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 | 4 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
China's Innovent raises $100 mn
Drug Discovery | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 31 Jan, 2015
Singapore: China biotech firm, Innovent Biologics, has raised $100 million in Series C financing led by Legend Capital, ...Read more
Network Verfication Challenge gains momentum
Drug Discovery | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 31 Jul, 2015
Singapore: Scientific consensus in the Network Verification Challenge, conducted in Spain from 15-18 June 2015, has exhi...Read more
Today scientists have poor frustration tolerance: Glivec discoverer
Drug Discovery | Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 2 Comment | 25 Jun, 2013
Dr Alex Matter, CEO, Experimental Therapeutics Center, A*Star, Singapore, is among the pioneers of the world's first tar...Read more
Australia grants $7 mn to uplift cancer research
Drug Discovery | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 11 May, 2015
Singapore: Cancer Council NSW, Australia's non-government cancer research funder, has granted almost $7 million to resea...Read more
Novogen progresses on drug for paediatric brain cancer
Drug Discovery | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 08 May, 2015
Singapore: US-Australian drug discovery company, Novogen, in conjunction with Australian paediatric cancer researchers, ...Read more
WHO urges nations to act on hepatitis threat
Drug Discovery | Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 1 Comment | 26 Jul, 2013
Singapore: The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging governments to act against the five hepatitis viruses that can...Read more
Novogen develops drug to enhance chemotherapy effect
Drug Discovery | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 15 Jul, 2015
Singapore: Australian drug discovery company, Novogen, has developed anti-tropomyosin drug candidate, Anisina, which has...Read more
Eloxatin shows +ve results in tumor inhibition
Drug Discovery | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 11 Sep, 2013
Singapore: Australia-based Starpharma Holdings has achieved improved tumor-inhibiting efficacy and reduced overall toxic...Read more
Oxycodone patch resumes clinical development
Drug Discovery | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 05 Apr, 2013
Singapore: Australian drug delivery technology company, Phosphagenics, will be returning to the clinic with its oxycodo...Read more
Drug delivery: 11 technologies of the future
Drug Discovery | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 16 May, 2012
The drug delivery technology landscape is rapidly evolving with new classes of pharmaceuticals and biologics fuelling th...Read more
Starpharma appoints Robert Thomas as board member
Drug Discovery | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 11 Nov, 2013
Singapore: Australia based pharmacuetical company, Starpharma, has appointed Mr Robert Thomas to the Board as a non-exec...Read more
Australia supports budding medical researchers
Drug Discovery | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 11 May, 2015
Singapore: Australia's Balnaves Foundation has donated $450,000 to the University of Sydney's medical school to help pro...Read more
TGA approves chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting drug
Drug Discovery | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 11 May, 2015
Singapore: Australian biopharmaceutical company, Specialised Therapeutics Australia (STA), and Helsinn, a Swiss group fo...Read more
OTC drug may be key to multiple sclerosis
Drug Discovery | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 22 Apr, 2015
Singapore: Two approved drugs, an antifungal and a steroid, may potentially take on new roles as treatments for multiple...Read more