Korean Health Ministry earmarks KRW 122.5 Trillion for 2024 budget, up 12.2% from 2023

The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) in South Korea said the 2024 budget has been approved at Cabinet Meeting....

September 4, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea's IVI renews partnership with CEPI to accelerate development of vaccines

Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the International Vaccine Insti...

September 4, 2023 | Monday | News
South Korea poised to become Medical AI Powerhouse

South Korea is ramping up efforts to bolster AI development in life sciences.The country is implementing strategic initi...

September 1, 2023 | Friday | Analysis
Korea's IVI launches typhoid conjugate vaccine campaign in Africa

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI), an international organisation with a mission to discover, devel...

August 28, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea's GC Biopharma to produce cholera vaccines jointly with Eubiologics

South Korea-based GC Biopharma has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Eubiologics (also based in South Kore...

August 25, 2023 | Friday | News
Australia-Korea joint development agreement for needle-free patch delivery of typhoid vaccine

South Korea-based SK bioscience has entered into a collaboration agreement with Vaxxas, an Australian biotechnology comp...

August 29, 2023 | Tuesday | News
China-based MGI partners with Korean startup NGeneBio to advance precision medicine

MGI, a China-based company committed to building core tools and technology to lead life scienc,e and South Korea based s...

August 23, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea's SK Biopharma enters MENA through strategic partnership with Hikma

London-based Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC has announced a new strategic partnership and exclusive licensing agreement...

August 21, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea designs non-invasive test as breakthrough in early diagnosis of bladder cancer

Bladder cancer has a five-year survival rate of over 80% when detected early, but this rate declines significantly as th...

August 18, 2023 | Friday | News
Korea-US partnership to revolutionise AI-based early drug discovery

South Korea-based startup Standigm, a company using artificial intelligence (AI) technology for drug discovery and devel...

August 16, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Surging demand for Korean pharma in 2023 ahead of CPHI Korea

The industry in Korea has seen its ‘growth potential’ increase by 7% in the 2023 CPHI Annual Survey. With th...

August 10, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korean startup Kakao Healthcare inks MoU with Novo Nordisk Pharma

South Korea-based startup Kakao Healthcare has signed a business agreement with Denmark-headquartered Novo Nordisk Pharm...

August 8, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Pharmanovia appoints new GM for Korea & Japan

Pharmanovia, a UK-based pharmaceutical company that commercialises novel medicines and revitalises, extends and expands ...

August 9, 2023 | Wednesday | News
SK bioscience announces equity investment in Novavax to strengthen strategic partnership

South Korea-based SK bioscience, an innovative vaccine and biotech company, has decided to make an equity investment in ...

August 9, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korean startup Lunit accelerates expansion across Middle East with new supply contract

Lunit, a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, con...

July 26, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korean firm Daewoong Pharma steps into Africa's digestive health market with $20.32 M deal

South Korea-based Daewoong Pharmaceutical has signed an agreement for license and distribution of potassium-competitive ...

July 26, 2023 | Wednesday | News
NAVER injects 30 B KRW to support digital bio research at Seoul National University Hospital

NAVER Corporation has announced a donation of 30 billion KRW over a span of three years to Seoul National University Hos...

July 25, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korea's GC Biopharma gets its first-ever approval of quadrivalent flu vaccine in Africa

GC Biopharma, a South Korean biopharmaceutical company, has announced that its quadrivalent flu vaccine called GC F...

July 24, 2023 | Monday | News