IBM, A*Star co-develop anti-microbial hydrogel

Singapore: Researchers from A*Star's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) and IBM have unveiled first-e...

January 24, 2013 | Thursday | News
Pfizer launches targeted therapy for lung cancer in Singapore

Singapore: Pfizer has launched Xalkori, a targeted therapy for ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), in Singa...

August 4, 2015 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Singapore market forecast

Singapore: Over the past 15 years, Singapore has developed into a renowned bioscience cluster through top-down investmen...

January 19, 2016 | Tuesday | Opinion
HSA nod for Aslan rheumatoid arthritis drug

Singapore: Aslan Pharmaceuticals received approval by the Singapore Health Sciences Authority (HSA) for its Clinical Tri...

April 23, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Covance recieves Frost and Sullivan Award

Singapore: Covance, a global drug development company, has recieved the 2014 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific CRO Growt...

October 17, 2014 | Friday | News
Challenge No 5: Talent trouble

Lack of trained and skilled workforce, identifying a market-savvy work force and retaining the right people on key posit...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
BI shows afatinib to be effective in advanced squamous cell carcinoma of lung

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim has achieved positive results from the trial of afatinib in comparison to erlotinib in p...

June 11, 2015 | Thursday | News
BMS reacquires rights to oncology drug from Asia Partner

Singapore: ASLAN Pharmaceuticals (ASLAN), a biotech company focused on the development of immunotherapies and targeted a...

August 12, 2016 | Friday | News
ICON appoints APAC and Japan VPs

Singapore: ICON, a global provider of drug development solutions and services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and m...

November 3, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Personalized medicine market to reach $149 bn by 2020

Singapore: Personalized medicine market will be worth over USD149 billion by 2020, growing at a CAGR of 8.74 percent, an...

February 10, 2016 | Wednesday | Analysis
Singapore cancer genome scientists win President's Science Award

Singapore: A team comprising Professor Patrick Tan from Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS) and A*STAR's Genome ...

September 17, 2015 | Thursday | News
A*STAR co-develops diagnostic tool for brain injury

Singapore: A*STAR's Institute of Microelectronics (IME) and SFC Fluidics, a US-based microfluidics and biomedical device...

November 27, 2012 | Tuesday | News
How to get your drug registered in Singapore?

The sector of life sciences in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region offers massive opportunities for companies, which are look...

September 28, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
Progress in optical imaging creating opportunities

Singapore: Current optical imaging technologies provide reproducible, accurate, objective, quantitative assessments of t...

July 12, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Future of Customer Experience for the Pharmaceutical Players

Singapore: Consumers have a habit of reshaping industries at inconvenient and unexpected times. Their expectations and d...

January 20, 2016 | Wednesday | Opinion
Singaporeans depend on Chinese medicine to treat arthritis

Singapore: A local survey of elderly Singaporeans found 42 percent of the respondents to have knee pain with 40.7 percen...

October 17, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Three-day ISPE Singapore Conference from May 27

Singapore: ISPE Singapore Conference, which comprises workshops and individual tracks, will be held from May 27-29, 2012...

May 22, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Awak wins NUS award for 'wearable' artificial kidney

Singapore: Singapore-based Awak Technologies has bagged Promising NUS Start-up Award at Innovation & Enterprise (I&a...

May 17, 2013 | Friday | News
IMS Health partners with Cloudera Enterprise

Singapore: IMS Health has partnered with Cloudera Enterprise to support its Big Data Factory, a cloud-based platform tha...

July 20, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Roche strengthens APAC presence

Singapore: Roche Diagnostics has inaugurated its Asia Pacific headquarters and regional centre of excellence in Singapor...

July 27, 2015 | Monday | News
GSK to invest $60mn in its green manufacturing facility

Singapore: British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline announced plans to invest an additional $60 mn in its world-class antibiot...

July 3, 2015 | Friday | News
Bayer HealthCare clocks 14.9% rise in APAC Pharma biz

Singapore: Bayer HealthCare has recorded sales hike of 14.9 percent to USD 4171 million (EUR 3016 million) in 2013 for i...

March 25, 2014 | Tuesday | News
TÜV SÜD PSB appoints Richard Hong as CEO

Singapore: TÜV SÜD PSB has appointed Mr Richard Hong as CEO for TÜV SÜD PSB ASEAN. Mr Hong has over 18 years...

July 1, 2013 | Monday | News
Singapore's ASLAN pharma inks MoU with NCCS

Singapore: ASLAN Pharmaceuticals has inked a memorandum of understanding with Singapore's National Cancer Center (NCCS) ...

July 20, 2015 | Monday | News
Singapore study indentifies new type of lymphoma

Singapore: Researchers at the lymphoma study group at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and the National Cancer Center of...

April 15, 2013 | Monday | News
NUS develops smart hand rehabilitation device

Singapore: Research team from National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a new lightweight and smart rehabilit...

January 13, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Agilent, A*Star, French univ sign biologics MoU

Singapore: Agilent Technologies, Glyco-MEV laboratory at the University of Rouen, France, and Bioprocessing Technology I...

May 27, 2013 | Monday | News
Asia an emerging hotspot in medical tourism

Singapore: BioSpectrum feels the pulse of Asia's top destinations and major players in medical tourism.  Medical tour...

March 9, 2015 | Monday | Analysis
Sanofi gears up to introduce dengue vaccine

Healthcare stakeholders are keeping high hopes with the successful results of Sanofi Pasteur's Phase III trial of dengue...

August 15, 2014 | Friday | Influencers
A*Star, SigN use patients' own blood to treat infection

Singapore: Scientists at A*Star's Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS) and the Singapore Immunology Network ...

September 30, 2013 | Monday | News
DKSH partners with Bristol-Myers Squibb

Singapore: DKSH Business Unit Healthcare, service provider for healthcare companies seeking to grow their business in As...

April 9, 2014 | Wednesday | News
HIMSS AsiaPac 2015 strives to integrate IT and healthcare

Singapore: Singapore Minister for Health, Mr Gan Kim Yong, kickstarted HIMSS AsiaPac15 Digital Healthcare Week in Singap...

September 8, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Acumen, Curetis to jointly advance on biomarker panel for immune system

Singapore: Germany based Curetis, a developer of next-level molecular diagnostic solutions, has obtained a world-wide, n...

October 9, 2015 | Friday | News
Innovations in 3D printing

Singapore: Here's a look at some of the lastest innovations in 3D printing: Stratasys: US-based company is developing a...

November 25, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
BI takes crowdfunding approach to boost research

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim and BioMed X have applied a crowdsourcing approach to establish a research team of outst...

September 23, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Singapore medtech startup launches in Hong Kong

Singapore: Singapore-based medtech start up ConneXion Asia has launched its services in Hong Kong. The launch comes afte...

August 28, 2015 | Friday | News
Agilent launches training centre in Singapore

Singapore: Agilent Technologies has opened a training facility in Singapore, named as Agilent University, to provide tec...

October 7, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Future of security in healthcare

Singapore: According to the global consulting firm Tower Watson, Singapore has one of the most successful healthcare sys...

August 4, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Singapore's CGH launches new robotics center

Singapore: In a bid to promote the use of robotics and assistive technologies in advancing healthcare, Singapore's Chang...

July 23, 2015 | Thursday | News
CROs and pharma support 'Bring Your Own Device' approach for clinical studies: ICON survey

Singapore: ICON, a global provider of drug development solutions and services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and m...

July 4, 2016 | Monday | News
Mundipharma to market Korea's Medifoam

Singapore: Singapore based pharmaceutical company, Mundipharma has collaborated with Korean firm Genewel for licensing a...

June 3, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Quintiles bags Frost and Sullivan's 'APAC CRO of the Year' award

Singapore: Quintiles has recieved Asia Pacific Contract Research Organization company of the Year recognition by Frost &...

October 19, 2015 | Monday | News
Shimadzu bags Frost & Sullivan APAC MS Company of the Year award

Singapore: Global analytical solution company, Shimadzu, has received 2015 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Mass Spectr...

September 15, 2015 | Tuesday | News
F&S: APAC hospital market touches $378 bn

Singapore: According to a Frost and Sullivan report, Asia Pacific hospital market earned revenues of more than $377.90 b...

June 10, 2013 | Monday | Analysis
Cordlife ex-CEO joins Clearbridge as partner

Singapore: Dr Steven Fang has joined Clearbridge Accelerator, a leading technology incubator based in Singapore, as a pa...

December 11, 2012 | Tuesday | News
A/Prof Yvonne Tay wins Young Scientist Award

Singapore: Assistant Professor Yvonne Tay, principal investigator, Cancer Science Institute and President's Assistant Pr...

September 17, 2015 | Thursday | News
Making stem cell therapies a reality

Real practical challenges persist in the development of stem cell therapies and chief among these are concerns for safet...

March 22, 2012 | Thursday | News
Agilent collaborates with National University of Singapore

Singapore: Agilent Technologies has collaborated with the National University of Singapore (NUS)'s Yong Loo Lin School o...

April 24, 2015 | Friday | News
Singapore develops 'embryo in a dish' to study birth defect

Singapore: Researchers from Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have recreated processes essential for ...

October 13, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Sale of wound care devices spurs in Asia-Pacific: Frost & Sullivan analysis report

Singapore: Advanced wound care and modern wound closure products are gaining an edge over traditional wound dressings in...

September 4, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Parenteral Drug Assoc opens Singapore chapter

Singapore: Fourty five pharmaceutical professionals have formed the Singapore chapter of Parenteral Drug Association (P...

October 29, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Fortis sells its Singapore hospital

Singapore: Fortis Healthcare has sold its Singapore Hospital to Concord Medical Services for $40 million (Rs 251 crore) ...

March 31, 2015 | Tuesday | News
ASLAN's bile duct cancer drug receives orphan drug status

Singapore: Singapore's ASLAN pharmaceuticals recently announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted ...

August 21, 2015 | Friday | News
Collaboration is key to enhancing public health

Singapore: The three-day Asia Regulatory Conference 2013 is under way at the Raffles City Convention Center, Singapore, ...

January 29, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Singapore develops liquid biopsy for colorectal cancer

Singapore: Researchers from Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of A*STAR have developed liquid biopsy ...

March 4, 2015 | Wednesday | News
GSK establishes new Singapore HQ

Singapore: British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) recently announced plans to establish new headquarters in Singapore t...

March 11, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Bayer collaborates with Singapore EDB for JV projects

Singapore: German major Bayer Healthcare recently announced an extension of its existing cooperation with Singaporean in...

July 17, 2015 | Friday | News
Challenges ahead for Singapore's medical tourism sector: BMI

Singapore: A recent report released by global consulting firm BMI Research states that it will be difficult for Singapor...

May 7, 2015 | Thursday | News
Clue to future universal dengue vaccine found

Singapore: Scientists at A*Star's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have discovered a clue that has the potential to c...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Fullerton Healthcare acquires major stake in Hong Kong Medical Group

Singapore: With a view to further expand its pan-Asia presence, Singapore's Fullerton Healthcare recently inked a deal t...

August 13, 2015 | Thursday | News
BioSpectrum announces the hits and misses of 2013

Asia attracted a lot of interest from foreign multinational giants in the year 2013. This not only led to the increase i...

January 2, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Dr Loke Wai Chiong, KPMG: Convergence of healthcare and life science is a must

In the coming year, we expect to see greater convergence between the healthcare and life sciences sectors. This inevitab...

December 24, 2012 | Monday | Opinion
NMT Pharma and CAO Pharma in licensing agreement for anti-cancer drug

Singapore: Singapore based start-up firm, NMT Pharmaceuticals, has acquired an exclusive worldwide license right to furt...

August 26, 2015 | Wednesday | News
SCIEX, NUS to jointly develop oncology biomarkers

Singapore: SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, and the Protein and Proteomics Centre (PPC) u...

May 18, 2015 | Monday | News
A*star, PacBio to advance research on infectious diseases

Singapore: A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) has expanded its collaboration with Pacific Biosciences (PacBio)...

July 24, 2015 | Friday | News
APAC amino acid market scales $7.9 bn: Analyst

Singapore: According to a report by Frost & Sullivan, Asia-Pacific market for Amino Acids and specialty protein ingr...

March 10, 2015 | Tuesday | Analysis
"There are unlimited opportunities to transform healthcare in Asia"

What are the expansion plans of Medtronic in Southeast Asia for next couple of years? Like many parts of the world, hea...

August 1, 2016 | Monday | Influencers
Chugai Pharmaceuticals to bolster R&D capabilities

Singapore: Japanese drug giant Chugai Pharmaceuticals announced plans to invest nearly $355 million by 2021, in a bid to...

July 2, 2015 | Thursday | News
BI's type 2 diabetes drug can lower cardio risks too: Study

Singapore: Jardiance, a diabetes drug by Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly, has demonstrated positive result in reducin...

September 28, 2015 | Monday | News
Singapore launches 3D printing research centre for medical implants

Singapore: With an objective to bring revolution in customized knee and bone implants, Singapore's Nanyang Technological...

May 26, 2014 | Monday | News
Swiss firm partners with Mundipharma to expand in Asia

Singapore: Helsinn, a Swiss pharmaceutical firm focused on cancer care, has partnered with Singapore based pain drug com...

April 3, 2015 | Friday | News
Aslan recieves Singapore, Taiwan nod for Ph II trial of bile duct cancer drug

Singapore: Singapore based ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company focused on the development of immunotherapies and ta...

September 23, 2015 | Wednesday | News
A*STAR earmarks 5 hotspots to boost R&D pipeline

Singapore: ETPL, the technology transfer arm of A*STAR, has earmarked five innovation clusters or hotspots aimed at str...

November 28, 2012 | Wednesday | News
A re-think on site staff competency training required

When drugs are trialed in patients, they move into a clinical setting in which the busy routine care of patients, rath...

September 5, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion
Nuvilex licenses Austrianova's livecell encapsulation technology

Singapore: Nuvilex, an international biotechnology company providing cell and gene therapy solutions forthe treatment of...

November 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
Start-up landscape in Southeast Asia

Singapore: The findings are surprising, mentions BVGH, as often it is the big pharmaceutical companies that invest larg...

April 30, 2015 | Thursday | Analysis
Asian firms lack antibody manufacturing capabilities

There are very few manufacturers in Asia capable of manufacturing antibodies on a large commercial scale. Manufacturing ...

October 4, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Genetically modified food to take-off in 2013

In 2013, genetically engineered salmon will likely reach food shelves in supermarkets in the US. In a draft environmenta...

December 27, 2012 | Thursday | Opinion
F&S: APAC healthcare analytics to be $654.2 mn

Singapore: Frost & Sullivan's APAC business analytics for healthcare providers finds that the market earned revenues...

January 10, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
India origin Singapore lecturer gets International Achievement Award

Singapore: Ms Subhadra Devi, a nurse and senior lecturer at School of Health Sciences (Nursing) at Nanyang Polytechnic i...

April 2, 2015 | Thursday | News
ASLAN receives orphan drug designation for cancer drug

Singapore: ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, Singapore based biotech company focused on the development of immunotherapies and targ...

August 13, 2015 | Thursday | News
A*Star stem cells make unlimited kidney cells

Singapore: Researchers at A*star's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Singapore, have generated human...

February 22, 2013 | Friday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: Asian CROs optimistic in a gloomy pharma market

Over the past four years, BioSpectrum Asia in association with CyberMedia Research (CMR) has been capturing the key br...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Scientists to study genetic changes in cancer through fruit flies

Singapore: By studying fruit flies, scientists at A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) have successfu...

July 30, 2012 | Monday | News
Eisai gets direct presence in China

Singapore: Japan's pharmaceutical company, Eisai, has established its presence in China by setting up a holding firm, Ei...

December 3, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Singapore sets up a new hub for diagnostics development

Singapore: In a bid to foster the diagnostic and medical devices sector, Singapore recently launched the new Diagnostics...

December 3, 2014 | Wednesday | News
US researchers develop tongue operated wheel chair

Singapore: US researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a wireless, assistive device that lets paral...

November 29, 2013 | Friday | News
Singapore attracts 3D printing business

Singapore: Recognizing the potential landscape for the growth of 3D printing in Singapore, US-based Ultra Clean Holdings...

November 25, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Takeda expands Singapore operation

Singapore: Japan headquartered Takeda Pharmaceutical has expanded its operations in Singapore in order to focus on emerg...

February 26, 2015 | Thursday | News
Zebrafish can bring breakthrough in DNA sequencing'

Singapore: Zebrafish is a relatively new method of targeting specific DNA sequences that could dramatically accelerate t...

June 8, 2015 | Monday | Analysis
Almac opens new Asia Pacific HQ in Singapore

Singapore: In a bid to further strengthen its global footprint; Ireland-based Almac Group recently opened its Asia Pacif...

July 14, 2015 | Tuesday | News
DHL MD: Poor logistics hinder drug shipments

Mr Herbert Vongpusanachai has spent almost a decade managing Asian logistics market through DHL and has earned in-depth ...

December 27, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
A*STAR deciphers genome code of living fossil

Singapore: An enigmatic prehistoric fish has brought scientists at A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMC...

April 19, 2013 | Friday | News
Singapore regulatory grants cGMP certificate to Lonza

Singapore: Biologics manufacturing global firm, Lonza Bioscience, has received cGMP certification from Singapore Health ...

April 21, 2014 | Monday | Regulatory
Couple finds molecule that causes obesity, diabetes

Singapore: A research study from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has found that by inhibiting a particular molecu...

December 25, 2012 | Tuesday | News
NUS, Thermo Fisher Scientific strike alliance

Singapore: National University of Singapore (NUS) and Life Sciences Group of Thermo Fisher Scientific have struck a stra...

September 9, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Scientists discover new genes that influence the risk of developing leprosy

Singapore: Scientists from A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences have di...

March 12, 2015 | Thursday | News
Singapore scientists develop 'mini brain'

Singapore: Scientists in Singapore have made a big leap on research on the 'mini-brain', an advanced mini versions of th...

July 29, 2016 | Friday | News
New super refined polysorbates

Today, pharmaceutical manufacturers are working with new APIs that are much more effective in formulations, but increasi...

November 12, 2013 | Tuesday | Influencers

Podcast

Survey Box

× Please select an option to participate in the poll.
Processing...   View poll results   More polls

× You have successfully cast your vote.
{{ optionDetail.option }}{{ optionDetail.percentage }}%
{{ optionDetail.percentage }}% Complete
More polls