US approves first ophthalmology biosimilar, developed by South Korea

South Korea-based Samsung Bioepis has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved BYOOVIZ...

September 23, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan sets eyes on rare pediatric liver diseases

US-based Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical have entered into an exclusive licensing ag...

September 22, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia approves novel therapy to treat Advanced Small Cell Lung Cancer

Australian patients with an aggressive form of lung cancer (metastatic Small Cell Lung Cancer) can now access a new...

September 15, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Eli Lilly Japan, Daiichi Sankyo ink pact to commercialise migraine drug

Eli Lilly Japan and Daiichi Sankyo Company have concluded an agreement on commercialisation collaboration in Japan for t...

September 1, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan to distribute hyperuricemia drug in five ASEAN countries

Japan-based Eisai and FUJI YAKUHIN have inked a license agreement concerning dotinurad (generic name), a treatment for h...

August 31, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Menarini to commercialize Japanese drug in Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines

Singapore-based Menarini Asia-Pacific Holdings, a part of the leading Italian global biopharmaceutical company Menarini ...

August 23, 2021 | Monday | News
UK's NICE recommends abemaciclib for advanced breast cancer

The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published new draft guidance which recommends Eli Li...

August 13, 2021 | Friday | News
FDA approves combination therapy for Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC)

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a combination therapy from Eisai and Merck (MSD) namely,&...

August 12, 2021 | Thursday | News
Yuyu Pharma to distribute Novartis Korea's prescription medicines

Yuyu Pharma and Novartis Korea have entered into an agreement in which Yuyu will have exclusive distribution rights for ...

August 4, 2021 | Wednesday | News
FDA approves Medtronic's Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Cardiac Monitoring

Medtronic, (headquartered in Dublin, Ireland), the global leader in medical technology, announced U.S. Food and Dru...

July 29, 2021 | Thursday | News
Menarini Asia-Pacific strengthens men's health portfolio in China

Menarini Asia-Pacific Holdings Pte. Ltd., part of the Menarini Group, the world's largest Italian biopharmaceutical comp...

July 22, 2021 | Thursday | News
China supports global polio endgame strategy with new vaccine

Sinovac Biotech, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, has received a drug registration approval fr...

July 19, 2021 | Monday | News
Frontier Biotechnologies launches two drug regimen for HIV

In conjunction with the IAS Conference on HIV Science, Germany's Frontier Biotechnologies has announced positive top-lin...

July 19, 2021 | Monday | News
Eisai launches bile acid transporter inhibitor Goofice in Thailand

Eisai's Thailand subsidiary Eisai (Thailand) Marketing Co., Ltd. has launched the bile acid transporter inhibitor Goofic...

July 19, 2021 | Monday | News
Jardiance (empagliflozin) approved in Europe for the treatment of heart failure

The European Commission has granted marketing authorization for Jardiance®(empagliflozin) as a treatment for adults ...

July 6, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Scientists propose repurposing anti-malarial drug Mefloquine to fight COVID-19

Japanese scientists are scanning the possibility of using an anti-malarial drug called mefloquine....

July 2, 2021 | Friday | News
eTheRNA, VUB expand collaboration to engineer next-generation mRNA therapeutics

eTheRNA immunotherapies, a clinical-stage company developing mRNA-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and ...

June 23, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Vectura, Incannex to advance IHL-216A for treatment of traumatic brain injury

Vectura Group has signed an agreement with Australia-based Incannex Healthcare to provide pre-clinical development servi...

June 22, 2021 | Tuesday | News
RSF Bio enters worldwide license agreement with Sanofi for cardiovascular drug

Rancho Santa Fe Bio, Inc. (RSF Bio), a San Diego, California-based clinical-stage cardiovascular platform company, annou...

June 18, 2021 | Friday | News
Merck to commercialize Type 2 Diabetes drug in six growth markets

Merck has signed a collaboration agreement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals NV around the commercialization of INVOKANA...

May 4, 2021 | Tuesday | News
S. Korea's Peptron licenses global development of ADCs for cancer treatment

Peptron, Inc., a South Korea-based biotech company, and Qilu Pharmaceutical, a China-based pharmaceutical company f...

April 19, 2021 | Monday | News
BioVersys receives €20M in EU financing to support new antibiotics development

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and BioVersys AG, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing treatments ...

April 14, 2021 | Wednesday | News
SK Biopharma seizures/epilepsy drug to launch in Europe

SK Biopharmaceuticals, Co., Ltd., a global innovative pharmaceutical company, announced that cenobamate received marketi...

April 5, 2021 | Monday | News
Australian oncology drug Paxalisib receives rights to develop and commercialize in China

Sydney-based Kazia Therapeutics Limited, an oncology-focused drug development company announced that it has entered into...

April 5, 2021 | Monday | News
Astellas launches XOSPATA (gilteritinib) in Singapore to treat adult Leukaemia patients

Astellas Pharma Inc. announced on March 31, 2021, that XOSPATA® (generic name: gilteritinib) is now available for pr...

March 31, 2021 | Wednesday | News