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
Inex Innovate offers precision healthcare to Asian women

Singapore molecular diagnostics groups INEX Innovations Exchange Pte. Ltd. (INEX) and Nova Satra Dx Pte. Ltd. (Nova Satr...

August 28, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Singapore General Hospital unveils upgraded burn centre

The upgraded Singapore General Hospital (SGH) Burn Centre was unveiled recently at the opening ceremony of the 12th Asia...

August 27, 2019 | Tuesday | News
“We have 30 major launches planned this year”

Ong Ai Hua, Company Group Chairman (CGC) of Janssen Asia Pacific, began her career at Johnson & Johnson 28 years ago...

August 26, 2019 | Monday | Opinion
NTU scientists advance organ-on-chip technology

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the US and Nanyang Technological University (NTU)&nb...

August 26, 2019 | Monday | News
Fitbit collaborates with Singapore’s Health Promotion Board

Fitbit has announced that it will be collaborating with Singapore’s Health Promotion Board (HPB) on a healthy...

August 26, 2019 | Monday | News
NTU grows mini kidneys in lab to study potential therapies

An international team of researchers led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has grown &lsquo...

August 21, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Singapore National Eye Centre opens new facility

Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) has opened a new centre to tackle myopia. The launch was attended by Dr Lam Pin Min...

August 20, 2019 | Tuesday | News
NUS, Agilent and NUH launch translational R&D hub to boost clinical diagnostics

The National University of Singapore (NUS), Agilent Technologies, a global leader in life sciences, diagnostics, and app...

August 19, 2019 | Monday | News
Xylonix, Biogemex to co-develop predictive cancer immunotherapy

Xylonix, Singapore based immuno-oncology biotech company has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understan...

August 16, 2019 | Friday | News
ISMRM, A*STAR hold workshop on MRI of Obesity & Metabolic Disorders

The ISMRM workshop on MRI of obesity and metabolic disorder was held from 21st to 24th July 2019, at Biopolis, Singapore...

August 14, 2019 | Wednesday | News
“Home-grown companies are building up highly promising research pipelines”

Asia is the most populous continent, accounting for 60 per cent of the worlds’ population. Market access barriers ...

August 13, 2019 | Tuesday | Opinion
PainChek signs landmark agreement with Allium Healthcare

PainChek® continues to rapidly advance its international expansion strategy with receipt of a key Asian reg...

August 9, 2019 | Friday | News
Cancer Research UK collaborates with Hummingbird Bioscience

Cancer Research UK, the world's leading cancer charity, and Hummingbird Bioscience, an innovative systems-biology enable...

August 9, 2019 | Friday | News
HistoIndex and ILBS Launch Centre of Excellence in India

In a cross border collaboration, HistoIndex and the Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences (ILBS) ...

August 7, 2019 | Wednesday | News
EVERSANA expands Asia Pacific commercial business

EVERSANA™, the leading independent provider of global commercial services to the life science industry has announc...

August 7, 2019 | Wednesday | News
DocDoc announces institutional capital raise of $13M

Singapore based DocDoc Pte. Ltd., the world's first patient intelligence company, has announced the close of an institut...

August 7, 2019 | Wednesday | News
NeoGenomics opens pharma services laboratory in Singapore

NeoGenomics, Inc., a leading provider of cancer-focused genetics testing services, and Pharmaceutical Product Developmen...

August 6, 2019 | Tuesday | News
NTU, Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital launch exchange programme

Students pursuing the double degree programme in biomedical sciences and Chinese medicine at Nanyang Technological Unive...

August 5, 2019 | Monday | News
International experts respond to critical state of SSI in APAC

Ethicon, part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, brought together a consortium of international exp...

August 5, 2019 | Monday | News
Biosyngen Group signs contract of Dalian Sino-Singapore Biotech Hub

At the invitation of Dalian Municipal People's Government, Mr. Frank Wang, Chairman of Biosyngen Group and Dr. ...

August 2, 2019 | Friday | News
Singapore researchers reveal breakthrough approach to tackle antibiotic resistance

 A study led by scientists from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Genome Institute o...

August 1, 2019 | Thursday | News
NUS Medicine researcher wins Gabbay award for CAR-T Immunotherapy

NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, on 31 July 2019, announced its international award for successful ground-breaking C...

August 1, 2019 | Thursday | News
SPAG to release ‘Healthcare Communications Outlook Report’

SPAG (www.spag.asia), Asia’s most innovative integrated healthcare advocacy and public relations firm, on 29 ...

July 31, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Equidius launches healthcare, wellness subscription program

Equidius Services, established in 2017 by a consortium of healthcare and insurance experts, has announced the launc...

July 31, 2019 | Wednesday | News
HealthySG Taskforce charts healthier path for all

The HealthySG Taskforce, chaired by Mr Amrin Amin, Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry...

July 29, 2019 | Monday | News
Novartis, Mundipharma to enhance access of ophthalmology drugs

International healthcare organizations, Novartis and Mundipharma, have signed a landmark agreement for the marketing, sa...

July 26, 2019 | Friday | News
Ping An introduces doctor's AI assistant to Singapore

Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. has announced that Ping An Smart Healthcare (PASH) has introd...

July 25, 2019 | Thursday | News
Leben Care receives funding from IP Ventures

Singapore-based Leben Care has raised angel funding from IP Ventures to fight avoidable blindness. The company provides ...

July 24, 2019 | Wednesday | News
NUS scientists develop artificial nervous system

Robots and prosthetic devices may soon have a sense of touch equivalent to, or better than, the human skin with the Asyn...

July 22, 2019 | Monday | News
AUM Biosciences expands pipeline with new global license agreement

AUM Biosciences (AUM), an award-winning company focused on the development of innovative and affordable oncology medicin...

July 19, 2019 | Friday | News
ESC provides Asian doctors with latest Cardiovascular Science approach

The European Society of Cardiology (ESC), the world’s largest organisation of healthcare professionals dedicated t...

July 19, 2019 | Friday | News
CXA Group sets up new tech hub

CXA Group, Asia's one-stop, AI driven platform for better health, wealth and wellness choices, has announced t...

July 18, 2019 | Thursday | News
NUS invents wearable health monitoring device with wireless connectivity

Over the past decade, a major trend in electronics has been the development of sensors, displays and smart devices which...

July 17, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Sengenics joins hands with FNIH Biomarkers Consortium

Sengenics, the functional proteomics company based in Singapore, Malaysia and the UK, has announced that it has joined t...

July 17, 2019 | Wednesday | News
SMART launches new research group to boost cell therapies R&D

Cell therapies, where cellular material is injected, grafted or implanted into a patient to treat a range of illnesses a...

July 16, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Novotech partners with Skin Research Institute of Singapore

Novotech, the award-winning Asia-Pacific CRO, with 23 years of experience in the region, has further strengthened its pr...

July 16, 2019 | Tuesday | News
NTU team develops probes to detect acute kidney failure early

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a type of imaging probe that ...

July 15, 2019 | Monday | News
Duke-NUS researchers’ link ageing with changes in brain networks related to cognition

Functional regions within the brain become less distinct and interconnected in the elderly over time, especially in thos...

July 13, 2019 | Saturday | News
Hummingbird Bioscience Closes Extended Series A Financing To Advance Clinical Pipeline

Hummingbird Bioscience, a Singapore founded Biotech Company focused on the discovery and development of novel ...

July 15, 2019 | Monday | News
Novena Global Lifecare to expand NOVU Aesthetics and Xingkeduo brands in China and beyond

Novena Global Lifecare, one of the world's largest integrated medical healthcare and aesthetic companies with over 100 c...

July 12, 2019 | Friday | News
Singapore’s NUS found an innovative way to harvest clean water from humid air

Singapore's NUS researchers found an innovative way to harvest water from the humid air above water surfaces such as res...

July 12, 2019 | Friday | News
Healthcare Startup One BioMed closes $5M series A funding round

One BioMed Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based medical diagnostics company has closed a US$5 million Series A fina...

July 12, 2019 | Friday | News
Rockwell Automation launches Singapore’s first fully integrated CSEC

Rockwell Automation, the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information solutions, on ...

July 10, 2019 | Wednesday | News
NUS opens new centre for oral health

NUS Dentistry students no longer have to shuttle between lecture theatres at their faculty for lessons and the dent...

July 10, 2019 | Wednesday | News
OCD to Examine Labs and Health Care transformation by data and digitization

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, a global leader of in vitro diagnostics, will host two regional conferences for Asian health...

July 10, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Asia HealthTech momentum continues unabated closing H1 2019 at $2.5B

Galen Growth Asia, the leading exclusive HealthTech research, analytics and advisory firm in Asia Pac (Asia) serving For...

July 9, 2019 | Tuesday | News
GSK opens new pharma manufacturing facilities with S$130M investment

GSK on 5 July 2019, opens new state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Singapore following an S$130m investment. The...

July 8, 2019 | Monday | News
NTU partners with WHO to shape future of digital health

  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) is poised to shape the future of digital health and ...

July 5, 2019 | Friday | News
Latest technologies to transform healthcare

A new consortium led by the Institute for Health Innovation and Technology (iHealthtech) at NUS will tap on the latest s...

July 4, 2019 | Thursday | News
Agenda for the 3rd Annual Big Data & AI Leaders Summit Singapore 2019 announced

Forward Leading, on 4 July 2019, has announced agenda for the Big Data & AI Leaders’ Summit Singapore 201...

July 3, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Advent Access receives CE Mark for av-Guardian Vascular Access System

Singapore based medtech startup Advent Access, on 3 July 2019, announced receipt of the CE Mark certificate for its awar...

July 3, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Potential treatment strategies for human cancer uncovered in bats

Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore have uncovered a potential mechanism behind cancer suppression in ba...

July 2, 2019 | Tuesday | News
A*STAR's SIgN receives SIS grant to enhance Immunomonitoring platform

A*STAR, Singapore, on 1 July 2019, announced that the National Research Foundation (NRF) has awarded Singapore Immunolog...

July 2, 2019 | Tuesday | News
NUS SynCTI cofounds Global BioFoundry Alliance

NUS Synthetic Biology for Clinical & Technological Innovation (NUS SynCTI) is a focal research programme at the...

July 1, 2019 | Monday | News
AstraZeneca launches 'Cancer Can Give' movement

In celebration of National Cancer Survivors Day, AstraZeneca, a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company, on 27 Jun...

June 27, 2019 | Thursday | News
Experimental Drug Development Centre (EDDC) opens in Singapore

The Singapore’s drug development efforts have been given additional momentum with the introduction of Experimental...

June 26, 2019 | Wednesday | News
NUS scientists design blood test to detect Alzheimer's

Doctors may one day be able to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common cause of severe dementia, and mo...

June 26, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Thunes Appoints New Chief Financial Officer

Thunes (previously TransferTo), a B2B global payments platform for emerging markets, on 25 June 2019, announced KB ...

June 25, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Singapore HSA approves Vosevi to treat Chronic Hepatitis C Virus

Gilead Sciences, Inc., on 24 June 2019, announced that the Singapore Health Sciences Authority (HAS) has approved Vosevi...

June 25, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Prestige Biopharma reports Ph III results for Tuznue

Prestige BioPharma has announced positive top-line results from a Phase III global clinical trial (Troika) evaluati...

June 24, 2019 | Monday | News
Novena Global Lifecare to expand Asia footprint

Novena Global Lifecare, an integrated healthcare platform in over 250 clinics and sales locations and one of the largest...

June 24, 2019 | Monday | News
SingHealth receives $40M for further medical research

SingHealth,  the largest public healthcare cluster in Singapore, has received a $40 million gift from Ngee Ann...

June 21, 2019 | Friday | News
Dormant Neural Stem Cells in fruit flies activate to generate new brain cells

A new research study by Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, on 18 June 2019, describes the process of activation and gen...

June 19, 2019 | Wednesday | News
NTU researchers reveal inconsistency in eczema apps management

A third (34 per cent) of eczema management mobile applications provide information that does not agree with internationa...

June 18, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Zuellig Pharma acquires health tech startup Klinify

Zuellig Pharma has acquired Singapore-based Healthtech start-up Klinify, to support the development of technology that e...

June 17, 2019 | Monday | News
Tessa Therapeutics, CSGKC form landmark $120 M Joint Venture

Tessa Therapeutics (Tessa), a clinical-stage cell therapy company focused on the development of autologous and allogenei...

June 14, 2019 | Friday | News
FedEx Express Launches Industry-Leading Cold Chain Shipping Solution in Asia Pacific

FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. and the world's largest express transportation company, on 10 June 2019, has ...

June 11, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Proteona launches novel assay for CART cell characterization

Singapore based Proteona Pte. Ltd., on 10 June 2019, announced the launch of its latest ESCAPE™ proteogenomics ass...

June 13, 2019 | Thursday | News
TauRx gets recognition as a Technology Innovation Leader

Singapore headquartered TauRx, a leader in neurodegenerative disease research, received the Frost & Sullivan's 2019 ...

June 11, 2019 | Tuesday | News
NUS researchers uncover promising cancer target for liposarcoma

A study conducted by a team of researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the Nationa...

June 7, 2019 | Friday | News
"We have an active M&A pipeline to accelerate growth"

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, first established its presence in Sing...

June 6, 2019 | Thursday | Opinion
NTU team explore binding secrets of superglue protein

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have pinpointed how a special class of plant...

June 6, 2019 | Thursday | News
Genecare, Jupiter Chain to release secure genetic profiling platform

Genetics testing is the core of preventive healthcare. Clients must first understand their genetic makeup to lower the r...

June 4, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Aslan Pharmaceuticals amends license agreement with CSL

ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage oncology and immunology focused Biopharma Company, announced that it has amended...

June 3, 2019 | Monday | News
Leader in organic functional materials receives recognition

Professor Liu Bin, Head of NUS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been awarded the 2019 American Chemical S...

May 30, 2019 | Thursday | News
Alliance Healthcare Group Limited Draws Positive Response from Investors

Alliance Healthcare Group Limited (“Alliance Healthcare”, and together with its subsidiaries, the “Gro...

May 30, 2019 | Thursday | News
Empowering Asia’s HealthTech Innovators of Tomorrow

Singapore Biodesign organised a special investor forum on 30 May 2019 in Singapore, featuring heavyweight investors...

May 31, 2019 | Friday | News
Signalling protein may unleash the potential of drug-based therapies to treat hyperparathyroidism

Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore have discovered “Sema3d”, a signalling protein that appear...

May 28, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Vivant launches ‘Nyra’ app on World Menstrual Hygiene Day

Vivant, the digital health technology start-up has announced the launch of ‘Nyra’, a simple mobile applicati...

May 28, 2019 | Tuesday | News
EMA accepts Prestige Biopharma's MAA for review

Prestige BioPharma has announced that European Medicines Agency (EMA) has validated and accepted for review the Mar...

May 28, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Stroke Support Station opens second stroke wellness centre

Stroke is the leading cause of adult disability and largest cause of long-term physical disability. In Singapore, there ...

May 29, 2019 | Wednesday | News
BP Batam Hospital, dClinic set up Healthcare Blockchain solution

Batam and dClinic partners to lead Healthcare Blockchain technology by bringing together a significant number of gl...

May 28, 2019 | Tuesday | News
A Nutrition Pathway to Stamp out the Start of Cancer

In a landmark study, scientists at the Agency of Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Genome Institute of S...

May 27, 2019 | Monday | News
Calecim to expand skin care products in APAC region

CALECIM® Cosmeceuticals (CALECIM®), a wholly owned subsidiary of biotechnology company CellResearch Corporation ...

May 28, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Translational research led by Singapore scientists uncovers new treatment for fatty liver disease

A team of researchers at Singapore that deactivating a specific protein − interleukin 11 (IL11) – with drugs...

May 24, 2019 | Friday | News
Sealed Air opens temperature assurance lab in Singapore

Sealed Air Corporation announced the opening of a temperature assurance lab in Singapore on May 22, 2019, to support gro...

May 23, 2019 | Thursday | News
Sealed Air Opens Singapore Lab to Provide Thermal Package Design and Testing to the Region’s Life Sciences

Sealed Air Corporation announced the opening of a temperature assurance lab in Singapore on May 22, 2019, to support gro...

May 22, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Farrer Park Hospital introduces robotic surgery for hip, knee replacement

Farrer Park Hospital Singapore is the only private hospital in Singapore that implements Makoplasty Robotic-Ar...

May 20, 2019 | Monday | News
Varian partners with Proton Therapy

Varian announced its partnership with Proton Therapy Pte., Ltd, the completion of the cyclotron installation for the Var...

May 14, 2019 | Tuesday | News
ASLAN signs agreement with Korean Gastric Cancer group

ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a Singapore based clinical-stage oncology and immunology focused biopharma company, has signed an...

May 13, 2019 | Monday | News
MOH confirms imported case of MonkeyPox in Singapore

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed one imported case of monkeypox infection in Singapore. The patient is a 38-ye...

May 10, 2019 | Friday | News
PerkinElmer opens new manufacturing facility in Singapore

  PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced the opening of a...

May 10, 2019 | Friday | News
Evolve BioSystems launches Evivo in Hong Kong, Singapore

Evolve BioSystems, makers of Evivo® baby probiotic, announced that its flagship consumer product Evivo is ...

May 7, 2019 | Tuesday | News
NCCS reveals potential of a new genomic test in diagnosing prostate cancer

A novel study by the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) and Canada’s Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, has fou...

May 7, 2019 | Tuesday | News

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