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After the Rush: APAC's mRNA and Vaccine Capacity Hangover

In June 2022, South Korea had something it had wanted for two years: a COVID-19 vaccine of its own. SKYCovione, developed by SK bioscience with the U...

July 07, 2026 | Analysis

The Biosimilar Race: Factory to the World — or Stuck in the Copycat Economy?

In Songdo and Bengaluru, the numbers finally look like the ones the region was promised a decade ago. Celltrion closed 2025 with revenue above ₩4 trillio...

July 07, 2026 | Analysis

The Vein-to-Vein Problem: Can APAC's Cold Chain Carry Advanced Therapies?

The requirement: a chain that cannot break Key figures −150°C or colder — the temperature floor for most cell and gene therapies; som...

July 06, 2026 | Analysis

Beyond the Trial: Can Real-World Evidence Earn Regulatory Trust in APAC?

A new medicine arrives at a regulator's desk with two kinds of proof attached. The first is the familiar kind: a randomised controlled trial, blinded, cont...

June 30, 2026 | Analysis

Vendor to Co-Innovator — or Bring It In-House? The CDMO Relationship Rewires

For two decades the contract development and manufacturing organisation occupied a comfortable, clearly understood place in the biopharma value chain. The ...

June 25, 2026 | Analysis

Security at What Cost? APAC and the Great Supply-Chain Reordering

For the better part of two decades, the global pharmaceutical supply chain ran on a simple, unsentimental bargain: make the chemistry where it is cheapest,...

June 24, 2026 | Analysis

Plastic, Steel and Software: APAC’s Next-Generation Bioprocessing Choice

When a biologics manufacturer in Bengaluru, Songdo or Singapore signs off on a new production suite today, the hardest question is rarely which molecule to...

June 23, 2026 | Analysis

After the Drug Substance, the Real Squeeze: APAC's Aseptic Fill-Finish Gap

For most of the last decade, the anxiety in Asia-Pacific biomanufacturing pointed upstream. The conversation was about bioreactor volume — how many t...

June 22, 2026 | Analysis

Billions on Bioconjugation: Is APAC Building the Right ADC Capacity — or Too Much?

In Songdo, on the reclaimed waterfront west of Seoul, a 202,000-square-metre construction site is becoming the most expensive single statement Kore...

June 19, 2026 | Analysis

World-Class Plants, Who Will Run Them? APAC's Biomanufacturing Skills Gap

Walk into one of the gleaming new large-molecule plants going up across Songdo, Tuas or Hyderabad and the first impression is of inevitability. The...

June 18, 2026 | Analysis

Agility or Corner-Cutting? Asia's Accelerated-Approval Gamble

On 1 April 2026, Japan's Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency did something no other major medicines regulator had done before it: from that date, ev...

June 17, 2026 | Analysis

AI Must Shift Healthcare From Crisis Response To Early Intervention Across APAC

As healthcare systems across Asia Pacific confront mounting workforce shortages, ageing populations, and rising chronic disease burdens, artificial intelli...

June 10, 2026 | News

Curative but Unaffordable: Gene and Cell Therapy's Access Paradox in Asia

At almost every cell-and-gene-therapy conference in the region, the same slide appears: a child who was dying of leukaemia, now in durable remission; a tee...

June 03, 2026 | Analysis

Advancing NAD Biomarkers From Research Discovery To Clinical Reality

As interest in metabolic health, longevity science, and precision medicine continues to grow, the ability to accurately measure biological markers linked t...

June 03, 2026 | Interview

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