PharmaResearch acquires TuringBio for digital therapeutics

PharmaResearch acquires TuringBio for digital therapeutics

PharmaResearch Co., a South Korean company specializing in regenerative medicine, announced on Wednesday that it acquired TuringBio, an AI-based dig...

Korean biotech Xcell Therapeutics eyes June IPO

Korean biotech Xcell Therapeutics eyes June IPO

South Korean biotech Xcell Therapeutics Inc., a developer of chemically defined media for in vitro cell culture, is aiming for a junior bourse Kosda...

Samsung invests in BrickBio in US

Samsung invests in BrickBio in US

Samsung Group announced on Tuesday that its Life Science Fund has invested in the US-based antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) and gene therapy technol...

JW Pharma takes gout drug Epaminurad to Malaysia for phase 3

JW Pharma takes gout drug Epaminurad to Malaysia for phase 3

South Korea's JW Pharmaceutical Corp., announced on Monday that it has received approval from the Malaysian National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Age...

JW Holdings starts to export Winuf to Mongolia

JW Holdings starts to export Winuf to Mongolia

South Korea's JW Holdings corporation announced on Tuesday that it started to export the multi-nutritional liquid Winuf Central 736·1085ml to...

JW Pharma to conduct Phase 3 trials in Thailand for gout treatment

JW Pharma to conduct Phase 3 trials in Thailand for gout treatment

South Korea's JW Pharmaceutical Corp. on Thursday said it received approval from Thailand's Food and Drug Administration to conduct Phase 3 clinical...

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...

JW Pharma gets OK for phase 3 clinical trials of URC102 in Taiwan

JW Pharma gets OK for phase 3 clinical trials of URC102 in Taiwan

South Korea's JW Pharmaceutical has won approval from Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) to conduct phase 3 clinical trials for its gout t...

JW Pharma unveils S.Korea's first homegrown hybrid incubator

JW Pharma unveils S.Korea's first homegrown hybrid incubator

South Korea's JW Pharmaceutical on Wednesday released three products from its new incubator brand Hi-Mammi.The company's rollout of hybrid and high-...

Celltrion to develop Humira biosimilar oral medication with US firm

Celltrion to develop Humira biosimilar oral medication with US firm

South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. announced on Monday that it has signed a contract with the US biotech firm Rani Therapeutics ...

Welt gets second digital therapeutic device approval in S. Korea

Welt gets second digital therapeutic device approval in S. Korea

South Korea's Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced on Wednesday that it has approved the cognitive therapy software "WELT-I" developed by We...

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...

JW Pharma to use zebrafish in new drug development

JW Pharma to use zebrafish in new drug development

South Korean drug developer JW Pharmaceutical has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Zefit, a domestic non-clinical trial institu...

JW Pharma receives 1st overseas patent for its hair loss treatment

JW Pharma receives 1st overseas patent for its hair loss treatment

JW Pharmaceutical, a drug company based in South Korea, has received its first patent for a hair loss treatment that is currently in development. Th...

GC Biopharma to develop mRNA flu vaccine with Canadian pharma

GC Biopharma to develop mRNA flu vaccine with Canadian pharma

South Korea's GC Biopharma Corp. announced on Thursday that it will start developing a flu vaccine based on messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA).The dr...

AIMMED’s Somzz ushers in digital therapeutic device market in Korea

AIMMED’s Somzz ushers in digital therapeutic device market in Korea

South Korea’s health and drug safety authority has cleared Somzz to treat patients with sleep disorders, a dynamic move that is expected to vi...

Hanall Biopharma invests in Interon Labs for brain disease treatments

Hanall Biopharma invests in Interon Labs for brain disease treatments

South Korean pharmaceuticals firm Hanall Biopharma Co. is investing in Interon Laboratories, a US biotech firm that finds and develops treatments fo...

JW Pharma to put AI into new drug ingredient development

JW Pharma to put AI into new drug ingredient development

South Korea's drug developer JW Pharmaceutical is expanding the scope of its artificial intelligence (AI) uses from new drug research to the develop...

Celltrion develops oral antibody drug with US bio company

Celltrion develops oral antibody drug with US bio company

South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Celltrion Inc. on Monday said it signed an R&D contract with US-based Rani Therapeutics on RT-111, an or...

Korea’s big bio startups to launch $39 mn investment fund

Korea’s big bio startups to launch $39 mn investment fund

South Korea’s four leading biotech firms plan to launch an investment fund of up to 50 billion won ($39 million) to support smaller domestic b...

HLB Therapeutics signs contract for COVID vaccine distribution rights

HLB Therapeutics signs contract for COVID vaccine distribution rights

South Korea's pharmaceutical firm HLB Therapeutics Co. said on Monday that it has signed an agreement with the Korea Disease Control and Prevention ...

JW Pharma applies for phase 3 trial in Taiwan for gout treatment

JW Pharma applies for phase 3 trial in Taiwan for gout treatment

JW Pharmaceutical announced through its disclosure on Monday that it had applied last Friday for a phase 3 trial for Epaminurad, a gout treatment, w...

New drug developer Onconic Therapeutics raises $20 mn in Series B

New drug developer Onconic Therapeutics raises  $20 mn in Series B

South Korean drug developer Onconic Therapeutics, announced on Friday that it raised 26 billion won ($19.9 million) in Series B funding, with cumula...

MDimune signs research agreement with Australian National University

MDimune signs research agreement with Australian National University

MDimune, a South Korean biotech company, said on Wednesday that it had signed an agreement with the Clear Vision Research (CVR) Lab, a research grou...

JW Pharmaceutical relocates US research center from Seattle to Boston

JW Pharmaceutical relocates US research center from Seattle to Boston

JW Pharmaceutical announced on Wednesday that it has relocated its US research center to Boston from San Diego. JW Theriac was first establishe...

SK Discovery to control affiliates’ entire biotechnology business

SK Discovery to control affiliates’ entire biotechnology business

SK Discovery Co., an intermediate holding company of South Korea’s third-largest conglomerate SK Group, will take charge of the entire biotech...

Samsung Biologics to double CDMO capacity with new plants worth $5.3 bn

Samsung Biologics to double CDMO capacity with new plants worth $5.3 bn

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, plans to double its manufacturing capacity by building four additional plants w...

Korean biotech firms fold COVID-19 therapeutics development businesses

Korean biotech firms fold COVID-19 therapeutics development businesses

A string of South Korean pharmaceutical and biotech companies are waving the white flag when it comes to developing COVID-19 treatments. As the...

KT, Hanmi-invested therapeutics maker Digital Pharm launched

KT, Hanmi-invested therapeutics maker Digital Pharm launched

Digital Pharm, jointly invested in by KT Corp. and Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co., held an official inauguration ceremony last week, the company announced...

SK invests in US digital healthcare firm Cala Health

SK invests in US digital healthcare firm Cala Health

South Korea's SK Biopharmaceuticals Co. has dipped its toes into the rapidly growing digital healthcare market by investing in Cala Health, a US-bas...

Yes, it’s K-beauty: Buying interest for makeup brands runs high even before they're up for sale Kakao Pay backs out of acquisition deal for SSG Pay, Smile Pay Hanwha in talks to buy five-star hotel Paraspara Seoul Kia's Lego-like PV5 with 16 variants to hit market in July Stray Kids make K-pop history with landmark stadium show in Germany