Strides Singapore gets USFDA tentative nod for pain relieving drug

Strides Pharma Science Limited (Strides) has announced that its step‐down wholly owned subsidiary, Strides Pharma ...

December 5, 2019 | Thursday | News
Hummingbird Bio raises $19M in Series B round

Hummingbird Bioscience, an innovative biotherapeutics company located in Singapore and US, has announced that it ha...

December 6, 2019 | Friday | News
Singapore approves new early breast cancer drug

A new breast cancer drug shown to significantly reduce the risk of cancer recurrence has received approval in&...

December 3, 2019 | Tuesday | News
NOVI Health collaborates with Great Eastern

NOVI Health (NOVI), an innovative and rapidly growing Singapore-based medical and digital health provider, with a focus ...

December 3, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Singapore announces its first brain bank

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore’s (NTU Singapore) Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine), in ...

December 2, 2019 | Monday | News
NSG BioLabs launches co-working space for startups

NSG BioLabs, a Singapore-based incubator founded to provide a conducive R&D environment to life sciences companies, ...

November 29, 2019 | Friday | News
Lucence raises $20M to advance liquid biopsy

Lucence, a Singapore based genomic medicine company that invents blood-based tests for cancer screening and treatment se...

November 28, 2019 | Thursday | News
NUS team creates new material for flexible soft robots

Origami robots are state-of-the-art soft and flexible robots that are being tested for use in various applications inclu...

November 27, 2019 | Wednesday | News
New Breakthrough Treatment for Patients with ALK-Positive Lung Cancer

Pfizer on 25th Nov 2019, announced that a new breakthrough therapy, LORVIQUA has been approved by Health Sciences Author...

November 26, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Pfizer Unveils Positive Results for VIZIMPRO® as first-line monotherapy in NSCLC patients

Pfizer Inc. on 25th Nov 2019, announced the efficacy and tolerability results from the subgroup analysis of Asian patien...

November 26, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Merck presented Data on Tepotinib for NSCLC at ESMO Asia 2019

Merck, a leading science and technology company, on 25 Nov 2019, announced the presentation of multiple abstracts on tep...

November 25, 2019 | Monday | News
5th ESMO Asia Congress highlights Asia's increasing Cancer Burden

The ESMO Asia Congress 2019 came to a close on 24th Nov 2019, after three days of thought-provoking lectures a...

November 25, 2019 | Monday | News
Flu vaccination lessen the preventable burden of flu in diabetics

A team of researchers at Singapore on 22 Nov 2019 revealed the need for improved flu protection amongst those living wit...

November 25, 2019 | Monday | News
Singapore to establish Smart Digital and Multiplex Path lab

A!maginostic (A!), an A*STAR spin-off that specialises in computational digital pathology, and ...

November 26, 2019 | Tuesday | News
ESMO Asia Congress 2019: Explores Advances in cancer prevention, treatment and care

The ESMO Asia Congress returned for its fifth edition at the Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, on 22n...

November 22, 2019 | Friday | News
Combination of Immunotherapy and VEGF Inhibitor Improves Survival in HCC

Combination therapy with the PD-L1 inhibitor atezolizumab and the VEGF inhibitor bevacizumab significantly improves over...

November 22, 2019 | Friday | News
Trastuzumab Biosimilar HLX02 Met Primary Endpoint in Breast Cancer

The trastuzumab biosimilar HLX02 achieved similar overall response rate to reference trastuzumab in women with human epi...

November 22, 2019 | Friday | News
Singapore makes progress in war against diabetes

The Ministry of Health (MOH) in Singapore has released a summary report highlighting the key initiatives and progress ma...

November 22, 2019 | Friday | News
Medtech startup Eko.ai clinches Startup SG's SLINGSHOT 2019 top prize

Eko.ai was awarded the Startup SG grand prize of S$250,000 Startup SG grant at SLINGSHOT 2019 powered by Startup SG, org...

November 15, 2019 | Friday | News
PMR launches report on "Secure Messaging in Healthcare Market"

Secure messaging in healthcare is set to become a billion-dollar market by 2029, as indicated by a new research study. W...

November 21, 2019 | Thursday | News
Chronic Stress-related Illness is the Largest Health Expenditure facing Health Systems

The impact of stress-related conditions on Singapore’s health system conservatively equates to US$2.3 billion of s...

November 21, 2019 | Thursday | News
Singapore's Inaugural SFF x SWITCH sees over 60,000 participants from 140 countries

The Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) and the Singapore Week of Innovation and TeCHnology (SWITCH) concluded its combined...

November 19, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Duke-NUS introduces Clinical Sciences PhD programme in translational research

Duke-NUS Medical School’s PhD programme in Clinical Sciences (PhD CS) addresses an important need in the field, by...

November 21, 2019 | Thursday | News
Biofourmis announces acquisition of Biovotion AG

Biofourmis has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Zürich, Switzerland-based Biovotion AG, develo...

November 19, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Biofourmis collaborates with Novartis for patients with heart failure

Singapore founded Biofourmis, global leader in digital therapeutics based in Boston, announced that it has been selected...

November 19, 2019 | Tuesday | News