Novartis buys GSK's antibody drug, Ofatumumab

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 21 Aug, 2015

Singapore: Novartis has proceeded to acquire all remaining rights of GSK's  Ofatumumab, a fully human monoclonal antibo...Read more

Bionomics files patent application for cancer drug

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 16 Jun, 2015

Singapore: Bionomics, a biopharmaceutical company, has filed a patent application for BNC105 in combination with immune ...Read more

Teijin, Pulmagen enter agreement for asthma drug

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 28 Sep, 2012

Singapore: Tokyo-based Teijin Pharma, the core company of the Teijin Group's healthcare business, and Pulmagen Therapeu...Read more

FDA approves Novartis' drug for rare blood disorder

Drug Discovery |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 13 Jun, 2015

Singapore: Novartis has recieved USFDA approval for Promacta (eltrombopag) for the treatment of children six years and o...Read more

Agilent, Queensland univ join hands for cancer research

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 21 Nov, 2013

Singapore: Agilent Technologies plans to collaborate with the University of Queensland Center for Clinical Research in B...Read more

CrystalGenomics partners with Dong-A for Acelex commercialization

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 14 Aug, 2015

Singapore: Korea based CrystalGenomics has signed a sales and marketing agreement with Dong-A ST for the commercializati...Read more

Japanese researchers discover potential drug target for muscle disease

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 1 Comment | 24 Aug, 2015

Tokyo: In collaboration with the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto University, a team of CiRA researchers...Read more

AMRI acquires spanish API firm at $174 mn

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 20 Jul, 2015

Singapore: AMRI has acquired all the outstanding shares of Spanish firm, Gadea Pharmaceutical Group, specializing in tec...Read more

Kowa, Chugai to market liver cancer drug

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 21 Jul, 2015

Singapore: Japan's Kowa Company and Chugai Pharmaceutical have entered into license agreement for liver cancer drug pere...Read more

SCIEX expands lipidomics portfolio

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 17 Jun, 2015

Singapore: SCIEX, a life science analytical technologies provider, and Metabolon, a global company focused on metabolomi...Read more

RaQualia, Interprotein to research on pain drug

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 04 Feb, 2013

Singapore: RaQualia Pharma and Interprotein entered into a collaborative research agreement. The partnership will focus...Read more

Novartis gets EU nod for combination therapy for skin cancer

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 27 Jul, 2015

Singapore: European Medicines Agency (EMA) has given a positive indication to Novartis' combination therapy of Tafinlar ...Read more

Chemistry Nobel winner, Dr Irwin Rose, dies at 88

Drug Discovery |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 6 Comment | 04 Jun, 2015

Singapore: Dr Irwin Rose, an American biologist, who shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004 for the discovery of cell b...Read more

Novartis' Enbrel positive in psoriasis study

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 09 Jul, 2013

Singapore: Novartis' phase III psoriasis study of secukinumab (AIN457) has showed positive outcome in clearing skin to E...Read more

China firms Shuwen, Hengrui to build companion diagnostics

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 31 Jul, 2015

Singapore: China based diagnostic company, Shuwen Biotech, and pharmaceutical firm, Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine have partne...Read more

Bayer conducts Xarelto trials on cancer patients

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 29 May, 2015

Singapore: Bayer HealthCare and its development partner Janssen Pharmaceuticals have initiated the CALLISTO Clinical Res...Read more

Singapore's ASLAN pharma inks MoU with NCCS

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 20 Jul, 2015

Singapore: ASLAN Pharmaceuticals has inked a memorandum of understanding with Singapore's National Cancer Center (NCCS) ...Read more

Pancreatic cancer drug pipeline rich but slow'

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 18 Jun, 2015

Singapore: While the treatment pipeline for pancreatic cancer shows a high level of innovation, with 52 percent of produ...Read more