Philips inaugurates new APAC healthcenter

Singapore: With a view to improve the lives of people in the ASEAN, Royal Philips recently inaugurated its new state-of-...

May 20, 2016 | Friday | News
Japanese firm establishes Singapore subsidiary

Singapore: Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma (DSP), a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Osaka, Japan, has established a wh...

February 8, 2013 | Friday | News
Singaporean travelers highly prone to Hepatitis A

Singapore: A study conducted in Singapore has revealed that people, who travel to high risk areas associated with infec...

October 30, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Hong Kong to host international TCM exhibition, conference

Singapore: Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and Modernized Chinese Medicine International Association (MCMIA ...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
DNA analysis in the pocket!

Dr Samuel KE Gan, molecular cell biologist and team leader of Antibody and Product Development (APD) Laboratory at Singa...

July 3, 2014 | Thursday | Influencers
BioXCell, BioSingapore sign MoU for biotech growth

Singapore: Malaysia-based biotech park Bio-XCell and Singapore's biotech association, BioSingapore, have collaborated to...

October 29, 2013 | Tuesday | News
BioAsia 2014: Innovation, collaboration identified as success keys

Hyderabad: With emphasis on cutting-edge innovations this year, BioAsia 2014 under the theme 'Innovate. Evolve.' kick-st...

March 5, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
Obituary: Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of Singapore, who transformed Singapore from a small port city into a wealthy glo...

March 24, 2015 | Tuesday | Influencers
Sequencing helps in proliferating personalized medicine

With the increasing trend of genomics analysis and a wave of personalized medicine taking over in healthcare industry,...

August 29, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion
URMC launches new heart device trial in Asia

Singapore: Cardiologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center, US, are launching a new study in an effort to im...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Study: One-in-five pregnant women are anemic

Singapore: According to a survey by Vifor Pharma, at least one-in-five women suffer from iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) ...

July 26, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
Veredus biochip can detect mutated strains of drug resistant TB

Singapore: Veredus Laboratories, a leading supplier of innovative moleculardiagnostic tools, launched VereMTB, a multipl...

November 8, 2012 | Thursday | News
3D Printing: Key to revolutionize biomedical industry

Singapore: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore is among the first in Asia to invest in 3D bioprinting te...

November 24, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
AB SCIEX to leverage on opportunities with CROs

AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, recently opened its new Asia Pacific Application and ...

May 23, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
Research capital will continue to flow eastward

        Growth of the biotech industry in Singapore over the last 10 years has, in a number of measures, outpa...

May 24, 2012 | Thursday | Opinion
Singapore strives to enhance cold chain logistic services

Singapore: With the increase in demand of temperature sensitive pharmaceutical products, SATS, Singapore's ground handli...

April 16, 2015 | Thursday | News
ZS expands in Singapore to tap bioscience industry

Singapore: In a move to expand its presence in Asia-Pacific region, global sales and marketing firm, ZS, has opened an o...

September 4, 2015 | Friday | News
MNCs on medtech growth trail

Industry forecasts by market analysts state that 80 percent of the multinational companies expect to gain a good share i...

November 5, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Biochips market to be worth $11.4 bn by 2018

Singapore: A recent report released by RnRMarketResearch.com has analyzed the Global Biochips Industry and forecasted th...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Siew Hwa Ong: Women should pursue non-conventional ideas

I decided to pursue a scientific career during university days and I was fascinated by the field of cell signalling that...

March 6, 2013 | Wednesday | Influencers
AWAK collaborates with Baxter for wearable dialysis

Singapore: Singapore's AWAK Technologies has entered into an exclusive agreement with Baxter International for the devel...

January 7, 2013 | Monday | News
Singapore to nurture the MedTech industry

Singapore: SPRING Singapore, a government agency has announced a financial assistance of around $60 million recently for...

October 13, 2014 | Monday | News
Singapore scientists identify thick-skin-patch mutation

Singapore: Scientists have identified a mutation in a gene that causes patches of very thick skin to appear on the palms...

October 19, 2012 | Friday | News
A*STAR collaborates with GE healthcare

Singapore: The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) has inked a pact with GE healthcare to further bolst...

December 24, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Researchers develop novel solutions to fight the obesity gene

Singapore: A research team led by scientists from National University of Singapore (NUS) has identified several potent i...

October 20, 2014 | Monday | News
Austrinova opens new facility in Singapore

Singapore: Singapore based biotech firm, Austrianova, has opened a new facility in Singapore to perform research and dev...

January 30, 2015 | Friday | News
Charles River acquires microbe testing lab

Singapore: Charles River has acquired Brass, a Singapore-based microbiology subcontract test laboratory specializing in ...

November 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Today scientists have poor frustration tolerance: Glivec discoverer

Dr Alex Matter, CEO, Experimental Therapeutics Center, A*Star, Singapore, is among the pioneers of the world's first tar...

June 25, 2013 | Tuesday | Influencers
Medtech giants in APAC join hands to boost innovation

Singapore: Medical technology giants in Singapore including Johnson & Johnson, Medtronics, GE Healthcare and BD have...

April 26, 2015 | Sunday | News
Fortis to sell RadLink Asia to Fullerton Healthcare

Singapore: Fortis Healthcare has announced that it has agreed to sell its Singapore unit RadLink-Asia to Fullerton Healt...

May 5, 2015 | Tuesday | News
A*Star, Cytos begin 1st flu vaccine trial in Singapore

Singapore: Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) and Switzerland's Cytos Biotechnology have conducted the...

May 20, 2013 | Monday | News
Singapore: Rides the medtech wave

With an aim to become the number 1 hotspot for global bioscience industry in Asia, Singapore has committed $13.05 billio...

May 15, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
A*Star creates biomaterial from squids, mussels

Singapore: Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Res...

September 12, 2013 | Thursday | News
There are no winners in the clinical trials race in Asia

Over the past few decades, research on clinical trials has enjoyed a rapid boom around the world. According to CenterWat...

September 12, 2012 | Wednesday | Opinion
Drug delivery: 11 technologies of the future

The drug delivery technology landscape is rapidly evolving with new classes of pharmaceuticals and biologics fuelling th...

May 16, 2012 | Wednesday | News
NUS team pioneers a novel technique to deliver biologicals

Singapore: Researchers at the National University of Singapore have invented a novel technique to administer pain-killer...

September 9, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Study confirms BETADINE efficacy for foot&mouth disease

Singapore: There is a high incidence of HFMD in Asia. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recorded approximately 2.5 mil...

March 16, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Mr Simranjit Singh, BioSingapore: We will amplify A*Star Get-Up program in 2013

Some of the new trends in Asia that the biopharma industry will see in 2013 will be greater licensing activity and innov...

December 25, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
New facility in Singapore to boost environment research

Singapore: The Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) has launched a $5.1 million (S$6.5 m...

July 23, 2012 | Monday | News
Green tea for cancer drug delivery

Singapore: A group of researchers from Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) is using green tea ingredien...

October 14, 2014 | Tuesday | News
TauRx pumps $135mn to advance treatment for Alzheimer's disease

Singapore: Singapore and Scotland based TauRx Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a n...

October 9, 2015 | Friday | News
Tobacco prevalence in Asia raising death toll

Singapore: According to a study in PLOS Medicine, by Prof Wei Zheng, professor of Medicine and director of the Vanderbil...

June 17, 2014 | Tuesday | News
JN Medsys: Pioneers of '80% faster' digital PCRs

Dr Johnson Ng dedicated his research developing innovative platforms for polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based diagnosti...

October 24, 2013 | Thursday | Influencers
DKSH and Roche extend their partnership

Singapore: Switzerland-based DKSH, a leader in market expansion, has announced the extension of its partnership with Roc...

October 16, 2014 | Thursday | News
Medical device firms open to invest on R&D: KPMG survey

Singapore: Medical device manufacturers are investing heavily in research and development (R&D), and are shifting th...

March 8, 2016 | Tuesday | Analysis
Singapore: Best destination for healthcare services'

Singapore: In a survey conducted by Bloomberg's Most Efficient Health Care 2014, Singapore has obtained the top scores f...

September 19, 2014 | Friday | News
Point-of-care diagnostics is revolutionary

In 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation rolled out a new grant of $31 million to fund innovation in point-of-ca...

December 17, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Napier expands in Middle East

Singapore: Napier Healthcare, a healthcare technology and services provider, has expanded to Middle East by opening a ce...

October 13, 2014 | Monday | News
ASLAN appoints Andrew Howden in director's board

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

February 29, 2016 | Monday | News
Premature cancer death needs serious attention

Singapore: 1.5 million lives, which would be lost to cancer, could be saved per year if decisive measures are taken, acc...

February 4, 2013 | Monday | News
US CRO appoints new Asia director

Singapore: US-based Harlan Laboratories, a leading contract research organization (CRO) and research models and service...

February 5, 2014 | Wednesday | News
BSA lifetime achievement award 2013 for George Radda

The present chairman of Singapore's Biomedical Research Council (BMRC) Prof Sir George Radda has changed the way univers...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Hope for COPD: Network Verification Challenge

Singapore: The Network Verification Challenge has generated a comprehensive set of biological models relevant to chroni...

August 21, 2014 | Thursday | News
Novartis partners with TB alliance

Singapore: Novartis has partnered with Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) for compounds to fight tube...

August 21, 2014 | Thursday | News
NUHS chief gets Singapore President's award

Singapore: Professor John Wong Eu-Li, currently chief executive of National University Health System (NUHS), Isabel Chan...

November 11, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Amgen unveils new plant in Asia

Singapore: US-based Amgen enters the Asian market with its new 'next-generation' biomanufacturing facility in Singapore....

November 24, 2014 | Monday | News
Singapore researchers get access to AstraZeneca drug compounds

Singapore: National Health Innovation Centre (NHIC) of Singapore has partnered with global pharmaceutical company, Astra...

September 4, 2015 | Friday | News
A*STAR, Japanese bank ink partnership

Singapore: Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporat...

August 20, 2014 | Wednesday | News
A*Star monitors drug resistant super bugs in real time

Singapore: Scientists at A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have developed a technique to precisely monitor an...

March 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
Embryonic stem cells remain a sticky wicket

Dr Shinya Yamanaka and Sir John Gurdon's discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) has given the world an altern...

January 31, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Urgent need arises for SARS vaccine

Singapore: The World Health Organization (WHO) reported four new cases of SARS-like virus in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, an...

November 29, 2012 | Thursday | News
Dialysis treatment on-the-go

The destiny of AWAK Technologies was defined in 2006 at the International Society of Nephrology in Los Angeles during a ...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
Quintiles acquires Encore Health Resources

Singapore: Global clinical research organization, Quintiles has acquired Encore Health Resources, a health-information a...

July 3, 2014 | Thursday | News
Takeda initiates Ph3 trial for Ixazomib in Asia

Singapore: Takeda Development Center Shanghai (TDC Shanghai) and Takeda Development Center Asia has commenced TOURMALINE...

January 28, 2014 | Tuesday | News
APAC robotic surgery touched $217.4 mn in 2013

Singapore: Asia-Pacific is a hotbed of investment activity owing to the booming economic growth in its emerging countrie...

February 14, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
Shimadzu launches i-series of HPLC system in Singapore

Singapore: Japan-based global analytics technology provider, Shimadzu (Asia Pacific), has launched i-Series of new indus...

August 19, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Scientists discover disease control mechanism

Singapore: A*STAR scientists from the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) and the Singapore Bioimaging Consor...

July 3, 2012 | Tuesday | News
FDA approves Avastin for cervical cancer

Singapore: US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new use for Genentech's Avastin (bevacizumab) to treat p...

August 18, 2014 | Monday | Regulatory
AYOXXA to develop ophthalmic diagnostic tools in Singapore

Singapore: Singapore start-up and Germany-based biotech firm, AYOXXA, has collaborated with Singapore Eye Research Insti...

February 4, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Evolving trends in clinical trial designs

In the current competitive era of drug development, establishing the superiority of a new medical intervention compared ...

October 9, 2014 | Thursday | Opinion
Strategic site selection could help reduce study delays

With surveys indicating that 70 percent of clinical trials across Asia, Europe, Canada and Latin America experience dela...

October 9, 2014 | Thursday | Opinion
Bloomage BioTech, GIC to invest in China

Singapore: Bloomage BioTechnology Corporation ("Bloomage BioTech" or "the Company"; together with its subsidiaries, coll...

November 9, 2015 | Monday | News
Potential replacement for antibiotics found

Singapore: A team of researchers at Nanyang Technology University, Singapore, have developed a new antimicrobial solutio...

May 22, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Molecular painting sparks biologics research

At the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria, Dr John Dangerfield and Dr Brian Salmons along with Dr Chri...

August 1, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
Lack of co-operations hinders antibody R&D in Asia

The antibody market has emerged as a hot segment at a time when pharmaceutical companies are facing a drying pipeline of...

October 2, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Healthcare delivery revolution in APAC

Asian countries face the challenge of wide demographics, resource accessibility and disruptive connection between health...

May 30, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
Singapore stem cell firm initiates for ASX listing

Singapore: On Q Group, changing its name to StemCell United, a Singapore-based biotechnology company headquartered in Au...

July 15, 2015 | Wednesday | News
US diagnostic lab expands in China

Singapore: ACM Global Central Laboratory, US-based diagnostic central laboratory, has expanded in China with the opening...

September 10, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Agilent, A*STAR to develop new analytical tools for glycoprotein testing

Singapore: Agilent technologies recently announced collaboration with Singapore's Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BT...

July 15, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Baxter inaugurates biologics facility in Singapore

Singapore: Baxter International has launched an advanced recombinant biologic facility in Singapore. The suite supports...

August 7, 2014 | Thursday | News
Aussie parkinson tech company raises $14.8 mn

Singapore: Australian health technology company, Global Kinetics, has raised $14.8 million to rapidly progress the compa...

June 2, 2015 | Tuesday | News
International Society of Cell Therapy appoints Dr Anish Majumdar as VP-Elect for Asia

Singapore: Dr Anish S Majumdar, chief scientific officer and Executive VP at India based Stempeutics Research, is electe...

March 20, 2015 | Friday | Influencers
Singapore inaugurates Single-Cell Omics Center

Singapore: Singapore has inaugurated Single-Cell Omics Centre (SCOC), the first research centre in Asia exclusively dedi...

April 16, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Singapore launches 8 massive biomedical collaborations

Singapore: Singapore announced the initiation of eight biomedical sciences research programmes, including polaris, genet...

November 12, 2012 | Monday | News
Austrianova's encapsulated cell to treat pancreatic cancer

Singapore: Singapore-based Austrianova's encapsulated cell technology has demonstrated to treat pancreatic cancer in a p...

August 14, 2014 | Thursday | News
Medtronic eying developing countries

Singapore: One of the biggest names in the medical technology industry, Medtronic, over $16 billion company, is integrat...

August 14, 2014 | Thursday | Influencers
Soon, malaria diagnosis will take less than a minute

Singapore: In a breakthrough discovery, researchers at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (MIT) have...

September 3, 2014 | Wednesday | News
GE Healthcare appoints GM in Singapore

Singapore: GE Healthcare Life Sciences has appointed Mr Olivier Loeillot as general manager, Asia Commercial for BioProc...

August 14, 2014 | Thursday | Influencers
What's the stem cell regulatory scenario like in APAC?

The pioneering work of Nobel Laureates Sir John Gurdon and Dr Shinya Yamanaka on reprogramming adult stem cells has open...

January 31, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
BioIndustry Trends in 2014 in Singapore

Industry There has been much activity in the Healthcare Industry as a whole. Consolidation of key players and the acquis...

February 19, 2014 | Wednesday | Opinion
Singapore develops novel cancer drug candidate

Singapore: Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medic...

July 16, 2015 | Thursday | News
Start-up Innovation: Real time cancer diagnosis

Singapore: Endofotonics, a medical technology company spun off from National University of Singapore (NUS),  has develo...

April 16, 2014 | Wednesday | Influencers
Viral antibody discovered offers hope against flu

Singapore: Researchers from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have developed a new antibody that has shown...

February 23, 2015 | Monday | News
Tech drive demand for 3D medical imaging

Singapore: Global Industry Analysts (GIA) announces the release of a comprehensive global report on 3D medical imaging m...

July 12, 2013 | Friday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: CROs hopeful despite stifled growth

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Taiwan firm Delta, A*Star launches diagnostics lab in Singapore

Singapore: Taiwan based Delta Electronics has invested in Singapore to develop next-generation infectious disease detec...

January 16, 2015 | Friday | News
Mundipharma expands in Mexico

Singapore: Singapore headquartered Mundipharma has entered the Mexico market by opening its new office and intends to fo...

September 11, 2014 | Thursday | News
PathGEN chip can detect more than 70,000 microbes

Dr Christopher Wong, founder and director, PathGEN Dx, Singapore, has dedicated his research to studying genomics since ...

August 27, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
A*Star to validate Curiox's droparray system

Singapore: Singapore based Curiox Biosystems has collaborated with Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) ...

April 6, 2015 | Monday | News
COPD in Asia is a gathering storm

Predictions for the burden and impact of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) have exceeded all expectations. In...

June 13, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion

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