FDA approves single dosage HIV drug

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved US-based ViiV Healthcare's single dose Triumeq tablet...

August 25, 2014 | Monday | Regulatory
DNA repair drug could treat leukaemia: Singapore

Singapore: A team of scientists at National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered that a drug originally designe...

August 25, 2014 | Monday | News
Abivax initiates Ph IIa clinical trial of HIV drug

Singapore: Abivax, a leading clinical stage biotech company developing and commercializing anti-viral compounds and huma...

February 3, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Eisai UK site to make epilepsy drug for US

Singapore: Japan-based Eisai recieved US FDA approval for the US supply of the epilepsy drug Fycompa (perampanel) from i...

September 12, 2013 | Thursday | News
J&J neuro R&D head uses street drug to treat depression

Singapore: Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is contemplating the thought of treating depression using popular street drug...

May 27, 2013 | Monday | News
FDA's call on Rytary delayed by 3 months

Singapore: Impax laboratories in Taiwan recently announced that FDA had delayed its decision on Rytary, the first non-ge...

September 18, 2014 | Thursday | News
Hironic to begin world's first HIFU Urinary Incontinence treatment study in Japan

Singapore: Hironic, based out of Seoul, Korea, is an innovator of medical aesthetic laser and energy devices. The compan...

June 27, 2016 | Monday | News
Japanese GHIT Fund to include diagnostics and drugs for leishmaniasis

The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund) of Japan, which in the last two years has funded almost $32 mil...

May 22, 2015 | Friday | News
ASLAN raises $43 mn in series C financing round

Singapore: ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, Singapore based biotech company focused on the development of immunotherapies and targ...

January 7, 2016 | Thursday | News
New drug formulation for respiratory system infections

Singapore: A team from A*STAR's Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES) and National University Hospital (...

September 18, 2014 | Thursday | News
Novartis finds no evidence of wrongdoing in clinical trials

Singapore: Novartis Pharma KK has found no evidence that data on clinical trials for its hypertension drug Diovan had be...

July 31, 2013 | Wednesday | News
BI, Lilly's diabetes drug Linagliptin shows efficacy

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly's investigational Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) drug dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4...

August 16, 2013 | Friday | News
Actavis 'pregnancy preventer' gets FDA nod

Singapore: US FDA has accepted Actavis' New Drug Application (NDA) for a progestin-only transdermal contraceptive patch ...

May 17, 2013 | Friday | News
Aussie firm Phosphagenics raises $11.45 mn

Singapore: Australian drug delivery company, Phosphagenics, has raised $11.45 million of its $15.29 million capital rais...

July 22, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Patrys gets nod to progress myeloma trial

Singapore: Patrys, Australia's clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, has received approval to progress its phase I/I...

January 14, 2013 | Monday | News
Eisai seeks approval for antiepileptic agent in Japan

Singapore: Eisai has submitted a marketing authorization application to Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (M...

August 31, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
Bayer progresses on APAC hepatocellular carcinoma trial

Singapore: GIDEON (Global Investigation of therapeutic Decisions in hepatocellular carcinoma and of its treatment with s...

June 11, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Cipla malaria drug gets WHO pre-qualification

Mumbai: Cipla along with the non-profit R&D organization, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), revealed t...

October 4, 2012 | Thursday | News