Celgene halts phase III trial of cancer drug Revlimid

Singapore: Celgene has discontinued treatment with Revlimid (lenalidomide), prescribed for for multiple myeloma, in open...

July 19, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
BMS seeks Hep C therapy approval in Japan

Singapore: Bristol-Myers Squibb has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to Japan's Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices...

November 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
Daiichi US appoints Glenn Gormley as chairman

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo has appointed Dr Glenn Gormley, as president and chairman of Daiichi Sankyo, US. Dr Gormley w...

October 4, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Singapore nod for BMS, Pfizer heart drug

Singapore: Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in Singapore has approved new treatment, apixaban (Eliquis), marketed by phar...

November 25, 2013 | Monday | News
Aus firm to raise $10 mn for multiple sclerosis drug

Singapore: Australia medical biotechnology company, Innate Immunotherapeutics, plans to raise up to $10.93 million (A$12...

November 27, 2013 | Wednesday | News
WuXi PharmaTech partners with Pharmacyclics

Singapore: Shanghai SynTheAll (STA) Pharmaceutical, subsidiary of WuXi PharmaTech, a leading pharmaceutical, biotechnolo...

November 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
BHR expands brain injury treatment trial

Singapore: BHR Pharma has started recruiting patients, who are suffering from severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), for t...

June 13, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Astellas, Ambit Biosciences begin quizartinib trial

Singapore: Japan-headquartered Astellas Pharma and Ambit Biosciences have initiated the phase IIb open-label clinical tr...

June 6, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Next-Generation Pipetting

Sample preparation is a daily function in any life science research or drug discovery lab and pipetting is a fundamental...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | Influencers
Bayer stops haemophilia trial amidst drug safety concern

Singapore: Bayer HealthCare has stopped its phase II/III study testing its experimental treatment BAY 86-6150 on certain...

May 9, 2013 | Thursday | News
Boehringer seeks EU marketing nod for cancer drug

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim has submitted a marketing authorization application to the European Medicines Agency (EM...

October 18, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
SFJ Pharma, Pfizer collaborate for dacomitinib trial

Singapore: SFJ Pharmaceuticals, primarily focused on funding and executing phase III studies of drugs, has entered into ...

September 10, 2012 | Monday | News
BMS stops Hepatitis C inhibitor development

Singapore: Bristol-Myers Squibb has discontinued the development of BMS-986094 (formerly known as INX-189), a nucleotide...

August 24, 2012 | Friday | News
FDA approves Bayer thromboembolic BP drug

Singapore: Bayer HealthCare has recieved US FDA approval for Adempas (riociguat) tablets for the treatment of adults wit...

October 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
FDA red signal for Genzyme, Bayer multiple sclerosis drug

Singapore: Genzyme, a Sanofi company, received a Refuse to File letter from the US FDA in response to the supplemental B...

September 3, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
NIH funds $45 mn Alzheimer's drug development

Singapore: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is funding $45 million for research aimed at preventing Alzheimer's ...

September 19, 2013 | Thursday | News
Singapore firm to launch next-gen cancer study device

Singapore: Singapore's emerging company Clearbridge BioMedics plans to launch its ClearCell FX System at American Societ...

May 27, 2014 | Tuesday | News
CSL files biologics license plea with FDA

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted Australia-based CSL Behring's biologics license applic...

May 30, 2012 | Wednesday | Regulatory