A*STAR team creates nanocoating to prevent AMR

A group of researchers from Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) has invented an anti-...

April 10, 2018 | Tuesday | News
SGInnovate invests in medtech startup NDR Medical Technology

Singapore's SG Innovate announced that it has completed an investment in Singapore-based NDR Medical Technology (NDR), a...

April 10, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Equashield, Transmedic unite to increase safe drug handling

Equashield a leading provider of Closed System Transfer Devices (CSTDs) for hazardous drugs, announced that its Singapor...

April 9, 2018 | Monday | News
NTU, SERI team invents pen camera for glaucoma detection

A group of scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), with clinicians from the Singapore...

April 6, 2018 | Friday | News
Healthcare affordability improves in Singapore

Aon plc, the leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions,...

April 6, 2018 | Friday | News
Taiwan Institutes collaborate for 3D printing programme

Taiwan’s National Applied Research Labs (NAR Labs) and China Medical University Hospital (CMUH) have come together...

April 5, 2018 | Thursday | News
Healthway brings Tan Chuan-Jin on Medical Advisory Board

Leading Singapore healthcare provider Healthway Medical Corporation (“HMC”) announced the appointment of Mr ...

April 5, 2018 | Thursday | News
MEDLAB Asia 2018: Heralding a new future of innovation and technologies

Singapore - The fifth edition of MEDLAB Asia Pacific Exhibition & Congress, featuring more than 250 international co...

April 5, 2018 | Thursday | News
Watsons, Cardiatrics enhance role of pharmacists to offer CPP

Singapore — Through a 12-month partnership between Watsons and Cardiatrics, cardiovascular disease (CVD) preventio...

April 4, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Chrys Capital to buy 10% in Mankind for $350 M

India-bred private equity firm Chrys Capital is set to acquire 10 per cent in fast-growing Mankind Pharmaceuticals for $...

April 2, 2018 | Monday | News
HIMSS Asia Pacific Soft to launch Innovation Hub

HIMSS Asia Pacific is pleased to announce that it will soft launch its innovation hub at the Thailand eHealth Summit (TE...

April 2, 2018 | Monday | News
Esco, Max Planck cooperate on research of flavivirus vaccines

Singapore - Esco Aster, a leading independent contract development and manufacturing organization underpinned by its pat...

April 2, 2018 | Monday | News
NUS researchers develop chip for faster diagnosis

A team of researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a tiny microfluidic chip that could ef...

March 31, 2018 | Saturday | News
NUS scientists crack mystery of flu transmission

Singapore - New and more effective flu medicines may be in the offing, thanks to the National University of Singapore (N...

March 28, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Merck as the best bioprocessing supplier in Asia

Singapore – Merck, a leading science and technology company, was named the overall “Best Bioprocessing ...

March 28, 2018 | Wednesday | News
ASLAN Pharma files for US listing

Singapore - Singapore-based biopharma firm ASLAN Pharmaceuticals has filed for a proposed initial public offering (IPO) ...

March 27, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Suven Life Sciences secures 3 product patents

Suven Life Sciences has announced that it has been granted a patent each by Norway, South Korea ...

March 22, 2018 | Thursday | News
Singapore – A Strong & Growing Healthcare Industry

While Singapore already has one of the most efficient healthcare systems globally (ranked second by Bloomberg Healthcare...

March 22, 2018 | Thursday | Analysis
Inaugural DIA- CoRE Conference shines spotlight on pandemic diseases

Singapore – The first DIA-CoRE Conference, held on 29 and 30 January 2018 in Singapore, opened with a series of ke...

March 22, 2018 | Thursday | News
Age and sex can connect gut microbiome with brain immunity

Singapore – Scientists from A*STAR’s Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have discovered that age and s...

March 21, 2018 | Wednesday | News
SEA gets its first sleep and respiratory education center

Singapore –Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, recently announced the opening of Southeast A...

March 21, 2018 | Wednesday | News
DocDoc raises $5.45 M for product scaling

DocDoc, Asia's leading patient empowerment company has raised $5.45 million in their latest round of funding. The finan...

March 20, 2018 | Tuesday | News
NTU launches nationwide research for lung health

Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore is planning to launch a nationwide research initiative on lung health,...

March 20, 2018 | Tuesday | News
AI Singapore signs MoU with Intel

AI Singapore has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Intel Corporation to accelerate the adoption of artific...

March 15, 2018 | Thursday | News
J&J to invest $3.9 M in Singapore R&D

A Division of J&J (China) Investment Ltd., Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Innovation  has announced ...

March 14, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Catalent completes $4.6 M expansion at Singapore clinical supply facility

Catalent Pharma Solutions, global provider of advanced delivery technologies and development solutions for drugs, biolog...

March 5, 2018 | Monday | News
Landmark genetic study better predicts stomach cancer

Singapore– A research team led by National University Health System (NUHS) and Duke-NUS Medical School has used ge...

March 4, 2018 | Sunday | News
Alibaba Group opens first research institute in Singapore

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has opened its first joint research institute outside China in Singapore, in a collabor...

March 2, 2018 | Friday | News
Takeda establishes centre of excellence for vaccine process optimisation

Singapore – Takeda Pharmaceuticals has announced the establishment of the centre of Excellence in Singapore for va...

March 1, 2018 | Thursday | News
Telehealth company launches Singapore’s first online lactation consultation service

Singapore – Doctor Anywhere, a Singapore-based telehealth company that connects care-seekers with healthcare profe...

March 1, 2018 | Thursday | News
BGN Tech, Biosensorix to create POC diagnostics

Israel-based BGN Technologies has partnered with Singaporean medical diagnostics maker Biosensorix for the development o...

February 28, 2018 | Wednesday | News
NUS team develops aerogels to control excessive bleeding

A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Engineering has devised a fast, cheap and gre...

February 27, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Singapore researchers work on developing personalised livers

Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a method to grow patient-derived liver tum...

February 23, 2018 | Friday | News
Singapore Minister joins WHO commission

Minister for Health Gan Kim Yong has been appointed to a high-level World Health Organisation (WHO) commission.  T...

February 18, 2018 | Sunday | News
NHSA partners with Singapore firm to promote medtech sector

The Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA) in the UK has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Singapore-base...

February 16, 2018 | Friday | News
Lonza enriches its Cell-Culture techniques with Quasi Vivo System

Lonza announced the latest addition to its cell-culture product portfolio with the Quasi Vivo® System. The Quasi Vi...

February 13, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Study identifies host protein involved in EV71 infection in hand, foot and mouth disease

Singapore- Infection with enterovirus 71 (EV71) causes hand, foot and mouth disease, a highly contagious disease that us...

February 13, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Singapore biotech startup raises $10M to enhance drug discovery

Engine Biosciences, a Singaporean startup that is using artificial intelligence to make drug discovery more efficient, h...

February 12, 2018 | Monday | News
Singapore Health approves Zika test by Vela Diagnostics

Singapore Health Sciences Authority has recently given approval to the Real-Time PCR-based Sentosa SA ZIKV RT-PCR Test b...

February 9, 2018 | Friday | News
Tessa Therapeutics announces opening of recruitment sites across the United States for its Phase III trial

Singapore- based clinical stage immunotherapy company Tessa Therapeutics, announced that the Stanford Cancer Institute r...

February 8, 2018 | Thursday | News
EmTech Asia explores future of life, humanity and economy

Singapore – The fifth edition of EmTech Asia, co-organised by MIT Technology Review and Koelnmesse Pte Ltd, c...

February 7, 2018 | Wednesday | News
IHH Healthcare, Temasek looking to buy majority stake in India’s Medanta

Malaysia's IHH Healthcare Berhad and Singapore investor Temasek Holdings are in separate discussions to acquire controll...

February 6, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Singapore, Korea buy stake in Australia fertility clinic

South Korea's CHA Healthcare Co Ltd and Singapore Medical Group Ltd have together bought a majority stake in A...

February 1, 2018 | Thursday | News
Singapore team works on photodynamic therapy for cancer

A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a way to wirelessly deliver light int...

January 31, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Welfare Foundation awards grants for innovative research

Singapore – The Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Welfare Foundation (“MSIWF” and the “Foundation”...

January 31, 2018 | Wednesday | News
"Takeda’s business strategy is centered around innovation": Gordon Cameron

Gordon Cameron, Vice President, Asia-Pacific Area, Emerging Markets, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International has a strong u...

January 23, 2018 | Tuesday | Opinion
Singapore releases new guidelines for gestational diabetes

A new set of guidelines has been drawn up by the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Singapore to help doctors ...

January 15, 2018 | Monday | News
HSA approved Histoindex’s stain-free digital pathology system

HistoIndex is a technology spin-off company from the Institute of Biotechnology and Nanotechnology (IBN), Agency of Scie...

January 11, 2018 | Thursday | Regulatory
MiRXES, J&J and Janssen unites for early detection of lung cancer

MiRXES has announced a strategic collaboration with Johnson &Johnson Innovation and Janssen Pharmaceutica NV to furt...

January 10, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Jimson Cheng joins Heidrick & Struggles

Heidrick & Struggles serves the executive talent and leadership needs of the world's top organizations as a premier ...

January 9, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Active Health Lab starts services in Singapore

An initiative by Sport Singapore and its healthcare partners, Active Health Lab has started with its services at &n...

January 2, 2018 | Tuesday | News
“Funding is the biggest challenge for any startup in Asia”

Based in Singapore, Nova Satra Dx is a molecular diagnostics company committed to empowering patients and physician...

January 1, 2018 | Monday | Influencers
SingHealth deputy group gets a new CEO

Professor Wong Tien Yin will be appointed as SingHealth’s deputy group CEO in research and education with effect f...

December 27, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Singapore researchers use AI for treating eye diseases

A collaborative study between the Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore Eye Research Institute, National University o...

December 21, 2017 | Thursday | News
Strides Shasun procures Controlling Stake In Trinity Pharma

Strides Shasun, is an Indian pharmaceutical company, headquartered at Bangalore, India. The company manufactures pharma...

December 20, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Women Achiever's Spl: Spreading the breadth of opportunities: DR YOONI KIM Executive Director, Asia Operations, Novotech

Dr Yooni Kim, Executive Director, Asia operations, Novotech is responsible for overseeing Novotech’s operations an...

December 20, 2017 | Wednesday | Influencers
Singapore scientist earns academic accolades

Professor Jackie Y. Ying, Executive Director of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Singapore, has...

December 19, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Globavir and SingHealth Duke-NUS team up together to Study Dengue Treatment

Globavir Biosciences, Inc., a biotechnology company developing therapeutics and diagnostics for infectious diseases. Th...

December 19, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Rowsley to buy out Thomson Medical

Rowsley has announced the acquisition of Thomson Medical healthcare businesses from tycoon Peter Lim for S$1.6 billion. ...

December 18, 2017 | Monday | News
HSA Singapore got recognition as Regulatory Member in ICH

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) of Singapore has been internationally accepted as a Regulatory Member of the Interna...

December 18, 2017 | Monday | News
Singapore doctors employ new technology to locate cancer cells

Doctors at Tan Tock Seng Hospital are using a new technology called navigational bronchoscopy, which uses virtual realit...

December 15, 2017 | Friday | News
Samsung Medical Centre to focus on liver cancer treatment

Leading academic medical centre in Seoul, Republic of Korea, Samsung Medical Center (SMC) is collaborating with scientis...

December 14, 2017 | Thursday | News
Fullerton Health acquires stake in Intellicare

Fullerton Healthcare Corporation Limited (Fullerton Health) is looking to create a strong presence in the Philippines by...

December 11, 2017 | Monday | News
First Asian to receive health informatics award

Retired professor Lun Kwok Chan is the first Asian and the first Singaporean to win the International Medical Informatic...

December 8, 2017 | Friday | News
Wound scanner in Singapore is garnering success

Researchers in Singapore have developed a wound scanner that can assess the severity and depth of wounds in seconds, wit...

December 6, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Women Achievers Spl: Ms Siew Hwa ONG: Improving biomedical and bioscience environment in Singapore

Dr Siew Hwa ONG knows a lot about growth. After stints as Post-doctoral Fellow at Mt Sinai Hospital, Canada and Assistan...

December 5, 2017 | Tuesday | Opinion
Women Achiever Spl: Dr Sidney Yee: Accelerating the transformation of innovations into diagnostic devices

Dr Sidney Yee is the CEO at Diagnostics Development (DxD) Hub and Executive Vice President at Exploit Technologies Pte L...

December 5, 2017 | Tuesday | Opinion
Women Achievers Spl: Ms Rhenu Bhuller: Seizing the opportunities to give back to the society

Rhenu Bhuller is a Partner & Senior Vice President – Transformational Health at Frost & Sullivan, and also...

December 5, 2017 | Tuesday | Opinion
Women Achievers spl: Ms Myra Eskes: Improving lives in moments that matter

Myra Eskes is President & CEO at GE Healthcare Southeast Asia. She is a senior executive with over twenty years of g...

December 4, 2017 | Monday | Opinion
Women Achievers spl: Ms Arleen Paulino: Prioritizing competing demands

Ms Arleen Paulino has been in the biotechnology industry for the past 25 years, most of which has been between pure R&am...

December 4, 2017 | Monday | Opinion
Icon SOC inks three-year partnership with Singapore Cancer Society

In abid to further extend cancer care and better support patients and families affected by the disease, Icon SOC, a canc...

December 4, 2017 | Monday | News
Thomson Medical launches health programme

Thomson Medical, a private healthcare group known for its women's and children's services, has launched a loyalty progra...

December 4, 2017 | Monday | News
SCIEX and NUS Faculty of Science announce plans to launch new training centre

Global leader in life science analytical technologies, SCIEX and the Protein and Proteomics Centre (PPC) under...

November 24, 2017 | Friday | News
NUS researchers develop a revolutionary way of healthcare monitoring

A research team from National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a soft, flexible and stretchable microfiber se...

November 24, 2017 | Friday | News
Singapore introduces a tech tool for medical students

A new program called MediSIM will soon be introduced for medical students, to learn about the human anatomy without caus...

November 22, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Engineers at NUS develop a microfibre sensor

A team of engineers from National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a soft, flexible and stretchable microfibe...

November 17, 2017 | Friday | News
A revolutionary leap of scientist to treat fibrotic diseases

Scientists at Duke-NUS and National Heart Centre Singapore, make a breakthrough discovery and show that the critical pro...

November 15, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Four researchers awarded S'pore's highest accolade in Science & Technology

Singapore – Four individuals have been awarded this year’s President’s Science and Technology Awa...

November 15, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Singapore researchers develop self-illuminating nanoagents

A research team led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have created polymer nanoagents that can 'light up' t...

November 13, 2017 | Monday | News
Singapore’s National Cancer Centre partners with immunoSCAPE to improve cancer treatments

To enhance research on current cancer therapies and search for new treatments, the National Cancer Center for Singapore ...

November 8, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Ministry makes NEHR mandatory in Singapore

The Ministry of Health (MOH) intends to make it compulsory for all healthcare providers to upload data to the National E...

November 8, 2017 | Wednesday | News
S3 launches programme for stroke survivors

A brain health and memory training programme is being rolled out by a charity organisation called Stroke Support Station...

October 27, 2017 | Friday | News
Singapore offers a new tele-consult app for patients

A new app has been recently launched in Singapore that allows patients to book appointments with doctors, and have round...

October 26, 2017 | Thursday | News
Singapore grants patent to Suven for neuro molecule

Suven Life Sciences Ltd. has been granted a product patent from Singapore for the New Chemical Entities (NCEs) dealing w...

October 19, 2017 | Thursday | News
Singapore conducts research on asthma and COPD

A team of clinicians and researchers from the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC) and pharmaceutical firm ...

October 18, 2017 | Wednesday | News
AbbVie open biologics plant in Singapore

Global research and development-based bio pharmaceutical company AbbVie is expanding the capabilities of its Singapore o...

October 10, 2017 | Tuesday | News
New drug approved for fighting cholesterol

A newly-developed drug which has recently been approved for use in Singapore may aid in the fight against cholesterol. ...

October 4, 2017 | Wednesday | News
New R&D centre in Singapore to work on effective tools for predicting lifespans

The National Healthcare Group (NHG), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Dover Park Hospice are working together ...

October 4, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Orion Health joins hand with Singapore’s IHiS

New Zealand health software developer Orion Health will deliver its Healthcare Enterprise Service bus interoperability s...

September 19, 2017 | Tuesday | News
MyDoc receives investment from UST Global

UST Global has made a strategic investment in MyDoc, a Singapore-based digital health platform company, to expand its di...

September 15, 2017 | Friday | News
Singapore leads the world in progress toward the health Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Singapore- Singapore is closer than any other country in the world to achieving the health-related Sustainable Developme...

September 13, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Singapore's Pips program to give pharma sector a huge boost

To provide further boost to Singapore’s pharma sector the country’s Minister for Trade and Industry (Industr...

September 6, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Singapore to boost community care sector

The Ministry of Health will inject close to S$12 million over the next four years into the community care sector to attr...

September 6, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Singapore appoints the first Chief Health Scientist

National University of Singapore (NUS) President Tan Chorh Chuan is to be appointed the first Chief Health Scientist by ...

September 5, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Funds arranged for clinical research co-ordinators

Health Ministry (MOH) Singapore is setting aside $35 million to help groom clinical research coordinators. When new medi...

September 4, 2017 | Monday | News
Singapore biotech startup focuses on fibrosis research

Research into key drivers of fibrosis will be used by a Singapore-funded biotechnology start-up, Enleofen Bio, to possib...

September 4, 2017 | Monday | News
Novena campus by LKCMedicine opens up

The Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) officially opened its Novena Campus and has become fully operational...

August 28, 2017 | Monday | News
Novena Global Lifecare goes for US$150m Taiwan IPO

Novena Global Lifecare Group plans to list on the Taiwan Stock Exchange and raise US$150 million (S$203.7 million) for i...

July 31, 2017 | Monday | News
GIS introduces customized cancer treatment

The Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) has launched a new laboratory that will help provide customised, cutting-edge tr...

July 25, 2017 | Tuesday | News
NUS launches additive manufacturing facilities for biomedical applications

The National University of Singapore Centre for Additive Manufacturing (or AM.NUS) was launched by Mr Amrin Amin, Parlia...

July 21, 2017 | Friday | News

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