News in the Life Sciences Industry

SINGAPORE, April 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, has launched a new patient safety program for hospitals, called Preventing Risks of Infections and Medication Errors in IV Therapy (PRIME). Aimed at addressing the... Read more ››

SINGAPORE, April 25, 2019 /CNW/ -- The higher demand for services and improved quality of care has been attracting significant global investments to the Asia-Pacific healthcare industry.

SINGAPORE, April 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Tessa Therapeutics, a clinical-stage immunotherapy company focused on autologous and off-the-shelf, allogeneic therapies targeting solid tumors, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Merck (known as MSD outside the US and... Read more ››

SINGAPORE, April 8, 2019 /CNW/ -- AUM Biosciences has been honored with the 2019 Asia-Pacific Biotech Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award from Frost & Sullivan.

HONG KONG, SUZHOU, China and HANGZHOU, China, March 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Transcenta Holding (Transcenta) today announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, HJB, has signed an exclusive agreement with Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) to license a portfolio of novel biotherapeutics programs in... Read more ››

TOKYO, March 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT) today announced the appointment of Catherine Ohura as the organization's new CEO and Executive Director. Ohura brings depth and breadth of expertise and invaluable experience working for R&D and Commercial... Read more ››

TOKYO, March 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund announced today a total of 2.86 billion yen (US$25.8 million*) to support 10 partnerships to develop new lifesaving drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics for malaria, tuberculosis, dengue, leishmaniasis, and... Read more ››

SHANGHAI, March 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at Semicon China 2019, Thermo Fisher Scientific unveiled its latest and most advanced focused ion beam scanning electron microscope (FIB-SEM) for nanometer scale materials characterization and analysis, the Thermo Scientific Helios 5 DualBeam microscope.... Read more ››

SAN DIEGO, March 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Mesa Biotech Inc., is a privately held, molecular diagnostic company that developed an affordable and easy to operate polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing platform designed specifically for point-of-care (POC) infectious disease diagnosis. Today, Mesa... Read more ››