FDA to further review Otsuka kidney drug

Singapore: Otsuka Pharmaceutical received a Complete Response Letter (CRL) from the US FDA regarding the new drug applic...

September 2, 2013 | Monday | News
Satish Jindal, BMS India R&D head, to lead US innovation venture

Singapore: Allied-Bristol Life Sciences, a jointly owned enterprise between Allied Minds and Bristol-Myers Squibb, has a...

October 3, 2014 | Friday | News
US firm discovers potential biomarker for malaria

Singapore: US based biotech firm, Genocea Biosciences, has identified a cluster of antigens, generated using its ATLAS a...

November 11, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Malaria drug may cure asthma: Research

Singapore: National University of Singapore has demonstrated effectiveness of artesunate, a common herbal-based anti-mal...

August 4, 2014 | Monday | News
Danish firm, Aussie instiute to co-develop pathological drugs

Singapore: Danish firm, Mirrx Therapeutics and Australia's Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology has f...

November 8, 2013 | Friday | News
Dainippon sets up cancer drug subsidiary in the US

Singapore: Japan-based Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma (DSP), has decided to establish an anti-cancer drugs sales company in t...

October 10, 2013 | Thursday | News
Japanese, Korean firm to jointly develop breast cancer drug

Singapore: Japanese company, Kyowa Hakko Kirin and Korean firm, Syndax Pharmaceuticals, have entered into a license agre...

January 8, 2015 | Thursday | News
Novogen's chemotherapeutic agent set to enter human trial in 2015

Singapore: Cantrixil, a first-in-class experimental chemotherapeutic, developed by Australia/US-based biotech firm Novog...

December 16, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Auspherix raises $1 mn for antibiotics

Singapore: Auspherix, an early stage anti-infectives company developing novel antibiotics to treat resistant bacterial d...

October 23, 2014 | Thursday | News
Clinuvel's subisidiary develops drug candidate for vitiligo

Singapore: Australia and Switzerland based Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals' Singapore subsidiary Vallaurix has successfully com...

May 6, 2015 | Wednesday | News
EU supports Pyridorin drug trial for diabetic nephropathy

Singapore: NephroGenex, pharmaceutical company focused on the development of therapeutics to treat kidney disease, has r...

January 9, 2015 | Friday | News
EMA to review Eli Lilly's basal insulin

Singapore: European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim's marketing authorisation app...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Novartis' Cosentyx receives Japanese nod

Singapore: The Japanese Ministry for Health and Welfare has recently given its nod for Novatris' Cosentyx, that treats p...

February 6, 2015 | Friday | News
Aus invests $1mn in antibiotics start-up Auspherix

Singapore: Australia's Medical Research Commercialisation Fund (MRCF) has invested around $1 million in an early stage a...

December 3, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Japanese scientists identify genes associated with peripheral artery disease

Tokyo: Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences have worked with a number of universities a...

October 26, 2015 | Monday | News
Swedish firm partners with Sanofi to expand in Asia

Singapore: Sweden-based company NeuroVive Pharmaceutical's Asia arm has signed a collaboration agreement with Sanofi's a...

May 27, 2015 | Wednesday | News
WuXi CRO gets toxicity prediction software license

Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech, a China-based contract research organization (CRO), has obtained a multiyear license to Adme...

November 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Asthma therapy market to touch $23.1 bn by 2023

Singapore: Asthma treatment market value will grow from approximately USD15.9 billion in 2013, across eight major countr...

September 8, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
Nemus' glaucoma drug secures patent in Japan

Nemus Bioscience Inc. has announced that the pro-drug of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in-licensed from the company's resea...

October 26, 2015 | Monday | News
Israel firm to develop epilepsy drug in China

Singapore: Chinese Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has approved Israel based D-Pharm to conduct clinical development...

April 15, 2015 | Wednesday | News
UK pours $500 mn in genome sequencing

Singapore:  In a move to accelerate genome sequencing and bring breakthrough in cancer treatment in the country, UK h...

August 1, 2014 | Friday | News
Mochida seeks Ulcerative Colitis drug approval in Japan

Tokyo's Mochida Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has filed for a new drug application (NDA) for MD-0901 with the Japanese Ministr...

November 6, 2015 | Friday | News
Sanofi terminates NaP2b inhibitors development deal with Ardelyx

Singapore: Sanofi has terminated NaP2b inhibitors development deal with US based Ardelyx, a clinical-stage biopharmaceut...

September 3, 2015 | Thursday | News
AB SCIEX, Dalton Pharma to advance antibody drug conjugate analysis

Singapore: Global technology firm AB SCIEX and Dalton Pharma Services have formed a research collaboration to develop An...

August 27, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Profits - A stumbling block for Ebola research

Singapore: Global experts have commented that the lack of adequate funding was a major drawback that discouraged researc...

September 16, 2014 | Tuesday | News