China’s efforts to revamp its health-care system are attracting pharmaceutical companies to the country. In 2009, the government said it would invest CNY 850 billion ($131 billion) in the system and provide health insurance to 90% of citizens by the end of this year and to every citizen by 2020. The 2010 census found that […]
Brazil’s government announced last month that it will award 75,000 science and technology scholarships by the end of 2014 to students studying domestically and internationally. The BRL 3.16 billion ($2.02 billion) initiative will be funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology’s National Council for Scientific and Technological Development and the Ministry of Education’s Federal […]
As part of a MYR 741 million ($251.2 million) research fund for Malaysia’s Ministry of Higher Education under the Tenth Malaysia Plan (10MP), MYR 178.4 million has been designated for 1,022 research grants. The amount is intended for R&D for a project’s first two years and extends to public and private higher learning institutions, research […]
The amount of science papers published by the member countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has increased, according to a recent study that analyzed papers included in the Institute for Science Information science citation index journals. ASEAN countries accounted for just 0.5% of the world’s science papers, or 165,000 papers, from 1991 […]
Japan will intensify regenerative medicine research by emphasizing collaborations and moving research into the clinic. Among government initiatives is the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)– funded Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) Cell 10-Year Roadmap, started in 2009 to translate research to clinical status. MEXT has joined forces with the Ministry of Health, […]
Swedish health care companies are bypassing venture capital financing to raise funds due to a weak venture capital environment. According to SwedenBIO, a survey of 19 public and 100 private companies found that 50% of them plan to raise up to SEK 50 million ($8 million) of funding over three years. However, that may be […]
A July 6 vote on a new food-labeling system will provide more information for EU consumers. Currently, beef, fresh fruit and vegetable packages, fish, olive oil and honey sold in the EU require labels revealing their country of origin. The new legislation will extend such labels to poultry, pork and lamb, and the European Commission […]
It could take more than a year for things to return to normal at Japanese universities after the March earthquake and tsunami. The damage of universities in eastern Japan may be as high as ¥90 billion ($1.1 billion). Engineering school Tohoku University endured ¥77 billion in damage. Twenty-eight buildings require reconstruction. The government has created […]
China is expected to become the world’s second-largest pharmaceutical market in 2015 due to macro-developments including socio-economic changes and a modernized health care infrastructure. However, the top 10 Western drug companies in the market each have only a single-digit market share. Domestic drug companies number more than 5,000 and are primarily focused on generics manufacturing […]
Egypt’s cabinet gave the green light to establish the Zewail City of Science and Technology by a unanimous vote in May. Approval for the $2 billion City, which will be comprised of a university, graduate research and industrial institutions, and a technology park on 100 hectares of land in the Cairo suburb of Sheikh Zayed, […]
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