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
Lucence Diagnostics Singapore Lab receives CLIA certification

International precision medicine firm Lucence Diagnostics has announced that it has received the Clinical Laboratory Imp...

September 30, 2019 | Monday | News
Philips highlights importance of early detection of heart disease

Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, is putting the spotlight on early detection and prevention of heart...

September 27, 2019 | Friday | News
NTU builds chip to analyse health of immune system

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a lab-on-a-chip sys...

September 26, 2019 | Thursday | News
Proteona Oncology Challenge using ESCAPE™ Single Cell Proteogenomic Analysis

Proteona Pte. Ltd. has announced the launch of the first Proteona Oncology Challenge, co-sponsored by NovogeneAIT. All s...

September 24, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Researchers pinpoint cells, processes that lead to liver cancer

Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, have identified a specific subset of self-regenerating liver cells ...

September 24, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Wireless ultrasound and AI to auto-detect heart disease

Heart disease may soon be detected remotely,  thanks to a wearable ultrasound device incorporating an Artificial In...

September 23, 2019 | Monday | News
Dengue virus resists vaccines and therapeutics through mutations in specific protein

Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School (DukeNUS), in collaboration with the Agency for Science, Technology and Researc...

September 20, 2019 | Friday | News
NUS team develops anti-cancer drug with less toxicity

A team of National University of Singapore (NUS) pharmacists and chemists has developed a new anti-cancer drug that...

September 20, 2019 | Friday | News
SMART announces revolutionary tech in cell nanomechanics

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), has announced a revolutionary technology to study Cell Nanom...

September 19, 2019 | Thursday | News
RE:WELL REBELS launches retreats and wellness programmes

RE:WELL REBELS is launching its first retreat at Hotel Fort Canning, Singapore from 1 to 3 November. Peop...

September 19, 2019 | Thursday | News
MedTech Innovator Selects 20 Best-in-Class Startups for Inaugural Asia Pacific Showcase

MedTech Innovator, the premier global nonprofit accelerator in the medical technology industry, has announced the 20 com...

September 18, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Verita acquires award winning Timeblock

Verita Healthcare Group, a global provider of preventative, personalised healthcare and wellness clinics, has acquired a...

September 17, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Universal Robots launches Heavy-Duty payload Cobot for collaborative automation

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

September 17, 2019 | Tuesday | News
AIA promotes sleep sufficiency and quality around APAC

AIA Group Limited, unveiled an ambitious new initiative designed to help combat sleep deprivation - a critical heal...

September 17, 2019 | Tuesday | News
NTU designs molecular probe to track disease progression

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have synthesised a molecular probe that has ...

September 16, 2019 | Monday | News
Cardiac fibrosis study identifies key proteins that translate into heart disease

Using cutting-edge technologies, researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, have developed the first genome-wide...

September 16, 2019 | Monday | News
A*STAR, JTC and Science Centre Singapore organise one-north Festival 2019

The one-north festival is a celebration of research, innovation, creativity and enterprise. On 13th and 14th September 2...

September 15, 2019 | Sunday | News
Novel method developed to sequence complete genomes of infectious viruses

NUS scientists in Singapore on 12 Sep 2019, have announced the development of a more efficient method to sequence the co...

September 13, 2019 | Friday | News
NUS establishes new mentorship programme

Singapore-based undergraduates keen on research in the biomedical sciences will now have a chance to be mentored by lead...

September 13, 2019 | Friday | News
Everlife appoints Raman Gandotra as Chief Executive Officer

Everlife Holdings Pte. Ltd. (Everlife), a leading distributor and manufacturer of medical and laboratory equipment and d...

September 12, 2019 | Thursday | News
NUS makes biopsies less invasive and more informative

A team of researchers at the National University of Singapore has developed a novel technology that could sensitively an...

September 11, 2019 | Wednesday | News
ASLAN’s to present abstract on Varlitinib at ESMO Asia congress 2019

ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage oncology and immunology focused Biopharma Company, on 10 Sep 2019 announced...

September 10, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Syntellix inaugurates production site for bioabsorbable implants in Singapore

Syntellix Asia Pte. Ltd. announced the inauguration of its production site in Singapore’s Tuas Biomedical Park, in...

September 11, 2019 | Wednesday | News
National Centre for Infectious Diseases opens in Singapore

National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) has officially opened in Singapore that replaces the old Communicable Dis...

September 10, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Doctor Anywhere widens reach with new agreement

Doctor Anywhere, Singapore's tech-led health and wellness company, has signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreemen...

September 10, 2019 | Tuesday | News
NHG presents Teachers’ Day awards 2019 to healthcare educators in Singapore

The National Healthcare Group (NHG), Singapore recognised 190 healthcare educators at its annual Teachers’ Day Awa...

September 9, 2019 | Monday | News
David Mayo joins Verita Healthcare as Sales and Marketing Director

Former Ogilvy and WPP executive, David Mayo has joined Singapore based Verita Healthcare Group, a global provider of pre...

September 6, 2019 | Friday | News
Sanofi evaluates impact and prevention of influenza at ‘Options X’

Sanofi Pasteur, a world leader in influenza and paediatric vaccines, organised a symposium in Singapore on acute respira...

September 5, 2019 | Thursday | News
Duke-NUS holds conference on ageing and healthcare

Robust dialogues towards more evidence-based population ageing policies for a healthy ageing society on 4-6 Sep 2019, fe...

September 6, 2019 | Friday | News
NUS, NTU teams reveal common deficiency in genetic prediction methods

A study conducted by researchers from the NUS Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) and the Sc...

September 3, 2019 | Tuesday | News
"Quantum Leap in Implantology" MAGNEZIX Medtech devices to hit China market

On 30 August 2019, a far-reaching co-operation contract was signed between Syntellix Asia Pte. Ltd., the Singapore&...

September 2, 2019 | Monday | News
Esco Ventures announces launch of Carmine Therapeutics

Singapore based Esco Ventures is pleased to announce the launch of Carmine Therapeutics and execution of an exclusive li...

September 2, 2019 | Monday | News
Proteona and AI Singapore partner to improve cell therapies and IO treatments

Proteona Pte. Ltd., on 30 August 2019, announced its participation in AI Singapore’s 100 Experiments (100E) progra...

August 30, 2019 | Friday | News
Novena Global Lifecare becomes Taiwan's largest health screening operator

Novena Global Lifecare, one of Asia's largest integrated medical healthcare and aesthetic companies with over 250 c...

August 29, 2019 | Thursday | News
Possible treatment on the horizon for severe dengue disease

Researchers led by Duke-NUS Medical School have discovered that tryptase, an enzyme in human cells that acts like scisso...

August 20, 2019 | Tuesday | News

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