"We're dedicated to Multiple Sclerosis with two approved therapies and Evobrutinib currently in phase 3 trial"

Why does multiple sclerosis (MS) deserve attention and investment in APAC for the development of novel treatments? ...

January 16, 2023 | Monday | Opinion
Otsuka and Schrödinger announce single-target, drug discovery partnership in neurology

Japanese firm Otsuka Pharmaceutical has announced that the company and its UK-based subsidiary Astex Pharmaceuticals are...

January 13, 2023 | Friday | News
BioNTech expands by leveraging AI-powered Drug discovery, design and development

BioNTech SE and InstaDeep Ltd. have entered partnership under which BioNTech will acquire InstaDeep to build AI-driven d...

January 11, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japanese startup Veritas In Silico inks new partnership for mRNA-targeted small molecule drug discovery

Japan-based startup Veritas In Silico has entered into a joint drug discovery research agreement with RaQualia Pharma to...

December 30, 2022 | Friday | News
China-based startup XtalPi joins hands with Singapore's national platform for cancer drug discovery

China-based XtalPi, a pioneering pharmaceutical technology startup powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and automatio...

December 21, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Sosei Heptares & Eli Lilly ink $730 M deal for treatment of diabetes and metabolic diseases

Japan-based Sosei Group Corporation has entered a drug discovery collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company, to discover, ...

December 20, 2022 | Tuesday | News
GARDP and Sumitomo Pharma announce partnership in search for new antibiotics

The Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) and Japanese firm Sumitomo Pharma Co. have signed an ...

November 24, 2022 | Thursday | News
Chugai extends R&D collaboration in Singapore earmarking S$282M over next 5 years

The Japanese company Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., which owns and operates a fully-owned research center "Chugai Phar...

November 16, 2022 | Wednesday | Company results
Ono Pharma inks neuro drug discovery collaboration with Captor Therapeutics

Japan-based Ono Pharmaceutical has entered a worldwide drug discovery collaboration agreement with Poland's Captor The...

November 15, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korea Drug Development Fund invests in novel oncology candidate

South Korea-based SK Biopharmaceuticals has announced that the state-run Korea Drug Development Fund (KDDF) has decided ...

November 15, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Ono Pharmaceutical inks immuno-oncology partnership with Memo Therapeutics

Japan's Ono Pharmaceutical has entered a drug discovery agreement to discover and develop antibody drugs in the immuno...

November 4, 2022 | Friday | News
Bora Pharma partners with TaiRx to manufacture breakthrough anticancer drug in Taiwan

Bora Pharmaceutical Laboratories Inc. (Zhunan), a division of Bora Pharmaceuticals has partnered with TaiRx, Inc., a Tai...

September 26, 2022 | Monday | News
Huawei Cloud's Pangu drug molecule model accelerates new drug discovery

On September 19, HUAWEI CONNECT 2022 kicked off in Bangkok, Thailand. At the event, Ken Hu, Rotating and Actin...

September 19, 2022 | Monday | News
Innovent Biologics, Sanofi to develop cancer medicines for China

Innovent Biologics and Sanofi have announced a collaboration to bring innovative medicines to patients in China with dif...

August 5, 2022 | Friday | News
Sosei Heptares and AbbVie enter new multi-target collaboration worth $1.2 B

Japanese firm Sosei Group Corporation and US-based AbbVie, a research-based global biopharmaceutical company, have enter...

August 3, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Singapore develops new compounds to kill multi drug-resistant TB

With multi drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) causing outbreaks in both developing and developed nations, new treatments a...

August 4, 2022 | Thursday | News
Singapore develops drug molecule for treating atrial fibrillation

Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Department of Pharmacy have developed an improved pharmaceuti...

July 18, 2022 | Monday | News
Japanese startup Elix introduces 'all-in-one' platform for AI drug discovery

Japan-based startup Elix, Inc., an artificial intelligenet (AI) drug discovery company with the mission of “Rethin...

July 15, 2022 | Friday | News
Singapore approves GSK's new cancer therapy for ovarian cancer

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Singapore has announced that Health Sciences Authority has approved Zejula&nbs...

July 4, 2022 | Monday | News
Eurofins DiscoverX expands APAC operations with new biotech office in China

Eurofins DiscoverX Products LLC, a global industry leader in products for small and large molecule drug discovery a...

July 4, 2022 | Monday | News
Korean startups ILIAS Biologics and HK inno.N join hands for new biomedicines

South Korean startup ILIAS Biologics has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with HK inno.N for joint research to...

June 6, 2022 | Monday | News
Japanese startup LUCA Science raises $30.3 M in Series B funding

Japan-based startup LUCA Science, a global innovator in the development of a novel class of mitochondria biopharmaceutic...

June 6, 2022 | Monday | News
Standigm signs MOU with Merck Korea for AI drug discovery research

South Korea-based startup Standigm Inc. has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Merck Kore...

June 2, 2022 | Thursday | News
China's Zelixir Biotech predicts monkeypox protein structures for drug discovery

Zelixir Biotech, based in China, has predicted more than 600 structures and added functional annotations of proteins fro...

May 31, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Insilico Medicine explores use of 3CL protease inhibitor for COVID-19 treatment

Insilico Medicine, a China & US-based clinical-stage end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery c...

May 25, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japanese firms initiate joint research on next-gen IT drug discovery technology

Japan-based Fujitsu and RIKEN have launched a joint research project on next-generation IT drug discovery technology uti...

May 17, 2022 | Tuesday | News
University of Tokyo, Astellas further advance development of innovative medicines

The University of Tokyo and Astellas Pharma Inc., in Japan, have entered the second phase of their collaboration for co-...

April 27, 2022 | Wednesday | News
FDA grants Fast Track designation for Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals Phase III Osteoarthritis Program

Australia's Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on repurposing existing...

April 14, 2022 | Thursday | News
TauRx's late-stage clinical trial reaches new milestone

TauRx Pharmaceuticals Ltd, a global leader in tau-based Alzheimer's Disease (AD) research, has announced that the last p...

April 14, 2022 | Thursday | News
Otsuka and Akebia seek USFDA approval for renal anemia drug

Otsuka Pharmaceutical has announced that its collaborator Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. (Akebia) has submitted a New Drug Ap...

April 1, 2022 | Friday | News
Insilico Medicine partners with EQRx for AI-driven drug discovery

Insilico Medicine, a clinical stage end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company, has entered i...

March 25, 2022 | Friday | News
Biogen and Eisai amend collaboration agreements on Alzheimer’s disease treatments

Biogen Inc. and Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that the companies have amended their existing collaboration agreement on aduc...

March 21, 2022 | Monday | News
RedHill inks deal worth $6M with Kukbo for COVID-19 drug in South Korea

RedHill Biopharma has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Kukbo Co., a South Korean corporation, for o...

March 16, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Astellas’ menopause drug fails in Asia trial

Japan-based Astellas Pharma Inc. has announced topline results from the ongoing Phase 3 MOONLIGHT 1 clinical trial inves...

March 16, 2022 | Wednesday | News
China approves SCG's T Cell Therapy IND to treat Hepatitis B virus

Singapore-based SCG Cell Therapy Pte Ltd, a leading biotechnology company,  announced that the China National Medic...

March 14, 2022 | Monday | News
China's Gan & Lee Pharma begins first-in-human trial for diabetes drug

Chinese firm Gan & Lee Pharmaceuticals has announced that the first subject has been dosed in our Phase I, double-bl...

March 11, 2022 | Friday | News
Dr Andreas Amrein joins Advanced Clinical to lead global development and expansion in APAC

Advanced Clinical, a clinical development and strategic resourcing organization committed to providing a better clinical...

March 10, 2022 | Thursday | News
China approves phase II trial of Akeso's cancer drug

Akeso, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of innovative antibody drugs, has announced that t...

March 8, 2022 | Tuesday | News
I-Mab receives FDA orphan drug designation for cancer drug

China based I-Mab, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery, development, and commercializa...

March 4, 2022 | Friday | News
China-based startup InxMed raises $50 M in Series B Financing

InxMed Co., Ltd, a clinical-stage biotechnology startup based in China, has announced that it had completed $5...

March 4, 2022 | Friday | News
China's Adagene partners with French firm Sanofi for Immuno-Oncology

China's Adagene,  a company transforming the discovery and development of antibody-based therapies, has announced a...

March 3, 2022 | Thursday | News
China approves Phase II clinical trial of InnoCare's cancer drug

InnoCare Pharma, a leading biopharmaceutical company, has announced the Investigational New Drug (IND) approval of its B...

March 3, 2022 | Thursday | News
China-based Fosun Pharma and Insilico Medicine advance AI-driven drug discovery

Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co. and Insilico Medicine have entered into a collaboration agreement to advance t...

January 12, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan's GoldenBiotech suggests 100% recovery with oral drug Antroquinonol in COVID-19 patients

Golden Biotechnology Corp., a leading Taiwanese biopharmaceutical company, has announced that its Phase 2 COVID-19 trial...

January 10, 2022 | Monday | News
Korean startup Astrogen to use AI for drug design against Parkinson’s Disease

South Korea-based startup Astrogen and Paris-based firm Iktos have announced a research collaboration to use A...

January 6, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japan's PRISM BioLab partners with Roche and Genentech for drug discovery research

PRISM BioLab, a Japan based biotechnology company with a proprietary peptide mimetic small molecule drug discovery ...

January 5, 2022 | Wednesday | News
China’s BeiGene expands collaboration with Novartis for oncology medicines

China-based BeiGene has announced an option, collaboration and license agreement with Novartis Pharma AG to develop, man...

December 28, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Merck and Ridgeback’s COVID-19 pill receives ‘special approval’ in Japan

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics have announced that Japan’...

December 27, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea offers niclosamide-based drug as possible cure for COVID-19 variants

Experimental results have been published for the first time showing that an antiviral drug containing niclosamide, an an...

December 8, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Standigm, Institut Pasteur Korea team up for AI-based drug discovery research on TB

South Korea-based startup Standigm Inc. has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Institut P...

December 2, 2021 | Thursday | News
Tackling onerousness drug development process through cost-effective genomic analysis platforms

The limitations of the existing drug discovery paradigm reveals that there are still no effective prevention or real cur...

December 2, 2021 | Thursday | Opinion
Holistic drug development strategy improves probability of success in oncology therapeutics

AUM Biosciences is a global clinical-stage biotech company, focused on discovering and developing novel target...

November 22, 2021 | Monday | Opinion
Pfizer inks deal worth $5.29 B with US government for COVID-19 pill

Pfizer Inc. has announced an agreement with the US government to supply 10 million treatment courses of its investi...

November 19, 2021 | Friday | News
Pfizer seeks EUA for novel oral COVID-19 pill

Pfizer Inc. has announced that it is seeking Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of its investigational oral antivira...

November 17, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea's GI Innovation inks MoU with Merck for bio drug development

South Korea-based GI Innovation has inked a biopharmaceutical manufacturing and development based Memorandum o...

November 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
AUM Biosciences raises $27M “Series A” fund to advance precision cancer therapies

Singapore's AUM Biosciences (AUM) has completed of $27 million series A funding round to develop a drug pipeline focused...

October 13, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Israel's CytoReason introduces AI clinical drug development platform to Japan’s pharma market

CytoReason, an AI company developing computational disease models for discovery and clinical drug development, and Summi...

September 30, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan sets eyes on rare pediatric liver diseases

US-based Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical have entered into an exclusive licensing ag...

September 22, 2021 | Wednesday | News
U.S. NIH supports an Australian Biopharma to develop antibiotics against crucial drug-resistant bacteria

SuperTrans Medical ("STM"), an Australian biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibiotics that target difficult-t...

September 17, 2021 | Friday | News
BC Platforms to enable longitudinal RWD and Genomics access for drug development in Africa

BC Platforms (BCP), a global leader in genomics research, analytics and global data access, announced a new collabo...

September 13, 2021 | Monday | News
French firm Poxel launches type 2 diabetes drug in Japan

French firm POXEL SA along with its partner, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma,  is launching TWYMEEG (Imeglimin hydro...

September 10, 2021 | Friday | News
“With an array of partners, we are tackling some of the biggest unmet needs in mental health diseases”

What unique initiatives are being taken by the company to connect microbiome with human health? Which are the major ther...

September 6, 2021 | Monday | Opinion
Taiwan's Centre for Drug Evaluation initiates new drug trial against COVID-19

US-based Senhwa Biosciences, Inc. has announced that its novel oral drug, Silmitasertib, has been included in Taiwa...

August 16, 2021 | Monday | News
Healx’s AI-platform to create world’s most detailed rare disease biomedical knowledge graph

Healx, the AI-powered, UK-founded global drug discovery company, has entered a partnership with Japan's Ono Pharmace...

August 10, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Otsuka Pharma receives $17.8 M grant for TB drug trial

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc., a subsidiary of Japan-based Otsuka Pharmaceutical, has ...

August 10, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Chinese firms to advance drug development for hard-to-drug molecular targets

Hong Kong's Antengene Corporation Limited, a biopharmaceutical company focused on hematology and oncology drugs is ...

August 9, 2021 | Monday | News
Chinese startups accelerate innovative drugs R&D for novel coronavirus

China-based startups Insilico Medicine and Westlake Pharma have announced a strategic partnership to jointly develop inn...

August 3, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan brings hope for breast cancer patients with new epigenetic drug

Currently, estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer accounts for about 70% of all breast cancers, with hormone therapy (...

July 28, 2021 | Wednesday | News
China emphasizes on self-replicating, conventional mRNA therapeutics and vaccines

China-based Junshi Biosciences has established a joint venture with Immorna to develop and commercialize new drugs for t...

July 21, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Product launches by Asian pharma cos can benefit antiviral drug makers in APAC: Graphical Research

    The global antiviral drugs market growth is stimulated by a growing focus toward therapeutic management ...

July 19, 2021 | Monday | News
Korean firm Celltrion’s mAb candidate effective against Delta variant

South Korean firm Celltrion Group has announced new results from an in vivo efficacy study showing that regdan...

July 16, 2021 | Friday | News
Adlai Nortye raises $100 M (Series D) to accelerate clinical and drug development programs

Adlai Nortye Ltd., a global biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative oncology drugs, has complete...

July 15, 2021 | Thursday | News
Sosei Heptares partners InveniAI to launch multi-target AI-powered drug discovery platform

Japan headquartered Sosei Group Corporation, the world leader in GPCR-focused structure-based drug design...

July 6, 2021 | Tuesday | News
US FDA grants VICO therapeutics Orphan-Drug Designation for anti-neurodegenerative drug

VICO Therapeutics, a Leiden, the Netherlands, based biotech company focusing on the development of RNA modulating t...

July 1, 2021 | Thursday | News
Five arrows invest in Sygnature Discovery supporting drug discovery services in the UK

Sygnature Discovery, the leading provider of integrated drug discovery services, has received a significant investment f...

July 1, 2021 | Thursday | News
New antibiotic from Australia to combat bacterial superbugs enters clinical trials

In a critical step towards addressing an urgent unmet medical need due to infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bact...

June 23, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Fujitsu Japan deploys world's fastest supercomputer for COVID-19 therapies

Fujitsu Japan has announced that it will initiate a new research project with a research team led by Japan's Resear...

June 22, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Aptamer Group collaborates with Takeda Pharma

UK-based Aptamer Group, the developer of diagnostic and therapeutic Optimer reagents, has signed an agreement with the m...

May 28, 2021 | Friday | News
Sosei Heptares and Pfizer collaborate for multi-target drug discovery

Sosei Group Corporation has been notified by Pfizer that the first subject in a clinical trial has been dosed with a new...

May 24, 2021 | Monday | News
China-based Shineco to pick 51% stake in Taiwan's Mayah Biological

Shineco, Inc., a producer and distributor of Chinese herbal medicines, organic agricultural and hemp products, has annou...

May 5, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korean firm Pharmcadd plans expansion in India, US & France

South Korea's Pharmcadd Co. Ltd., a developer of artificial intelligence (AI) and physics-based drug discovery platform,...

May 4, 2021 | Tuesday | News
RNAimmune accelerates R&D into mRNA vaccine, drug discovery

RNAimmune, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company specializing in discovery and development of mRNA-based therapeutics and va...

April 23, 2021 | Friday | News
Pureos Bioventures closes first fund with committed capital of $205 M

Pureos Bioventures announces the final closing of its first fund BB Pureos Bioventures LP (Pureos) with a committed...

April 22, 2021 | Thursday | News
CAR-T therapy leads Singapore medical tourism within APAC

The inherent heterogeneity of diseases such as cancer is driving the field of personalized (precision) therapies. Within...

April 12, 2021 | Monday | Analysis
Hitachi uses digital technology for creation of next-generation biopharmaceuticals

Hitachi, Ltd. and Axcelead, Inc. have announced that they have agreed on a comprehensive collaborative partnership to de...

April 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Shanghai Genchem announces global collaboration with I-Mab on Bispecific antibodies

Shanghai Genechem Co., Ltd., a discovery company dedicated to novel drug target discovery and development of novel thera...

April 6, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Peptone to scale its AI-driven protein engineering system PeOS in Iceland

Four months after raising its seed round from Hoxton Ventures and dRX Capital, a venture arm of Novartis Pharma AG, ...

April 5, 2021 | Monday | News
Industry accelerates R&D of innovative antibody drugs

A global leading biotech company GenScript Biotech Corporation has announced that the Company has entered into a strateg...

March 26, 2021 | Friday | News
PerkinElmer expands computing capabilities for biological drug discovery

PerkinElmer, Inc., has announced that its Signals ™ computing platform for documentation, workflow ...

March 22, 2021 | Monday | News
Fujitsu, NCC to create new services for clinical trials, drug development in Japan

Fujitsu has announced it has concluded a comprehensive collaborative research agreement with National Cancer Center Japa...

March 18, 2021 | Thursday | News
Eisai aims for novel drug discovery for neurodegenerative disorders

German firm Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE) and Japan based Eisai have announced that b...

March 17, 2021 | Wednesday | News
QBiotics joins TDM Growth Partners to accelerate drug development timelines

QBiotics Group Limited, a Brisbane (Australia) life sciences company developing novel anticancer and wound healing pharm...

March 16, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Boehringer Ingelheim to develop innovative Peptides to treat Obesity

Boehringer Ingelheim and Gubra on March, 1st 2021 announced a new research and licensing agreement focused on ...

March 1, 2021 | Monday | News
HitGen, UPPTHERA collaborate for drug discovery research

Chinese firm HitGen has announced that it has entered into a drug discovery research collaboration with UPPTHERA Inc to ...

March 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Insilico Medicine discovers industry first preclinical drug candidate using AI

China based Insilico Medicine has demonstrated a breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence ("AI") and drug disco...

February 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
China's Suntrap discovers LeSoleil to fight COVID-19 and future epidemics

AI-assisted computing has greatly improved the efficiency of new drug research and development. China's Suntrap Life Tec...

February 15, 2021 | Monday | News
The Next-generation antimalarial treatment designed to tackle the drug-resistance challenge

Since the previous century, Tropical and subtropical regions have been grappling under the parasitic...

February 9, 2021 | Tuesday | Opinion
Korea approves first anti-COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment

Celltrion Group has announced that the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) of South Korea has granted conditional ma...

February 8, 2021 | Monday | News
India's Biocon Biologics to offer Oncology Biosimilars in over 30 countries

Biocon Biologics Ltd., a fully integrated ‘pure-play’ biosimilars company and a subsidiary of Bioc...

February 5, 2021 | Friday | News
Hong Kong develops formula for treating Alzheimer's disease

Researchers from the School of Chinese Medicine (SCM) at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have developed a ...

February 5, 2021 | Friday | News

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