Medical/Pharmaceuticals
EQT Infrastructure to acquire Icon Group, Australia's largest integrated cancer care provider
- EQT Infrastructure has agreed to acquire Icon Group from a consortium including Goldman Sachs Asset Management, QIC and Pagoda. Goldman Sachs Asset Management will remain a minority shareholder as part of the transaction - Icon Group is Australia's largest vertically integrated cancer care...
Fiji based Omnicare Successfully Adopts the Digital Health Platform Jointly Provided by EnoviQ and InsureMO
SINGAPORE, Nov. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- EnoviQ, a health Insurance platform provider and eBaoTech, a digital Insurance solution provider are pleased to share their joint success in launching a digital health platform for Omnicare Pte. Ltd. (Omnicare) inFiji, to provide medical services to its na...
Investment Confidence in Icon Group to Drive Next Phase of Global Growth With EQT Infrastructure Investment
BRISBANE, Australia, Nov. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Icon Group has today announced it will enter the next phase of global expansion of its transformative integrated cancer care model following the investment of global investment organisation EQT. The investment demonstrates confidence in the stre...
Antengene Announces IND Approval in China for a Phase I/II Study of Selinexor (ATG-010) in Patients with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
SHANGHAI and Hong Kong, Nov. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Antengene Corporation Limited ("Antengene", SEHK: 6996.HK), a leading innovative global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercializing first-in-class and/or best-in-class therapeutics in hematology and onco...
Lunit's AI Software for Breast Cancer Detection, Lunit INSIGHT MMG, Wins FDA Clearance
SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Lunit, a leading medical AI provider, today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) has cleared its AI solution for breast cancer detection, 'Lunit INSIGHT MMG'. Along with its chest x-ray triaging solution 'Lunit INSIGHT C...
Betagenon co-founder publishes study demonstrating that pan-AMPK activator O304 acts as an exercise mimetic in aged mice
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Betagenon AB, a Sweden-based company focused on development of AMPK activator compounds, today announced the publication by co-founder Prof.Helena Edlund of a new study demonstrating that in aged mice the pan-AMPK activator O304 improves cardiac function a...
The Sigourney Award-2021 Honors Three Recipients With Distinguished International Prize for Advancing Psychoanalytic Thought
SEATTLE, Nov. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sigourney Award annually rewards achievements that advance psychoanalytic thought and practice with international recognition and a substantial cash prize. This year, a panel of distinguished judges evaluated applications from five continents for The Si...
Development of "VR hands on training" with hand tracking in live-action medical VR!
TOKYO, Nov. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Jolly Good Inc. (Chuo-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Kensuke Joji; "Jolly Good") has developed the "VR hands on training" function as a new feature of the "OPECloud VR hands on training system". This is a VR clinical training platform developed and provided by Jolly Good, wh...
Treadwell Therapeutics Announces The Closing of a $91 Million Series B Financing
NEW YORK and HONG KONG, Nov. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Treadwell Therapeutics ("Treadwell"), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel, cross-modality medicines for unmet needs in cancer, today announced the closing of an oversubscribed Series B financing, which raised more than$91...
ADVANZ PHARMA makes key changes to senior leadership to further accelerate next phase of growth
Dr. Steffen Wagner appointed as new Chief Executive Officer and Andreas Stickler as new Chief Financial Officer LONDON, Nov. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- ADVANZ PHARMA Corp. Limited ("ADVANZ PHARMA" or "the Company"), a specialty pharmaceutical company with a strategic focus on complex medicines in ...
Clinical Data Shows the Efficacy of In-Phase and Quadrature Demodulation in Electronic Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring During Labor
SHENZHEN, China, Nov. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- EDAN Instruments
China sees huge bounce in pharma rankings ahead of hybrid CPhI & P-MEC China
SHANGHAI, Nov. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- China's pharma industry has seen a record improvement in its overall score, growth potential and biologics according to new data. TheChina specific findings of the CPhI Annual Report rankings[1] are released ahead of CPhI & P-MEC China - which will take pla...
China sees huge bounce in pharma rankings ahead of hybrid CPhI & P-MEC China
SHANGHAI, Nov. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- China's pharma industry has seen a record improvement in its overall score, growth potential and biologics according to new data. TheChina specific findings of the CPhI Annual Report rankings[1] are released ahead of CPhI & P-MEC China - which will take pla...
First Subject Dosed in the U.S. Phase I Trial for ASC43F Only Half a Month after IND Approval by the U.S. FDA
SHANGHAI, Nov. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Gannex Pharma Co., Ltd., a wholly owned company of Ascletis Pharma Inc. (HKEX: 1672), today announces dosing of the first subject in the U.S. Phase I trial for ASC43F, a first-in-class, fixed-dose combination (FDC) oral tablet with dual targets of thyroid h...
A supply gap of more than 1 billion autodisable syringes could impact COVID-19 immunization efforts in 100 countries
SEATTLE, Nov. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- New PATH modeling estimates a global market supply gap of 1.2 billion autodisable (AD) syringe safe-injection devices for COVID-19 vaccine delivery. This supply gap risks becoming a bottleneck that could threaten the timely delivery of vaccines in half of th...
Silk Medical Aesthetics Announces Feasibility Clinical Trial Results for its All-Natural Dermal Filler
BOSTON, Nov. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Silk Medical Aesthetics, alongside sister companyEvolved by Nature, the developer of Activated Silk™ biotechnology, announced today the results of a 44-patient feasibility study under an FDA-approved IDE clinical trial for its all-natural dermal filler for N...
James Dyson Award 2021: three winners with world-improving inventions
HOPES, A device for pain-free, at-home eye pressure testing, opening up access to glaucoma testing, by students of theNational University of Singapore. Plastic Scanner, A low-cost, handheld device to identify plastic for recycling, byJerry de Vos from TU Delft. REACT, A device to stem bleeding t...
Novavax Confirms European Medicines Agency Review of COVID-19 Vaccine Filing for Conditional Marketing Authorization
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Nov. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing and commercializing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced that European Medicines Agency (EMA) has begun its evaluation of an applicat...
Novavax and Serum Institute of India Receive Emergency Use Authorization for COVID-19 Vaccine in the Philippines
GAITHERSBURG, Md. and PUNE, India, Nov. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing and commercializing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, and Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd. (SII), the world's largest vaccine m...
Global Cord Blood Corporation to Report Second Quarter and First Half Fiscal 2022 Financial Results
HONG KONG, Nov. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Cord Blood Corporation (NYSE: CO) (the "Company"),China's leading provider of cord blood collection, laboratory testing, hematopoietic stem cell processing and stem cell storage services, today announced that it plans to release financial results fo...
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