Singapore General Hospital unveils upgraded burn centre

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 27 Aug, 2019

The upgraded Singapore General Hospital (SGH) Burn Centre was unveiled recently at the opening ceremony of the 12th Asia Pacific Burn Congress, co-organised by SGH’s Department of Pla...Read more

“We have 30 major launches planned this year”

Singapore |  Opinion | 0 Comment | 26 Aug, 2019

Ong Ai Hua, Company Group Chairman (CGC) of Janssen Asia Pacific, began her career at Johnson & Johnson 28 years ago and has held leadership roles across strategic marketing, sales mana...Read more

NTU scientists advance organ-on-chip technology

Singapore |  News | 1 Comment | 26 Aug, 2019

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the US and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have developed an organ-on-an-electronic-ch...Read more

Fitbit collaborates with Singapore’s Health Promotion Board

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 26 Aug, 2019

Fitbit has announced that it will be collaborating with Singapore’s Health Promotion Board (HPB) on a healthy population project in support of Singapore’s Smart Nation init...Read more

NTU grows mini kidneys in lab to study potential therapies

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 21 Aug, 2019

An international team of researchers led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has grown ‘miniature kidneys’ in the laboratory that could be used to bet...Read more

Singapore National Eye Centre opens new facility

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Aug, 2019

Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) has opened a new centre to tackle myopia. The launch was attended by Dr Lam Pin Min, Senior Minister of State for Health. "There is an urgent and growi...Read more

NUS, Agilent and NUH launch translational R&D hub to boost clinical diagnostics

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 19 Aug, 2019

The National University of Singapore (NUS), Agilent Technologies, a global leader in life sciences, diagnostics, and applied chemical markets, and National University Hospital (NUH), have e...Read more

Xylonix, Biogemex to co-develop predictive cancer immunotherapy

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 16 Aug, 2019

Xylonix, Singapore based immuno-oncology biotech company has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with BioGemex, a leading Korean medical diagnostic company...Read more

ISMRM, A*STAR hold workshop on MRI of Obesity & Metabolic Disorders

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 14 Aug, 2019

The ISMRM workshop on MRI of obesity and metabolic disorder was held from 21st to 24th July 2019, at Biopolis, Singapore. The event was organised in association with Singapore Bioimaging Co...Read more

“Home-grown companies are building up highly promising research pipelines”

Singapore |  Opinion | 0 Comment | 13 Aug, 2019

Asia is the most populous continent, accounting for 60 per cent of the worlds’ population. Market access barriers for foreign investors have been diminishing in recent years as govern...Read more

PainChek signs landmark agreement with Allium Healthcare

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 09 Aug, 2019

PainChek® continues to rapidly advance its international expansion strategy with receipt of a key Asian regulatory clearance and the signing of a landmark commercial agreement....Read more

Cancer Research UK collaborates with Hummingbird Bioscience

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 09 Aug, 2019

Cancer Research UK, the world's leading cancer charity, and Hummingbird Bioscience, an innovative systems-biology enabled biotechnology company with facilities in Singapore and the US, have...Read more

HistoIndex and ILBS Launch Centre of Excellence in India

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 07 Aug, 2019

In a cross border collaboration, HistoIndex and the Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences (ILBS) in New Delhi, India has jointly launched a Centre of Excel...Read more

EVERSANA expands Asia Pacific commercial business

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 07 Aug, 2019

EVERSANA™, the leading independent provider of global commercial services to the life science industry has announced the rapid expansion of its Asia Pacific business with th...Read more

DocDoc announces institutional capital raise of $13M

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 07 Aug, 2019

Singapore based DocDoc Pte. Ltd., the world's first patient intelligence company, has announced the close of an institutional capital raise of US$13 million. The financing was done on ...Read more

NeoGenomics opens pharma services laboratory in Singapore

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 06 Aug, 2019

NeoGenomics, Inc., a leading provider of cancer-focused genetics testing services, and Pharmaceutical Product Development, LLC (PPD), a leading global contract research organization (CRO), ...Read more

NTU, Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital launch exchange programme

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 05 Aug, 2019

Students pursuing the double degree programme in biomedical sciences and Chinese medicine at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) will soon get to apply what they lea...Read more

International experts respond to critical state of SSI in APAC

Singapore |  News | 0 Comment | 05 Aug, 2019

Ethicon, part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, brought together a consortium of international experts to discuss surgical site infection (SSI) prevention across the A...Read more