Bayer conducts Xarelto trials on cancer patients

Singapore: Bayer HealthCare and its development partner Janssen Pharmaceuticals have initiated the CALLISTO Clinical Res...

May 29, 2015 | Friday | News
Singapore's ASLAN pharma inks MoU with NCCS

Singapore: ASLAN Pharmaceuticals has inked a memorandum of understanding with Singapore's National Cancer Center (NCCS) ...

July 20, 2015 | Monday | News
Pancreatic cancer drug pipeline rich but slow'

Singapore: While the treatment pipeline for pancreatic cancer shows a high level of innovation, with 52 percent of produ...

June 18, 2015 | Thursday | News
FDA approves new drug for chemo induced vomiting

Singapore: US Food and Drug Administration has approved Varubi (rolapitant), marketed by US based, to prevent delayed ph...

September 3, 2015 | Thursday | News
BMS appoints Dr Thomas Lynch to its board

Singapore: Bristol-Myers Squibb has elected Dr Thomas J Lynch to the board, effective January 1, 2014. Dr Lynch will ser...

December 11, 2013 | Wednesday | Influencers
Novocure launches Optune in 23 brain cancer centers in Japan

Physicians at 23 brain cancer centers in Japan are now certified to provide Optune to recurrent glioblastoma patients on...

June 1, 2015 | Monday | News
Crystal Pharmatech, Partner Sciences join hands

Singapore: Crystal Pharmatech, a technology-driven solid-state research contract research organization (CRO) based China...

February 27, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Eisai, Quintiles cancer drug program shows +ve results

Singapore: Eisai has revealed therapeutic effects of lenvatinib (generic name- VEGF receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor a...

June 13, 2013 | Thursday | News
Strides Shasun receives USFDA approval for Dutasteride Softgel Capsule

The product is ready for Day 1 launch, said Strides in a press release. Dutasteride is used to treat benign prostatic h...

November 23, 2015 | Monday | News
Eisai publishes phase III results of anti-seizure drug

Singapore: Eisai published the results of its 'adjunctive perampanel for refractory partial-onset seizures: randomized p...

July 26, 2012 | Thursday | News
Gene therapy pipeline in oncology is rich but at early stage'

Singapore: Despite few products having so far reached the market and captured strong revenues, the gene therapy pipeline...

September 29, 2015 | Tuesday | Analysis
PharmaEngine files NDA for metastatic cancer drug

Singapore: Taiwan's PharmaEngine has filed a New Drug Application (NDA) to the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA...

June 2, 2015 | Tuesday | News
AOP Orphan launches drug for Lipodystrophy in HIV patients

Singapore: AOP Orphan, a pharmaceutical company in the field of rare diseases, has launched world's first drug approved ...

August 13, 2015 | Thursday | News
Self monitoring diabetes market to reach $358 mn

Singapore: Three quarters of the population of China and India are diabetic. This translates to a patient pool of nearly...

July 23, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
PeptiDream, Teijin to co-discover peptide-based therapeutics

Tokyo: PeptiDream Inc., a Tokyo-based biopharmaceutical company, has signed a multi-target discovery and optimization co...

September 30, 2015 | Wednesday | News
3SBio, Alteogen to develop antibody for metastatic cancer

Singapore: 3SBio, China-based biotechnology company focused on researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing biop...

October 13, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Roivant acquires GSK's Alzheimer's drug candidate

Singapore: US based Roivant Neurosciences, a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development and commercialization ...

December 30, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Korea's ImmunoMet raises $5.2 mn

Singapore: Korea based ImmunoMet Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing innovative drugs for the treatment of ...

March 14, 2016 | Monday | News
Cellworks, AstraZeneca join hands for TB research

Bangalore: AstraZeneca and Cellworks have announced a collaboration, to speed the design of novel combination therapies ...

July 3, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Dengue can soon be treated!

Singapore: Researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia have identified that existing drugs could be repur...

September 11, 2015 | Friday | News
Genticel secures patent for a targeted therapy for cancer

Singapore: Genticel, a clinical-stage biotechnology company and developer of innovative immunotherapies to prevent cance...

September 8, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Hong Kong approves asthma drug flutiform

‎Singapore: Mundipharma, an Asian pharmaceutical company, has launched Flutiform (fluticasone propionate/formotero...

November 11, 2013 | Monday | News
FDA nod for Novartis eyecare firm's glaucoma drug

Singapore: Alcon, the global leader in eye care and a division of Novartis, has recieved US FDA approval for Simbrinza s...

April 22, 2013 | Monday | News
FDA stamps Merck's Hep C drug as breakthough therapy

Singapore: Merck's grazoprevir/elbasvir, an investigational single tablet regimen for the treatment of chronic hepatitis...

April 9, 2015 | Thursday | Regulatory
Astellas, FibroGen start CKD anemia trial in Japan

Singapore: Japan-based Astellas Pharma and US-based FibroGen initiated a phase II clinical study in Japan of ASP1517/FG-...

July 31, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Aussie firm to begin human trial of cancer detecting antibody

Singapore: Australian immuno-oncology company, Minomic International, is set to launch the first human study of its nove...

October 23, 2015 | Friday | News
USFDA approves 'Female Viagra'

US-based Sprout Pharmaceuticals gained USFDA's approval for Addyi, whose chemical name is Flibanserin, created to enhanc...

August 19, 2015 | Wednesday | News
BioDiem protozoan drug to get Japanese patent

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company, BioDiem, has received allowance of Jap...

May 27, 2013 | Monday | News
Gilead submits NDA for cancer drug Idelalisib

Singapore: Gilead Sciences has submitted a new drug application (NDA) to the US FDA for the approval of Idelalisib, an i...

September 13, 2013 | Friday | News
TWi's drug gets rare disease drug designation in Taiwan

Singapore: Taiwan based TWi Pharmaceutical's drug candidate AC-203 has received designation of rare disease drug by Taiw...

March 11, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Singapore scientists engineer human stem cells

Singapore: A*Star's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have successfully converted human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) c...

December 9, 2013 | Monday | News
Aussie firm likely to get orphan status for its new drug

Singapore: Australia based Prana Biotechnology has recieved positive opinion from European Medicines Agency's Committee ...

April 28, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Eisai, Nihon Medi-Physics to work on dementia intervention

Japanese pharmaceutical giant Eisai Co. Ltd. and Nihon Medi-Physics Co. Ltd. have entered into a collaboration agreement...

April 28, 2015 | Tuesday | News
French firm successfully completes Ph I trial of diabetes drug in Japan

Singapore: French biopharmaceutical company, Poxel, an innovative drug developer for type 2 diabetes, has succesfully co...

May 28, 2015 | Thursday | News
Eisai launches In-house anticancer agent in Japan

Japan's leading pharmaceutical company Eisai Co. Ltd. has launched its in-house developed novel anticancer agent Lenvima...

May 21, 2015 | Thursday | News
AstraZeneca invests in antisense therapies

Singapore: Isis Pharmaceuticals and AstraZeneca have made a strategic collaboration to discover and develop antisense th...

August 3, 2015 | Monday | News
NIH launches clinical trial focused on HIV-related CV disease

Singapore: Researchers have begun enrolling participants in to a multicenter international clinical trial to test whethe...

April 16, 2015 | Thursday | News
Biogen inks autoimmune deal with Mitsubhishi Tanabe pharma

Singapore: US-based Biogen, a leading developer of therapies for neurodegenerative diseases has inked a pact with Japan'...

September 11, 2015 | Friday | News
Janssen seeks approval for drug resistant TB drug in EU

Singapore: Janssen-Cilag International NV (Janssen) submitted a marketing authorization application to the European Medi...

September 4, 2012 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Thailand develops its first-ever indigenous drug

Singapore: Thailand's former science and technology (S&T) minister, Professor Yongyuth Yuthavong, and his team have ...

December 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News
J&J starts clinical trial of Ebola vaccine in Sierra Leone

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has announced the start of a safety and immunogenicity clinical trial in Sierra Leone of...

October 12, 2015 | Monday | News
ASLAN's bile duct cancer drug receives orphan drug status

Singapore: Singapore's ASLAN pharmaceuticals recently announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted ...

August 21, 2015 | Friday | News
TaiGen initiates clinical trial of leukemia drug in China

Singapore: Taiwan's TaiGen Biotechnology has initiated first burixafor trial for relapsed or refractory acute myeloid le...

May 4, 2015 | Monday | News
China approves Bayer's Xarelto

Singapore: Bayer's anticoagulant drug, Xarelto (rivaroxaban), has been approved by the China Food and Drug Administratio...

May 5, 2015 | Tuesday | News
ScinoPharm, Foresee form joint venture

Singapore: Taiwanese company ScinoPharm and US-based Foresee Pharmaceuticals have signed an investment agreement to form...

February 1, 2013 | Friday | News
Novogen's drug shows positive result for brain cancer

Singapore: Australian biotechnology company, Novogen's lead candidate product, TRXE-009, has shown a positive result in ...

March 5, 2015 | Thursday | News
Phosphagenics achieves biggest milestone yet

Singapore: Australian drug delivery technology company, Phosphagenics has achieved succes in its multi-dose oxymorphone ...

October 29, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Aussie firm trials combination therapy for melanoma

Singapore: Australia based Viralytics has initiated a clinical trial to assess its oncolytic virus, Cavatak, in combinat...

September 29, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Aussie chemotherapy drug gets orphan designation

Singappore: US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to chemotherapy drug candidate Can...

April 23, 2015 | Thursday | News
Eisai submits Lenvatinib's new application in Europe

Tokyo: Japan's pharma giant Eisai Co Ltd announced that its European regional headquarters Eisai Europe Ltd has submitte...

January 13, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Baxter expands oncology pipeline through acquisition

Singapore: Baxter has acquired Oncaspar (pegaspargase) product portfolio, a first-line biologic used as part of a multi-...

May 13, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Prana completes phase II trial with PBT2

Singapore: Prana Biotechnology announced the successful completion of Reach2HD, a phase II clinical trial in patients wi...

July 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Clue to future universal dengue vaccine found

Singapore: Scientists at A*Star's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have discovered a clue that has the potential to c...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Lupin hires top Teva, Sandoz staff for R&D in US

Mumbai: Lupin is setting up a R&D center in the US, and has hired the R&D head of Teva Pharmaceuticals and other...

August 13, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Janssen terminates R&D alliance with Hutchison Medipharma

Singapore: Janssen Pharmaceutical has terminated the research and development alliance with China based Hutchison Mediph...

August 26, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Novartis, BIOTEC tie-up to explore Thailand's biodiversity

In 2005, Novartis, a leading healthcare solution provider, decided to partner with The National Center For Genetic Engin...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
BioSpectrum announces the hits and misses of 2013

Asia attracted a lot of interest from foreign multinational giants in the year 2013. This not only led to the increase i...

January 2, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Journey of the Dengue Vaccine

Singapore: Dengue, also known as break bone fever, is currently the most common vector-borne disease. The World Health ...

May 13, 2015 | Wednesday | Analysis
Novartis' bimagrumab gets breakthrough nod from FDA

Singapore: Novartis received US FDA breakthrough therapy designation for BYM338 (bimagrumab) for sporadic inclusion body...

August 21, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
NMT Pharma and CAO Pharma in licensing agreement for anti-cancer drug

Singapore: Singapore based start-up firm, NMT Pharmaceuticals, has acquired an exclusive worldwide license right to furt...

August 26, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Boehringer Ingelheim, Circuit Therapeutics to invest in obesity diseases

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim and Circuit Therapeutics have formed a three-year collaboration to focus on investigatin...

August 14, 2015 | Friday | News
Takeda, Enterome ink drug discovery collaboration

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd and Paris-headquartered Enterome Bioscience SA have entered into a strategic drug disc...

January 8, 2016 | Friday | News
FDA approves additional indication of Eisai's anticancer agent Lenvima

Japan's Eisai Co Ltd has announced that its US subsidiary Eisai Inc. has received approval from the US Food and Drug Adm...

May 17, 2016 | Tuesday | News
SCIEX, NUS to jointly develop oncology biomarkers

Singapore: SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, and the Protein and Proteomics Centre (PPC) u...

May 18, 2015 | Monday | News
PharmaMar seeks Japan PMDA approval for tissue sarcoma drug

The Japanese Pharmaceutical Affairs and Food Sanitation Council (PAFSC) has recommended an approval for Madrid-based Pha...

September 2, 2015 | Wednesday | News
EU recommends Opdivo as monotherapy for advance melanoma

Singapore: European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended granting a marketing authorisation for Bristol-Myers Squibb's...

April 27, 2015 | Monday | Regulatory
Paradigm gets US patent for bone marrow drug

Singapore: Australia based Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals has been granted a patent by United States Patent and Trademark O...

August 26, 2015 | Wednesday | News
TB claims 74000 children each year: WHO

Singapore: World Health Organization has launched "Roadmap for childhood TB: towards zero deaths", in an effort to preve...

October 2, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
China's Yabao pharma inks deal with Australian University

Singapore: China's leading pharmaceutical firm Yabao Pharmaceutical has inked a pact with the University of South Austra...

September 9, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Celgene gets Europe's nod for acute myeloid leukaemia drug

Singapore: Celgene International has received European Commission (EC) approval for VIDAZA (azacitidine for injection) f...

October 30, 2015 | Friday | News
Australia's Invitrocue initiates research on Malaria

InvitroCue, the Australian company that works on advanced bio-analytics, has announced a key initiative on Malaria to id...

May 16, 2016 | Monday | News
Bionomics to initiate trial for antibody targeting cancer stem cell

Singapore: Bionomics, Australia based biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative t...

August 31, 2015 | Monday | News
Oncology drug pipeline is the most robust'

Singapore: The oncology drug pipeline is far larger than any other therapy area across the pharmaceutical industry, with...

August 6, 2015 | Thursday | Analysis
Japanese researchers discover gold nanoparticles for cancer drug delivery

Researchers affiliated with Kawasaki Innovation Gateway at SKYFRONT, Japan have discovered that incorporating gold nanop...

April 1, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Astella, Potenza partner to enhance immune-oncology programs

Singapore: Japan's Astellas Pharma and Potenza Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing a portfolio of immuno-on...

April 23, 2015 | Thursday | News
Aslan recieves Singapore, Taiwan nod for Ph II trial of bile duct cancer drug

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

September 23, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo Korea, Daewoong Pharma to co-promote oral anti-coagulant in Korea

Tokyo: Japanese pharmaceutical giant, Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary in ...

December 28, 2015 | Monday | News
Roche to develop companion diagnostic test for Acute Coronary Syndrome

Roche has announced that the company has entered into an agreement to develop a companion diagnostic (CDx) test for dalc...

June 10, 2015 | Wednesday | News
AstraZeneca purchases Amgen's biologic site

Singapore: AstraZeneca has bought bulk biologics manufacturing capacity from Amgen in US to expand its biologics manufac...

September 14, 2015 | Monday | News
Patrys gets US patent for antibody PAT-LM1

Singapore: United States Patent Office has issued official "Letters Patent" on a key patent in the PAT-LM1 family; US pa...

November 8, 2013 | Friday | News
AstraZeneca, Orexo to do respiratory drug trials

Singapore: Orexo entered into an agreement with AstraZeneca regarding preclinical program OX-CLI for a potential novel t...

January 25, 2013 | Friday | News
Progenics initiates Fuji's Phase 2 Trial for prostate cancer drug in Japan

New York-based Progenics Pharmaceuticals' partner Fujifilm RI Pharma Co. Ltd. (Fuji) has dosed the first patient in its ...

April 8, 2015 | Wednesday | News
BI, Crystal to co-develop therapeutic antibodies

Singapore: European firms, Crystal Bioscience and Boehringer Ingelheim, have entered into an agreement to collaborate on...

January 10, 2014 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo Espha's TB drugs approved in Japan

Japan' Daiichi Sankyo's domestic subsidiary, Daiichi Sankyo Espha Co Ltd. has obtained approval for partial changes conc...

August 25, 2015 | Tuesday | News
ASLAN receives orphan drug designation for cancer drug

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

August 13, 2015 | Thursday | News
GVK Bio establishes largest isotope labeling factory in India

Hyderabad: GVK Biosciences, Asia's leading drug discovery R&D organization, has received approvals from the Atomic ...

November 20, 2012 | Tuesday | News
BMS, Japan firm collaborate to develop new immunotherapies

Singapore: Japan's Kyowa Hakko Kirin and Bristol-Myers Squibb have entered into a clinical trial collaboration agreement...

July 30, 2015 | Thursday | News
Takeda, Immunogen in a cancer drug deal

Singapore: Immunogen has inked a pact with Japanese drugmaker Takeda pharmaceuticals that gives Takeda exclusive rights ...

March 25, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Suven secures patents in four countries

Singapore: The granted claims of the patent include the class of selective H3 ligands discovered by Suven and are being...

February 21, 2015 | Saturday | News
WHO launches emergency response to drug resistance

Singapore: On World Malaria Day, April 25, the WHO recognized significant accomplishments made in preventing and control...

April 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
Roche study: Obinutuzumab better than Rituxan

Singapore: Roche reported that an independent data monitoring committee has obtained positive results from the phase III...

July 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
Astellas, KEK sign deal for neglected diseases research

Singapore: The High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and Japan-based Astellas Pharma have concluded an agr...

September 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Alzheimer's research gets a push from Servier

Singapore: Research on treatment of Alzheimer's disease received a fillip with Australian scientists working on it recei...

October 2, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Brisbane biotech secures $14 mn for drug discovery

Singapore: The University of Queensland-based biotechnology company Protagonist Therapeutics has secured $14 million in ...

July 10, 2013 | Wednesday | News
NZ firm migrates to Aus to capitalize on MS drug

Singapore: New Zealand-based biopharmaceutical company Innate Immunotherapeutics is migrating to Australia in a move to ...

September 11, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Dengue incurs annual cost of $950 mn to SE Asia

Philippines: The economic burden churned by mosquito borne disease, dengue, is costing upto $950 million to south east A...

June 20, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
NSC lung cancer drug pipeline is strong: Analyst

Singapore: Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) treatment pipeline has a diverse selection of 122 first-in-class products ...

November 11, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
Are declining Ebola cases a challenge for clinical studies?

Singapore: The steady decline in new ebola cases presents a formidable challenge to current and future clinical trials o...

March 16, 2015 | Monday | Analysis
BMS releases $3.5 mn fund for Hep B&C in India, China

Singapore: Bristol-Myers-Squibb Foundation has released nine new grants totaling to around $3.5 million towards hepatiti...

December 4, 2014 | Thursday | News
AMRI acquires Cedarburg at $41mn

Singapore: AMRI has completed the acquisition of Cedarburg Pharmaceuticals, a contract developer and manufacturer of tec...

April 8, 2014 | Tuesday | News

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