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 ...

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...

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...

Prestige Biopharma participates in US gov’t Cancer Moonshot

Prestige Biopharma participates in US gov’t Cancer Moonshot

Prestige Biopharma, a Singapore-based biopharmaceutical company with operations in South Korea and the US, announced on Tuesday that it will partici...

Celltrion applies for approval in US for eye treatment biosimilar

Celltrion applies for approval in US for eye treatment biosimilar

South Korean biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. on Friday said it applied for approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for CT-P...

LegoChem Bio receives FDA approval for phase 1,2 trials of LCB84

LegoChem Bio receives FDA approval for phase 1,2 trials of LCB84

South Korean pharmaceutical firm LegoChem Biosciences Inc. announced on Thursday that it has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administrat...

HLB submits new drug application to FDA for Rivoceranib liver cancer drug

HLB submits new drug application to FDA for Rivoceranib liver cancer drug

HLB Co. announced on May 17 that it has submitted a new drug application (NDA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the approval of Rivo...

S.Korea's top 3 telecom companies boost pet-related services

S.Korea's top 3 telecom companies boost pet-related services

South Korea's top three telecommunication companies are expanding their pet-related services to attract as customers the estimated 15 million owners...

SK Telecom, SNU Hospital to develop AI diagnosis tool for autism

SK Telecom, SNU Hospital to develop AI diagnosis tool for autism

South Korea's top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. and Seoul National University Hospital have developed an AI-powered diagnosis tool for the early det...

Vaxcell-bio's NK cell therapy wins therapeutic approval for liver cancer

Vaxcell-bio's NK cell therapy wins therapeutic approval for liver cancer

South Korean anti-cancer immunotherapy company Vaxcell-Bio Therapeutics announced on Friday that its natural killer (NK) cell therapy, Vax-NK/HCC, h...

Verismo's CAR-T therapy designated fast-track status by FDA

Verismo's CAR-T therapy designated fast-track status by FDA

Verismo Therapeutics, a US affiliate of South Korean pharmaceutical firm HLB Co., has received fast-track designation from the US Food and Drug Admi...

Kolon Pharma to merge with anti-cancer drug developer Platbio

Kolon Pharma to merge with anti-cancer drug developer Platbio

Kolon Pharma, the pharmaceutical affiliate of South Korea's Kolon Group, is merging with anti-cancer drug developer Platbio to advance the developme...

Oil from S.Korea’s red ginseng alleviates prostate enlargement: study

Oil from S.Korea’s red ginseng alleviates prostate enlargement: study

Oil from South Korea’s famous hongsam (red ginseng) can prevent enlargement of the prostate, according to a study. A joint research team ...

Lunit's Insight DBT gets certification from EU for medical device

Lunit's Insight DBT gets certification from EU for medical device

South Korean medical AI company Lunit said on Monday that its 3D breast tomosynthesis artificial intelligence (AI) image analysis solution, "Lunit I...

Prestige Bio's pancreatic cancer treatment gets US FDA fast-track designation

Prestige Bio's pancreatic cancer treatment gets US FDA fast-track designation

Prestige Biopharma, a biopharmaceutical company in South Korea, announced on Thursday that their pancreatic cancer antibody drug, PBP1510 (Ulenistam...

Celltrion teams up with bio venture to develop new anti-cancer drug

Celltrion teams up with bio venture to develop new anti-cancer drug

South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. will develop an anti-cancer drug that combines oncolytic virus technology with biosimilars un...

SillaJen starts US trial of anti-cancer drug from Basilea

SillaJen starts US trial of anti-cancer drug from Basilea

SillaJen Inc. said on Monday it has enrolled the first patient in a US phase 1 trial of an anti-cancer drug BAL0891 licensed from Swiss drugmaker Ba...

Vaxcell-Bio, Cellid sign MOU to build cancer immunotherapy platform

Vaxcell-Bio, Cellid sign MOU to build cancer immunotherapy platform

Vaxcell-Bio Therapeutics, a South Korean company specializing in anti-cancer immunotherapy, announced on Wednesday its partnership with Cellid Co. t...

S.Korea's Lunit supplies breast cancer imaging solution to UAE

S.Korea's Lunit supplies breast cancer imaging solution to UAE

South Korean medical AI company Lunit has supplied its breast cancer imaging analysis solution — Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging — to...

Coreline Soft to supply AI diagnosis solution to France

Coreline Soft to supply AI diagnosis solution to France

Coreline Soft, a South Korean company specializing in developing medical artificial intelligence (AI) devices, said on Tuesday that it has signed an...

S.Korea's Boryung receives EU GMP certification

S.Korea's Boryung receives EU GMP certification

South Korean pharmaceutical company Boryung announced that its production facility for anti-cancer injections in Yesan, South Chungcheong Province, ...

Prestige Biopharma submits clinical trial plan in Australia

Prestige Biopharma submits clinical trial plan in Australia

Prestige Biopharma, a Singapore-based biopharmaceutical company with operations in South Korea and the US,  has applied to the Australian clini...

NGeneBio to launch precision cancer test service in Thailand

NGeneBio to launch precision cancer test service in Thailand

South Korean medical diagnostic company NGeneBio Co. has partnered with MP Group, a large consignment testing agency in Thailand, to launch a precis...

Bridge Biotherapeutics, Pinotbio develop lung cancer treatment

Bridge Biotherapeutics, Pinotbio develop lung cancer treatment

South Korea's biotech companies Bridge Biotherapeutics Inc. and Pinotbio on Thursday said they will jointly develop new antibody-drug conjugates (AD...

Celltrion Healthcare launches anti-cancer biosimilar Vegzelma in Japan

Celltrion Healthcare launches anti-cancer biosimilar Vegzelma in Japan

Celltrion Healthcare Co. Ltd. said on Thursday that it launched Vegzelma, a biosimilar to the anti-cancer drug Avastin (active ingredient: bevacizum...

LG Chem completes acquisition of US biotech firm AVEO

LG Chem completes acquisition of US biotech firm AVEO

LG Chem Ltd. is set to complete its $571 million purchase of the US biotech firm AVEO Pharmaceuticals Inc. on Friday, which would strengthen its ant...

MedPacto's anti-cancer substance designated as US FDA fast-track item

MedPacto's anti-cancer substance designated as US FDA fast-track item

South Korean biotech company MedPacto Inc. ’s Vactosertib monotherapy for osteosarcoma patients has been designated as a fast-track developmen...

Prestige Biopharma attains patent for solid cancer treatment antibody

Prestige Biopharma attains patent for solid cancer treatment antibody

Prestige Biopharma Korea said on Tuesday that it has obtained a domestic patent for the CTHRC1 neutralizing antibody of the drug candidate PBP1710. ...

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