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
Latanoprost improves glucose, lipid disorder in diabetes

Singapore: Researchers from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science, have discovered that Latan...

September 9, 2013 | Monday | News
QRxPharma refiles Moxduo NDA with FDA

Singapore: Australia-based QRxPharma has resubmitted its Moxduo new drug application (NDA) after the US Food and Drug Ad...

November 26, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Eli Lilly partners with BioNTech to develop cancer immunotherapies

Singapore: Eli Lilly has partnered with German firm, BioNTech, to discover novel cancer immunotherapies through body's o...

May 12, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Boehringer Ingelheim collaborates with Harvard University

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim has established a translational research collaboration with the presidents and fellows o...

July 10, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Zydus Cadila launches indigenous diabetes drug

Singapore: Indian pharma company Cadila Healthcare that operates under the aegis of Zydus Group, has launched its patent...

September 20, 2013 | Friday | News
Astellas receives approval of Irribow in Japan

Singapore: Astellas Pharma has obtained the marketing approval of Irribow OD 1 Tablets 2.5µg / 5µg (generic name: ramo...

August 19, 2013 | Monday | News
Biotron to report data from hepatitis C trial

Singapore: Biotron, a clinical-stage drug development company focused on development of new generation antiviral drugs, ...

October 16, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Biocon's novel anti-psoriasis biotech drug Itolizumab released in India

After geting the regulatory approval in early 2013, Biocon, India's number two biotech company by revenues, released the...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
Bioventus gets global rights for Pfizer's bone portfolio

Singapore: Bioventus, which specializes in active orthopaedic healing, has acquired exclusive, worldwide license to Pfiz...

July 4, 2013 | Thursday | News
Merck to halt Parkinson's trial due to lack of efficacy

Singapore: Merck, known as Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) outside the US and Canada, provided update on its clinical prog...

May 27, 2013 | Monday | News
Hong Kong to host international TCM exhibition, conference

Singapore: Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and Modernized Chinese Medicine International Association (MCMIA ...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
Viralytics melanoma trial meets primary endpoint

Singapore: Australia-based biotech company, Viralytics, achieved the primary endpoint in its phase II clinical trial of ...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Oramed submits pre-IND to FDA for exenatide

Singapore: Oramed Pharmaceuticals, developer of oral drug delivery systems, submitted a pre-investigational new drug (pr...

September 4, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
GE fortifies iPS cell-derived cellular assay avenue

Singapore: GE Healthcare Life Sciences has licensed Cellular Dynamics International, US-based commercial producer of hum...

December 19, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi's thrombosis drug meets primary endpoint

Singapore: Global phase III clinical trial of once-daily edoxaban for the treatment of acute symptomatic deep vein throm...

September 2, 2013 | Monday | News
J&J, Pfizer halt phase III trial of Alzheimer's drug

Singapore: Johnson & Johnson (J&J) discontinued phase III clinical development of bapineuzumab intravenous (IV) ...

August 7, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Evotec acquires Sanofi's drug discovery site

Singapore: German firm Evotec has acquired Sanofi's drug discovery operation in Toulouse to build an European centre of ...

December 4, 2014 | Thursday | News
FDA breakthrough for Roche's MS drug

Roche has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation for t...

February 19, 2016 | Friday | News
Prima BioMed's immunotherapeutic drug secures Japanese patent

May 3, 2016: Australia-based Prima BioMed Ltd has announced that the company has been granted patent number 5908210 enti...

May 3, 2016 | Tuesday | News
MD Anderson, Astellas collaborate to develop new drug for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Japanese pharma giant Astellas Pharma Inc. and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has signed an option ag...

April 8, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Merck Millipore appoints Dr Udit Batra as CEO and President

Singapore: Merck Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck, has appointed Dr Udit Batra as its new President and CEO...

April 15, 2014 | Tuesday | Influencers
US Pharmacopeial convention expands in China

Singapore: US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP), a nonprofit global health organization that creates and promotes quality s...

January 13, 2014 | Monday | Regulatory
China's Adagene raises $28 million

Singapore: Adagene, China based antibody discovery and development company, has raised USD28 million Series B financing ...

February 1, 2016 | Monday | News
Merck, China firm to co-develop DNA repair drug

‎Singapore: Merck Serono, the biopharmaceutical division of Merck, has signed a global licensing, co-development, ...

November 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
Pneumonia kills a 5-year-old child every 30 secs: UN

Singapore: Pneumonia remains the single biggest killer of children under the age of five globally, claiming the lives of...

November 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
EMA gives Patrys cancer drug orphan status

Singapore: Australia-based Patrys, a clinical stage biotechnology company, has been granted orphan drug designation by t...

September 12, 2013 | Thursday | News
Novogen drug candidate effective as anti-cancer agent in preclinical studies

Singapore: US-Australian drug discovery company, Novogen's drug candidate, Anisina, has progressed successfully in pre-c...

May 14, 2015 | Thursday | News
Translation of ideas is Australia's key to growth'

Over the past decade the world's centre of economic gravity has shifted from US and Europe to Asia at a speed and scale ...

September 30, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
Researchers develop novel solutions to fight the obesity gene

Singapore: A research team led by scientists from National University of Singapore (NUS) has identified several potent i...

October 20, 2014 | Monday | News
China's Innovent raises $100 mn

Singapore: China biotech firm, Innovent Biologics, has raised $100 million in Series C financing led by Legend Capital, ...

January 31, 2015 | Saturday | News
Network Verfication Challenge gains momentum

Singapore: Scientific consensus in the Network Verification Challenge, conducted in Spain from 15-18 June 2015, has exhi...

July 31, 2015 | Friday | News
Today scientists have poor frustration tolerance: Glivec discoverer

Dr Alex Matter, CEO, Experimental Therapeutics Center, A*Star, Singapore, is among the pioneers of the world's first tar...

June 25, 2013 | Tuesday | Influencers
Australia grants $7 mn to uplift cancer research

Singapore: Cancer Council NSW, Australia's non-government cancer research funder, has granted almost $7 million to resea...

May 11, 2015 | Monday | News
Novogen progresses on drug for paediatric brain cancer

Singapore: US-Australian drug discovery company, Novogen, in conjunction with Australian paediatric cancer researchers, ...

May 8, 2015 | Friday | News
WHO urges nations to act on hepatitis threat

Singapore: The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging governments to act against the five hepatitis viruses that can...

July 26, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
Novogen develops drug to enhance chemotherapy effect

Singapore: Australian drug discovery company, Novogen, has developed anti-tropomyosin drug candidate, Anisina, which has...

July 15, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Eloxatin shows +ve results in tumor inhibition

Singapore: Australia-based Starpharma Holdings has achieved improved tumor-inhibiting efficacy and reduced overall toxic...

September 11, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Oxycodone patch resumes clinical development

Singapore: Australian drug delivery technology company, Phosphagenics, will be returning to the clinic with its oxycodo...

April 5, 2013 | Friday | News
Drug delivery: 11 technologies of the future

The drug delivery technology landscape is rapidly evolving with new classes of pharmaceuticals and biologics fuelling th...

May 16, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Starpharma appoints Robert Thomas as board member

Singapore: Australia based pharmacuetical company, Starpharma, has appointed Mr Robert Thomas to the Board as a non-exec...

November 11, 2013 | Monday | News
Australia supports budding medical researchers

Singapore: Australia's Balnaves Foundation has donated $450,000 to the University of Sydney's medical school to help pro...

May 11, 2015 | Monday | News
TGA approves chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting drug

Singapore: Australian biopharmaceutical company, Specialised Therapeutics Australia (STA), and Helsinn, a Swiss group fo...

May 11, 2015 | Monday | News
OTC drug may be key to multiple sclerosis

Singapore: Two approved drugs, an antifungal and a steroid, may potentially take on new roles as treatments for multiple...

April 22, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Green tea for cancer drug delivery

Singapore: A group of researchers from Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) is using green tea ingredien...

October 14, 2014 | Tuesday | News
TauRx pumps $135mn to advance treatment for Alzheimer's disease

Singapore: Singapore and Scotland based TauRx Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a n...

October 9, 2015 | Friday | News
NIH: Gilead's sofosbuvir + ribavirin cures hepatitis C

Singapore: Phase II clinical trials by scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)...

August 29, 2013 | Thursday | News
Daiichi forms new firm to treat muscular dystrophy

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo is going to establish a new company named Orphan Disease Treatment Institute, along with Innov...

February 18, 2013 | Monday | News
Sinovac to supply Hep A vaccine to Jiangsu province

Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a leading China-based vaccine manufacturer, has been selected by the Jiangsu Centers for Dis...

November 11, 2013 | Monday | News
Regeneus clears procedures to initiate Progenza trial for osteoarthritis treatment

Sydney-headquartered Regeneus announced the completion of enrolment of all 20 patients in the STEP trial. Further, a rev...

May 17, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Safety concerns delay launch of Pfizer's arthritis drug Xeljanz

Singapore: Pfizer's high hopes for its JAK3 (Janus kinase) inhibitor, tofacitinib (tasocitinib, CP-690550), now branded ...

November 8, 2012 | Thursday | News
Ampio takes drug candidate to preclinical stage

Singapore: Ampio Pharmaceuticals has taken its candidate NCE001 from its proprietary methylphenidate derivatives family ...

July 16, 2012 | Monday | News
FDA not in favour of Otsuka's kidney drug Tolvaptan

Singapore: The US FDA Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee has disapproved Japan-based Otsuka Pharmaceutic...

August 6, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Pfizer, Japanese firm to jointly asses mAB for tumor

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, and Japanese firm, Kyowa Hakko Kirin, are jointly assessing the therap...

September 30, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Hope for COPD: Network Verification Challenge

Singapore: The Network Verification Challenge has generated a comprehensive set of biological models relevant to chroni...

August 21, 2014 | Thursday | News
Prana gets +ve results in phase II Huntington trial

Singapore: Australia-based Prana Biotechnology has achieved positive result in its phase II clinical trial investigating...

February 19, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Novartis partners with TB alliance

Singapore: Novartis has partnered with Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) for compounds to fight tube...

August 21, 2014 | Thursday | News
ShangPharma appoints new CSO, president

Singapore: China's ShangPharma appointed Dr Art Taveras as president and chief scientific officer (CSO). He will be resp...

October 28, 2013 | Monday | Influencers
NUHS chief gets Singapore President's award

Singapore: Professor John Wong Eu-Li, currently chief executive of National University Health System (NUHS), Isabel Chan...

November 11, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan firm gets FDA nod for ph II trial of gout drug

Singapore: Taiwan based TWi Pharmaceuticals has received US FDA and Taiwan FDA approval of a protocol for a Phase II cli...

December 15, 2014 | Monday | News
BMS takes on combination drug for cancer therapy

Singapore: Japan's Ono Pharmaceutical and Kyowa Hakko Kirin has partnered with Bristol-Myers Squibbs for Phase 1 clinica...

December 11, 2014 | Thursday | News
Novartis acquires antibody technology license to develop cancer therapy

Singapore: Novartis has acquired the license for exclusive right to use  Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) technology from ...

October 14, 2013 | Monday | News
Taiwan seeks to attract global investors

Singapore: BioBusiness Asia concluded in Taiwan on July 18, 2013, with a message that the global biotech fraternity need...

July 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Singapore researchers get access to AstraZeneca drug compounds

Singapore: National Health Innovation Centre (NHIC) of Singapore has partnered with global pharmaceutical company, Astra...

September 4, 2015 | Friday | News
Chugai seeks approval for anti-cancer agent Avastin in Japan

Singapore: Japan's Chugai Pharmaceutical filed an application with the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, ...

September 25, 2012 | Tuesday | News
A*STAR, Japanese bank ink partnership

Singapore: Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporat...

August 20, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan-China to collaborate on new drug discovery

Singapore: The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) recently announced that Taiwan and China have reached a concrete consensus...

September 5, 2014 | Friday | News
Eliquis approved in EU for stroke prevention

Singapore: European Commission has approved Eliquis (apixaban) for prevention of stroke and systemic embolism in adult p...

November 21, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Lilly phase III lung cancer study meets endpoint

Singapore: Eli Lilly and Company completed its phase III study regarding stage IV metastatic squamous non-small cell lun...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Dong-A Pharma gets positive trial results for Evogliptin

Singapore: South Korea's Dong-A Pharmaceutical announced positive top-line results from its phase II clinical trial of D...

January 22, 2013 | Tuesday | News
STA to commercialize leukemia drug in Australia

Singapore: US-based Ariad Pharmaceuticals has granted Specialised Therapeutics Australia (STA), a specialty pharmaceutic...

January 30, 2014 | Thursday | News
Eisai, Santen enter agreement for new ophthalmic drugs

Singapore: Japan-based Eisai and Santen Pharmaceutical entered into an option agreement which grants Santen rights of ev...

September 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Takeda initiates Ph3 trial for Ixazomib in Asia

Singapore: Takeda Development Center Shanghai (TDC Shanghai) and Takeda Development Center Asia has commenced TOURMALINE...

January 28, 2014 | Tuesday | News
China plans to phase out mandatory cosmetics animal testing

Singapore: China's Food and Drug Administration plans to remove its mandatory animal test requirements for domestically ...

November 11, 2013 | Monday | News
Shimadzu launches i-series of HPLC system in Singapore

Singapore: Japan-based global analytics technology provider, Shimadzu (Asia Pacific), has launched i-Series of new indus...

August 19, 2014 | Tuesday | News
HUYA, Changzhou to harbour biotech innovation

Singapore: China's HUYA Bioscience has struck a partnership with Changzhou Center for Biotech Development (CZCBD) to foc...

August 19, 2014 | Tuesday | News
CSL progresses on Novartis influenza vaccine biz acquisition

Singapore: Australia based drug development company, CSL, has secured the necessary approvals required to proceed with t...

July 31, 2015 | Friday | News
Bionomics initiaties trial of anxiety drug in France

Singapore: Australia-based Bionomics has initiated a Phase 1b clinical trial in healthy volunteers of BNC210, the drug c...

February 3, 2015 | Tuesday | News
US FDA sets up task force for antibacterial drugs

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration has formed an internal task force that will support the development of ne...

September 26, 2012 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Gilead buys liver disease drug candidate at $470 mn

Singapore: In a bid to boost drug pipeline, Gilead Sciences has acquired Farnesoid X Receptor (FXR) program comprising s...

January 7, 2015 | Wednesday | News
FDA to review MSD's next blockbuster drug, Keytruda

Singapore: Global bio pharmaceutical company, Merck Sharp and Dohme, has received USFDA nod to review the supplemental b...

June 3, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Chipscren Biosciences receives CFDA nod

Singapore: A Chinese biotech firm, Chipscreen Biosciencees has received the China FDA nod for its flagship drug Epidaza ...

January 13, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Invion completes patient enrolment for asthma drug trial

Singapore: Australian drug development company, Invion, has completed the enrolment in its phase II clinical trial of IN...

November 2, 2015 | Monday | News
Rate of drug approvals dips down: Nature Study

Singapore: Nature Biotechnology has published a peer-reviewed paper co-authored by the Biotechnology Industry Organizati...

January 10, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
CPR ventures into large molecule analytics

Singapore: Clinical research company, CPR Pharma Services, launched a new laboratory, in Adelaide, Australia, to provide...

March 26, 2013 | Tuesday | News
FDA approves Perjeta for metastatic breast cancer

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Genentech's Perjeta for people with her2-positive met...

June 11, 2012 | Monday | News
Monash-GSK partnership wins collaboration award

Singapore: Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) has been recognised for the Monash-GSK Australian Centre f...

November 11, 2013 | Monday | News
FDA slams NIH for non-compliance issues

Singapore: National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center has suspended operations of its Pharmaceutical Developmen...

June 5, 2015 | Friday | Regulatory
Candidate drug to treat Batten disease identified

Singapore: Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified a potential new drug that could help i...

October 1, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Alexion files NDA in Japan for Asfotase Alfa

Singapore: Alexion pharma has announced the submission of New Drug Application (NDA) to the Japanese Ministry of Health,...

October 28, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Takeda's multiple myeloma drug meets primary endpoints

Singapore: Japanese pharma major Takeda Pharmaceutical Company has announced that the randomized, double-blind, placebo-...

February 11, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Boehringer leukaemia study shows +ve results

Singapore: A phase II interim analysis of a randomized study involving Boehringer Ingelheim's investigational haematolog...

December 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Minomic, US firm to develop prostrate cancer drug

Singapore: Australian biotechnology company Minomic International has collaborated with US partner to develop a potentia...

September 8, 2014 | Monday | News
GSK, Genmab leukemia drug gets FDA breakthrough status

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Genmab and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) breakthrough therapy d...

September 17, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Novartis Gilenya reduces multiple sclerosis relapse

Singapore: According to an international multiple sclerosis (MS) registry and a US health claims database, Novartis' Gi...

October 3, 2013 | Thursday | News
Gilead, Janssen extends HIV drug partnership

Singapore: Gilead Sciences has expanded its agreement with Ireland based Janssen for the development and commercializati...

December 30, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Shionogi's constipation medicine proves effective in trials

Tokyo: Shionogi, one of Japan's century-old pharmaceutical manufacturers, has announced that its once-daily naldemedine ...

August 4, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Pharmaxis, Synairgen to develop drugs for fatal lung disease

Singapore: Australian pharmaceutical company Pharmaxis, and UK biotechnology company, Synairgen, have entered into a res...

August 6, 2015 | Thursday | News

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