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TaiGen initiates clinical trial of leukemia drug in China

Singapore: Taiwan's TaiGen Biotechnology has initiated first burixafor trial for relapsed or refractory acute myeloid le...

May 4, 2015 | Monday | News
China approves Bayer's Xarelto

Singapore: Bayer's anticoagulant drug, Xarelto (rivaroxaban), has been approved by the China Food and Drug Administratio...

May 5, 2015 | Tuesday | News
ScinoPharm, Foresee form joint venture

Singapore: Taiwanese company ScinoPharm and US-based Foresee Pharmaceuticals have signed an investment agreement to form...

February 1, 2013 | Friday | News
Novogen's drug shows positive result for brain cancer

Singapore: Australian biotechnology company, Novogen's lead candidate product, TRXE-009, has shown a positive result in ...

March 5, 2015 | Thursday | News
Phosphagenics achieves biggest milestone yet

Singapore: Australian drug delivery technology company, Phosphagenics has achieved succes in its multi-dose oxymorphone ...

October 29, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Aussie firm trials combination therapy for melanoma

Singapore: Australia based Viralytics has initiated a clinical trial to assess its oncolytic virus, Cavatak, in combinat...

September 29, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Aussie chemotherapy drug gets orphan designation

Singappore: US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to chemotherapy drug candidate Can...

April 23, 2015 | Thursday | News
Eisai submits Lenvatinib's new application in Europe

Tokyo: Japan's pharma giant Eisai Co Ltd announced that its European regional headquarters Eisai Europe Ltd has submitte...

January 13, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Baxter expands oncology pipeline through acquisition

Singapore: Baxter has acquired Oncaspar (pegaspargase) product portfolio, a first-line biologic used as part of a multi-...

May 13, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Prana completes phase II trial with PBT2

Singapore: Prana Biotechnology announced the successful completion of Reach2HD, a phase II clinical trial in patients wi...

July 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Clue to future universal dengue vaccine found

Singapore: Scientists at A*Star's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have discovered a clue that has the potential to c...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Lupin hires top Teva, Sandoz staff for R&D in US

Mumbai: Lupin is setting up a R&D center in the US, and has hired the R&D head of Teva Pharmaceuticals and other...

August 13, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Janssen terminates R&D alliance with Hutchison Medipharma

Singapore: Janssen Pharmaceutical has terminated the research and development alliance with China based Hutchison Mediph...

August 26, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Novartis, BIOTEC tie-up to explore Thailand's biodiversity

In 2005, Novartis, a leading healthcare solution provider, decided to partner with The National Center For Genetic Engin...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
BioSpectrum announces the hits and misses of 2013

Asia attracted a lot of interest from foreign multinational giants in the year 2013. This not only led to the increase i...

January 2, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Journey of the Dengue Vaccine

Singapore: Dengue, also known as break bone fever, is currently the most common vector-borne disease. The World Health ...

May 13, 2015 | Wednesday | Analysis
Novartis' bimagrumab gets breakthrough nod from FDA

Singapore: Novartis received US FDA breakthrough therapy designation for BYM338 (bimagrumab) for sporadic inclusion body...

August 21, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
NMT Pharma and CAO Pharma in licensing agreement for anti-cancer drug

Singapore: Singapore based start-up firm, NMT Pharmaceuticals, has acquired an exclusive worldwide license right to furt...

August 26, 2015 | Wednesday | News