Chickungunya can soon be prevented with a vaccine

Singapore: Australian biotech firm, Themis Bioscience GmbH declared the successful interim results of their prophylactic...

June 13, 2014 | Friday | News
India's H1N1 vaccine demand to grow by 2.1%

Singapore: Business intelligence provider GlobalData estimates that India is expected to exhibit a great surge in H1N1 ...

January 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
China develops world's first vaccine for enterovirus

Singapore: The world's first vaccine against a strain of enterovirus has now been developed by Chinese researchers. The ...

June 7, 2013 | Friday | News
Encephalitis vaccine to be China's first WHO prequalification

Singapore: The World Health Organization (WHO) is on the verge of approving a Chinese-made vaccine for Japanese encephal...

October 8, 2012 | Monday | News
Dendritic cells behind immune responses discovered

Singapore: Scientists at A*STAR's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), in collaboration with Newcastle University, UK, t...

July 17, 2012 | Tuesday | News
NIH gives Altravax $3.45 mn to make AIDS vaccine

Singapore: Altravax has been awarded two research grants worth a total of $3.45 million from the NIH's National Institut...

December 4, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Aeras, Oxford Uni, Okairos club $2.9 mn on TB, HIV, Malaria vaccine

Singapore: Aeras, a nonprofit biotech advancing TB vaccines for the world, the University of Oxford and Okairos, a bioph...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
BioDiem expands antimicrobial profile

Singapore: Infectious disease therapies developer, BioDiem has expanded its local partnership network by signing an agre...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
NIH develops groundbreaking dengue vaccine

Singapore: A dengue vaccine candidate developed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has shown to be safe and has ...

January 25, 2013 | Friday | News
GSK's malaria vaccine might be reality in two years

Singapore: The results of the phase III clinical trials of a malaria vaccine being developed by British pharmaceutical m...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Sanofi working to bring dengue under control

Singapore: Sanofi announced that the phase III clinical trials for its dengue vaccine was successful, in a press confere...

July 15, 2014 | Tuesday | News
CSL Biotherapies awarded Pandemic Preparedness Contract by US Government

Singapore: CSL Biotherapies has been awarded by the United States (US) Department of Health and Human Services to supply...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Serum Institute acquires Dutch biologics company

Mumbai: Serum Institute of India, the flagship company of the over $1 bn Poonawalla Group and India's largest vaccine co...

July 4, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Mitsubishi to acquire Medicago at $1.16 per share

Singapore: Medicago, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing highly effective and competitive vaccines based o...

July 17, 2013 | Wednesday | News
H7N9 claims more lives in China

Singapore: Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) and the provincial health department have reported eight new h...

February 20, 2014 | Thursday | News
Vaccines do not cause autism: Study

Singapore: Researchers from the University of Sydney, have dismissed any link between development of autism and childho...

May 30, 2014 | Friday | News
EU join hands to develop personalized cancer vaccines

Singapore: Europe has established Glioma Actively Personalized Vaccine Consortium, (GAPVAC), a project designed to creat...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Focus on needs of society: Dr Weidong Yin

Dr Weidong Yin, the man behind Sinovac, was honoured with BioSpectrum Asia Pacific Bioscience Industry Entrepreneur of t...

March 15, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers