Asia-Pacific Biotech News

Australia — World's Biggest Genebank on Its Way in Australia.

Australia — Australian Researchers Discover New Improved Hepatitis C Model.

Australia — Meat and Livestock Australia Invests $1 million for New Livestock Pathogen Research Project.

Australia — Australia's Cloning Stance 'Damaging' to International Research.

Australia — Locust Researcher Dr Richard Milner Named Finalist for Eureka Prize.

Australia — 11th International Congress of Human Genetics Held in Brisbane.

China — Eiken to Launch New Subsidiary and Factory in China.

China — Ginseng May Improve Breast Cancer Outcomes.

China — China Claims Successful Phase I Trial of AIDS Vaccine.

India — Merck to Focus on India for Clinical Trials.

India — Avra Labs to Invest in New Facility.

India — India and US Pharmacopeia Sign MoU to Promote Awareness About Medicines.

India — India's Use of GM Cotton to Double in 2007.

India — Orchid Gets FDA Approval for Cefotaxime Injections.

India — India Claims It is 'Avian Influenza-Free Country'.

India — Viread to Retail for $1 in India.

India — Indian Government Sets up Committee on GM Food.

Indonesia — Indonesia Opens up Access to Bird Flu Gene Codes.

Japan — NIAS and Sanger Institute Conclude Agreement on Pig Genome Research.

Japan — GlaxoSmithKline and Shionogi Complete HIV Drug Study.

Korea — Singapore's Raffles Medical Group to Expand into South Korea.

Malaysia — Malaysia's Call to Venture into Nanobiotechnology.

Singapore — Eisai Pharmaceutical Marketing Subsidiary in Singapore Launches Operations.

Singapore — IFPMA Organizes the Asian Regional Conference on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Health.

Singapore — Former NNI Director's Breach of Ethical Conduct.

Singapore — Dr John Brown Joins SingVax as Chairman.

Singapore — Merck Invests S$100 million for Expansion in Singapore.

Taiwan — NSC Considering Plans for Clinical Research Facility.

Thailand — GSK Withdraws Application for AIDS Drugs in Thailand and India.

Thailand — Thailand's HIV/AIDS Treatment Should Serve as a Model for Other Countries.

Drug Discovery in China.

Pharmaceutical Industrial Partnering Trends in India.

Tissue Therapies Limited Announced the Creation of a Fundamentally New Molecule.

Novozymes Bid for Australian Biotech Company GroPep Ltd.

NeuroDiscovery, Entered an Agreement with King's College London.

Benitec and CSIRO Continues to Collaborate.

Phynova to Buy 45% of China's Botanic Century.

Aida Pharmaceuticals Acquires 77.5% of Chinese Gene Drug Pioneer—Shanghai Qiaer Bio-Technology.

Gilead Collaborates with Three Indian Companies for Generic Versions of Viread in the Developing World.

Ranbaxy Buys Russian Generic Drugs Maker Akrikhin for $110 million.

ShinNippon Agrees Licensing Nasal Drug Delivery Technology to Tokai Pharmaceuticals.

Schering-Plough Withdraws Application for Antibiotic Filing.

Japan Biovntures Today — Oncolys BioPharma Inc.

MerLion Pharmaceuticals Merges with Two European Companies.

Review of China's Biopharmaceautical Industries in Recent Years.

Frontiers of Leukemia Research—Dr Ching Hon Pui.