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
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