Bird flu in Brazil hikes wholesale chicken prices in Korea

Bird flu in Brazil hikes wholesale chicken prices in Korea

South Korea has suspended chicken imports from Brazil following the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the South American count...

SK Bioscience, Sanofi to develop next-gen pneumococcal vaccines

SK Bioscience, Sanofi to develop next-gen pneumococcal vaccines

South Korea's SK Bioscience Co. said on Friday it signed an expanded agreement with Sanofi to co-develop next-generation pneumococcal conjugate vacc...

SK Bioscience's SKYCellflu approved in Indonesia

SK Bioscience's SKYCellflu approved in Indonesia

SK Bioscience Co., a bio and pharmaceutical affiliate of South Korea's SK Group, said on Wednesday that The Indonesian Food and Drug Authority BPOM ...

Enormous market ahead for Hopae, S.Korean DID pioneer

Enormous market ahead for Hopae, S.Korean DID pioneer

To Hopae Inc., a digital identity solution-developing startup native to South Korea, its home market is small. After successfully accommodating more...

SK Bioscience sells stake in US vaccine developer Novavax

SK Bioscience sells stake in US vaccine developer Novavax

SK Bioscience Co., a drug-making arm of South Korea's No. 2 conglomerate SK Group, has sold a stake in Nasdaq-listed vaccine developer Novavax Inc. ...

SK Bioscience to buy German vaccine maker IDT Biologika for $244 mn

SK Bioscience to buy German vaccine maker IDT Biologika for $244 mn

South Korea’s vaccine developer SK Bioscience Co. will acquire a controlling stake in the world’s top 10 vaccine firm IDT Biologika GmbH...

EuBiologics gets WHO certification for cholera vaccine facility

EuBiologics gets WHO certification for cholera vaccine facility

South Korea's EuBiologics Co. announced on Friday that the vaccine bulk production facility at its Chuncheon Plant No. 2 for the oral cholera vacc...

SK Bioscience exports Sky Cellflu to Thailand

SK Bioscience exports Sky Cellflu to Thailand

South Korea's SK Bioscience Co. announced on Thursday that it has shipped about 440,000 doses (for single-dose administration) of its cell-cultured ...

SK Bioscience start to deliver Novavax COVID-19 vaccine

SK Bioscience start to deliver Novavax COVID-19 vaccine

South Korea's SK Bioscience Co. announced on Tuesday that it started to deliver the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine against XBB.1.5 variant.According to No...

SK Bioscience applies Phase 3 trials in US for pneumococcal vaccine

SK Bioscience applies Phase 3 trials in US for pneumococcal vaccine

South Korea's SK Bioscience Co. announced on Monday that it submitted the Investigational New Drug (IND) application for the Phase 3 clinical trial ...

Korea to invest $200 mn in new drugs, vaccines by 2028

Korea to invest $200 mn in new drugs, vaccines by 2028

South Korea’s health ministry will allocate 261.6 billion won ($200.2 million) for two funds over the next four years to boost private sector ...

GC Biopharma wins $10 mn order for flu vaccine in Thailand

GC Biopharma wins $10 mn order for flu vaccine in Thailand

South Korea's GC Biopharma Corp. announced on Thursday that its flu vaccine GC Flu secured a $10 million order in the upcoming bid by Thailand's Gov...

KAIST, IVI to collaborate on global vaccine research

KAIST, IVI to collaborate on global vaccine research

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) announced on Thursday that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the I...

SK Bioscience to develop 2nd-generation Ebola vaccine

SK Bioscience to develop 2nd-generation Ebola vaccine

South Korea's SK Bioscience Co. announced on Wednesday that it signed a business agreement with the international non-profit research organization H...

S.Korean vaccine developer Quratis eyes Iraqi market

S.Korean vaccine developer Quratis eyes Iraqi market

South Korean vaccine developer Quratis Inc. on Wednesday announced its signing of a term sheet on the direction and major transaction terms of coope...

EuBiologics, GC Biopharma to jointly produce cholera vaccine

EuBiologics, GC Biopharma to jointly produce cholera vaccine

South Korea's EuBiologics Co., the world's leading cholera vaccine company, has signed a joint production agreement with GC Biopharma Corp. to produ...

POSCO Int'l marks 1st animal vaccine exports

POSCO Int'l marks 1st animal vaccine exports

POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea's steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., announced on Thursday t...

SK Bioscience resumes output of flu vaccine after two years

SK Bioscience resumes output of flu vaccine after two years

SK Bioscience Co., the drug-making unit of South Korea’s SK Group, on Wednesday shipped SKYCellflu, its vaccine for the common flu, for the fi...

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...

LG Chem to make first domestic 6-in-1 vaccine for infants

LG Chem to make first domestic 6-in-1 vaccine for infants

South Korea's LG Chem Ltd. will produce the nation's first homegrown six-in-one vaccine for infants, something that the country is entirely reliant ...

GC Biopharma wins approval for quadrivalent flu vaccine in Egypt

GC Biopharma wins approval for quadrivalent flu vaccine in Egypt

South Korea's GC Biopharma Corp. announced on Wednesday that its quadrivalent influenza vaccine "GC Flu Quadrivalent" has received approval from Egy...

SK Bioscience, Thai’s GPO to jointly boost vaccine infrastructure

SK Bioscience, Thai’s GPO to jointly boost vaccine infrastructure

SK Bioscience Co., the drug-making unit of South Korea’s SK Group, announced on Wednesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MO...

S.Korea's SK Bioscience to resume domestic flu vaccine output

S.Korea's SK Bioscience to resume domestic flu vaccine output

South Korea's SK Bioscience Co. will resume making domestic flu vaccines by year's end, two years after it stopped production to supply a vaccine fo...

SK Bioscience’s COVID-19 vaccine gets approval in UK

SK Bioscience’s COVID-19 vaccine gets approval in UK

SK Bioscience Co., the drug-making unit of South Korea’s SK Group, said on Monday that its domestic COVID-19 vaccine, SKYCovione, has rec...

Cellid applies for Phase 3 clinical trials in S.Korea for COVID-19 vaccine

Cellid applies for Phase 3 clinical trials in S.Korea for COVID-19 vaccine

South Korean bio-venture Cellid Co. announced on Tuesday that it has applied for the clinical Phase 3 trial of the COVID-19 Omicron variant-specific...

Lemonex signs MOU with WHO mRNA vaccines tech hub

Lemonex signs MOU with WHO mRNA vaccines tech hub

South Korea's gene therapeutics developer Lemonex announced on Tuesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the World Health ...

SK Bioscience to produce MSD’s new Ebola vaccine candidate

SK Bioscience to produce MSD’s new Ebola vaccine candidate

SK Bioscience Co., the drug-making unit of South Korea’s SK Group, announced on Monday that it has signed a contract with MSD, a global pharma...

GC Biopharma wins $44 mn flu vaccine order from WHO agency

GC Biopharma wins $44 mn flu vaccine order from WHO agency

South Korea's pharmaceutical firm GC Biopharma Corp. said on Monday that it has won a $44.3 million (57.9 billion won) order for flu vaccines in a d...

GC Biopharma's licensed flu vaccine gets approval in Taiwan

GC Biopharma's licensed flu vaccine gets approval in Taiwan

South Korea's pharmaceutical firm GC Biopharma Corp. announced on Monday that its quadrivalent flu vaccine has received marketing approval from the ...

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...

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