Challenge No 4: Fund crunch

Lack of appropriate funding for early- to mid-stage innovation companies, limited local capital, local grants for small ...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
XCode decodes DNA, wins BioSpectrum award

Dr Saleem Mohammad, who founded XCode Life Sciences in December 2010, first had the idea of starting this company while ...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Dr Anu Singh: Pick biotech only if you are inspired by it

As Albert Einstein put it, "The world as we have created is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without chan...

March 5, 2013 | Tuesday | Influencers
Women in life sciences – A peep into the lives of inspirational figures

We come across several women in the field of biotechnology at the graduation and post-graduation level of education. How...

March 1, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Challenge No 9: Price cuts by govt

Continuous drug price cuts will further squeeze margins for both multinational and domestic pharma. "The National Reform...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Bioscience Industry clocks $139 bn, grows 8.37%

The bioscience industry in the Asia Pacific region, in 2011, got pulled back into a low growth cycle. In a replay of 200...

July 3, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Challenge No 8: Partnership problems

Finding the perfect partners in the supply chain, marketing channels and co-development collaborations to ensure maximum...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
When will we stop celebrating World TB Day?

The World TB Day is celebrated every year on March 24th in order to raise awareness about the global epidemic of tubercu...

March 23, 2012 | Friday | News
10 challenges for businesses in APAC

The Asia Pacific healthcare market is estimated to capture 34.6 percent of the global healthcare market by 2015. Frost &...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Big deals: M&As in pharma

In 2011, the global pharmaceutical industry saw 504 mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with a total transaction value o...

June 19, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
BioSpectrum Asia honors Asia's best in bioscience

Singapore: The fifth BioSpectrum Asia Pacific Awards 2013 were given away at a glittering ceremony at Hotel Fort Canning...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | News
Sigma Pharma leverages on its pharmacy business

Marking a strong presence of 100 years in the pharmaceutical sector in the year 2012, Sigma Pharmaceuticals retained i...

May 31, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
M&A activity slows down in APAC

In 2011, the number of mergers and acquisitions in the life sciences field of Asia Pacific witnessed a fall. An indep...

June 19, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Shenzhen Neptunus invests in drug innovation

Shenzhen Neptunus Bioengineering is a well-recognized name in manufacturing and distribution of pharmaceutical product...

June 4, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Sudha Rao: Your decisions are milestones of your life's journey

I completed my graduation and post graduation from the University of Mysore. My first job, after my post doctoral studie...

March 8, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Pharma industry expected to fragment

"2012 will be the year when the pharma industry will begin to fragment rather than consolidate. The trend of companies b...

March 13, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Existing TB treatments take too long to be effective'

Microbial geneticist Dr Gyanu Lamichhane of the Johns Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis Research is one of the foremost au...

March 12, 2012 | Monday | News
How real is the threat of TDR-TB?

The latest concern to have plagued the field of TB is the emergence of total drug resistant TB (TDR-TB). Until 50 years ...

March 23, 2012 | Friday | News
China, Australia dominate APAC pharma market

The pharmaceutical market in several nations of the Asia Pacific (APAC) region witnessed a significant growth during 201...

June 11, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
IKP's Deepanwita Chattopadhyay: Women, open up your mind

We were a large family with my parents, seven brothers and sisters, and our dog. Life was always busy - there was no way...

March 4, 2013 | Monday | Influencers
Big Pharma continues acquisitions

The first quarter of 2011 witnessed major deals in the global pharmaceutical space, with April proving to be a big month...

June 19, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Bindhya Cariappa: A woman has many roles to play

My father was an army officer and we saw frequent relocation, as a result of which we learned very early in life to adap...

March 8, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Biopectrum award winner Novo Informatics brings speed to drug discovery

Novo Informatics is the brainchild of a group of students and researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
China National Accord's R&D strategy begins to pay-off

China National Accord Medicines Corporation utilized 2012 as a year to speed up the transformation and upgrade scienti...

May 31, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
Challenge No 10: Lack of mid-size CROs

For the CRO industry, the biggest challenge will be to develop a credible mid-sized offering to the industry. Currently,...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis