Amgen to acquire rights of three drugs from GSK

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical company, Amgen, has plans to reacquire all of its remaining rights from GSK on Prolia (...

December 16, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Sir David Lane to chair advisory board of Aslan Pharma

Singapore: Aslan Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company focused on the development of immunotherapies and targeted agents fo...

January 29, 2016 | Friday | News
Scientists use tiniest human protein to heal heart

Singapore: Scientists at A*Star's Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) and Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IM...

December 9, 2013 | Monday | News
Asia's lung cancer burden

Lung cancer occurs in two types, small cell lung cancer and the more prevalent non-small scale lung cancer. According to...

April 8, 2016 | Friday | Analysis
Mundipharma announces sales and distribution collaboration of ISODINE brand

Singapore: Mundipharma and Shionogi has announced a new exclusive sales collaboration contract for its ISODINE brand in ...

December 9, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Medtronic opens new APAC HQ in Singapore

Singapore: Global medical technology company, Medtronic, has opened a new Asia Pacific regional headquarters in Singapor...

May 31, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Circadian's new diagnosis tech to be launched in July

Singapore: A novel technology for aiding the diagnosis of Cancers of Unknown Primary (CUP), by Circadian Technologies, w...

June 28, 2012 | Thursday | News
Singapore rides high on biomedical research

Singapore, a cosmopolitan city state that offers world-class living standards and attracts talent from all over the glob...

May 22, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Pfizer testing unit to move to Singapore

Pfizer's 20-person surveillance testing group located in Groton will be relocating to Singapore in 2013. The surveillanc...

June 15, 2012 | Friday | News
Mundipharma's Raman Singh listed among top five in global Power List

Singapore: Mr Raman Singh, president, Mundipharma Asia Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, has been rank...

June 16, 2016 | Thursday | News
Philips, Singapore to invest in digital health

Singapore: Royal Philips and EDBI, the corporate investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board, have signed...

January 13, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Aussie anesthetic firm gets patent from 7 nations

Singapore: Australia-based Drawbridge Pharmaceuticals has been granted patent for its anesthetic formulation Phaxan in t...

October 29, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Inex iGeneScreen Prenatal Test hits Australia

Singapore: Singapore's Inex Innovations Exchange, a fetal health diagnostics company, signed a distribution agreement fo...

February 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Singapore, Korea partner to boost innovation in MedTech

Singapore: Singapore-Stanford Biodesign (SSB) has inked a three-year pact with Korea's Dongguk University (DU) to train ...

May 4, 2015 | Monday | News
ImaginAb, Singapore Radiopharmaceuticals sign agreement

Singapore: ImaginAb, a developer of in vivo molecular imaging agents based on its proprietary antibody fragment platform...

August 8, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Singapore, China universities strengthen ties

To mark the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Singapore and the People's Republic of China (PRC), three u...

December 17, 2015 | Thursday | News
A*Star scientists find growth behaviour of brain cancer cells

Singapore: Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of A*STAR have demonstrated that the ...

January 12, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Biobot Surgical builds on robotics

To overcome the limitations of minimally-invasive surgery and to enhance the capabilities of surgeons, late Prof Ng Wan ...

April 11, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
Singapore's Fortis Surgical Hospital is now Concord Medical Services

Singapore: Concord Medical Services, China based hospital management solution provider, has received Singapore's approva...

October 16, 2015 | Friday | News
Mesoblast speeds Singapore manufacturing plans

Singapore: With Mesoblast aiming to secure fast-track approval for its allogenic stem cell product Prochymal in acute gr...

June 17, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Shimadzu Global Pharma Summit gathers veterans to share regulatory challenges

Singapore: 5th Shimadzu Global Pharma Summit 2015, the flagship event of Shimadzu that provides a platform for the globa...

January 7, 2016 | Thursday | News
Singapore University investing in medical research

Singapore: In a bid to increase innovation in dental and bio-medical engineering, the National Dental Centre Singapore (...

May 21, 2014 | Wednesday | News
What is needed for a successful trial supply management service in APAC?

Singapore: Today there is true growth potential in the Asian clinical trials market. Read any market report and this is ...

September 16, 2015 | Wednesday | Opinion
Orient launches prostate cancer drug in SE Asia

Singapore: Orient EuroPharma, a specialty pharmaceutical company focused in marketing and commercialization has partnere...

May 27, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Singapore's mobile app to guide insulin dosage

Singapore: Many patients with type 2 diabetes who are new to insulin therapy face the daily challenge of not knowing how...

October 3, 2013 | Thursday | News
WHO launches Global Hepatitis Network in Singapore

Singapore: The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched Global Hepatitis Network in Singapore to build capacity and...

June 10, 2013 | Monday | News
A*STAR chief scientist wins cancer research prize

Singapore: A*STAR Chief Scientist Professor Sir David Lane has been named the winner of this year's Cancer Research UK L...

July 18, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
Singapore is world's third most innovative country in biotech

Boston: Singapore has emerged as the world's 3rd most biotech innovative country in the annual ranking of countries acco...

June 21, 2012 | Thursday | News
"Must have access to credible information"

How can technology be instrumental and more effective in empowering patients to manage diseases? Technology which can p...

December 9, 2015 | Wednesday | Influencers
Sartorius Stedim enhances single-use product portfolio

Singapore: Biotechnology supplier company, Sartorius Stedim Biotech, has launched new range of single-use bags, under it...

June 3, 2014 | Tuesday | News
A*Star man becomes first non-EU scientist to win EMBO YIP award

Singapore: Dr Bruno Reversade from A*STAR's Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) is the first scientist, based outside Eu...

November 19, 2012 | Monday | News
Singapore develops animal-free screening platform to predict nephrotoxicity

Singapore: Researchers from Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have developed an animal-fr...

October 9, 2015 | Friday | News
Future of Healthcare in Asia

Healthcare industry is in a period of evolution accelerated by changing demographics and market forces propelled by insu...

May 5, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
Alcon invests $159 mn in eye drug plant in Singapore

Singapore: Alcon, global eye care firm, has launched an ophthalmic pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Singapore to...

April 15, 2014 | Tuesday | News
F&S: Private hospital sector to grow in APAC

Singapore: About 180 million new hospital beds will be needed over the next decade to meet the rising healthcare demand ...

February 7, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Health Sciences Authority signs MoU to promote public health

Singapore: Singapore's Health Sciences Authority has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Univer...

October 7, 2012 | Sunday | Regulatory
A*Star peptides help understand Alzheimer's, cancer

Singapore: A new class of ultrasmall peptides developed by A*Star's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN)...

April 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Mundipharma buys Merck's ophthalmology business

Singapore: Mundipharma Ophthalmology Products has announced an agreement with MSD, known as Merck in the United States a...

December 3, 2015 | Thursday | News
IBM, A*Star co-develop anti-microbial hydrogel

Singapore: Researchers from A*Star's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) and IBM have unveiled first-e...

January 24, 2013 | Thursday | News
Pfizer launches targeted therapy for lung cancer in Singapore

Singapore: Pfizer has launched Xalkori, a targeted therapy for ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), in Singa...

August 4, 2015 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Singapore market forecast

Singapore: Over the past 15 years, Singapore has developed into a renowned bioscience cluster through top-down investmen...

January 19, 2016 | Tuesday | Opinion
HSA nod for Aslan rheumatoid arthritis drug

Singapore: Aslan Pharmaceuticals received approval by the Singapore Health Sciences Authority (HSA) for its Clinical Tri...

April 23, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Covance recieves Frost and Sullivan Award

Singapore: Covance, a global drug development company, has recieved the 2014 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific CRO Growt...

October 17, 2014 | Friday | News
Challenge No 5: Talent trouble

Lack of trained and skilled workforce, identifying a market-savvy work force and retaining the right people on key posit...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
BI shows afatinib to be effective in advanced squamous cell carcinoma of lung

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim has achieved positive results from the trial of afatinib in comparison to erlotinib in p...

June 11, 2015 | Thursday | News
BMS reacquires rights to oncology drug from Asia Partner

Singapore: ASLAN Pharmaceuticals (ASLAN), a biotech company focused on the development of immunotherapies and targeted a...

August 12, 2016 | Friday | News
ICON appoints APAC and Japan VPs

Singapore: ICON, a global provider of drug development solutions and services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and m...

November 3, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Personalized medicine market to reach $149 bn by 2020

Singapore: Personalized medicine market will be worth over USD149 billion by 2020, growing at a CAGR of 8.74 percent, an...

February 10, 2016 | Wednesday | Analysis
Singapore cancer genome scientists win President's Science Award

Singapore: A team comprising Professor Patrick Tan from Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS) and A*STAR's Genome ...

September 17, 2015 | Thursday | News
A*STAR co-develops diagnostic tool for brain injury

Singapore: A*STAR's Institute of Microelectronics (IME) and SFC Fluidics, a US-based microfluidics and biomedical device...

November 27, 2012 | Tuesday | News
How to get your drug registered in Singapore?

The sector of life sciences in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region offers massive opportunities for companies, which are look...

September 28, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
Progress in optical imaging creating opportunities

Singapore: Current optical imaging technologies provide reproducible, accurate, objective, quantitative assessments of t...

July 12, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Future of Customer Experience for the Pharmaceutical Players

Singapore: Consumers have a habit of reshaping industries at inconvenient and unexpected times. Their expectations and d...

January 20, 2016 | Wednesday | Opinion
Singaporeans depend on Chinese medicine to treat arthritis

Singapore: A local survey of elderly Singaporeans found 42 percent of the respondents to have knee pain with 40.7 percen...

October 17, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Three-day ISPE Singapore Conference from May 27

Singapore: ISPE Singapore Conference, which comprises workshops and individual tracks, will be held from May 27-29, 2012...

May 22, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Awak wins NUS award for 'wearable' artificial kidney

Singapore: Singapore-based Awak Technologies has bagged Promising NUS Start-up Award at Innovation & Enterprise (I&a...

May 17, 2013 | Friday | News
IMS Health partners with Cloudera Enterprise

Singapore: IMS Health has partnered with Cloudera Enterprise to support its Big Data Factory, a cloud-based platform tha...

July 20, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Roche strengthens APAC presence

Singapore: Roche Diagnostics has inaugurated its Asia Pacific headquarters and regional centre of excellence in Singapor...

July 27, 2015 | Monday | News
GSK to invest $60mn in its green manufacturing facility

Singapore: British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline announced plans to invest an additional $60 mn in its world-class antibiot...

July 3, 2015 | Friday | News
Bayer HealthCare clocks 14.9% rise in APAC Pharma biz

Singapore: Bayer HealthCare has recorded sales hike of 14.9 percent to USD 4171 million (EUR 3016 million) in 2013 for i...

March 25, 2014 | Tuesday | News
TÜV SÜD PSB appoints Richard Hong as CEO

Singapore: TÜV SÜD PSB has appointed Mr Richard Hong as CEO for TÜV SÜD PSB ASEAN. Mr Hong has over 18 years...

July 1, 2013 | Monday | News
Singapore's ASLAN pharma inks MoU with NCCS

Singapore: ASLAN Pharmaceuticals has inked a memorandum of understanding with Singapore's National Cancer Center (NCCS) ...

July 20, 2015 | Monday | News
Singapore study indentifies new type of lymphoma

Singapore: Researchers at the lymphoma study group at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and the National Cancer Center of...

April 15, 2013 | Monday | News
NUS develops smart hand rehabilitation device

Singapore: Research team from National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a new lightweight and smart rehabilit...

January 13, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Agilent, A*Star, French univ sign biologics MoU

Singapore: Agilent Technologies, Glyco-MEV laboratory at the University of Rouen, France, and Bioprocessing Technology I...

May 27, 2013 | Monday | News
Asia an emerging hotspot in medical tourism

Singapore: BioSpectrum feels the pulse of Asia's top destinations and major players in medical tourism.  Medical tour...

March 9, 2015 | Monday | Analysis
Sanofi gears up to introduce dengue vaccine

Healthcare stakeholders are keeping high hopes with the successful results of Sanofi Pasteur's Phase III trial of dengue...

August 15, 2014 | Friday | Influencers
A*Star, SigN use patients' own blood to treat infection

Singapore: Scientists at A*Star's Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS) and the Singapore Immunology Network ...

September 30, 2013 | Monday | News
DKSH partners with Bristol-Myers Squibb

Singapore: DKSH Business Unit Healthcare, service provider for healthcare companies seeking to grow their business in As...

April 9, 2014 | Wednesday | News
HIMSS AsiaPac 2015 strives to integrate IT and healthcare

Singapore: Singapore Minister for Health, Mr Gan Kim Yong, kickstarted HIMSS AsiaPac15 Digital Healthcare Week in Singap...

September 8, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Acumen, Curetis to jointly advance on biomarker panel for immune system

Singapore: Germany based Curetis, a developer of next-level molecular diagnostic solutions, has obtained a world-wide, n...

October 9, 2015 | Friday | News
Innovations in 3D printing

Singapore: Here's a look at some of the lastest innovations in 3D printing: Stratasys: US-based company is developing a...

November 25, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
BI takes crowdfunding approach to boost research

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim and BioMed X have applied a crowdsourcing approach to establish a research team of outst...

September 23, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Singapore medtech startup launches in Hong Kong

Singapore: Singapore-based medtech start up ConneXion Asia has launched its services in Hong Kong. The launch comes afte...

August 28, 2015 | Friday | News
Agilent launches training centre in Singapore

Singapore: Agilent Technologies has opened a training facility in Singapore, named as Agilent University, to provide tec...

October 7, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Future of security in healthcare

Singapore: According to the global consulting firm Tower Watson, Singapore has one of the most successful healthcare sys...

August 4, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Singapore's CGH launches new robotics center

Singapore: In a bid to promote the use of robotics and assistive technologies in advancing healthcare, Singapore's Chang...

July 23, 2015 | Thursday | News
CROs and pharma support 'Bring Your Own Device' approach for clinical studies: ICON survey

Singapore: ICON, a global provider of drug development solutions and services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and m...

July 4, 2016 | Monday | News
Mundipharma to market Korea's Medifoam

Singapore: Singapore based pharmaceutical company, Mundipharma has collaborated with Korean firm Genewel for licensing a...

June 3, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Quintiles bags Frost and Sullivan's 'APAC CRO of the Year' award

Singapore: Quintiles has recieved Asia Pacific Contract Research Organization company of the Year recognition by Frost &...

October 19, 2015 | Monday | News
Shimadzu bags Frost & Sullivan APAC MS Company of the Year award

Singapore: Global analytical solution company, Shimadzu, has received 2015 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Mass Spectr...

September 15, 2015 | Tuesday | News
F&S: APAC hospital market touches $378 bn

Singapore: According to a Frost and Sullivan report, Asia Pacific hospital market earned revenues of more than $377.90 b...

June 10, 2013 | Monday | Analysis
Cordlife ex-CEO joins Clearbridge as partner

Singapore: Dr Steven Fang has joined Clearbridge Accelerator, a leading technology incubator based in Singapore, as a pa...

December 11, 2012 | Tuesday | News
A/Prof Yvonne Tay wins Young Scientist Award

Singapore: Assistant Professor Yvonne Tay, principal investigator, Cancer Science Institute and President's Assistant Pr...

September 17, 2015 | Thursday | News
Making stem cell therapies a reality

Real practical challenges persist in the development of stem cell therapies and chief among these are concerns for safet...

March 22, 2012 | Thursday | News
Agilent collaborates with National University of Singapore

Singapore: Agilent Technologies has collaborated with the National University of Singapore (NUS)'s Yong Loo Lin School o...

April 24, 2015 | Friday | News
Singapore develops 'embryo in a dish' to study birth defect

Singapore: Researchers from Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have recreated processes essential for ...

October 13, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Sale of wound care devices spurs in Asia-Pacific: Frost & Sullivan analysis report

Singapore: Advanced wound care and modern wound closure products are gaining an edge over traditional wound dressings in...

September 4, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Parenteral Drug Assoc opens Singapore chapter

Singapore: Fourty five pharmaceutical professionals have formed the Singapore chapter of Parenteral Drug Association (P...

October 29, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Fortis sells its Singapore hospital

Singapore: Fortis Healthcare has sold its Singapore Hospital to Concord Medical Services for $40 million (Rs 251 crore) ...

March 31, 2015 | Tuesday | News
ASLAN's bile duct cancer drug receives orphan drug status

Singapore: Singapore's ASLAN pharmaceuticals recently announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted ...

August 21, 2015 | Friday | News
Collaboration is key to enhancing public health

Singapore: The three-day Asia Regulatory Conference 2013 is under way at the Raffles City Convention Center, Singapore, ...

January 29, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Singapore develops liquid biopsy for colorectal cancer

Singapore: Researchers from Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of A*STAR have developed liquid biopsy ...

March 4, 2015 | Wednesday | News
GSK establishes new Singapore HQ

Singapore: British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) recently announced plans to establish new headquarters in Singapore t...

March 11, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Bayer collaborates with Singapore EDB for JV projects

Singapore: German major Bayer Healthcare recently announced an extension of its existing cooperation with Singaporean in...

July 17, 2015 | Friday | News
Challenges ahead for Singapore's medical tourism sector: BMI

Singapore: A recent report released by global consulting firm BMI Research states that it will be difficult for Singapor...

May 7, 2015 | Thursday | News
Clue to future universal dengue vaccine found

Singapore: Scientists at A*Star's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have discovered a clue that has the potential to c...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Fullerton Healthcare acquires major stake in Hong Kong Medical Group

Singapore: With a view to further expand its pan-Asia presence, Singapore's Fullerton Healthcare recently inked a deal t...

August 13, 2015 | Thursday | News
BioSpectrum announces the hits and misses of 2013

Asia attracted a lot of interest from foreign multinational giants in the year 2013. This not only led to the increase i...

January 2, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Dr Loke Wai Chiong, KPMG: Convergence of healthcare and life science is a must

In the coming year, we expect to see greater convergence between the healthcare and life sciences sectors. This inevitab...

December 24, 2012 | Monday | Opinion