Singapore witnesses Wharton Global Forum 2023 addressing challenges and opportunities navigating a volatile global economy

On March 10th, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania kicked off the 55th Wharton Global Forum i...

March 10, 2023 | Friday | News
Digital health anchoring back to reality with slowdown of venture funding in 2022 in APAC

Galen Growth, the leading digital health, data-driven market intelligence company, and FINN Partners, a global integrate...

March 10, 2023 | Friday | News
US-based CRO Crown Bioscience opens new site in Singapore

Crown Bioscience, a global contract research organisation (CRO) and JSR Life Sciences company, has announced the opening...

March 10, 2023 | Friday | News
Singapore-based startup unveils breath analyser to monitor fat burning status

Singapore-based tech startup Metanoia Sensing has announced the launch of a new breath analyser 'MetaNose' to help peopl...

March 9, 2023 | Thursday | News
Singapore develops novel therapy for treating vancomycin-resistant bacterial infections

Researchers from the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-MIT Alliance for...

March 8, 2023 | Wednesday | News
"We will enable researchers in Singapore to conduct homegrown large-scale population health studies"

  Please share more details about the technology that has been transferred by Olink to NUS? What is so unique...

March 7, 2023 | Tuesday | Opinion
Singapore accelerates precision medicine through next-generation proteomics

The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) has launched the NUS Medi...

March 7, 2023 | Tuesday | News
ADVANcing Clinical Evidence in Infectious Diseases network launches in Singapore

ADVANcing Clinical Evidence in Infectious Diseases (ADVANCE-ID) was officially launched at the ADVANCE-ID Launch Symposi...

March 3, 2023 | Friday | News
CorDx COVID-19 antigen test receives approval for use in Singapore

US-based firm CorDx recently received approval-for-use in Singapore for its COVID-19 antigen (Ag) Test. The test is desi...

March 3, 2023 | Friday | News
Amplify Health Asia appoints new CEO

Singapore-headquartered Amplify Health Asia, the pan-Asian integrated health technology solutions joint venture (JV) bet...

March 1, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Dr Teo Ho Pin steps in as Chairperson of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners Board in Singapore

Dr Teo Ho Pin will assume the role of the Chairperson of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners Board ...

March 1, 2023 | Wednesday | News
GenScript expands footprint in Singapore to provide premium gene synthesis service

GenScript Biotech Corporation has announced the expansion of its Singapore facility to provide a premium gene synthesis ...

March 1, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Singapore-based startup Genetica launches decentralised science platform for precision medicine

Singapore-based artificial intelligence (AI) biotech company Genetica has launched the decentralised science platform Ge...

February 24, 2023 | Friday | News
NVIDIA GTC 2023 to Feature Latest Advances in AI Computing Systems,Generative AI, Industrial Metaverse, Robotics

Virtual Conference to Offer 650+ Sessions From Leaders in Technology, Business, Academia and Government, March 20-23 ...

February 23, 2023 | Thursday | News
Dexcom G6 continuous glucose monitoring system launches in Singapore

US-based firm Dexcom, a global leader in real-time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) for people with diabetes, has ann...

February 23, 2023 | Thursday | News
DKSH partners with 2C2P to enhance patient support programmes in Asia

DKSH Business Unit Healthcare has entered into a partnership with 2C2P, a full-suite payment platform provider, to build...

February 22, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Singapore-based iGene Lab launches whole exome sequencing service

Singapore-based molecular diagnostics lab group iGene Laboratory, a subsidiary of INEX Innovate, has announced the launc...

February 21, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Singapore releases first set of guidelines for perinatal mental health

Singapore’s first set of guidelines on perinatal mental health was launched recently at SingHealth Duke-NUS Matern...

February 20, 2023 | Monday | News
"We have a graduate trainee programme running quite successfully in some of our pilot Asia locations”

What are the current requirements of the biotech industry in Asia for picking the right talent? How can the quality of t...

February 18, 2023 | Saturday | Opinion
NHRI and Singapore's KK Women's and Children's Hospital sign MoU to promote precision care for rare diseases

On February 15, the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding ...

February 17, 2023 | Friday | News
Oxford Nanopore enhances access of new-gen DNA sequencing technology across Asia Pacific

UK-based Oxford Nanopore Technologies has announced an extension of its collaboration with US-based UPS Healthcare to ac...

February 17, 2023 | Friday | News
Singapore taps Accenture, Google to drive open and secure healthcare ecosystem innovation

Google Cloud, Accenture, and the Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS) in Singapore have announced a collaboratio...

February 16, 2023 | Thursday | News
Singapore uses robots to alleviate manpower shortage of chronic low back pain therapists

Singapore robotics firm AiTreat will be embarking on a new product evaluation in the United States for their massage rob...

February 14, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Taimei Technology opens Singapore office to support digital transformation of clinical research in APAC

China-based Taimei Technology, a digital cooperation platform for the life science industry, has announced the open...

February 10, 2023 | Friday | News
SwipeRx secures $37 M to accelerate B2B pharmacy platform across Southeast Asia

SwipeRx has secured $10 million in fresh funds as part of a new Series B2 round. This round marks investments from marqu...

February 13, 2023 | Monday | News
Singapore unveils 2023 action plan for successful ageing

The Ministerial Committee on Ageing (MCA) in Singapore has launched the 2023 Action Plan for Successful Ageing to addres...

February 10, 2023 | Friday | News
Mount Elizabeth Hospital first in Southeast Asia to offer photon-counting technology

Mount Elizabeth Hospital (MEH) has become the first hospital in Southeast Asia to acquire Naeotom Alpha, the world'...

February 9, 2023 | Thursday | News
Monoclonal antibody drug by GSK Singapore approved to treat chronic rhinosinusitis

GSK Singapore announced that Nucala (mepolizumab), a monoclonal antibody that targets interleukin-5 (IL-5...

February 7, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Thermo Fisher launches Cell Therapy Collaboration Centre Programme in Singapore

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has launched a new Cell Therapy Collaboration Centre Programme in Singapore to accelerate ...

February 7, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Singapore is beginning to see benefits of investing in technological aspect of cancer treatment

Medicine and technology have made tremendous strides toward defeating one of the deadliest diseases of the world, despit...

February 6, 2023 | Monday | Opinion
Singapore explores regenerative therapy to restore impaired kidney function

In a world first, scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School, the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) and colleagues in ...

February 3, 2023 | Friday | News
Singapore offers unique insulating nanomaterial for pharma cold chain management

KrossLinker, a Singapore-based energy-efficiency-focused deep-tech advanced material startup, is designing and developin...

February 2, 2023 | Thursday | News
Farrer Park Company in Singapore appoints new Group COO and CEO

Singapore-based Farrer Park Company Pte Ltd (TFPC) has announced the appointment of Kelly Yang as its Group Chief Operat...

February 1, 2023 | Wednesday | News
$50 M funding to advance innovation & research in SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre

SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC) in Singapore has announced a transformational gift of $50 million...

February 1, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Singapore revisits potent drug as promising treatment for acute leukaemia

A team of researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singa...

January 31, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Singapore demonstrates quantum recoil, paving way for precise X-ray imaging in healthcare

For the first time since it was proposed over 80 years ago, scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ...

January 20, 2023 | Friday | News
Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) kickstarts in Singapore

The 11th edition of Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) kick-starts in Singapore to explore various science sectors be...

January 17, 2023 | Tuesday | Company results
"Global investors can leverage our deep immunomics platform to develop TCR Cell therapies for solid tumours"

How crucial is the adaptation of next-generation TCR cell therapies for diagnostic and prophylactic purposes? TCR cell ...

January 16, 2023 | Monday | Opinion
Rockwell Automation appoints Mariya Prempeh as new Singapore Country Manager

Rockwell Automation, dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation across sectors including pharma and h...

January 16, 2023 | Monday | News
Singapore unveils talent development strategy to boost Healthtech and Biotech ecosystem

SGInnovate, a Deep Tech ecosystem builder and investor backed by the Singapore government, has launched Deep Tech Talent...

January 17, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Groundbreaking technology for breast cancer diagnosis enters Southeast Asia

Seno Medical, based in the US, has entered into an exclusive distributor agreement with Genetik, Inc., to market, sell a...

January 16, 2023 | Monday | News
Southern Star Research announces expansion into South Korea and Singapore

Southern Star Research, an Australian contract research organisation (CRO) specialising in clinical trial acceleration w...

January 12, 2023 | Thursday | News
Veradigm announces strategic investment in Singapore-based health tech startup Holmusk

US-based Veradigm has announced an investment in Holmusk, a global behavioural health real-world evidence and data analy...

January 13, 2023 | Friday | News
Juniper Biologics partners with Caris Life Sciences for molecular profiling distribution in Southeast Asia

Singapore-headquartered Juniper Biologics has been granted distribution rights for Caris Life Sciences' molecu...

January 12, 2023 | Thursday | News
Singapore welcomes first integrated private cancer centre for comprehensive cancer care

Australia’s largest dedicated provider of cancer care and part of Icon Group, Icon Cancer Centre Singapore,&n...

January 11, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Dr David John Jeans CBE steps in as HistoIndex's Non-Executive Chairman

HistoIndex, a Singapore-based medtech/healthcare company that specialises in its proprietary integrated stain-free artif...

January 10, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Singapore's Amplify Health extends AI & ML integrated solutions in APAC

Amplify Health, the pan-Asian integrated health technology solutions joint venture between AIA Group and Discovery Group...

January 11, 2023 | Wednesday | News
"Innovations that serve a purpose, paired with a good go-to-market strategy are attractive for VCs"

In 2016, the Singapore government committed to a S$4 billion budget to drive research and commercialisation activities i...

January 6, 2023 | Friday | Opinion
"Crovalimab could potentially become the first global drug originating from Singapore"

Japanese headquartered Chugai Pharmaceutical  has already developed world-class technologies for antibody engineeri...

January 6, 2023 | Friday | Opinion
First made-in-Singapore antibody-drug conjugate to enter clinical trials

Singapore’s drug discovery efforts have reached a new milestone as EBC-129, the first made-in-Singapore antibody-d...

January 9, 2023 | Monday | News
ASLAN Pharma, Thermo Fisher partner to manufacture atopic dermatitis drug

Singapore-based ASLAN Pharmaceuticals and Thermo Fisher Scientific have announced a partnership to manufacture a high co...

January 5, 2023 | Thursday | News
Hyphens Pharma licenses Winlevi for acne improvement in 10 countries across Southeast Asia

Hyphens Pharma International, Singapore's specialty pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare group, has announced tha...

December 26, 2022 | Monday | News
Singapore-based startup Doctor Anywhere acquires Asian Healthcare Specialists

Doctor Anywhere (DA), a regional tech-led healthcare startup headquartered in Singapore, has acquired Catalist-listed As...

December 22, 2022 | Thursday | News
Singapore identifies new therapeutic target for treating diabetic eye disease

Singapore researchers have discovered a novel therapeutic target named ADAM10 that could be used to treat patients ...

December 23, 2022 | Friday | News
Mental health chatbots effective in helping people with depression: Singapore study

Clinician scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found that mental health chat...

December 20, 2022 | Tuesday | News
SGInnovate unravels opportunities and challenges at Singapore’s biotech sector

Singapore's innovation platform SGInnovate, which supports deep technology entrepreneurship has unraveled a report on op...

December 19, 2022 | Monday | Analysis
Singapore's SmartFuture launches First Responder Platform for RPM solutions

Singapore's leading AI and IoT providers for health-tech solutions has added "First Responder Platform" to its ...

December 19, 2022 | Monday | News
Singapore identifies predictive blood biomarker for cognitive impairment and dementia

A recent study by a team comprising researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the National Univers...

December 21, 2022 | Wednesday | News
EnterpriseSG launches Singapore Global Executive Programme (SGEP) to foster start-ups

The SGEP – driven by Enterprise Singapore will contribute to the Government’s Enterprise 2030 ...

December 19, 2022 | Monday | News
Singapore injects $1 M into global fund for fighting AIDS, malaria and TB

As part of Singapore's continued commitment to support multilateral efforts in tackling key global health challenges, ...

December 9, 2022 | Friday | News
Tracking health of 100,000 Singaporeans to identify new ways to prevent diseases

The Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), in c...

December 19, 2022 | Monday | News
Possible breakthrough in cardiovascular disease diagnostics for Southeast Asia

Neuome Peptides, a Singapore-based startup, with operations in India as well, has established an assay-development&...

December 16, 2022 | Friday | News
Singapore-based startup Aktivolabs raises $10 M to fuel global expansion

Singapore's Aktivolabs has secured a $10 million capital injection for a Series A round led by Mitsui & Co., Adaptiv...

December 16, 2022 | Friday | News
ThoughtFull brings mental health solutions to Hong Kong and Thailand

Singapore-based startup ThoughtFull is partnering with the FWD Group Holdings Limited to launch the Mind Strength S...

December 16, 2022 | Friday | News
Luye Pharma & DCH Auriga put focus on mental healthcare in Singapore

Luye Pharma Group, an international pharmaceutical company dedicated to the R&D, manufacturing and sale of innovativ...

December 14, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Moderna to expand Asia-Pacific presence with new Singapore subsidiary

Moderna, Inc., has announced its Singapore subsidiary with a new leadership announcement.  Evelyn Pang has been ap...

December 12, 2022 | Monday | News
Singapore identifies gene that controls scarring in damaged hearts

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore have identified a gene that controls the behaviour of a specific type...

December 12, 2022 | Monday | News
Singapore-based startup Allozymes partners with GenScript to accelerate enzyme discovery

GenScript Biotech Corporation, the world's leading provider of life-science research tools and services, is partnering w...

December 9, 2022 | Friday | News
Amway launches Singapore Business Innovation Hub to accelerate healthcare

Amway, an entrepreneur-led health and wellness company, has announced the opening of its Singapore Business Innovation H...

December 8, 2022 | Thursday | News
New Biosafety Level 3 lab opens in Singapore for fight against future pandemics

To bolster Singapore’s efforts to fight COVID-19 and prepare for the next big biological threat, the Lee Kong ...

December 7, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Pharma giants partner with Singapore researchers to boost biologics and vaccines innovation

Leading pharma companies GSK, Sanofi and Takeda will partner with research communities from the Agency for Science, Tech...

December 7, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Singapore paves the way for improved treatment of Alzheimer’s disease

A major clinical trial of an antibody treatment may soon pave the way for improved treatment of Alzheimer’s diseas...

December 6, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Singapore develops affordable and highly sensitive blood test for cancer

Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a novel low-cost method of testing for cancer...

December 6, 2022 | Tuesday | News
NTU Singapore and Imperial College London strengthen ties

Building on their successful collaboration in setting up the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine), Nanyang Te...

December 1, 2022 | Thursday | News
Singapore's NUS Medicine signs MoU with Semmelweis University in Budapest

The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) has inked a Memorandum of Understan...

November 24, 2022 | Thursday | News
MiRXES unveils APAC’s first T10 ultra-high throughput sequencing platform

MiRXES, a Singapore-headquartered biotechnology company, has unveiled the cutting-edge DNBSEQ-T10×4RS Genetic...

November 22, 2022 | Tuesday | News
RVAC Medicines and A*STAR to build capabilities for mRNA production in Singapore

RVAC Medicines, a messenger RNA (mRNA) technology platform startup incubated by CBC Group, a healthcare-dedicated a...

November 21, 2022 | Monday | News
Medtronic launches Customer eXperience Center in Singapore

Medtronic plc, a global leader in healthcare technology, has launched the Medtronic Customer eXperience Center (MCXC) in...

November 18, 2022 | Friday | News
ResMed unveils Digital Health Solutions manufacturing centre in Singapore

Singapore's leading Digital Health Solution firm ResMed has launched its new advanced manufacturing centre on November 1...

November 16, 2022 | Wednesday | Company results
Chugai extends R&D collaboration in Singapore earmarking S$282M over next 5 years

The Japanese company Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., which owns and operates a fully-owned research center "Chugai Phar...

November 16, 2022 | Wednesday | Company results
GSK invests S$44 M in manufacturing facility at Singapore for cancer treatment

The global biopharma company GSK plc has launched a new, S$44 million high potency facility (HPF) in its strategic New P...

November 17, 2022 | Thursday | Company results
Singapore's VentureBlick launches global search for healthcare startups

VentureBlick, a Singapore-based fundraising platform matching healthcare startups with medical investors, has launched i...

November 15, 2022 | Tuesday | News
BioNTech to acquire Novartis' manufacturing plant in Singapore

BioNTech has announced that its Singapore affiliate BioNTech Pharmaceuticals Asia Pacific has entered into an agreement ...

November 15, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Oncoshot and Novotech partner to offer cancer data insights in APAC

Singapore-based startup Oncoshot and internationally recognised contract research organisation (CRO) Novotech have begun...

November 11, 2022 | Friday | News
Smith+Nephew unveils digital innovation and medical education academy in Singapore

Smith+Nephew, the global medical technology company, on November 9, launched Smith+Nephew (S+N) Academy Singapore a...

November 9, 2022 | Wednesday | Company results
UK's medtech behemoth Smith+Nephew opens academy in Singapore

Smith+Nephew, the global medical technology company, has announced the opening of Smith+Nephew (S+N) Academy Singapore, ...

November 9, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Singapore links air polluting particles with cardiac arrests

Small particles in air pollution in Singapore might have caused sudden cardiac arrests in some people who were not in ho...

November 4, 2022 | Friday | News
Singapore embraces co-creation and co-learning to strengthen healthcare outcomes

Singapore's Center for Healthcare Innovation (CHI) located at the prestigious Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) unravelled "...

November 3, 2022 | Thursday | News
First South East Asia genomic data digitisation collaboration to improve cancer trial access

Oncoshot has announced one of its biggest collaborations to date with Icon Cancer Centre in Singapore, alongside Ro...

November 3, 2022 | Thursday | News
Brunei launches MOH Intelligence Hub to optimise country's digital healthcare ecosystem

The Ministry of Health (MOH), Brunei Darussalam and Singapore based EVYD Technology have offciated MOH Intelligence Hub ...

November 2, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Novartis Singapore partners Singapore Heart Foundation to create CVD awareness

Novartis Singapore (Novartis) and Singapore Heart Foundation (SHF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to co...

November 1, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Hilleman, MSD to develop thermostable next-gen Zaire ebolavirus vaccine

Singapore-based Hilleman Laboratories has announced collaberative efforts to develop a thermostable second-generati...

November 1, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Singapore's GIC invests in German firm CHEPLAPHARM

CHEPLAPHARM AG, a leading international platform for well-established branded medicines, has entered into a definitive a...

October 26, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Sanofi adds 3D Experience to manufacturing facilities at Singapore, France

Dassault Systèmes and Sanofi have announced their partnership to optimise “EVolutive Facilit...

October 27, 2022 | Thursday | News
Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH) kickstarts unveiling Global-Asia innovation ecosystem

The seventh edition of "Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology" (SWITCH) 2022 was unveiled on October 25, at Resort...

October 25, 2022 | Tuesday | News
MiRXES announces Southeast Asia's first business and clinical advisory programme

MiRXES, a Singapore-headquartered biotechnology company focused on saving lives and improving health economics and outco...

October 25, 2022 | Tuesday | News
AUM Biosciences to be publicly listed following merger with Mountain Crest

Singapore-based AUM Biosciences and Mountain Crest Acquisition Corp. V (in the US) have entered into a definitive busine...

October 21, 2022 | Friday | News
Singapore manipulates stress response in cells to help slow down ageing

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore scientists have found that a stress response in cells, when ‘swit...

October 20, 2022 | Thursday | News
NUS and NRF to foster collaborations at Singapore's scientific research arena

National University of Singapore (NUS) and the National Research Foundation, Singapore (NRF) have launched the National ...

October 20, 2022 | Thursday | News
Singapore identifies new cell population in Alzheimer's disease

An immunity research study has found that the previously identified disease-associated microglia (DAM) population d...

October 17, 2022 | Monday | News