Kevin Niswender named as the Director of the Clinical Research Center at Vanderbilt University

Kevin Niswender, MD, PhD, whose work has helped advance understanding of the neural underpinnings of obesity and metabol...

December 1, 2017 | Friday | News
Carrick Therapeutics announces first patient dosed in Phase 1 clinical trial of its Oral CDK7 inhibitor

Carrick Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company focusing on the innovative research and development of transformative ...

December 1, 2017 | Friday | News
Drugmaker Acorda suffers after deaths in Parkinson's Trial

U.S. based Acorda Therapeutics Inc. suffered a rapid decrease by a record 40 percent after patients died in final-s...

November 16, 2017 | Thursday | News
Global Gene Corp collaboration aims to accelerate research into Cancers

Singapore - Global Gene Corp (UK based genomics data platform and applications company) announced a collaboration with T...

November 15, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Singapore scientists make a major breakthrough in fibrotic diseases

Singapore – Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) and the National Heart Centre Singapore ...

November 12, 2017 | Sunday | News
Significant cost reduction in COPD care with simple, drug-free device

The Aerobika device (Trudell Medical International) is a cost-effective treatment option in the management of COPD exace...

November 9, 2017 | Thursday | News
Sanofi walks away from Voyager’s phase 2/3 Parkinson’s gene therapy

Sanofi has decided to walk away from the Parkinson’s gene therapy covered by its $845 million alliance with V...

November 1, 2017 | Wednesday | News
New Study Indicates Bone Marrow Protein to be the Target for Improving Stem Cell Transplants

Singapore – Bone marrow contains hematopoietic stem cells, the precursors to every blood cell type. These cells sp...

November 1, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Preterm babies could be saved by delayed clamping of Umbilical Cord

Singapore – Thousands of preterm babies could be saved by waiting 60 seconds before clamping the umbilical cord af...

October 30, 2017 | Monday | News
Study shows how nerves drive prostate cancer 

Singapore - In a study in Science, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, part of Montefiore Medicine, repo...

October 27, 2017 | Friday | News
New CSHL research hopes to find ways of altering fear memories

Singapore - Our brains wire themselves up during development according to a series of remarkable genetic programs that h...

October 24, 2017 | Tuesday | News
TB Alliance declares potential of two novel TB drugs

TB Alliance recently announced that TBA-7371 and sutezolid entered phase 1 clinical trials. Both compounds have proceede...

October 12, 2017 | Thursday | News
A Zika vaccine shows signs of success in an early human trial

A DNA-based Zika vaccine from Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc and South Korea’s GeneOne Life Science induced anti-Zika ...

October 9, 2017 | Monday | News
ABS plans to undertake human clinical trials in New Brunswick, Canada

Advanced Bifurcation Systems (ABS or the Company), a clinical stage medical device company developing an innovative sten...

October 5, 2017 | Thursday | News
ASCO and Friends of Cancer Research say cancer clinical trials should be inclusive of broader range of patients

Clinical trials researching cancer therapies should be more inclusive of a broader range of patients, according to the A...

October 5, 2017 | Thursday | News
Researchers rattled by the revised definition of clinical trials

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to enforce the new rules which are based on a revised definition of &...

October 5, 2017 | Thursday | News
New drug approved for fighting cholesterol

A newly-developed drug which has recently been approved for use in Singapore may aid in the fight against cholesterol. ...

October 4, 2017 | Wednesday | News
FDA puts hold on clinical trials for CAR-T cell therapy

French biotech firm Cellectis has revealed that the Food and Drug Administration has put a clinical holdon two of its cl...

September 18, 2017 | Monday | News