Medical/Pharmaceuticals

Alterity and UniQuest partner to reverse bacterial resistance to antibiotics

MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Alterity Therapeutics (ASX: ATH, NASDAQ: ATHE) ("Alterity" or "the Company") has today announced it has been granted a licence by UniQuest, the commercialisation company of The University of Queensland (UQ), to novel zinc ionophore technology to ...

2020-12-22 05:42 6294

DW Healthcare Partners V, L.P. Announces Commencement of the Tender Offer for All Outstanding Ordinary Shares of Parnell Pharmaceuticals Holdings Ltd

PARK CITY, Utah, Dec. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- DW Healthcare Partners V, L.P. ("Purchaser"), announced today that it has commenced a cash tender offer for all of the outstanding ordinary shares of Parnell Pharmaceuticals Holdings Ltd (OTC Pink Open Market: PARNF) ("Parnell") at a price of U.S.$0....

2020-12-21 23:07 14150

Pierre Fabre Selects AGC Biologics as CDMO to manufacture the orphan drug ER-004

SEATTLE, Dec. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- AGC Biologics, a leading global Biopharmaceutical Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), announced its partnership with Laboratoire Pierre Fabre to manufacture ER-004 – an intra-amniotic drug that will pioneer the treatment of a rare and...

2020-12-21 23:00 1919

Pierre Fabre Selects AGC Biologics as CDMO to manufacture the orphan drug ER-004

SEATTLE, Dec. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- AGC Biologics, a leading global Biopharmaceutical Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), announced its partnership with Laboratoire Pierre Fabre to manufacture ER-004 – an intra-amniotic drug that will pioneer the treatment of a rare and...

2020-12-21 23:00 3273

Servier to Acquire Agios Pharmaceuticals' Oncology Business

- Transaction includes commercial, clinical and research-stage oncology portfolio and employees for up to$2 billion plus royalties - Includes Agios' marketed medicine TIBSOVO® and a strong oncology pipeline of Phase 3 and early-stage assets - Acquisition in-line with Servier's strategic ambition...

2020-12-21 22:26 2101

Major Breakthrough: DragonFly-T™ First Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Repair Surgery in China

HANGZHOU, China, Dec. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- On December 15, 2020, Professor Wang Jian'an's team from the Second Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine successfully applied the DragonFly-T™ Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Clamping System to perform the first human clinical application...

2020-12-21 22:18 2144

LT1001 (Naldebain(R)), an Extended-Release Analgesic Injection, Received Its Second Approval from Singapore's HSA

TAIPEI, Dec. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumosa Therapeutics is pleased to announce the market approval of LT1001 (Naldebain®), an extended-release analgesic injection, fromSingapore's Health Science Agency (HSA). HSA is regarded as one of the regulatory reference countries in the world. The approv...

2020-12-21 22:08 2487

Longevity Acquisition Corporation Announces 4D pharma Joining Landmark Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative

NEW YORK, Dec. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Longevity Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ: LOAC) (the "Company"), a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, announced today that onDecember 18, 2020, 4D pharma plc (AIM: DDDD) ("4D pharma"), a pharmaceutical company leading the development of L...

2020-12-21 21:00 11280

BioVaxys Vaccine Platform Stimulates Robust T-cell Response Against Viral Antigens

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- BioVaxys Technology Corp. (CSE: BIOV, FRA:5LB, OTC:LMNGF) ("BioVaxys") announced today that further analysis of the data from a preclinical animal study (also known as the "murine model study") of its haptenized viral protein vaccine tech...

2020-12-21 21:00 3756

Neusoft Medical has reached a strategic cooperation of Sino-Pakistan Healthcare in Pakistan

SHENYANG, China, Dec. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Neusoft Medical Systems Co., Ltd. (Neusoft Medical) announced the cloud signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Dynamic Engineering and Automation Group (DEA) to cooperate in the area of healthcare inPakistan. The partnership intends to ...

2020-12-21 19:18 2337

ImmuneMed's hzVSF-v13, COVID-19 clinical trials accelerate development of the treatment

Followed by Russia, Indonesia, and Korea, the second phase of the COVID-19 clinical trial was approved inItaly on Friday, December 18, 2020. CHUNCHEON, South Korea, Dec. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The broad spectrum antiviral therapeutic, 'hzVSF-v13(humanized Virus Suppressing Factor)' being devel...

2020-12-21 10:43 1406

Peijia Medical and HighLife Enter Into License and Technology Transfer Agreement for Transeptal Mitral Valve Replacement in Greater China

SUZHOU, China and PARIS, Dec. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Peijia Medical Ltd (HK Stock Code: 09996) and HighLife SAS, aParis-based medical device company, focused on the development of a unique transeptal mitral valve replacement ("TMVR") system to treat patients suffering from mitral regurgitation,...

2020-12-21 10:00 4118

Antengene Announces its U.S. Partner, Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc., has received FDA Approval of XPOVIO® (Selinexor) as a Treatment for Patients with Multiple Myeloma After At Least One Prior Therapy

SHANGHAI and HONG KONG, Dec. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Antengene Corporation Limited ("Antengene", SEHK: 6996.HK) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) submitted by its partner Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq...

2020-12-21 08:00 4207

Teijin Pharma and TransThera Biosciences Form Strategic R&D Collaboration

TOKYO and NANJING, China, Dec. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Teijin Pharma Limited  ("Teijin Pharma"), the core company of the Teijin Group 's healthcare business headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and TransThera Biosciences Co. Ltd. ("TransThera"),...

2020-12-18 23:30 3887

Occlutech's Atrial Flow Regulator (AFR) Receives U.S. FDA Breakthrough Device Designation

SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, Dec. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Occlutech, a privately-held company, announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company a Breakthrough Device designation for its first-in-class, implantable Atrial Flow Regulator (AFR) for Pulmonary Art...

2020-12-18 21:29 4827

Medtecs Chosen as Asian Development Bank's Partner to Supply Vital PPE to Asian Developing Countries Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

TAIPEI, Dec. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Medtecs Group, a leading personal protective equipment (PPE) supplier based inTaiwan, had passed the rigorous procurement process of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) inJune 2020 to become the ADB's supplier of critical protective gear for frontline health wor...

2020-12-18 18:22 2565

Antengene Announces Approval of IND Application in China for a Phase 3 Clinical Trial of ATG-010 (Selinexor) in Combination with Bortezomib and Dexamethasone (SVd) for the Treatment of rrMM

SHANGHAI and HONG KONG, Dec.18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Antengene Corporation Limited ("Antengene", SEHK: 6996.HK), a leading innovative biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercializing global first-in-class and/or best-in class therapeutics in hematology and oncolo...

2020-12-18 15:34 5854

Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic, Medtecs Group Transforms Itself into the World's Biggest Stockpiling Solutions Provider

TAIPEI, Dec. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Taiwan has been lauded by international communities for its standout performance in containing the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19). In the meantime, Medtecs Group, a company headquartered inTaipei, Taiwan has taken off to become the world's leading sup...

2020-12-18 15:27 1895

Research on preventative nasal spray, which protects against COVID-19 and common cold, published in leading peer-reviewed academic journals

* Research on preventative COVID-19 nasal spray published in prestigious, peer-reviewed academic journals: EBioMedicine and the European Respiratory Journal * Novel therapy developed by Australian biotech company, Ena Respiratory, shown in animal study to reduce COVID-19 virus levels in the n...

2020-12-18 06:52 2165

Small vessels can cause big problems; MagicTouch SCB Granted 'Breakthrough Device Designation' for the treatment of Small Coronary Artery Lesions

TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Concept Medical Inc. (CMI) has been granted "Breakthrough Device Designation " from the Center for Devices and Radiol...

2020-12-18 03:16 4135