Nanotherapeutics seeks GE help to step up development

Singapore: Biopharmaceutical company Nanotherapeutics has selected GE Healthcare Life Sciences' FlexFactory biomanufactu...

January 24, 2014 | Friday | News
Steroid pioneer gets Heritage Foundation, BIO award

Singapore: Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) and Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) have selected Mexican steroi...

April 22, 2013 | Monday | Influencers
Austrianova starts cell bank for cancer therapy

Singapore: Austrianova Singapore has established a research cell bank, the first step towards late-phase clinical trials...

March 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
Takeda, Dainippon to market schizophrenia drug

Singapore: Japanese companies Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma and Takeda Pharmaceutical have obtained approval for marketing a...

August 13, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Astellas to pay $300 mn for cancer drug conjugates

Singapore: Japan's Astellas Pharma has collaborated with US-based Ambrx for the discovery and development of novel antib...

April 5, 2013 | Friday | News
Jubilant, Janssen expand drug discovery alliance

Singapore: Jubilant Biosys, a subsidiary of Bangalore-based Jubilant Life Sciences, has expanded its drug discovery alli...

February 21, 2014 | Friday | News
Patrys' 2nd group concludes treatment in Germany

Singapore: Patrys completed initial treatment of second group of three patients in its phase I/IIa PAT-SM6 multiple myel...

April 10, 2013 | Wednesday | News
AstraZeneca biologics R&D arm acquires Amplimmune

Singapore: AstraZeneca's global biologics R&D arm, MedImmune, plans to acquire Amplimmune, which is a US-based biolo...

August 27, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Biostar, Shaanxi Uni to co-develop liver cancer drug

Singapore: Biostar Pharmaceuticals, a China-based manufacturer and marketer of pharmaceutical and health supplement prod...

March 7, 2014 | Friday | News
Otsuka schizophrenia relapse gets FDA nod

Singapore: Japan-based Otsuka Pharmaceutical and H Lundbeck have received US FDA approval for Abilify Maintena (aripipra...

March 1, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Novogen to develop new class of cancer drugs

Singapore: Australia-based Novogen has acquired a novel drug technology that will be developed as a potentially major cl...

October 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
FDA issues complete response letter for XARELTO

Singapore: US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued a complete response letter regarding a supplemental New Dru...

June 22, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
Sanofi to develop novel drugs for drug-resistant TB

Singapore: Sanofi and the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) entered a research collaboration to acce...

September 25, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Lupin aims high with a strong R&D focus

Lupin Pharmaceutical, which aims to be the best transnational pharmaceutical company in the world, stroked 10.64 percent...

June 18, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Phosphagenics appoints three new non-executive directors

Singapore: Australian drug delivery technology company Phosphagenics has appointed biotech industry veterans Mr Lawrence...

March 4, 2014 | Tuesday | Influencers
MerLion completes phase I of finafloxacin study

Singapore: Following successful first-in-man phase I and two phase IIa clinical studies with the oral formulation of fin...

November 8, 2012 | Thursday | News
Changing the paradigm of drug development

Recent promising data on drug approvals in 2011 shows that there were 35 new molecular entities (NME) approved by the FD...

February 8, 2013 | Friday | Opinion
Medivir, Daewoong end hepatitis drug development

Singapore: Sweden-based Medivir has discontinued the development of its hepatitis B compound MIV-210 based on a joint de...

September 9, 2013 | Monday | News