Contents
EDITORIAL
BioBoard
INDIA
• Rice diplomacy in South Asia
• Indian court's Novartis ruling keeps door to cheap drugs open
INDONESIA
• A blueprint for changing diabetes in Indonesia
SINGAPORE
• Understanding abnormal proteins in degenerative diseases
• Singapore scientist wins coveted Chen New Investigator Award 2013
• Singapore single-cell research center opens door for Asian biological discoveries
THE PHILIPPINES
• Wild parent spawns super salt-tolerant rice
AUSTRALIA
• Women: Hormone therapy won't harm your head
• QLD government's removal of "green tape" will achieve results for all
• Chinese herbs help cut diabetes symptoms
• iSonea launches new AsthmasenseTM cloud technology
EUROPE
• Bone Therapeutics and Erasme University Hospital start Phase IIa trial in osteoporosis
NORTH AMERICA
• Medicago and IDRI reports positive results for its Phase I clinical trial for an H5N1 vaccine
• Civitas Therapeutics announces positive Phase II clinical results an inhaled L-dopa for Parkinson's disease
• Impel NeuroPharma completes industry's first nose-to-brain human imaging study
• A new treatment option for alcohol dependence: Reduced consumption rather than abstinence
• Targacept completes recruitment in Phase IIb schizophrenia trial
UNITED KINGDOM
• ID deadly pathogens without growing bacteria
EYE ON CHINA
• ScinoPharm Taiwan and Coland Holdings establish strategic alliance for oncological injectable products for China
• Researchers investigate the effects of thinning on soil respiration and its sensitivity in a pine plantation, eastern Tibetan Plateau
• Ascletis gains China market rights from Janssen to a clinical stage HIV protease inhibitor
• The genome sequences of soft-shell turtle and green sea turtle offer new clues to the development and evolution of turtle–specific body plan
• Daiichi Sankyo launches Silodosin for the treatment of Dysuria in China
• China plans research centres to aid developing world
• HKU finds novel coronavirus can infect humans respiratory tract even better than SARS-CoV
• BGI Health collaborates with Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences on non-invasive fetal Trisomy test for improving reproductive health in the Middle East
• Baxter China partners with government to increase access to renal therapy
FEATURES
• Hospitals' Community Benefits
• The Question of Fair Benefits in International Research
• Access to Medicines and Corporate Social Responsibilities of the Pharmaceutical Industry
• Corporate Social Responsibility of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Solidaristic Terms
REVIEW
• Strategic Partnerships - an important tool for social engagement
• Healthcare IT India Summit kicks off on a high note
INSIDE INDUSTRY
• Agilent Technologies supports Professor's work developing transformative NMR applications for structural biology
• Alchemia announces multi-target drug discovery collaboration with AstraZeneca on VAST discovery platform
• DSM and DecImmune Therapeutics sign agreement to develop N2 pathway blocking antibody
• Novel technology from Columbia University for Neurobiological Research
• A new EU-funded industry-academia drug discovery partnership targets challenging kinases
• Avian Influenza A (H7N9) threatens, GenScript supports researchers in impending battle
• CONFERENCE CALENDAR
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