Takeda gets NDA approval for VAXEM Hib vaccine in Japan

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has approve...

February 1, 2016 | Monday | News
Aspirin use increases risk of age-related eye disease

Singapore: Researchers at the Centre for Vision Research from the Westmead Millennium Institute for Medical Research (WM...

January 23, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Systems Toxicology Computational Challenge explores toxicant prediction

Singapore: The Systems Toxicology Computational Challenge run under the sbv IMPROVER umbrella, a crowdsourcing initiativ...

July 20, 2016 | Wednesday | News
University of Dundee, Ono Pharma to collaborate on drug research

A Japanese delegation will initiate a partnership with University of Dundee seeking to develop new treatments for inflam...

February 11, 2016 | Thursday | News
FDA approves Eli Lilly's combination drug for metastatic colorectal cancer

Singapore: US Food and Drug Administration has approved Eli Lilly's ramucirumab (Cyramza) for use in combination with Fo...

April 27, 2015 | Monday | Regulatory
Scientists use tiniest human protein to heal heart

Singapore: Scientists at A*Star's Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) and Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IM...

December 9, 2013 | Monday | News
Asia's lung cancer burden

Lung cancer occurs in two types, small cell lung cancer and the more prevalent non-small scale lung cancer. According to...

April 8, 2016 | Friday | Analysis
BMS uses Santaris platform for drug discovery

Singapore: Santaris Pharma, a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on developing medicines targeted to disea...

April 18, 2013 | Thursday | News
Mitsubishi Tanabe to manufacture diabetes drug Tenelia

Singapore: Japanese company Mitsubishi Tanabe has received approval to manufacture and market the selective DPP-4 inhibi...

July 2, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Wockhardt increases investment in R&D

Singapore: Addressing shareholders in the company's annual report, Indian drugmaker Wockhardt said that the company plan...

September 7, 2015 | Monday | News
Sosei' subsidiary Heptares records positive outcome of Schizophrenia drug

Sosei Group Corporation has reported that Heptares Therapeutics, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan's Sosei Group Corp...

February 12, 2016 | Friday | News
FDA warns against Mitshubi Tanabe's type 2 diabetes drug

Singapore: US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned against type 2 diabetes medicine, canagliflozin (Invokana, I...

September 14, 2015 | Monday | News
Aussie anesthetic firm gets patent from 7 nations

Singapore: Australia-based Drawbridge Pharmaceuticals has been granted patent for its anesthetic formulation Phaxan in t...

October 29, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Australia's TransBio, DendroCyte to develop antibody for transplant rejection

Singapore: Australia based TransBio and DendroCyte BioTech have entered into a multi-year collaboration to discover and ...

September 22, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo files NDA for Prasugrel in Japan

Singapore: Japanese drug major Daiichi Sankyo submitted a New Drug Application to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welf...

June 19, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Orient launches prostate cancer drug in SE Asia

Singapore: Orient EuroPharma, a specialty pharmaceutical company focused in marketing and commercialization has partnere...

May 27, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Innate Immunotherapeutics completes $9mn IPO

Singapore: Innate Immunotherapeutics has raised $8.9 million (AUD10 million) through its Initial Public Offer (IPO) that...

December 18, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Cadila Healthcare eyeing US, Europe markets

Singapore: With an eye on advanced markets like US and Europe, India's Cadila Healthcare has said that it would soon sta...

September 15, 2014 | Monday | News