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' ...

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
Taiwan's PharmEngine initiates clinical trial of chemotherapy drug

Singapore: Taiwan's PharmaEngine licensing partner, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, and its sublicensing partner, Baxter Inte...

May 5, 2015 | Tuesday | News
HUYA Bioscience partners with Fudan University

Singapore: HUYA Bioscience International has signed an exclusive license with Fudan University for the ex-China rights t...

March 15, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Phylogica inks a deal with Genentech

Singapore: Australia-based drug discovering company, Phylogica has inked a pact with US-based Genentech, to discover nov...

December 22, 2014 | Monday | News
Pfizer gets FDA nod for tafamidis meglumine

Singapore: Pharma giant Pfizer has received a complete response letter from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

June 20, 2012 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Taiwan's PharmaEngine gets TFDA nod for cancer drug

Singapore: Taiwan's PharmaEngine has recieved Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) approval for ONIVYDE (irinoteca...

October 23, 2015 | Friday | News
Cellmid receive patent approval from Australia

Singapore: Australia-based Cellmid has received patent approval from IP Australia for method of treatment or prevention ...

January 13, 2015 | Tuesday | News
FDA to review Pfizer's meningococcal disease drug

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical firm, Pfizer, has recieved US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) nod for review of Biol...

August 15, 2014 | Friday | Regulatory
TNI BioTech, Qianjiang Pharma join hands

Singapore: US-based TNI BioTech, a biotechnology company focused on autoimmune diseases in emerging nations, has partner...

August 14, 2014 | Thursday | News
Japan Vaccine seeks approval to sell intradermal seasonal influenza vaccine in Japan

Japan Vaccine, an affiliate of pharmaceutical giant Daiichi Sankyo, and Terumo Corporation have filed an application for...

April 13, 2015 | Monday | News
Astellas to axe 300 jobs in home country in FY14

Singapore: Japanese pharmaceutical major Astellas Pharma has announced that it would cut down its group workforce in hom...

November 4, 2013 | Monday | News
Montreal Heart Institute discovers personalized therapy for cardiovascular disease

Singapore: Researchers at Montreal Heart Institute has demonstrated positive result from the medication of dalcetrapib i...

January 13, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Finally, Impax's Parkinson's drug gets FDA approval

Singapore: After years of rejecting approval for Impax's flagship drug Rytary, a treatment for Parkinson's disease, the ...

January 12, 2015 | Monday | News
Taiwan to develop cancer drug with target delivery

Singapore: US-based Molecular Targeting Technologies (MTTI) and National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) of Taiwan hav...

August 5, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Virax to acquire cancer drug developer AKTivate

Singapore: Australian biotechnology company Virax plans to acquire oncology company AKTivate Therapeutics and its novel ...

October 17, 2014 | Friday | News
Singapore develops novel cancer drug candidate

Singapore: Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medic...

July 16, 2015 | Thursday | News
Japanese scientists discover anti-cancer property in diabetes drug

Scientists at the Okayama University in Japan have announced that their studies have revealed how a diabetes drug helps ...

March 24, 2015 | Tuesday | News
GSK, Theravance withdraw COPD drug from Japan

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline and Theravance have withdrawn license application for the use of inhaled drug fluticasone fur...

July 16, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Novartis gets positive result in psoriasis PhIII drug

Singapore: Global pharma company Novartis has confirmed positive results from two pivotal phase III studies evaluating i...

July 10, 2014 | Thursday | News