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NIH Provides $23 Million to Fund Telehealth Cancer Care Research

In an effort to establish a more robust framework for digital healthcare in the cancer care space, the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, is laying down $23 million to four organizations to fund research efforts. The funding aims better to understand telehealth ope...

2022-08-26 11:00

Single Cell Sequencing – the Current Players

Normally, a mix of millions of cells is analyzed using traditional DNA or RNA sequencing methods via Sanger sequencing or high-throughput synthesis. But now, with single cell sequencing, we can investigate DNA and RNA from a single cell, unraveling cellular functions one base pair at a time. The sin...

2022-08-10 10:42

Single Cell Sequencing – the Current Players

Korean Companies Occupying South Korea’s Diverse Biotech Landscape

In face of the COVID-19 pandemic, South Korea’s biotech companies have risen to the challenge of supplying the world’s vaccines, and the region is on the path to becoming one of the leading biologics manufacturers. The Korean government is actively introducing policies that favor biotech development...

2022-08-10 10:41

South Korea’s Biotech Industry：Trends, Landscape, and Clusters Overview

While the global pharmaceutical industry is facing enormous challenges in operation and R&D innovation due to the changing global trend, the South Korean pharmaceutical industry is also facing severe difficulties such as reduced production capacity, tightened regulations, insufficient innovation, an...

2022-08-10 10:37

South Korea’s Biotech Industry：Trends, Landscape, and Clusters Overview

Caliway Biopharmaceutical Announces Achievements in Revolutionary Fat Reduction Therapy

Caliway Biopharmaceutical Inc (CBI) has announced that its first pipeline, CBL-514 has demonstrated promising clinical effectiveness and safety in reducing local fat through a mechanism of adipocytes apoptosis. Current Treatment Options for Fat Reduction Localized adiposity is often diet and exer...

2022-08-10 10:26

Caliway Biopharmaceutical Announces Achievements in Revolutionary Fat Reduction Therapy

BIO Asia-Taiwan 2022: Connecting the Asian Value Chain

Taiwan Biotech Industry Organization announced that BIO Asia-Taiwan 2022 is going to be held on July 21-31, both onsite and online, with the topic – Connecting the Asian Value Chain. Over 550 biotech companies and industry professionals from more than 30 countries are expected to attend. Connecting...

2022-07-07 14:21

BIO Asia-Taiwan 2022: Connecting the Asian Value Chain

Taiwan Biotech Industry Organization announced that BIO Asia-Taiwan 2022 is going to be held on July 21-31, both onsite and online, with the topic – Connecting the Asian Value Chain. Over 550 biotech companies and industry professionals from more than 30 countries are expected to attend. Connecting...

2022-07-07 14:21

Taiwan’s Biotech Industry Shines at the 2022 BIO International Convention

The annual BIO International Convention hosted by Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) is the world’s largest industry gathering. It brings together thousands of global biotechnology industries, biopharmaceutical leaders, and related organizations from over 30 countries. As the innovation hub...

2022-06-24 16:41

Over 50 Taiwan Organizations to Present at 2022 BIO International Convention

[Taipei – June 8, 2022] – The Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries Promotion Office, Ministry of Economic Affairs in Taiwan announced today that more than 50 industry, academic, and government organizations will present at the upcoming 2022 BIO International Convention on June 13-16, 2022, in...

2022-06-09 14:59

CYTENA BPS and Leadgene Bio to Level Up Taiwan’s Protein Drugs Production

Biological drugs such as monoclonal antibodies originated from mammalian cells and the culture is transited into large-scale manufacturing afterward, hence the development and incubation of cell lines play key roles in the quality and quantity of protein drug production. However, traditional cell l...

2022-06-09 14:54

Bora Pharmaceuticals Expands with Eden Biologics’ CDMO Purchase

Taiwanese Bora Pharmaceuticals recently announced the establishment of Bora Biologics CDMO platform, and ready to invest $100M to acquire Eden Biologics’ CDMO assets, securing its leading position in Taiwan’s contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) market. Acquisition of Eden’s C...

2022-05-18 12:05

The FDA Granted These Three Companies Orphan Drug Designations in One Day

May 12 was a big day for advancing rare disease treatment as the FDA granted Orphan Drug Designation to Stealth BioTherapeutics, Neurocrine Biosciences, and Editas Medicine. Stealth BioTherapeutics aims to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Neurocrine Biosciences is focused on chorea associated with...

2022-05-18 11:55

Aspen Neuroscience Rakes in $147.5 Million for Parkinson’s Cell Therapy Development

San Diego-based Aspen Neuroscience announced on May 9 that it received $147.5 million in Series B funding to advance its personalized cell therapy technology aimed at treating Parkinson’s Disease. GV, Lyfe Capital, and Revelation Partners co-led the most recent round of financing, bringing in severa...

2022-05-18 11:52

AbbVie & Cugene Join Forces to Tackle Autoimmune Diseases

US Chicago-based AbbVie and Waltham, Massachusetts’ Cugene inked a deal for developing autoimmune diseases and cancer treatments. The pact focuses on a worldwide license option agreement for a potential best-in-class Treg-selective IL-2 mutein (CUG252) in addition to other novel IL-2 muteins. Cugen...

2022-05-18 11:44

Fifth Wave of COVID-19 Devastates Hong Kong – How Next-Generation Sequencing Can Help with Latest Outbreak

Hong Kong’s government had the COVID-19 pandemic under control with its strict COVID zero strategy. However, after the highly infectious Omicron variant caused another COVID-19 outbreak this January, the Hong Kong healthcare system has found it increasingly difficult to maintain this approach. With...

2022-03-10 15:03

The Golden Age of Genomics Sequencing

COVID-19 inflicted tremendous suffering in 2021, claiming almost 3.5 million lives, which was more than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined in the same year. However, many medical biotech improvements and significant breakthroughs have been accelerated by the extreme urgency of the pandemic...

2022-02-21 17:33

The 2022 UK-Taiwan Digital Health Programme, a Golden Opportunity to Dive into the Digital Health Market in APAC

The 2022 UK-Taiwan Digital HealthProgramme, organized by the British Office and GeneOnline, successfully launched on Feb 10. The programme aims to offer insights into Taiwan's Digital Health market and regulatory landscape, along with matchmaking events linking both UK and Taiwan organizations to co...

2022-02-21 15:23

How Our Microbiomes Are Connected to Irritable Bowel Syndromes, Cancer and Autism: Highlights from the 6th Asia Microbiome Conference

Our understanding of the microbiome transforms every year, thanks to a growing body of research that challenges conventional thinking of how microorganisms interact with our bodies. A condensation of that research was made available at the Sixth Asia Microbiome Conference, an annual event co-organ...

2022-02-18 14:50

Covaxin Received WHO Nod, Thailand to Welcome Tourists & More

Coronavirus-related news continues to make headlines around the world. From Thailand reopening to some countries to WHO approval for Covaxin, here are some of the major travel news highlights these past weeks. COVID jabs for children expected to boost travelling This week, the CDC approved t...

2021-11-08 12:08

UK Red List to be Removed, New Countries on EU Safe List, & More

Coronavirus-related news continues to make headlines around the world. From new vaccine requirements for travellers to the US to the UAE updating travel rules for its citizens, here are some of the major travel news highlights from last week. The UK to clear its red list The UK authorities have ...

2021-11-03 12:14