NUS develops wireless technology to monitor health

Tiny subcutaneous implants that can continuously measure a person’s blood glucose, heart rate and other physiologi...

December 23, 2019 | Monday | News
Cerecin appoints biotech veteran Joseph S. Zakrzewski as its new Chairman

SINGAPORE AND DENVER, COLORADO, 20 December 2019 After serving as Chairman since 2012, Dr. Claude Nash will step down b...

December 20, 2019 | Friday | News
Tessa Therapeutics to open manufacturing unit in Singapore

Tessa Therapeutics, a Singapore based clinical-stage cell therapy company focused on the development of innovative cell ...

December 20, 2019 | Friday | News
Roche’s Ph III cancer immunotherapy trial reveals positive results for liver cancer

Liver cancer is the fourth most common cancer among men and affects approximately 24 individuals in every 100,000 people...

December 18, 2019 | Wednesday | News
MIT Review recognises 20 emerging innovators under 35 in APAC

MIT Technology Review has announced its annual list of Innovators Under 35 for the Asia Pacific Region. This acclaimed l...

December 18, 2019 | Wednesday | News
NTU suggests route for new antiviral treatments

A team of molecular and structural biologists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) ...

December 16, 2019 | Monday | News
PMR launches analysis report on PET MRI Market

Increasing patient scans for oncology, paediatrics, soft tissue imaging, and the ability to combine tests, which cannot ...

December 12, 2019 | Thursday | News
PMR launches market analysis report on SDS PAGE Products

The global SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) market is set to exhibit a promising 5% CAGR during the forecas...

December 12, 2019 | Thursday | News
AWAK PD Wearable Dialysis Device ready for re-establishment

AWAK Technologies (AWAK), a pioneering medical technology company focused on dialysis using regeneration technology for ...

December 13, 2019 | Friday | News
SMART, NTU team designs polymer to kill drug-resistant bacteria

Researchers from Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapor...

December 12, 2019 | Thursday | News
"Proteona Oncology Challenge" won by AI-driven multiple myeloma study

Proteona Pte. Ltd. has announced the results of the first Proteona Oncology Challenge, co-sponsored by NovogeneAIT. The ...

December 10, 2019 | Tuesday | News
BI gets recognition as Top Employer 2020 in SEA, South Korea

Boehringer Ingelheim has been recognized as a Top Employer across seven countries – Singapore, Malaysia, Philippin...

December 11, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Singapore explores innovative solutions to combat Global Nipah virus threat

The threat of infectious diseases, such as Nipah virus, spreading across borders has increased substantially as a result...

December 10, 2019 | Tuesday | News
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 Glob...

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
Novotech wins 2019 APAC Biotech CRO award

Novotech, the Asia-Pacific CRO, has again won the prestigious Asia-Pacific CRO of the year awarded by leading analyst fi...

November 19, 2019 | Tuesday | News
NTU makes novel discovery in diabetes research

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have discovered that a type of immune cell know...

November 20, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Rockwell Automation Saves Costs, Simplifies Sizing with New Servo System

The growing consumer desire for more product variety and packaging sizes is creating a need for smaller, more flexible m...

November 18, 2019 | Monday | News
PMR launches analysis report on Automated Cell Counter Market

Automated cell counters are electronic devices that can automatically count the cells of humans, animals, plants, bacter...

November 13, 2019 | Wednesday | Analysis
NUS and FDDP Celebrate 20 Years of Higher Education Collaboration

The flagship National University of Singapore (NUS) Grandes Écoles French Double Degree Programme (FDDP), the lon...

November 12, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Global BioLife to Present 3F Antimicrobial Fragrance at 2020 ASM Biothreats

Global BioLife Inc, the U.S. subsidiary of Singapore eDevelopment Ltd (SeD), will present its 3F Antimicrobial Fra...

November 15, 2019 | Friday | News
Abbott partners with Diabetes Singapore

Abbott is partnering with Diabetes Singapore to empower individuals with diabetes and their caregivers with information ...

November 15, 2019 | Friday | News
Duke-NUS’ mobile health programme simplifies T2DM health outcomes

The most economical and simple way to manage health problems can often be the most difficult to implement because they r...

November 18, 2019 | Monday | News
ASN showcases Singapore-led global diabetes study

Singapore’s Diabetes Study in Nephropathy and other Microvascular Complications (DYNAMO), fronted by Lead Principa...

November 15, 2019 | Friday | News
Sanofi launches SOLIQUA in Singapore to treat adults with uncontrolled T2D

Sanofi on 13 Nov 2019, announced the launch of SOLIQUA®, its once-daily injectable treatment which aims to reli...

November 14, 2019 | Thursday | News
AMTH co-leads $10M series B funding for SonoMotion

Advanced MedTech Holdings (AMTH), Southeast Asia's largest medical device business headquartered in Singapore,...

November 13, 2019 | Wednesday | News
$2B Investments Programme to Support Growth of Green Finance in Singapore

The Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) and the Singapore Week of Innovation and TeCHnology (SWITCH) has come together for ...

November 11, 2019 | Monday | News
Stone Capital, Biosyngen to set up $50M biopharma investment fund

Stone Capital and Biosyngen have partnered to establish a Biopharmaceutical Investment Fund in Singapore, the signi...

November 12, 2019 | Tuesday | News
FDA Grants De Novo Designation to Vela Diagnostics’ NGS HIV-1 Genotyping Assay

Vela Diagnostics announced on 5 Nov 2019, that it has received FDA authorization to market its in vitro d...

November 11, 2019 | Monday | News
MAS Helps Develop Blockchain-based Prototype for Multi-Currency Payments

The Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) and the Singapore Week of Innovation and TeCHnology (SWITCH) will come together for...

November 11, 2019 | Monday | News
BC Platforms establishes new entity in Singapore

BC Platforms, a world leader in providing powerful genomic data management and analysis solutions has announced that it ...

November 11, 2019 | Monday | News
‘Persistence Market Research’ launches a report on Healthcare AR VR Market

Persistence Market Research (PMR), an innovative and specialized supplier of market intelligence reports and&n...

November 7, 2019 | Thursday | Analysis
Raising bar to mitigate growing health and economic impact of surgical site infections (SSI)

Surgical site infections (SSIs) remain a pertinent healthcare problem globally, despite advances in medical technology a...

November 8, 2019 | Friday | Opinion
NUS researchers identify new Alzheimer’s biomarker

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder leading to memory loss and progressive c...

November 7, 2019 | Thursday | News
Inaugural SFF x SWITCH to Kick Off Tomorrow with a Focus on Sustainability

The Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) and the Singapore Week of Innovation and TeCHnology (SWITCH) will come together for...

November 10, 2019 | Sunday | News
Upjohn, Duke-NUS to set up ASEAN CoE for RWE Studies

Upjohn, a division of Pfizer, on 7 Nov 2019, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Duke-NUS Medical School, Si...

November 8, 2019 | Friday | News
NUS centre pushes for 3D-printed implants in humans

Complicated operations like skull reconstruction and hip replacement could receive a fillip through a new tie-up between...

November 7, 2019 | Thursday | News
MyDoc inks strategic deal with BaoViet Group Insurance

MyDoc recently inked a strategic deal with BaoViet Group Insurance; adding Vietnam to its expanding B2B o...

November 6, 2019 | Wednesday | News
PMR launches report on ‘RNA-based Therapeutics and Vaccines Market’

Tremendous commercialization has been prominently driving the growth of RNA based therapeutics and vaccines market world...

November 6, 2019 | Wednesday | Analysis
Farrer Park unveils HIFU treatment for Uterine Fibroid in Singapore

Farrer Park Hosiptal (FPH) introduces High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) in Singapore. HIFU is a new technolo...

November 5, 2019 | Tuesday | News
"Investments in analytics can dramatically increase efficiency in medical settings"

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong recently emphasised during Singapore’s National Day Rally, the need for employers t...

November 4, 2019 | Monday | Opinion
Evidence found on cross-species filovirus transmission from bats to humans

Virus spillover – the transmission of viruses from one species to another – may be occurring between bats an...

November 1, 2019 | Friday | News
CHIL raises $2.4 M for further expansion

Child Health Imprints (CHIL), the Singapore-based company focusing on neonatal-clinical care improvement has announ...

November 4, 2019 | Monday | News
RAM Group, IGaN bring advanced body monitoring system

Singapore-based technology providers RAM Group in multiparametric, single-point bio-electro-mechanical quantum sensor te...

November 1, 2019 | Friday | News
Mesh Bio partners with Startup Creasphere program

Mesh Bio, a Singapore-based predictive analytics digital health startup for diagnosis and management of chronic diseases...

October 31, 2019 | Thursday | News
HistoIndex to expand AI based pathology platform

HistoIndex announces the expansion of its AI-based digital pathology platform towards large-scale NASH preclinical ...

October 28, 2019 | Monday | News
Cerecin's new VP Lilian Chow to handle Clinical Operations and Regulatory Affairs

Cerecin, a global healthcare company focused on developing brain health solutions and therapeutics for patients around t...

October 7, 2019 | Monday | News
Faulty signalling pathway linked to congenital heart condition

A congenital heart condition known as left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) – which occurs when muscly projections...

October 17, 2019 | Thursday | News
Duke-NUS uncovers 4 new AdV strains linked to respiratory diseases

Human adenovirus (HAdV) infections in Singapore and Malaysia have caused severe respiratory disease among children and a...

October 25, 2019 | Friday | News
Industrial Transformation ASIA-PACIFIC 2019 Adopt Industry 4.0 to Reinvent Business

With trade tensions, slowing Chinese economic growth, and an uncertain Eurozone casting a shadow on a strained global ec...

October 25, 2019 | Friday | News
SCRI honors Clinical Research Coordinators by Distinguished Contributor Award 2019

The Singapore Clinical Research Institute (SCRI), on 22 Oct 2019, announce the nine winners of the inaugural Distinguish...

October 22, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Singapore to host 7th Annual Biologics Manufacturing Asia 2020

The biologics industry in Asia- Pacific is estimated to be the fastest-growing market in the world. For instance, Asia- ...

October 28, 2019 | Monday | News
Singapore completes world's largest whole genome sequencing analysis

A new genetic databank has been established containing the completed whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data of close to 5,00...

October 23, 2019 | Wednesday | News
ASLAN enrolls first patient to study ASLAN004 targeting Atopic Dermatitis

ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage oncology and immunology focused biopharma company, announced on 22 Oct 2019, the...

October 22, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Vertiv identifies solutions to fill gaps in hospital IT infrastructure

Hospitals and health networks have spent the past several years adjusting to the introduction and proliferation of elect...

October 23, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Singapore strengthens preventive efforts for better cardiovascular health

Singapore Prevention and Cardiac Rehabilitation Symposium 2019 was conducted recently at Singapore to address the increa...

October 21, 2019 | Monday | News
ASLAN Pharmaceuticals announces closing of US$3 Million Loan Facility

ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage oncology and immunology focused Biopharma Company, on 18 Oct 2019, announce...

October 18, 2019 | Friday | News
LCPC marks decade of research and training in end-of-life care

The Lien Centre for Palliative Care (LCPC), Asia’s first and foremost institute focusing on end-of-life issues, on...

October 10, 2019 | Thursday | News
Singapore pledges to support workers' mental health

National University of Singapore (NUS) Chairman Hsieh Fu Hua is among the 19 CEOs and key leaders from both the private ...

October 18, 2019 | Friday | News
Lucence, TTSH to reduce risks of liver cancer surgery

Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) and Lucence Diagnostics are developing a next-generation decision support tool for liver c...

October 18, 2019 | Friday | News
APAC HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Awards Announced at HIMSS AsiaPac19

The Asia Pacific HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Award winners were announced on Tuesday, 8 October, at an exclusive g...

October 14, 2019 | Monday | News
plano Eyecheck promotes global solutions for myopia, children eye care

The Singapore-based health tech company, Plano Pte Ltd, has launched plano Eyecheck, an easy-to-use, patient-centred onl...

October 18, 2019 | Friday | News
Curiox Biosystems achieves commercialization, fund raising success in North Asia

ZIG Ventures Ltd (ZIG), a Singapore-based medtech investment and commercialisation company, is pleased to announce ...

October 17, 2019 | Thursday | News
Universal Robots Future-Proofs Production Processes in Southeast Asia

Universal Robots (UR), the most trusted and widely-deployed collaborative robot (cobot) manufacturer globally,...

October 15, 2019 | Tuesday | News
STA to market sarcoma drug in Australia, NZ, SE Asia

Independent pharmaceutical company Specialised Therapeutics Asia (STA), headquartered in Singapore, has signed a new lic...

October 16, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Sanofi joins Plug and Play on its Insurtech Program in Singapore

Plug and Play has announced that the consumer healthcare business unit of Sanofi has expanded its partnership and is joi...

October 15, 2019 | Tuesday | News
World’s Largest Whole Genome Sequencing Analysis completed at A*STAR, Singapore

A new genetic databank has been established containing the completed whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data of close to 5,00...

October 18, 2019 | Friday | News
Singapore to catalyse ASEAN medical diagnostics initiative

Singapore hosted the 18th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Science, Technology and Innovation (AMMSTI-18), and the 77th ASEA...

October 14, 2019 | Monday | News
Perspectum announces partnership with Precious Medical Centre

Perspectum, the leading provider of diagnostic solutions for metabolic disease and cancer, is partnering Precious Medica...

October 11, 2019 | Friday | News
NTU startup unveils robot with human-like grip

A robotics technology start-up from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) named Eur...

October 10, 2019 | Thursday | News
MedTech Innovator announces startup winners at the Forum

MedTech Innovator, the premier nonprofit accelerator in the medical technology industry, on 9th Oct 2019, announced NDR ...

October 10, 2019 | Thursday | News
MedTech Innovator Announces Finalists for $150K Asia Pacific Competition

MedTech Innovator, the premier nonprofit accelerator in the medical technology industry, on 8th Oct 2019, announced that...

October 8, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Experts rally Asia-Pacific for global malaria eradication

Asia-Pacific has seen remarkable success in its fight against malaria. The recent East Asia Summits saw the regions&rsqu...

October 9, 2019 | Wednesday | News
APACMed showcases patient centric connected technologies

At the fifth annual Asia Pacific MedTech Forum, held from 7th to 9th October in Singapore, regional medical technology a...

October 9, 2019 | Wednesday | News
29th Singapore Pharmacy Congress aims advancing pharmacy practices

The Pharmaceutical Society of Singapore (PSS) hosted the annual pharmacy congress, themed “Educate, Engage & E...

October 7, 2019 | Monday | News
SPAG releases APAC Healthcare Communications Outlook report

SPAG, Asia’s innovative integrated healthcare advocacy and public relations firm, in partnership with BioSpectrum ...

October 3, 2019 | Thursday | News
Amaris B. Clinic expands services to fitness domain

Amaris B. Clinic, a provider of Medical Aesthetic services in Singapore, has recently announced its servi...

October 1, 2019 | Tuesday | News