Tessa Therapeutics, Baylor College of Medicine present results for the treatment of HER2-positive solid tumors

Tessa Therapeutics, a clinical-stage cell therapy company focused on autologous and allogeneic therapies for a wide rang...

May 3, 2019 | Friday | News
New chemical probe for visualising brain immune cells

Researchers in South Korea and Singapore have, for the first time, have developed a chemical probe that enables live-ima...

May 3, 2019 | Friday | News
A*Star signs $90M deal to drive healthcare innovations

Aptorum Group Limited, Aeneas Capital Limited, and A*ccelerate Technologies Pte Ltd, the enterprise office of the Agency...

May 1, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Duke-NUS team reveals link between autism and antidepressants

An international team led by Duke-NUS Medical School has found a potential link between autistic-like behaviour in adult...

April 30, 2019 | Tuesday | News
ASLAN reports Q1 2019 financial results

ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a clinical stage oncology and immunology focused biopharmaceutical company developing novel thera...

April 29, 2019 | Monday | News
NCCS raises awareness about hereditary conditions

Jeans For Genes, the international campaign to raise awareness about hereditary conditions, has made its debut in Singap...

April 26, 2019 | Friday | News
BD launches patient safety programme PRIME in Asia

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a largest global medical technology company in the world, has launched a new patient...

April 26, 2019 | Friday | News
Pharmaceutical and Biotech sectors to drive investments in the APAC Healthcare Industry, predicts Frost & Sullivan

The higher demand for services and improved quality of care has been attracting significant global investments to the&nb...

April 25, 2019 | Thursday | News
A*Star, NEA & NCID develop diagnostic test for mosquito-borne diseases

Scientists from Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), in collaboration with the Environmenta...

April 24, 2019 | Wednesday | News
A*STAR & Duke-NUS unveils the map to design treatment for dengue and zika viruses

Scientists from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), to...

April 24, 2019 | Wednesday | News
NUS researchers find new biomarkers associated with chemobrain

Cognitive impairment associated with cancer, also known as “chemobrain”, has gained recognition as a complic...

April 24, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Biotech startup RWDC raises $22 M in A3 round

RWDC Industries Ltd, a Singapore-based biotech start-up, has announced that it has raised US$22 million i...

April 24, 2019 | Wednesday | News
NTU researchers link bronchiectasis with allergy

An international research team led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has found that patient...

April 22, 2019 | Monday | News
Tessa Therapeutics collaborates with MSD to treat Cervical Cancer

Tessa Therapeutics, a clinical-stage immunotherapy company focused on autologous and off-the-shelf, allogeneic therapies...

April 16, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Insilico opens office in Singapore to expand biz in Asia

Insilico Biotechnology AG announces the opening of a representation in Singapore to develop its business in the Asia-Pac...

April 16, 2019 | Tuesday | News
NUS provides new insights into neuronal behaviour

Dr Sajikumar Sreedharan and undergraduate student Karen Pang, PhD student Mahima Sharma, post-doctoral fellow Dr. Krishn...

April 11, 2019 | Thursday | News
New partnerships reinforce Novena Global Lifecare as medical aesthetics leader

Novena Global Lifecare, an integrated healthcare platform and one of the largest aesthetic healthcare players in the wor...

April 10, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Novena Global Healthcare makes strategic recruitment for global expansion

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

April 10, 2019 | Wednesday | News
AUM Biosciences wins APAC Biotech Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award 2019

Singapore-headquartered AUM Biosciences has been honored with the 2019 Asia-Pacific Biotech  Entrepreneurial Compan...

April 9, 2019 | Tuesday | News
George Clinical establishes new presence in Singapore

George Clinical, a global scientifically backed clinical research organization, (CRO) has expanded its footprint in ...

April 10, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Everstone to sell controlling stake in Rubicon Research

Everstone is a premier investment group focused on India and South East Asia. Everstone Group’s Singapore fund, wi...

April 8, 2019 | Monday | News
Smartfuture launches Health Kit rental service

Smartfuture has recently launched its Smart Health Kit rental service. The rental service is priced at just $100&nb...

April 8, 2019 | Monday | News
Singapore’s war on Diabetes has a new ally

A cause as big as the War on Diabetes 6 needs every help it can get - a new ally joins the fight, as Abbott announces th...

April 5, 2019 | Friday | News
A ray of hope for organ transplant patients

The holy grail of organ transplantation is getting the recipient’s immune system to accept the transplanted organ....

April 4, 2019 | Thursday | News
Duke-NUS researchers win top accolades at NMRC Awards

Duke-NUS researchers Professor Karl Tryggvason, Professor David M. Virshup and Professor Antonio Bertoletti were awarded...

April 5, 2019 | Friday | News
Singapore recalls 3 brands of Losartan medicines

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in Singapore has recalled three brands of high blood pressure medicine which contain...

April 4, 2019 | Thursday | News
Accuron MedTech rebrands to Advanced MedTech

Accuron MedTech Group, Southeast Asia's largest medical device business, has announced the change of its corporate name ...

April 1, 2019 | Monday | News
War on Cancer Asia explores the growth of patient advocacy

Held at One Farrer Hotel Singapore, the event brought together more than 150 speakers and delegates from both private an...

March 29, 2019 | Friday | News
Duke-NUS study reveals new treatment option for liver cancer

Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and Lion TCR have demonstrated that they were...

March 29, 2019 | Friday | News
Farrer Park Hospital implants world’s smallest pacemaker

Farrer Park Hospital (FPH), Singapore's newest private healthcare service provider, successfully implanted the world's s...

March 28, 2019 | Thursday | News
Duke-NUS study shows promise for heart muscle regeneration

Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, have developed an approach to regenerate heart muscle using stem cell...

March 25, 2019 | Monday | News
Hyphens Pharma inks MoU with A*STAR for Derma research

Hyphens is currently licensing sugar-based surfactant micro-emulsions technology from A*STAR’s Institute of Chemic...

March 22, 2019 | Friday | News
NUS researchers develop self-healing electronic skin

Scientists from National University of Singapore (NUS) have taken inspiration from underwater invertebrates like jellyfi...

March 22, 2019 | Friday | News
Phar-East gathers over 700 Pharma & Biotech players across Asia

On 18- 20 March 2019 after a successful 2018 debut, Phar-East once again brought together experts from Asian pharma &...

March 21, 2019 | Thursday | News
SPAG makes strategic move in SE Asia

Headquartered in Singapore, healthcare communications firm, SPAG (A Strategic Partners Group enterprise), has appointed ...

March 20, 2019 | Wednesday | News
ConnectedLife partners with Ocean Protocol to purge Parkinson's Disease

ConnectedLife and Ocean Protocol announce their partnership to advance Parkinson's Disease (PD) diagnosis and treatment ...

March 20, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Alipay-NUS Enterprise Social Innovation Challenge picks top 3 finalists

Three finalists in Singapore were announced today in the Alipay-NUS Enterprise Social Innovation Challenge (“Chall...

March 15, 2019 | Friday | News
CXA Group raises $25M for APAC expansion

CXA Group, Asia's one-stop, predictive and data intelligence platform for better health, wealth and wellness choices, ha...

March 14, 2019 | Thursday | News
Sleep deprived Singaporeans may prone to serious health issues: Survey

Singaporeans are among the world’s worst sleepers, getting just 6.3 hours of sleep on the weekdays and 6.7 on the ...

March 14, 2019 | Thursday | Analysis
Lucence Diagnostics to develop AI tools for treating liver cancer

Lucence Diagnostics, a genomic medicine company focused on personalizing cancer care, has announced a new project to dev...

March 12, 2019 | Tuesday | News
ASLAN signs news commercialisation agreement with BioGenetics

ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for glo...

March 11, 2019 | Monday | News
Advent Access to join Stanford StartX community

Advent Access (Advent), one of Singapore’s most innovative medtech companies, has announced that it has been selec...

March 12, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Singaporeans, Thais suffer from MGD symptoms regularly unaware of risk

A new survey conducted by Johnson & Johnson Vision has revealed that a majority of Singaporeans (70%) and Thais (77%...

March 7, 2019 | Thursday | News
Duke-NUS team reveals unknown mechanisms of zika infection

Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School and their colleagues have identified a surprising interaction between dengue and ...

March 5, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Only 37% of Women receive critical cancer tests, finds a survey

The substantial majority of women in Singapore are failing to undertake critical cancer screening tests, according to a ...

March 5, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Smartfuture introduces Teleconsultation and Marketplace

Smartfuture has recently announced the latest features to the Medcheck App - Teleconsultation and Marketplace. With thes...

March 4, 2019 | Monday | News
Omron Healthcare, iAPPS to provide health management serivces

OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd. and iAPPS Pte. Ltd. have announced the establishment of HeartVoice Pte. Ltd., a joint venture...

March 1, 2019 | Friday | News
Tessa Therapeutics names Jeffrey H. Buchalter to Board of Directors

Tessa Therapeutics, a clinical-stage immunotherapy company focused on autologous and off-the-shelf, allogeneic therapies...

March 1, 2019 | Friday | News
SCS, NCCS join hands to lead the fight against cancer

Singapore Cancer Society (SCS) and the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) have inked a partnership that will provid...

February 27, 2019 | Wednesday | News
ASLAN pharma to partner with Biogenetics

ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for glo...

February 27, 2019 | Wednesday | News
SUSS signs two MOUs to help the elderly and their caregivers

The Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) to collab...

February 25, 2019 | Monday | News
MSIWF puts focus on improving elderly welfare

The spotlight was cast on the elderly and their caregivers as the Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Welfare Foundation (“M...

February 22, 2019 | Friday | News
Doctor Anywhere unveils in-app marketplace

Doctor Anywhere, a tech-led healthcare company, has launched Marketplace, an in-app e-commerce platform specially curate...

February 21, 2019 | Thursday | News
Medix CEO Applauds Government’s ‘Merdeka Package’

Sigal Atzmon, CEO of global medical case management company Medix, applauded the government's ‘Merdeka Generation ...

February 20, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Duke-NUS researchers link sleep schedule with cognition, glucose levels

Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore have demonstrated for the first time that different sleep schedules wi...

February 20, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Dr James Allison & Dr Padmanee Sharma join Hummingbird Bioscience

Hummingbird Bioscience, a systems-biology enabled biotech company focused on the discovery and development of cancer the...

February 19, 2019 | Tuesday | News
New breast cancer drug for women in Singapore

A NEW breast cancer drug shown to significantly reduce the risk of cancer recurrence is being made available to women in...

February 19, 2019 | Tuesday | News
NCCS , Lucence predict immunotherapy response for kidney cancer

Immunotherapy drugs such as PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors represent the front-line treatment for kidney cancer. But immuno...

February 18, 2019 | Monday | News
Singapore researchers reveal role of anti-parasitic drug in treating cancer

Scientists from A*STAR’s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) have discovered that niclosamide, an FDA-a...

February 15, 2019 | Friday | News
Temasek invests Rs 270 Cr in Dr Agarwal Group

Indian Eye hospital, Dr. Agarwal’s Healthcare Ltd. (DAHCL) has raised Rs. 270 crore investment from Temasek, a glo...

February 15, 2019 | Friday | News
Singapore Health Sciences Authority approves Biktarvy to treat HIV-1

Gilead Sciences, Inc. has announced that the Singapore Health Sciences Authority has approved Biktarvy® (bictegravir...

February 15, 2019 | Friday | News
Novartis to unite with tech startups to bring healthcare transformation

Novartis is on a mission to transform healthcare in Asia by partnering with the health tech ecosystem.  ...

February 14, 2019 | Thursday | News
Kulicke & Soffa inks research collaboration with NUS

Kulicke & Soffa Industries has announced that it has engaged the Institute of Operations Research and Analytics (IOR...

February 13, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Singapore ranks 10th on 2019 U.S. Chamber International IP Index

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) has released its seventh annual Internationa...

February 8, 2019 | Friday | News
Singapore to expand healthcare professional conversion programmes

The Ministry of Health (MOH) and Workforce Singapore (WSG) are expanding the Healthcare Professional Conversion Programm...

February 11, 2019 | Monday | News
Duke-NUS researchers reveal novel immune study on dengue

Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School have demonstrated for the first time a physical interaction between two types of ...

February 8, 2019 | Friday | News
Sienna signs distribution partner in Singapore

Australia based diagnostic company Sienna has appointed Mediwell as the Company’s non-exclusive distribution partn...

February 5, 2019 | Tuesday | News
NUS researchers study nanoparticles’ role in cancer metastasis

Nanoparticles can be found in processed food (e.g. food additives), consumer products (e.g. sunscreen) and even in medic...

February 4, 2019 | Monday | News
Inspiring Interactions at the 2019 Global Young Scientists Summit

Singapore hosted the seventh edition of Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) recently. The annual event centres around ...

February 2, 2019 | Saturday | News
APACMed appoints Harjit Gill as new CEO

The Asia Pacific Medical Technology Association has announced the appointment of its new Chief Executive Officer, Harjit...

February 1, 2019 | Friday | News
Fighting the War on Myopia

Our ability to see is the most precious of all our senses. Our sight accounts for 80 per cent of what we learn and remem...

February 1, 2019 | Friday | Opinion
Industry experts in Singapore share insights on Telehealth

In digitalising the nation, the government has highlighted the need for technologies to improve access, affordability an...

February 1, 2019 | Friday | News
Accuron Technologies spins out medtech business

Accuron Technologies Limited announced that it will spin out its MedTech business. The Accuron MedTech Group (Accuron Me...

January 31, 2019 | Thursday | News
ASLAN Pharma reveals strategies of clinical development programs

ASLAN Pharmaceuticals announced a strategic corporate restructuring to focus its resources on its lead clinical programs...

January 30, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Lucence Diagnostics opens new HQ and Lab in Singapore

Lucence Diagnostics has recently announced the opening of its new headquarters and molecular diagnostics laboratory in S...

January 30, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Esco Aster, A* Star's to advance BioProcessing technologies for cell and gene therapies

Esco Aster, a contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) of Esco Group, has announced the official openi...

January 30, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Strides to acquire remaining stake in Vivimed

Strides Pharma Science Limited has announced that the Board of Directors of Strides and its step down subsidiary Strides...

January 30, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Global BioLife product shows efficacy against TB

Singapore Exchange-listed Singapore eDevelopment Limited recently announced that its U.S. biomedical subsidiary, Global ...

January 28, 2019 | Monday | News
Novel device by NUS aids in muscle recovery

A team of NUS researchers has developed a novel medical device capable of harnessing a magnetic field to make muscle reh...

January 24, 2019 | Thursday | News
Vifor Pharma updates PIVOTAL trial results

No difference in the infection rate Further to the announcement on 29 October 2018, Vifor Pharma provides an update to t...

January 24, 2019 | Thursday | News
ASLAN annouces publication of new pre-clinical data

ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company targeting cancers that are both highly prevalent in As...

January 24, 2019 | Thursday | News
Diaceutics opens Asian hub to capitalize on growing market

Diaceutics, the diagnostics data analytics and implementation services company,  announced that it is opening a new...

January 23, 2019 | Wednesday | News
iGene Lab gets CAP accreditation for NIPT

iGene Laboratory, a leading Singapore molecular diagnostics company for women's and reproductive health is pleased to an...

January 22, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Branched-Chain amino acids can regulate progression of Cancer: Research

Researchers at A*STAR's Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (SBIC) have discovered that branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) i...

January 21, 2019 | Monday | News
BookDoc, Special Olympics Apac to boost intellectual disabled lifestyle

BookDoc signed a memorandum of understanding with Special Olympics Asia Pacific. The partnership aims to improve the hea...

January 21, 2019 | Monday | News
MIMS, Ashfield Healthcare Communications announce global alliance

MIMS, Asia's largest multi-channel provider of drug information, medical communications, events management and marketing...

January 21, 2019 | Monday | News
RHT Health completes disposal of entire asset portfolio

The Trustee-Manager of RHT Health Trust is pleased to announce that the Disposal was completed recently. Following Compl...

January 17, 2019 | Thursday | News
Nobel Prize winner to address gathering at GYSS 2019

The Global Young Scientists Summit (2019) is an annual event, in its 7th year. Modeled off the Lindau meetings, the GYSS...

January 16, 2019 | Wednesday | News
NTU, Max Planck to develop innovative healthcare solutions

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Germany’s Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Int...

January 15, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Mundipharma expands Osteoarthritis gene therapy to more APAC countries

Mundipharma has acquired the exclusive rights for Invossa-K in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, ...

January 14, 2019 | Monday | News
BD opens advanced molding center in Asia

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, marked its 30th anniversary o...

January 11, 2019 | Friday | News
AWAK Tech receives Breakthrough Device Designation by USFDA

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

January 9, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Older adults care about strangers’ welfare in financial decision-making: NUS study

Singapore – A recent study by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) found that when it ...

December 31, 2018 | Monday | News
Dr. George W. Sledge to join the board of Tessa

Tessa Therapeutics, a clinical-stage immunotherapy company focused on autologous and off-the-shelf, allogeneic therapies...

December 21, 2018 | Friday | News
Strides gets USFDA nod for Lidocaine Ointment

Strides Pharma Science Limited (Strides) has announced that it step down wholly owned subsidiary, Strides Pharma Global ...

December 19, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Weight change in middle-aged and elderly Singaporean Chinese linked to increased mortality risk

Singapore – Both moderate-to-large weight gain and weight loss, defined as a change of 10% or more in weight, amon...

December 18, 2018 | Tuesday | News
“New innovations create meaningful barriers for competition”: Julie Tay

Digital Orthodontics as a tool has the potential to replace the conventional methods in the future, because of its many ...

December 17, 2018 | Monday | Opinion
Cerveau announces Neuro PET imaging agent test in Singapore

Cerveau Technologies Inc., a partnership between Enigma Biomedical Group, Inc. and Sinotau Pharmaceutical Group, has ann...

December 17, 2018 | Monday | News
Prestige, Cipla unite to sell cancer biosimilar HD201

Prestige BioPharma (“Prestige”) has reached a licensing agreement with Cipla Limited (“Cipla&rdqu...

December 14, 2018 | Friday | News
NUS SINAPSE director elected as Fellow of prestigious NAI

Singapore– Professor Dean Ho, Director of the Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology (SINAPSE) at the National Un...

December 12, 2018 | Wednesday | News

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