Novartis buys GSK's antibody drug, Ofatumumab

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

August 21, 2015 | Friday | News
Bionomics files patent application for cancer drug

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

June 16, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Teijin, Pulmagen enter agreement for asthma drug

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

September 28, 2012 | Friday | News
FDA approves Novartis' drug for rare blood disorder

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

June 13, 2015 | Saturday | Regulatory
Agilent, Queensland univ join hands for cancer research

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

November 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
CrystalGenomics partners with Dong-A for Acelex commercialization

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

August 14, 2015 | Friday | News
Japanese researchers discover potential drug target for muscle disease

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

August 24, 2015 | Monday | News
AMRI acquires spanish API firm at $174 mn

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

July 20, 2015 | Monday | News
Kowa, Chugai to market liver cancer drug

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

July 21, 2015 | Tuesday | News
SCIEX expands lipidomics portfolio

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

June 17, 2015 | Wednesday | News
RaQualia, Interprotein to research on pain drug

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

February 4, 2013 | Monday | News
Novartis gets EU nod for combination therapy for skin cancer

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

July 27, 2015 | Monday | News
Chemistry Nobel winner, Dr Irwin Rose, dies at 88

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

June 4, 2015 | Thursday | Influencers
Novartis' Enbrel positive in psoriasis study

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

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
China firms Shuwen, Hengrui to build companion diagnostics

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

July 31, 2015 | Friday | News
Bayer conducts Xarelto trials on cancer patients

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

May 29, 2015 | Friday | News
Singapore's ASLAN pharma inks MoU with NCCS

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

July 20, 2015 | Monday | News
Pancreatic cancer drug pipeline rich but slow'

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

June 18, 2015 | Thursday | News