NUS scientists discover the switch that makes breast cancer cells aggressive

Singapore: A team of scientists from National University of Singapore (NUS) has established novel insights into the rel...

November 2, 2016 | Wednesday | News
"Prevalence of COPD in Asia is similar to western countries"

GlaxoSmithKline and biopharmaceutical company, Innoviva, have concluded Salford Lung Study (SLS), a Phase IIIb multi-cen...

October 27, 2016 | Thursday | Influencers
Singapore develops oral-anti-diabetic drug

Singapore: Singapore has completed phase I clinical trial of an oral-anti-diabetic drug developed by Department of Pharm...

October 21, 2016 | Friday | News
South Korea's Hanmi pharmaceuticals in troubled waters!

Singapore: New blockbuster cancer drug from South Korea's Hanmi pharmaceuticals is in troubled waters after a patient di...

October 14, 2016 | Friday | News
"We are looking to collaborate with visionary research institutes to develop new methods of discovering cancer"

Singapore: Waters Corporation recently collaborated with Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI), a research institute ...

October 4, 2016 | Tuesday | Influencers
Renowned neurologist, Allen Roses, passes away

Singapore: Allen David Roses, a renowned neurologist who pioneered breakthrough research in Alzhiemer's Disease, passed ...

October 5, 2016 | Wednesday | Influencers
Australia changes drug approval norms to speed up approval process

Singapore: With a view to speed up the approval process and improve access to breakthrough drugs, the Australian federal...

September 21, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Semaglutide reduces risk of cardiovascular problems among type 2 Diabetic patients

Munich: Danish Drug maker Novo Nordisk recently announced that patients treated with Semaglutide, an investigational glu...

September 19, 2016 | Monday | News
Eisai receives license for new indication for anticancer agent Kisplyx

TOKYO: Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that its European regional headquarters Eisai Europe Ltd. has received license from the...

September 15, 2016 | Thursday | News
Singapore develops new protein to alter DNA in living cells

Singapore: Researchers in Singapore have developed a new protein that can alter DNA in living cells with much higher pre...

September 14, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Glenmark receives ANDA approval for Nystatin, Triamcinolone Acetonide ointment

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals USA (Glenmark) has been granted final approval by the United States Food & Drug Administrat...

August 8, 2016 | Monday | News
Novogen progresses on drugs against genetic, degenerative disorders

Singapore: Australian company Novogen, engaged in a pilot program aimed at breakthrough development of drugs to treat a ...

November 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
Glenmark develops first-of-its-kind antibody

Singapore: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has started the discovery and initiation of IND enabling studies of a novel clinical...

February 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Tivozanib shows superiority over sorafenib in trial

Singapore: Investigational agent, tivozanib, has demonstrated statistically significant and clinically meaningful PFS su...

May 18, 2012 | Friday | News
Pluristem secures Japan's PMDA nod on regenerative drug trial protocol

Pluristem Therapeutics Inc., Israel's developer of placenta-based cell therapy products, has reached an agreement with J...

December 22, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Bone Medical reveals results of arthritis study

Singapore: Australia-based Bone Medical, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of new medicines for mus...

January 30, 2013 | Wednesday | News
FDA nod for Novartis Cushing's disease drug Signifor

Singapore: The US FDA's Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee (EMDAC) has voted unanimously in support o...

November 8, 2012 | Thursday | News
Chugai gets positive outcome from Actemra Subcutaneous Injection trials

Japanese pharmaceutical giant Chugai Pharmaceutical Co Ltd has announced that its Actemra Subcutaneous Injection (Actemr...

May 17, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Prosetta Biosciences, Takeda to co-discover drugs for neurodegenerative diseases

Prosetta Biosciences Inc. has entered into a Feasibility and First Right of Negotiation Agreement with Japan's Takeda Ph...

May 3, 2016 | Tuesday | News
FDA approves Lupin's new generic

Pharma Major Lupin announced that its US subsidiary, Gavis Pharmaceuticals LLC., (collectively Lupin) has received final...

June 23, 2016 | Thursday | News
Gout therapeutics market clocks $988.7 mn in 2011

Singapore: GlobalData's analysis shows that the global gout therapeutics market grew at a compound annual growth rate (...

May 23, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
Pfizer, Repligen to push spinal muscular atrophy program

Singapore: US-based Repligen has entered into an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with Pfizer to advance Repligen...

January 7, 2013 | Monday | News
UK commits $1.6 bn to fight AIDS, TB, Malaria

Singapore: United Kingdom (UK) has committed to contrbute $1.6 billion to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Ms Just...

September 24, 2013 | Tuesday | News
China firm Beigene raises $75 mn

Singapore: China based biotech firm developing targeted and immune-oncology therapeutics, BeiGene, has raised $75 millio...

November 18, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Johns Hopkins releases NCD policy briefs

Singapore: Johns Hopkins University's Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterpris...

February 5, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Suven gets patents for NCE in Canada, China and India

Bangalore: Suven Life Sciences received three product patents one each from Canada (2600271), China (CN 101544592B) and ...

February 4, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Gilead's cancer drug under FDA scrutiny

Singapore: US Food and Drug Administration has raised alarm for Gilead Science's cancer medicine Zydelig (idelalisib) du...

March 15, 2016 | Tuesday | Regulatory
CytRx gets FDA nod Aldoxorubicin cancer trial

Singapore: US-based CytRx, a biopharmaceutical R&D company specializing in oncology, reached an agreement with the U...

May 10, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
China's Zai Lab raises $100mn

Singapore: China based Zai Lab, an innovative biopharmaceutical company, has secured over $100 million in Series B finan...

January 11, 2016 | Monday | News
CSL files marketing plea for Privigen in Europe

Singapore: Australian company CSL Behring has submitted a variation application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) f...

June 1, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
Orient, NanoCarrier sign deal for Nanoplatin trial

Singapore: Taiwan company Orient Europharma and Japan-based pharmaceutical company NanoCarrier have signed a new agreeme...

November 29, 2012 | Thursday | News
Novogen's ovarian cancer drug set for trials in H1 2016

US-Australian drug discovery company, Novogen Limited has provided an update on progress regarding the development of Ca...

May 3, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Japanese scientist inch closer to Toxoplasma vaccine discovery

Tokyo: Toxoplasma gondii is a common parasite which causes the development of fatal encephalosis or pneumonia in immunod...

November 4, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Australia's Gordagen forays into Japan with Matsumoto's support

Tokyo: Gordagen Pharmaceuticals, an Australian company developing evidence-based nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals, has...

January 6, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Takeda gets NDA approval for VAXEM Hib vaccine in Japan

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has approve...

February 1, 2016 | Monday | News
Aspirin use increases risk of age-related eye disease

Singapore: Researchers at the Centre for Vision Research from the Westmead Millennium Institute for Medical Research (WM...

January 23, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Systems Toxicology Computational Challenge explores toxicant prediction

Singapore: The Systems Toxicology Computational Challenge run under the sbv IMPROVER umbrella, a crowdsourcing initiativ...

July 20, 2016 | Wednesday | News
University of Dundee, Ono Pharma to collaborate on drug research

A Japanese delegation will initiate a partnership with University of Dundee seeking to develop new treatments for inflam...

February 11, 2016 | Thursday | News
FDA approves Eli Lilly's combination drug for metastatic colorectal cancer

Singapore: US Food and Drug Administration has approved Eli Lilly's ramucirumab (Cyramza) for use in combination with Fo...

April 27, 2015 | Monday | Regulatory
Scientists use tiniest human protein to heal heart

Singapore: Scientists at A*Star's Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) and Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IM...

December 9, 2013 | Monday | News
Asia's lung cancer burden

Lung cancer occurs in two types, small cell lung cancer and the more prevalent non-small scale lung cancer. According to...

April 8, 2016 | Friday | Analysis
BMS uses Santaris platform for drug discovery

Singapore: Santaris Pharma, a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on developing medicines targeted to disea...

April 18, 2013 | Thursday | News
Mitsubishi Tanabe to manufacture diabetes drug Tenelia

Singapore: Japanese company Mitsubishi Tanabe has received approval to manufacture and market the selective DPP-4 inhibi...

July 2, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Wockhardt increases investment in R&D

Singapore: Addressing shareholders in the company's annual report, Indian drugmaker Wockhardt said that the company plan...

September 7, 2015 | Monday | News
Sosei' subsidiary Heptares records positive outcome of Schizophrenia drug

Sosei Group Corporation has reported that Heptares Therapeutics, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan's Sosei Group Corp...

February 12, 2016 | Friday | News
FDA warns against Mitshubi Tanabe's type 2 diabetes drug

Singapore: US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned against type 2 diabetes medicine, canagliflozin (Invokana, I...

September 14, 2015 | Monday | News
Aussie anesthetic firm gets patent from 7 nations

Singapore: Australia-based Drawbridge Pharmaceuticals has been granted patent for its anesthetic formulation Phaxan in t...

October 29, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Australia's TransBio, DendroCyte to develop antibody for transplant rejection

Singapore: Australia based TransBio and DendroCyte BioTech have entered into a multi-year collaboration to discover and ...

September 22, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo files NDA for Prasugrel in Japan

Singapore: Japanese drug major Daiichi Sankyo submitted a New Drug Application to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welf...

June 19, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Orient launches prostate cancer drug in SE Asia

Singapore: Orient EuroPharma, a specialty pharmaceutical company focused in marketing and commercialization has partnere...

May 27, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Innate Immunotherapeutics completes $9mn IPO

Singapore: Innate Immunotherapeutics has raised $8.9 million (AUD10 million) through its Initial Public Offer (IPO) that...

December 18, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Cadila Healthcare eyeing US, Europe markets

Singapore: With an eye on advanced markets like US and Europe, India's Cadila Healthcare has said that it would soon sta...

September 15, 2014 | Monday | News
Rock Creek granted Japanese, European, US Patent for lead compound

Rock Creek Pharmaceuticals Inc, a clinical-stage drug development company focused on the application of its lead compoun...

May 6, 2016 | Friday | News
Infect mosquitoes with Wolbachia, stop diseases

Singapore: Scientists at Melbourne University and University of California have found that mosquito that are infected wi...

April 11, 2013 | Thursday | News
LabCorp launches 4th gen HIV antigen assay

Singapore: Laboratory Corporation of America has released 4th generation HIV antigen/antibody combination assay and a ne...

November 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
FDA designates Chugai's bispecific antibody as breakthrough therapy

Japan's pharma giant, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. has reported that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted ...

September 14, 2015 | Monday | News
NZ gets drug that glows brain tumour

Singapore: A novel drug, GLIOLAN (aminolevulinic acid HCl), that helps neurosurgeons to better visualise and remove mali...

September 21, 2015 | Monday | News
Singapore develops animal-free screening platform to predict nephrotoxicity

Singapore: Researchers from Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have developed an animal-fr...

October 9, 2015 | Friday | News
Shionogi's constipation drug phase III study shows significant improvement

The US subsidiary of Osaka-based Shionogi has announced results of its pivotal phase III study (COMPOSE I). The study re...

February 22, 2016 | Monday | News
LBT Innovations inks partnership with French tech firm

Singapore: Australian medical technology company, LBT Innovations, has signed a license agreement with French in vitro d...

August 27, 2015 | Thursday | News
CARsgen partners with Shanghai Cancer Institute to develop cancer immunotherapies

Singapore: China based CARsgen Therapeutics, a private and venture backed company focused on the development of CAR-T-ba...

September 30, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Actavis to acquire Forest Lab

Singapore: Actavis has recieved US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) nod to acquire Forest Laboratories following a propose...

July 1, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Phylogica appoints CEO, CSO, CFO

Singapore: Leading Australian peptide drug discovery company Phylogica appointed Dr Richard Hopkins as the company's new...

July 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Kowa Pharma and Eli Lilly release PK study result

Singapore: Kowa Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly released results from a pharmacokinetic (PK) study exploring potential dru...

July 23, 2012 | Monday | News
TWi's diabetes drug recieves patent allowance from Europe, Russia

Singapore: Taiwan based TWi Biotechnology has received patent allowance for AC-201, its lead drug candidate, from the Eu...

August 3, 2015 | Monday | News
Japanese stem cell company ReproCELL acquires Biopta

Tokyo: Japanese regenerative medicine company ReproCELL Inc. has announced the acquisition of the Scottish life science...

November 26, 2015 | Thursday | News
IBM, A*Star co-develop anti-microbial hydrogel

Singapore: Researchers from A*Star's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) and IBM have unveiled first-e...

January 24, 2013 | Thursday | News
Pfizer launches targeted therapy for lung cancer in Singapore

Singapore: Pfizer has launched Xalkori, a targeted therapy for ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), in Singa...

August 4, 2015 | Tuesday | Regulatory
HSA nod for Aslan rheumatoid arthritis drug

Singapore: Aslan Pharmaceuticals received approval by the Singapore Health Sciences Authority (HSA) for its Clinical Tri...

April 23, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Celsion launches cancer drug trial in China

Singapore: Celsion Corporation, a fully-integrated oncology company focused on the development of a portfolio of innovat...

March 8, 2016 | Tuesday | News
China SFDA passes Sihuan Pharma's Roxatidine

Singapore: Sihuan Pharmaceutical Holdings' roxatidine acetate hydrochloride for injection (Roxatidine), which is the com...

May 28, 2012 | Monday | News
Takeda, DND to accelerate drug discovery for parasite infection

Singapore: Geneva based Drugs for Neglected Diseases and Japan's Takeda have collaborated for a Lead Optimization Progra...

July 29, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Abbott marks success with naturally dissolving stent in Japan

Global life sciences company Abbott has announced that the company has observed positive clinical results from ABSORB Ja...

September 2, 2015 | Wednesday | News
BI shows afatinib to be effective in advanced squamous cell carcinoma of lung

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim has achieved positive results from the trial of afatinib in comparison to erlotinib in p...

June 11, 2015 | Thursday | News
Novartis partners with Mereo BioPharma to enhance novel drug portfolio

Singapore: Novartis has partnered with UK based Mereo BioPharma to develop compounds including BPS-804, to improve bone ...

July 31, 2015 | Friday | News
Jubilant Biosys collaborates with Sanofi to develop metabolic disorders therapy

Singapore: India based Jubilant Biosys, subsidiary of Jubilant Life Sciences, and Germany based Sanofi Deutschland have ...

January 11, 2016 | Monday | News
Amgen terninates phase III cancer trial

Singapore: Amgen decided to stop the ganitumab (AMG 479) phase III GAMMA (gemcitabine and AMG 479 in metastatic adenocar...

August 9, 2012 | Thursday | News
Minerva derives positive outcome of Insomnia drug study in Japanese patients

NASDAQ-listed Minerva Neurosciences Inc, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of therap...

February 2, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Singapore cancer genome scientists win President's Science Award

Singapore: A team comprising Professor Patrick Tan from Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS) and A*STAR's Genome ...

September 17, 2015 | Thursday | News
Positive results for Otsuka's MDR-TB treatment

Singapore: Clinical trial results on the safety and efficacy of delamanid, Otsuka Pharmaceutical's investigational compo...

June 7, 2012 | Thursday | News
Boehringer, Lilly complete type 2 diabetes study

Singapore: Recruitment of patients for CAROLINA (cardiovascular outcome study of Linagliptin versus Glimepiride in patie...

November 12, 2012 | Monday | News
Linagliptin efficacy further established in specific patient populations

Seoul: Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly & Company have announced new data that reinforces the efficacy and tolerab...

November 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
CSL Behring seeks Japan PMDA approval for Hemophilia drug

Global biotherapeutics company CSL Behring has submitted its new drug application (NDA) to Japan's Pharmaceuticals and M...

December 22, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Boehringer Ingelheim, Hanmi to co-develop lung cancer drug

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim and Korea's Hanmi Pharmaceutical have collaborated for the development and global commer...

July 30, 2015 | Thursday | News
Charleston Laboratories, Daiichi Sankyo receives FDA acceptance for CL-108 NDA

Singapore: New Jersey's Charleston Laboratories Inc and Japanese major Daiichi Sankyo Inc have announced that the US Foo...

June 14, 2016 | Tuesday | News
German firm proceeds on ebola vaccine trial

Singapore: Germany based complex biologics development and manufacturing specialist, ProBioGen, has proceeded on the cli...

June 4, 2015 | Thursday | News
Australian researchers find key gene behind Type 2 Diabetes

A finding, published in the Latin American Herald Tribune, says that a genetic study of people with Down's syndrome help...

May 23, 2016 | Monday | News
Multiple myeloma treatment market to reach $8.9 bn by 2021, analyst

Singapore: Global multiple myeloma treatment market value will expand from $7.3 billion in 2014 to $8.9 billion by 2021,...

August 21, 2015 | Friday | Analysis
Novartis buys GSK's antibody drug, Ofatumumab

Singapore: Novartis has proceeded to acquire all remaining rights of GSK's  Ofatumumab, a fully human monoclonal antibo...

August 21, 2015 | Friday | News
Bionomics files patent application for cancer drug

Singapore: Bionomics, a biopharmaceutical company, has filed a patent application for BNC105 in combination with immune ...

June 16, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Teijin, Pulmagen enter agreement for asthma drug

Singapore: Tokyo-based Teijin Pharma, the core company of the Teijin Group's healthcare business, and Pulmagen Therapeu...

September 28, 2012 | Friday | News
FDA approves Novartis' drug for rare blood disorder

Singapore: Novartis has recieved USFDA approval for Promacta (eltrombopag) for the treatment of children six years and o...

June 13, 2015 | Saturday | Regulatory
Agilent, Queensland univ join hands for cancer research

Singapore: Agilent Technologies plans to collaborate with the University of Queensland Center for Clinical Research in B...

November 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
CrystalGenomics partners with Dong-A for Acelex commercialization

Singapore: Korea based CrystalGenomics has signed a sales and marketing agreement with Dong-A ST for the commercializati...

August 14, 2015 | Friday | News
Japanese researchers discover potential drug target for muscle disease

Tokyo: In collaboration with the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto University, a team of CiRA researchers...

August 24, 2015 | Monday | News
AMRI acquires spanish API firm at $174 mn

Singapore: AMRI has acquired all the outstanding shares of Spanish firm, Gadea Pharmaceutical Group, specializing in tec...

July 20, 2015 | Monday | News
Kowa, Chugai to market liver cancer drug

Singapore: Japan's Kowa Company and Chugai Pharmaceutical have entered into license agreement for liver cancer drug pere...

July 21, 2015 | Tuesday | News
SCIEX expands lipidomics portfolio

Singapore: SCIEX, a life science analytical technologies provider, and Metabolon, a global company focused on metabolomi...

June 17, 2015 | Wednesday | News
RaQualia, Interprotein to research on pain drug

Singapore: RaQualia Pharma and Interprotein entered into a collaborative research agreement. The partnership will focus...

February 4, 2013 | Monday | News
Novartis gets EU nod for combination therapy for skin cancer

Singapore: European Medicines Agency (EMA) has given a positive indication to Novartis' combination therapy of Tafinlar ...

July 27, 2015 | Monday | News

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