VaxCell Bio's treatment shows promise for advanced liver cancer

VaxCell Bio's treatment shows promise for advanced liver cancer

South Korea's VaxCell Biotherapeutics Co. on Tuesday said its treatment for advanced liver cancer under development stopped or greatly reduced the g...

Wellmarker Bio signs worth of $528 mn tech transfer deal

Wellmarker Bio signs worth of $528 mn tech transfer deal

Wellmarker Bio, South Korea's oncology drug development company, announced on Monday that it has signed a technology transfer agreement with a Europ...

AriBio applies for Phase 3 clinical trials in China for oral dementia drug

AriBio applies for Phase 3 clinical trials in China for oral dementia drug

South Korean clinical-stage biotech company AriBio Co. on Thursday said it applied for Phase 3 clinical trials on the anti-Alzheimer's candidate t...

Daewoong gets patent of Nabota as migraine drug in US

Daewoong gets patent of Nabota as migraine drug in US

South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co. announced on Thursday that it has received a patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office for the use of...

Yungjin Pharm's new drug candidate gets Fast Track from FDA

Yungjin Pharm's new drug candidate gets Fast Track from FDA

South Korea's Yungjin Pharm has secured Fast Track designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its new drug candidate KL1333, des...

S.Korea's Boryung gets gov’t OK for diabetes drug Trubuddy

S.Korea's Boryung gets gov’t OK for diabetes drug Trubuddy

South Korea’s Boryung Corp. on Tuesday said it received approval from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety for its new compound diabetes drug ...

Celltrion to expand new plant for drug products

Celltrion to expand new plant for drug products

South Korean biopharmaceutical firm Celltrion Inc. announced on Tuesday that it plans to enlarge its finished pharmaceuticals manufacturing facility...

HK inno.N releases K-Cab in Singapore

HK inno.N releases K-Cab in Singapore

South Korean bio-health company HK inno.N announced on Monday that it has released the new drug K-CAB for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in ...

Discovery in S.Korea promises dieting without limits on eating

Discovery in S.Korea promises dieting without limits on eating

A drug candidate in South Korea could allow people seeking to lose weight to eat to their heart's content.The Center for Cognition and Sociality of ...

S.Korea’s Coreline Soft teams up with HCK of Switzerland

S.Korea’s Coreline Soft teams up with HCK of Switzerland

South Korea's Coreline Soft, a maker of artificial intelligence (AI)-based imaging diagnostic materials, on Wednesday said it will sell its chest di...

Voronoi to strengthen AI-driven open innovation

Voronoi to strengthen AI-driven open innovation

South Korea’s biotechnology startup Voronoi Inc. announced on Monday that it is intensifying its artificial intelligence (AI)-driven new drug ...

JW Pharma to participate in S.Korea’s new drug project

JW Pharma to participate in S.Korea’s new drug project

South Korea's JW Pharmaceutical announced on Monday that its experimental hair loss drug, JW0061, has been selected for a two-year funding program b...

Daewoong applies for approval of Envlo in Saudi Arabia

Daewoong applies for approval of Envlo in Saudi Arabia

South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co. announced on Friday that it has submitted an application for regulatory approval of its new diabetes treat...

Hanmi Pharm to start global clinical trials for immune-oncology drug

Hanmi Pharm to start global clinical trials for immune-oncology drug

South Korea's Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. announced on Tuesday that it has received approval for the phase 1 clinical trial plan of the immune-oncology...

SK Bioscience to export $51 bn flu vaccine to Thailand

SK Bioscience to export $51 bn flu vaccine to Thailand

SK Bioscience Co., the drug-making unit of South Korea’s SK Group, announced on Monday that it has signed a deal with Thailand's state-owned G...

Gencurix supplies companion diagnostic kits to cancer center in India

Gencurix supplies companion diagnostic kits to cancer center in India

South Korean biotech company Gencurix Inc. on Friday said it started supplying its companion diagnostic test Droplex to a national cancer center in ...

SK Biopharm to export epilepsy drug tech to Middle Eastern firm

SK Biopharm to export epilepsy drug tech to Middle Eastern firm

South Korea's SK Biopharmaceuticals announced on Friday a strategic tie-up with Hikma MENA FZE, marking the introduction of its new epilepsy medicat...

S.Korea's Qurient, US National Cancer Institute to develop anti-cancer drug

S.Korea's Qurient, US National Cancer Institute to develop anti-cancer drug

South Korea's Qurient Co. announced on Monday that it signed a research and development agreement with the US government agency National Cancer Inst...

ABL Bio gets OK for phase 1 clinical trials for immune-oncology drug

ABL Bio gets OK for phase 1 clinical trials for immune-oncology drug

New drug development company ABL Bio Inc. announced on Thursday that it has received approval from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety of South Kor...

SK Biopharmaceuticals forms Scientific Advisory Board

SK Biopharmaceuticals forms Scientific Advisory Board

South Korea's SK Biopharmaceuticals assembled its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) composed of world-renowned physicians and drug development experts...

Daewoong launches GERD treatment Fexuclu in Philippines

Daewoong launches GERD treatment Fexuclu in Philippines

South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical announced on Tuesday that it has launched the GERD treatment drug "Fexuclue" (active ingredient: Fexuprazan) i...

Gencurix joins US gov't Cancer Moonshot project

Gencurix joins US gov't Cancer Moonshot project

South Korean cancer molecular diagnostics company Gencurix Inc. announced on Monday that it joins US President Joe Biden's cancer-conquering project...

Hanmi Pharm to develop obesity drug customized for S.Korean

Hanmi Pharm to develop obesity drug customized for S.Korean

South Korea's Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. plans to develop the GLP-1 class "Epeglenatide," which it received as a technology return from Sanofi S.A., i...

Boryung Pharma's sales surpass $311 mn in H1 2023

Boryung Pharma's sales surpass $311 mn in H1 2023

South Korea’s Boryung Corp. has alleviated the fear of falling behind in its sector expressed by its third-generation chairman Jay Kim Jung-Gy...

Lunit to supply AI diagnosis solution to Saudi's medical institution

Lunit to supply AI diagnosis solution to Saudi's medical institution

South Korea's medical AI company Lunit announced on Wednesday that it has signed a contract to supply its artificial intelligence (AI) solution for ...

Kwangdong to sell exclusively three global rare disease drugs

Kwangdong to sell exclusively three global rare disease drugs

South Korean pharmaceutical company Kwangdong Pharmaceutical announced on Monday that it signed an agreement for securing exclusive sales and distri...

S.Korea's NGeneBio establishes US corporation NGeneBioAI

S.Korea's NGeneBio establishes US corporation NGeneBioAI

South Korean medical diagnostic company NGeneBio Co. announced on Monday that it has established an artificial intelligence (AI) precision diagnosti...

Clinomics releases equipment that quickly finds lung cancer mutations

Clinomics releases equipment that quickly finds lung cancer mutations

Clinomics, a South Korean biotech company specializing in liquid biopsies, on Thursday said it developed equipment that can detect four types of l...

SK Chemicals to supply diabetes drugs to AstraZeneca Korea

SK Chemicals to supply diabetes drugs to AstraZeneca Korea

SK Chemicals Co., a South Korean chemicals maker and drug developer, said on Thursday it has signed a contract to supply diabetes medications to glo...

Novomics expands presence in Chinese cancer market

Novomics expands presence in Chinese cancer market

South Korean molecular diagnostics company Novomics Co. announced on Wednesday that it has signed a collaboration agreement with Chinese molecular d...

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