Singapore scientists progresses to map schizophrenia

Singapore: A group of researchers from Institute of Mental Health (IMH) and A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS)...

July 30, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Barcode solution for hospital care

Driven by rising incomes and the prevalence of chronic diseases, hospital revenues in the Asia-Pacific region will climb...

August 25, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
PPD appoints Mr Robert Hureau as CFO

Singapore: Pharmaceutical Product Development, (PPD) has appointed Mr Robert Hureau as executive vice president and chie...

August 26, 2014 | Tuesday | Influencers
Diagnostic kit to assess kidney cancer treatment result

Singapore: Researchers at Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and Nat...

August 1, 2014 | Friday | News
Breast cancer drug market to touch $13.1 bn by 2020'

Singapore: Increased use of targeted therapies, along with a greater uptake of branded drugs and rising incidence popula...

July 24, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Single use processing technologies on rise in vaccine manufacturing

Asia Vaccine initiative is a market segment focused action plan by Process Solutions/ Merck Millipore, a division of Mer...

November 27, 2013 | Wednesday | Influencers
Singapore scientists find new pattern in immune cell mechanism

Singapore: Scientists from A*STAR's Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI) have identified relationship between two ce...

October 2, 2014 | Thursday | News
Cadi launches infant tagging solution

Singapore: Thomson Medical Center (TMC) in Singapore has installed Cadi SmartSense Infant Safety Solution (Gen II), a ra...

February 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Stratasys launches 3D printing centre in Singapore

Singapore: Stratasys, 3D printing solutions provider, has launched a 3D printing experience centre in Singapore to provi...

July 30, 2014 | Wednesday | News
VolitionRx to study cancer detection device in Singapore

Singapore: VolitionRx, focused on developing blood-based diagnostic tests for a broad range of cancer types and other co...

January 23, 2015 | Friday | News
Customized logistic solutions'

We do see a strong trend towards movement of sensitive products, particularly the temperature sensitive products. This i...

August 26, 2014 | Tuesday | Opinion
IBN uses innovative method for effective gene therapy

Singapore: A key challenge in virus-based gene therapy is avoiding detection by the human immune system, so that the vir...

July 31, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Southeast Asia's fitness drive against obesity

Singapore: Though the south east Asian people are considered to be the thinnest in the world, there is an exponential in...

June 12, 2014 | Thursday | News
Novartis positive with anti-malaria drug

Singapore: Novartis' novel antimalarial drug, KAE609 (cipargamin) has shown efficacy in Phase 2 trial by demonstrating t...

July 31, 2014 | Thursday | News
GE, A*Star invest $20 mn to boost medtech

Singapore: Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and global healthcare company, GE Healthcare...

December 10, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Vela will continue its R&D work in oncology and infectious diseases'

Mr Michael Tillmann has been the president and CEO of global pharmaceutical company, Roche Diagnostics, and has played l...

October 21, 2014 | Tuesday | Influencers
Asia bioscience grows 11 percent, crosses $150 bn

During the year 2012, the bioscience industry in the Asia Pacific region clocked $154.40 billion in revenues, recording ...

June 21, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
Malaysia can bet on medical tourism industry: Analyst

Singapore: Compared to other countries in ASEAN, Malaysia has a higher-than-average availability of medical personnel an...

January 29, 2015 | Thursday | Analysis
Mundipharma's disinfectant solution can reduce ebola virus

Singapore: Pharmaceutical company, Mundipharma, has derived positive results from its Betadine formulations, used for sk...

January 29, 2015 | Thursday | News
Singapore scientists unearth embryonic stem cell behaviour

Singapore: Scientists from Singapore's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), a research institute under the Ag...

September 21, 2015 | Monday | News
Bruker, Singapore launches preclinical imaging centre

Singapore: Bruker, global manufacturer of scientific instruments for molecular research, has opened its Preclinical Imag...

November 3, 2014 | Monday | News
DNA repair drug could treat leukaemia: Singapore

Singapore: A team of scientists at National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered that a drug originally designe...

August 25, 2014 | Monday | News
ASLAN raises $43 mn in series C financing round

Singapore: ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, Singapore based biotech company focused on the development of immunotherapies and targ...

January 7, 2016 | Thursday | News
Singapore's AYOXXA closes $12.2 mn funding round

Singapore: Singapore and Germany based biotech company, AYOXXA Biosystems, has completed $12.28 million (€9 millio...

July 10, 2014 | Thursday | News
New drug formulation for respiratory system infections

Singapore: A team from A*STAR's Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES) and National University Hospital (...

September 18, 2014 | Thursday | News
Kidney cancer cases on the rise in Singapore

Singapore: There has been an 80 percent increase in kidney cancer cases in Singapore since 2003, and advanced kidney ca...

August 2, 2012 | Thursday | News
Gyros expands distribution in Asia

Singapore: Sweden-based Gyros is expanding its reach in Asia through a tie-up with Bio Laboratories. Its nanoliter-scale...

June 8, 2012 | Friday | News
VolitionRx diagnoses cancer in a different way

Genetic diagnostics seems to be the buzzword in the healthcare industry. Start-ups take the route of diagnostics to ente...

December 19, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
JCI appoints Mr Prabhu Vinayagam as APAC chief

Singapore: Joint Commission International (JCI) has appointed Dr Prabhu Vinayagam in the role of managing director of As...

July 22, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Brazil, Mexico dengue vaccine market to grow'

Singapore: While Sanofi has progressed to phase III clinical trials for its dengue vaccine and is expecting to launch it...

July 17, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
DHL beefs up its cold chain logistic solution

Singapore: Low temperature logistic provider, Cryoport, has partnered with LifeConEx, a part of DHL, to enhance and supp...

July 17, 2014 | Thursday | News
Industry records all time high mergers and acquisitions

Singapore: Pharmaceutical, medical technology and biotech sector witnessed a euphoria when mergers and acquisition activ...

May 14, 2015 | Thursday | Analysis
Bayer progresses on APAC hepatocellular carcinoma trial

Singapore: GIDEON (Global Investigation of therapeutic Decisions in hepatocellular carcinoma and of its treatment with s...

June 11, 2013 | Tuesday | News
A*STAR, Appistry to fuel genomics in Asia

Singapore: The Agency for Science, Technology and Research's (A*STAR) Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) has launched r...

November 30, 2012 | Friday | News
Baxter recalls four lots of IV solutions

Singapore: Baxter is subjected to recall four lots of intravenous (IV) solutions to the hospital/user level that have be...

July 18, 2014 | Friday | Regulatory
Study finds 600 new genes mutated in stomach cancer

Singapore: A collaborative study conducted by three research groups affiliated with the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School...

June 3, 2013 | Monday | News
Local biomedical firms face hurdles in Singapore

Biomedical association of Singapore, BioSingapore, recently appointed Mr Simranjit Singh, director, strategic planning A...

October 24, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
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