Viralytics melanoma trial meets primary endpoint

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 18 Sep, 2013

Singapore: Australia-based biotech company, Viralytics, achieved the primary endpoint in its phase II clinical trial of ...Read more

Oramed submits pre-IND to FDA for exenatide

Drug Discovery |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 04 Sep, 2013

Singapore: Oramed Pharmaceuticals, developer of oral drug delivery systems, submitted a pre-investigational new drug (pr...Read more

GE fortifies iPS cell-derived cellular assay avenue

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 19 Dec, 2012

Singapore: GE Healthcare Life Sciences has licensed Cellular Dynamics International, US-based commercial producer of hum...Read more

Daiichi's thrombosis drug meets primary endpoint

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 02 Sep, 2013

Singapore: Global phase III clinical trial of once-daily edoxaban for the treatment of acute symptomatic deep vein throm...Read more

J&J, Pfizer halt phase III trial of Alzheimer's drug

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 07 Aug, 2012

Singapore: Johnson & Johnson (J&J) discontinued phase III clinical development of bapineuzumab intravenous (IV) ...Read more

Evotec acquires Sanofi's drug discovery site

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 04 Dec, 2014

Singapore: German firm Evotec has acquired Sanofi's drug discovery operation in Toulouse to build an European centre of ...Read more

FDA breakthrough for Roche's MS drug

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 19 Feb, 2016

Roche has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation for t...Read more

Prima BioMed's immunotherapeutic drug secures Japanese patent

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 03 May, 2016

May 3, 2016: Australia-based Prima BioMed Ltd has announced that the company has been granted patent number 5908210 enti...Read more

MD Anderson, Astellas collaborate to develop new drug for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 08 Apr, 2015

Japanese pharma giant Astellas Pharma Inc. and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has signed an option ag...Read more

Merck Millipore appoints Dr Udit Batra as CEO and President

Drug Discovery |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 2 Comment | 15 Apr, 2014

Singapore: Merck Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck, has appointed Dr Udit Batra as its new President and CEO...Read more

US Pharmacopeial convention expands in China

Drug Discovery |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 2 Comment | 13 Jan, 2014

Singapore: US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP), a nonprofit global health organization that creates and promotes quality s...Read more

China's Adagene raises $28 million

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 01 Feb, 2016

Singapore: Adagene, China based antibody discovery and development company, has raised USD28 million Series B financing ...Read more

Merck, China firm to co-develop DNA repair drug

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 14 Nov, 2013

‎Singapore: Merck Serono, the biopharmaceutical division of Merck, has signed a global licensing, co-development, ...Read more

Pneumonia kills a 5-year-old child every 30 secs: UN

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 14 Nov, 2013

Singapore: Pneumonia remains the single biggest killer of children under the age of five globally, claiming the lives of...Read more

EMA gives Patrys cancer drug orphan status

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 12 Sep, 2013

Singapore: Australia-based Patrys, a clinical stage biotechnology company, has been granted orphan drug designation by t...Read more

Novogen drug candidate effective as anti-cancer agent in preclinical studies

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

Singapore: US-Australian drug discovery company, Novogen's drug candidate, Anisina, has progressed successfully in pre-c...Read more

Translation of ideas is Australia's key to growth'

Drug Discovery |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 5 Comment | 30 Sep, 2014

Over the past decade the world's centre of economic gravity has shifted from US and Europe to Asia at a speed and scale ...Read more

Researchers develop novel solutions to fight the obesity gene

Drug Discovery |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 20 Oct, 2014

Singapore: A research team led by scientists from National University of Singapore (NUS) has identified several potent i...Read more