News About: Pharm. Industry
KPMA reshuffle on track
Organization reshuffle by the Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association is expected to gain momentum as the KPMA launched a task force team of pharmaceutical industry research composed of three experts from Janua...
KPMA seeking invitation of FDA license expert
The Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association plans to hold a seminar by inviting a license expert from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as part of its effort to enable Korean companies to have an easier acc...
Bukwang teams up with LSK Biopartners over investigational anticanger drug
Bukwang Pharm has acquired the exclusive license from the US based LSK Biopartners to develop, manufacture and market the compound YN968D1 in Korea, it was announced on January 8.
This compound s a potent, orally a...
Yuhan to expand product portfolios
Yuhan Corporation plans to step up its expansion into the local market with the launch of new products related to the fields of nerve, eye and plastic surgery this year.
The announcement came after the company’s le...
Cold remedies riding high
Drugmakers producing cold medicines, including Yuhan Corporation’s Cough Syrup and Chong Kun Dang’s Codeine, are happy with robust sales these days.
Sources say these popular cold medicines containing codeine malea...
Safety concern over oral contraceptive
An oral contraceptive with anti-androgen properties has been heavily marketed to young women as an OTC item without doctor’s prescription.
However, the government may be unaware of concerns about the drug's safety ...
Chang Tae-uk becomes Janssen Korea’s exc. managing director
Ex-managing director Chang Tae-uk was named an executive managing director of Janssen Korea, along with the promotion of Park Joon-hong to an executive managing director, as of January 1, 2009.
Under the company’s ...
BMS Korea conducts reshuffle
BMS Korea promoted Bae Myung-soo to executive managing director in charge of strategic planning and cooperation affairs as of January 1, 2009.
Bae, who graduated from Seoul National University, joined in 1997 as a ...
OTC salespersons neglected in promotion
The personnel shakeups in pharmaceutical are in full swing, but the promotion rate of OTC related salespersons is very low.
Influenced by the recent insolvency of a drug wholesaler, salespersons have been shunn...
MSD Korea to recruits subjects with advanced multiple myeloma
MSD Korea said on January 7 that it will conduct its local phase 3 and Phase 2b Studies in seven universities hospitals for Merck & Co’s Zolinza (vorinostat), Merck’s oral histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor, in pati...
