BioSingapore head: We are developing a talent and financing framework

Mr Simranjit Singh, chairman, BioSingapore and director, strategic planning, Asia, Quintiles, speaks about the latest de...

June 24, 2013 | Monday | Influencers
Biofactory launches A*STAR technology-based ColoQuik kit

Singapore: The Biofactory, a leading innovator in incubating biomedical and life sciences related technologies, introdu...

November 19, 2012 | Monday | News
ASLAN announces global license agreement with Almirall

Singapore: ASLAN Pharmaceuticals has obtained the global rights to Almirall's DHODH inhibitor, LAS186323, currently in p...

May 21, 2012 | Monday | News
Life Tech starts instrument center in Singapore

Singapore: Life Technologies has established a Global Instrument Center of Excellence in Singapore, to address strong cu...

June 15, 2012 | Friday | News
Marken, BioStorage enter deal for Singapore

Singapore: Marken and BioStorage Technologies entered a new strategic partnership for the Singapore region. While BioSt...

January 11, 2013 | Friday | News
Singapore biomedical scientists to help SMEs

Singapore: Biomedical scientists at Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) will join a program...

May 22, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Amgen to build $200 mn plant in Singapore

Singapore: Amgen is going to construct its new manufacturing unit in the Tuas Biomedical Park area, in Singapore. The fi...

January 17, 2013 | Thursday | News
Asia leverages on the biologics opportunity

Many companies in India, China and to an extent Korea have established a strong position in contract manufacturing of ac...

March 7, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Information optimization to lower healthcare cost'

Singapore: Healthcare providers face the challenge of reducing costs, so any method that can help improve revenue cycle ...

July 8, 2014 | Tuesday | Opinion
A*STAR tech-transfer arm managed 3,500 patents

Academicians have started to realize that research taking place in the lab should not stay only inside scientific journa...

December 17, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
Now remote monitoring service via smartphone

Singapore: AB SCIEX, life science analytical technologies provider, has launched StatusScope Remote Monitoring service, ...

June 19, 2014 | Thursday | News
Clinical Research Network gives Singapore its competitive edge

Singapore has a good track record of conducting high quality clinical trials in Asia, attributed to the highly qualifi...

September 13, 2013 | Friday | Opinion
Lonza receives GMP from Singapore HAS

Singapore: Lonza Bioscience Singapore has announced that it has received the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) certifica...

April 28, 2014 | Monday | News
ETC, AstraZeneca form drug R&D partnership

Singapore: Experimental Therapeutics Center (ETC) and Exploit Technologies of Agency for Science, Technology and Researc...

November 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
BioPharma Asia: Marken wins Best Life Science Logistics Service Provider

Singapore: Logistics firm, Marken, is awarded the Best Life Science Logistics Service Provider at BioPharma Asia Industr...

March 18, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Made-in-Singapore H5N1 bird flu diagnostic kit

Singapore: A close collaboration between scientists from the Experimental Therapeutics Centre (ETC) under the Agency for...

May 29, 2012 | Tuesday | News
VolitionRx to test NuQ on Wales Cancer Bank

Singapore: VolitionRx will commence a large internal clinical study for its nucleosomics diagnostic products this month...

January 10, 2013 | Thursday | News
Singapore, Japan immunology school concludes

Singapore: A*STAR's Immunology Network (SIgN), Singapore, and Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka Univers...

January 25, 2013 | Friday | News
Singapore invests $60mn to set up nanomedicine research institute

Singapore: Focusing on the medical application of nanotechnology, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore  ...

November 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
A biotech firm to provide CTC processing services in China

Singapore: Singapore-based Clearbridge Biomedics has partnered with Shanghai LIDE Biotech to set up the LIDE-Clearbridge...

April 21, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Medtronic opens Center of Excellence in Singapore

Singapore: Medtronic opened a global Center of Excellence (CoE) for Business Model Innovation in Singapore. This new Cen...

September 3, 2013 | Tuesday | News
The breakthrough really is to explore new chemical classes for TB treatment'

Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD) is a public-private partnership between Novartis and the Singapore Econo...

March 21, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Study unravels mechanism behind liver cancer

Singapore: Scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have unraveled the mechanism that causes liver cancer (...

May 29, 2012 | Tuesday | News
A*Star, Debiopharm to develop epigenetic targets

Singapore: Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)'s Experimental Therapeutics Center (ETC) and Switzerland...

October 7, 2013 | Monday | News
TriReme enrols patients for drug-coated Chocolate PTA balloon

Singapore: TriReme Medical, a subsidiary of Singapore-based QT Vascular, has enrolled three patients in a clinical study...

March 28, 2014 | Friday | News
Marken expands in Singapore

Singapore: Marken has launched a depot in Singapore to receive drug product and kit materials to assemble and store kits...

August 19, 2013 | Monday | News
Singapore to host conference on wearable technology for healthcare

Singapore: Singapore is all set to host 4th Mobile and Wearable Technology: Healthcare 2014 Conference from 3 - 4 April ...

April 1, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Michael Culme-Seymour is Marken's new APAC VP

‎Singapore: Supply chain firm, Marken has appointed Mr Michael Culme-Seymour as VP, Asia Pacific, effective Octobe...

October 4, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
BioPharma Asia: Is Asia ready to boost global drug pipeline?

Singapore: Asia share of global GDP, measured in purchasing power, has increased from 26.8 percent in 2001 to 33.8 perce...

March 17, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
World Vaccine Congress Asia 2012 kicks off

Singapore: The World Vaccine Congress Asia 2012 kicked off on June 11 at Singapore. In its 6th consecutive year, the eve...

June 12, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Agila Malaysia to be housed in Bio-XCell

Bangalore: Malaysian Bio-XCell and Strides Acrolab's Malaysian subsidiary, Agila Biotech Malaysia, have sealed a $34.4 m...

March 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Austrinova to manufacture living encapsulated cells for Nuvilex

Singapore: Austrianova, a cell encapsulation company, has signed a Manufacturing Framework Agreement with Nuvilex to pro...

March 25, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Lamins hold genes in correct position in nucleus

Singapore: Scientists from Singapore and Germany have identified that the proteins lamin A (Lmna) and lamin B receptor ...

February 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Waters center to help scientists in Singapore

Singapore: US-based Waters Corporation, analytical science solutions developer and provider, has launched Solution Cente...

March 1, 2013 | Friday | News
Robotic arms and legs launched in Singapore

Singapore: Singapore-based Kinesis Physio & Rehab has brought in two new innovations from the US and Canada focusing...

August 27, 2012 | Monday | News
Scientists trace origin of skin-deep immune cells

Singapore: Scientists at A*STAR's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have discovered the origin of a group of skin-deep...

June 7, 2012 | Thursday | News
Mundipharma appoints John Lee as GM for SEA

Singapore: Asian pharmaceutical firm, Mundipharma, has promoted the general manager of Mundipharma Korea, Mr John Lee, t...

November 6, 2013 | Wednesday | Influencers
Singapore univ prepares for trial of glaucoma drug

Singapore: For glaucoma patients, taking daily medication will soon become a thing of the past. With Nanyang Technologic...

February 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
RAPS, Singapore to build regulatory talent in medical devices

Singapore: The Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) is partnering with five Singapore government agencies to ...

March 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
HSA lowers fees for some medical devices

Singapore: The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has lowered the fees for medical devices such as blood pressure monitors ...

August 9, 2012 | Thursday | News
AITbiotech to invest $3.94 mn to boost diagnostic technologies

Singapore: AITbiotech, Singapore based Asian Molecular Diagnostic (MDx) assay manufacturer and Genomic services provider...

March 6, 2014 | Thursday | News
Singapore scientists discover blindness genes

Singapore: Scientists at Singapore Eye Research Institute and A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore have succeeded in ...

January 16, 2013 | Wednesday | News
A*STAR develops novel method to map epigenome

Singapore: Scientists at A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have successfully developed a method to map the e...

February 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Leadership change at A*Star, Singapore

Singapore: Professor Low Teck Seng, managing director of the Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR), wil...

July 16, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
Vela Diagnostics enters IVD market

Singapore: Singapore-based Vela Diagnostics has emerged as a new global player in the in vitro diagnostics market. The S...

June 7, 2012 | Thursday | News
Suicide genes' is the next step to cure cancer

          Great strides have been made in the treatment of various cancers over the last decades. However, m...

August 7, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
Cancer diagnostics device kick starts CellSievo

A team of researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), A*STAR in Singapore, developed a micr...

May 30, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
Heraeus opens medical components facility in Singapore

Singapore: Germany-based metals and technology company Heraeus has opened a new Singapore facility to support expansion ...

October 30, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Mutation that causes skin hypoproliferation identified

Singapore: Scientists have identified a mutation in a gene that causes patches of very thick skin to appear on the palm...

October 22, 2012 | Monday | News
China Cord Blood, Cordlife complete transaction for acquisition

Singapore: China Cord Blood (CCBC) successfully completed a transaction with Cordlife Group and now the former wholly h...

November 14, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Agilent hosts third human genetics summit

Singapore: Agilent Technologies is hosting Agilent Asia Pacific Human Genetics Summit 2012 in Singapore. The third editi...

July 2, 2012 | Monday | News
Genetic defects cause oesophageal cancer: Study

Singapore: A team of scientists from Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of...

March 31, 2014 | Monday | News
World Health Summit concludes in Singapore

Singapore: The World Health Summit Regional Meeting - Asia (WHSRMA) 2013 came to a conclusion at Ritz-Carlton in Singapo...

April 12, 2013 | Friday | News
Fourth BioSpectrum Asia Pacific Bioscience Industry Awards Nite

Bioscience industry leaders from across Asia Pacific gathered for a glittering ceremony in Singapore held to mark the 4t...

March 13, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Veolia expands in new Singapore bioscience facility

Singapore: Veolia Water Solutions and Technologies is expanding its existing water treatment facilities for the second p...

May 7, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Which domain of clinical research do APAC CROs focus on?

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
APAC healthcare 2012 market touched $369.9 bn: F&S

Singapore: Singapore healthcare expenditure market was worth $11.7 billion in 2012 and will grow to $22.3 billion by 201...

February 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
Cordis is TriReme's new catheter distributor

‎Singapore: TriReme Medical, a subsidiary of Singapore-based QT Vascular, has signed a broad distribution agreemen...

February 20, 2014 | Thursday | News
Myeloma Network raises cancer awareness

Singapore: Asian Myeloma Network is developing a regional collaboration of medical specialists across Asia to study the ...

March 4, 2013 | Monday | News
Jon Samsel is new CMO of DocDoc

Singapore: DocDoc, Singapore's healthcare service company, has appointed Mr Jon Samsel as its chief marketing officer (C...

January 14, 2013 | Monday | News
Mundipharma to develop cancer pain patch for German firm

Singapore: Mundipharma, global pharmaceutical company with operations in Singapore, has entered into a license agreement...

April 4, 2014 | Friday | News
Health tech to help chronic and aging patients

The challenges of 21st century healthcare will soon exacerbate if two colliding forces are not addressed – rising...

November 27, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
Almost 50% Asian men at risk of bone problems

Singapore: One-in-two Asian men could be at risk of developing osteoporosis or other bone-related diseases reveals the a...

June 14, 2013 | Friday | News
Scientists find wound healing RNA "switch"

Singapore: In the non-healing wounds of diabetics, miR-198 does not disappear and wound healing remains blocked. This t...

March 11, 2013 | Monday | News
Prof. Freddy Boey: Fixes hole in the heart

Singapore: Prof. Freddy Boey, Deputy President at Nanyang Technological University, is credited for rendering his scient...

March 31, 2014 | Monday | Influencers
NUS enhances pharmacy curriculum to match Singapore healthcare landscape

Singapore: National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Science plans to enhance the curriculum of its undergraduat...

March 20, 2014 | Thursday | News
BioPharma Asia: Bionomics wins Innovative Asian Biotech of the Year Award

Singapore: Australia based Bionomics is recognized as the Innovative Asian Biotech of the Year at BioPharma Asia Industr...

March 17, 2014 | Monday | News
Austrianova creates new pancreatic cancer models

Singapore: Austrianova Singapore has created a mouse model that mimics human pancreatic cancer. This research has been p...

July 19, 2012 | Thursday | News
Lab-on-chips usher in an era of shrinking labs

Gone would be the days when patients will have to walk-in to their pathologists for diagnosis of a disease and wait for ...

December 6, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Austrianova's trial data proves efficacy

Singapore: Singapore-based Austrianova presented additional safety and efficacy data from a second phase II pancreatic c...

October 15, 2012 | Monday | News
Austrianova subsidiary to run from Thai Science Park

Singapore: Austrianova's wholly owned Thai subsidiary established in 2013 is moving its operation base to Thailand Scien...

March 13, 2014 | Thursday | News
BioPharma Asia: Quintiles wins 'Best CRO in Asia' Award

Singapore: Quintiles was awarded the Best CRO in Asia at 2014 BioPharma Asia Industry Awards held during BioPharma Asia ...

March 17, 2014 | Monday | News
Thermo Fisher Scientific to support research in NUS

Singapore: Thermo Fisher Scientific and National University of Singapore (NUS) have entered into a strategic alliance to...

April 14, 2014 | Monday | News
Amaranth gets $20 mn from DCP Management

Singapore: Singapore-based Amaranth Medical, a privately-held medical device company, has closed $20 million series B fi...

October 8, 2013 | Tuesday | News
AITbiotech PCR assay gets first-ever CE in S. Asia

Singapore: AITbiotech, a leading molecular diagnostic and genomic services provider in Singapore, has secured CE-IVD mar...

January 3, 2013 | Thursday | News
APAC witnesses boom in biotech investment: GlobalData

Singapore: Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is experiencing a significant boom in the volume of private equity (PE) and ventur...

March 7, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
Singapore's first flu vaccine clears phase I trial

Singapore: Influenza vaccine (gH1-Qbeta) developed by Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) a...

January 30, 2014 | Thursday | News
HistoIndex sets new standards in fibrosis diagnosis

Biopsy has been used as a gold standard for determining the extent of liver disease. But this method has its limitations...

March 14, 2012 | Wednesday | News
A*STAR pinpoints genetic changes that cause cancer

Singapore: Researchers at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), A*STAR, Singapore, have successfully devis...

August 1, 2012 | Wednesday | News
TechInnovation 2013 kicks off in Singapore

Singapore: Industry-technology matching event TechInnovation 2013 kicked off in Singapore on September 24 to enhance inn...

September 25, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Biopharma cold chain will hit $2.58 bn: FedEx APAC VP

From a pan-Asia perspective, the biopharma cold chain logistics market alone is projected to grow 66.5 percent to $2.58 ...

February 20, 2014 | Thursday | Opinion
A*Star, University of Leeds sign medtech MoU

Singapore: Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Te...

May 31, 2013 | Friday | News
Now analyze genome on mobile app

Singapore: PathGEN Dx today announced it has added the PathSEQ Virome application to Illumina's BaseSpace Apps, Illumina...

September 25, 2013 | Wednesday | News
A*Star, Max Planck make stem cell breakthrough

Singapore: Scientists at A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetic...

July 3, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Singapore eye hospital, Bayer raise AMD awareness

Singapore: Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI) and Bayer HealthCare are urging on earlier diagnosis and treatment of...

July 1, 2013 | Monday | News
Breakthrough in Hepatitis B research

Singapore: Scientists from A*STAR's Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), together with clinical collaborat...

September 7, 2012 | Friday | News
New A*Star lab to make chemicals from agri waste

Singapore: The Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES), a research institute of the Agency for Science, T...

December 3, 2012 | Monday | News
Medical devices smarten up

The medical devices industry has progressed by leaps and bounds in the recent past and this is evident from the several ...

November 28, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
Vietnam, Quintiles enter deal to advance clinical trials

Singapore: Vietnam Ministry of Health's Administration of Science, Technology and Training (ASTT) has signed an agreemen...

November 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
Experts: Pneumococcal disease should be a priority

Singapore: International and regional healthcare experts at the 2013 Asia PDC have urged the public to make the fight ag...

January 25, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Singapore tweaks rules to fast-track product access

Recently, Health Sciences Authority (HSA) of Singapore enhanced its regulatory framework for low-risk Class A and B medi...

May 28, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Aurionpro's SCMProFit suite - a huge sucess:SFS

Singapore: Singapore based SFS Pharma Logistics registered its first success in global supply chain management platform ...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
AstraZeneca launches Brilinta for prevention of thrombotic events

Singapore: AstraZeneca has launched Brilinta (ticagrelor) for the prevention of atherothrombotic events in adult patient...

May 15, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Women in life sciences – A peep into the lives of inspirational figures

We come across several women in the field of biotechnology at the graduation and post-graduation level of education. How...

March 1, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Singapore's 1st cloud-based ECG monitor gets CE mark

Singapore: Singapore-based WEB Biotechnology, developer of the world's first cloud-based continuous ECG monitor called S...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
A*Star scientists solve century-old mystery

Singapore: A*STAR scientists from the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) have solved the problem of how Cand...

February 1, 2013 | Friday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: India, China lead in APAC CRO sector

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Yaskawa Electric invests in ReWalk exoskeleton

Singapore: Israel-based ARGO Medical Technologies has partnered with innovative robotics experts Yaskawa Electric, Japan...

October 3, 2013 | Thursday | News
Osteoporosis is an emerging crisis in APAC: Report

Singapore: A new report, launched by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF), shows that osteoporosis is a loomi...

December 13, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
Singapore approves oral pill for prostate cancer

Singapore: For the first time in Singapore, a new oral treatment is available to advanced stage prostate cancer patients...

June 25, 2012 | Monday | News

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