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-devel...

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 c...

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 oxyco...

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