday | News
Australia invests in autoimmune disease start up firm

Singapore: Helmedix, an early stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
François-Xavier Roge is Takeda's new CFO

Singapore: Japan-headquartered global firm, Takeda Pharmaceutical, appointed Mr François-Xavier Roger as its chief fi...

August 28, 2013 | Wednesday | Influencers
Novartis, Regenerex further immune tolerance R&D

Singapore: Novartis entered into an exclusive global licensing and research collaboration agreement with Regenerex, a bi...

September 6, 2013 | Friday | News
Boehringer Ingelheim appoints board member

Singapore: The shareholders of Boehringer Ingelheim have appointed Dr Joachim Hasenmaier to Boehringer Ingelheim's board...

July 6, 2012 | Friday | News
China develops revolutionary TCM migraine medication

Singapore: China Health Resource (CHRI) has developed a revolutionary TCM migraine medication called Toufeng Migraine ta...

July 18, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Novartis eye care firm gets EU nod for Jetrea

Singapore: Alcon, the global leader in eye care and a division of Novartis, has received European Commission's approval ...

March 18, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory
QRxPharma to resubmit NDA to FDA for pain relieving drug

Singapore: Australia's QRxPharma has received Complete Response Letter (CRL) from USFDA for its MOXDUO New Drug Applicat...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Gilead HIV/AIDS 'blood booster' gets EU nod

Singapore: Gilead Sciences has recieved European Commission marketing authorization approval for once-daily Tybost (cobi...

September 26, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
Merck, AstraZeneca sign deal for cancer drug therapy

Singapore: Merck and AstraZeneca entered into a licensing agreement for Merck's oral small molecule inhibitor of WEE1 ki...

September 17, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Inversion of ibuprofen in body helps fight cancer: Study

Singapore: Scientists at the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, UK, demonstrated that anti-inf...

September 30, 2013 | Monday | News
Australia ideal for early-stage drug development

Australia has a long history in biomedical research, with a reputation for excellence and invention since the early 1900...

June 14, 2012 | Thursday | Opinion
HUYA, Sanzao Park partner for drug development

Singapore: HUYA Bioscience, a leader in globalizing China's biopharmaceutical innovations, has signed a strategic partne...

June 11, 2012 | Monday | News
GSK's cancer drug gets EU marketing authorization

Singapore: European Commission has granted an additional indication for GlaxoSmithKline's Tyverb (lapatinib) to be used ...

August 16, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Astellas completes patient recruitment in drug trial

Singapore: Japanese company Astellas Pharma has completed patient recruitment for the isavuconazole phase III registrati...

December 19, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo expands drug discovery program

Singapore: Japan-based Daiichi Sankyo has decided to expand its collaborative drug discovery program with universities a...

July 30, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Boehringer terminates insulin deal with Lilly

Singapore: Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim are making a slight adjustment to their diabetes alliance with respect to...

January 8, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Cellmid gets positive sign with Midkine antibody for kidney disease

Singapore: Australia's Cellmid has completed its first in-life diabetic nephropathy study with anti-midkine antibodies (...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Takeda Gemini II trial shows positive results

Singapore: Positive results were reported from Takeda Pharmaceutical's international, randomized, placebo-controlled, ...

May 14, 2012 | Monday | News
IOF, Fonterra grants $43K to Indonesian for bone R&D

Singapore: Global organization, International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF), and New Zealand dairy firm, Fonterra have c...

July 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
Vanda Pharma withdraws application for Fanaptum

Singapore: Vanda Pharmaceuticals has withdrawn its application from European Medicines Agency for a centralized marketin...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
AbbVie invests $320 mn in bilogics manufacturing in Singapore

Singapore: Research based pharmaceutical company, AbbVie, has made investment of around USD320 million in Singapore to s...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Prana Alzheimer's trial shows +ve results

Singapore: Prana Biotechnology reported on the progress of its lead development asset PBT2, which is in phase II trials ...

April 8, 2013 | Monday | News
Astellas to do interim analysis of cancer trial

Singapore: Medivation and Astellas Pharma have established an updated interim analysis plan for the Prevail trial, a glo...

April 3, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Novartis acquires cancer firm CoStim

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical firm, Novartis, has acquired CoStim Pharmaceuticals, a privately held biotechnology com...

February 18, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Cytos reveals trial data allergic asthma immune modulator

Singapore: Cytos Biotechnology revealed additional results of the phase IIa clinical trial with CYT003, a first-in-class...

September 9, 2013 | Monday | News
Prism to start PRI-724 trials to treat fibrosis

Singapore: Prism Pharma, a drug discovery company focused on developing small molecule technologies that modulate protei...

June 14, 2013 | Friday | News
Boehringer, Eli Lilly reveal post-hoc results for linagliptin

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly and Company revealed results from a post-hoc analysis, whi...

June 11, 2012 | Monday | News
Bayer recognizes innovation by Korean start-up

Singapore: Vital Smith, a Korean startup which focuses on developing innovative technology for diagnostics devices is r...

August 30, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Aquavit, Green Cross sign MoU

Singapore: Green Cross, a leading biotechnology company in South Korea, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) ...

August 9, 2012 | Thursday | News
Chugai gets Japanese nod cancer drug Kadcyla

Singapore: The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved Oncology specializing pharmaceutical firm Ch...

September 23, 2013 | Monday | News
Nexavar seeks marketing authorization in Japan

Singapore: Bayer HealthCare has submitted an additional application for marketing authorization to the Ministry of Healt...

October 1, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Starpharma to receive $6 mn for overseas R&D

Singapore: Australia-based Starpharma is eligible to receive approximately $6 million cash in R&D tax incentives for...

November 23, 2012 | Friday | News
Thermo Fisher Scientific celebrates 20th year in Singapore

Singapore: Thermo Fisher Scientific has completed 20th year of its operation in Singapore. The company celebrated the mi...

August 30, 2016 | Tuesday | News
FDA to review Vanda blindness drug Tasimelteon

Singapore: The US FDA has granted priority review classification to Vanda's New Drug Application (NDA) for tasimelteon, ...

July 31, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Novartis' Jakavi improves myelofibrosis

Singapore: Phase III studies by Novartis has demonstrated that Jakavi (INC424, ruxolitinib) treatment resulted in sustai...

December 11, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Quest signs $2mn development deal with Korean firm

Singapore: Quest PharmaTech, a pharmaceutical company developing and commercializing products for the treatment of cance...

July 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
EU approves Novartis' Bexsero for meningitis

Singapore: European Commission has approved Novartis' Bexsero (Meningococcal Group B Vaccine [rDNA, component, adsorbed]...

January 23, 2013 | Wednesday | News

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