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 and...

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 has...

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