Balloon sinus surgery now in Singapore

Singapore: Acclarent, a US-based medical device company, launched balloon sinuplasty, a minimally-invasive technology fo...

September 3, 2012 | Monday | News
Agilent, Temasek open analytical sciences lab

Singapore: Agilent Technologies and Temasek Polytechnic have announced a collaboration in product-safety testing and ope...

July 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
Interpol, HSA seized $14,548 fake drugs in 2012

Singapore: Asia Regulatory Conference 2013, the three-day event that has been organized by Health Sciences Authority (HS...

January 29, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Napier appoints Mr Sahel Mattar as VP-consulting

Singapore: Singapore based healthcare technology and services provide Napier Healthcare has appointed Mr Sahel Mattar as...

June 24, 2014 | Tuesday | Influencers
Sigma-Aldrich to launch Austrianova's encapsulation technology

Singapore: Sigma-Aldrich, bioscience and technology company, is set to commercialize a kit for hand-driven, self-encapsu...

June 3, 2014 | Tuesday | News
What services do APAC CROs offer to their clients?

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
GIS, Sengenics sign cancer biomarker discovery deal

Singapore: Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) of Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Sengenics hav...

May 31, 2013 | Friday | News
Volition NuQ diagnostic platform for cancer is a success

Singapore: VolitionRx revealed that its ongoing internal clinical trials of the NuQ diagnostic platform, has analyzed b...

November 6, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Inex, BGI launches fetal sex chromosome test kit

Singapore: Inex Innovations Exchange (Inex), a women's health diagnostics company based in Singapore, and BGI Clinical L...

May 27, 2013 | Monday | News
Why big pharma is busy acquiring injectables firms?

Big pharma companies are gearing up to combat the shortage of injectables in the US through acquiring companies with app...

March 20, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Invida rebrands to Menarini Asia Pacific

Singapore: Invida Holdings, a biopharmaceutical commercialization company based in Singapore, is changing its name to A ...

December 7, 2012 | Friday | News
What drives differentiation in embryonic stem cells?

Embryonic stem (ES) cells possess unique therapeutic potential due to their ability to give rise to all the cells of the...

September 28, 2012 | Friday | Opinion
Andrew Cunningham to lead PPD central lab

Singapore: Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) has appointed Dr Andrew Cunningham as vice president of central labo...

November 21, 2013 | Thursday | Influencers
Singapore to host DIA Asia Regulatory Conference on Jan 28-30

Singapore: DIA will conduct the Asia Regulatory Conference 2013 at Raffles City Convention Center in Singapore during Ja...

November 22, 2012 | Thursday | News
A*Star, Veredus launch Lab-on-Chip

Singapore: Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Veredus Laboratories have launched VereTrop, the fir...

April 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
BabyLance safety heelstick receives EU patent

Singapore: US-based MediPurpose, a master distributor and manufacturer of medical products, has announced an addition to...

August 26, 2013 | Monday | News
Singapore starts medtech site to address investment queries

Singapore: Singapore has launched medtech portal, www.medtech.sg, that aims to address international investors' queries ...

June 4, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Singapore launches A*Star Nanoimprint Foundry

Singapore: The pioneer initiative brings together nanotechnology suppliers and manufacturers to speed up productization ...

September 30, 2013 | Monday | News
Jackie Ying is now Materials Research Society fellow

Singapore: A*STAR's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) executive director Professor Jackie Y Ying has...

April 4, 2013 | Thursday | Influencers
Singapore nod for BMS, Pfizer heart drug

Singapore: Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in Singapore has approved new treatment, apixaban (Eliquis), marketed by phar...

November 25, 2013 | Monday | News
Robust regulations needed

Singapore: The Asia Pacific (APAC) medical device market touched an estimated $54.5 billion at the beginning of 2012....

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | Regulatory
Fab'entech launches bird flu trial in Singapore

Singapore: Fab'entech, a French biopharmaceutical company specialized in developing specific polyclonal immunoglobulins...

October 17, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Big potential in Asia market: Envirotainer CEO

According to industry estimates, healthcare cold-chain market is growing by 10 percent per year since companies producin...

October 16, 2012 | Tuesday | Influencers
Agilent drives innovation in mass spectrometry & chromatography

Singapore: Agilent Technologies, which was founded in 1999, is synonymous with the R&D of liquid chromatography/gas ...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | Influencers
Overcoming challenge of data analysis in mass spectrometry

Singapore: The research and clinical communities are constantly seeking new technologies that provide faster, more accur...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | Influencers
Molecular diagnostics is key to future

China, Japan, India and Singapore are leveraging on genetic technologies to develop molecular diagnostic platform which ...

June 18, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Dr Anthony S Rebuck, Quintiles: Entry of new biosimilars will transform biopharma in 2013

Big news in 2013 will be the growth of biosimilars in the biologics segment. By the end of the year, biosimilars will ac...

December 25, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
Partnerships promote quality talent

While many multinational companies have reduced their manpower to cut costs in 2011, regional companies in Asia have gon...

May 25, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Luye Pharma invests in NuSep's PrIME technology

Singapore: SGX-listed Luye Pharma Group is investing S$6 million (A$4.6 million) in NuSep's Singapore subsidiary Prime B...

August 20, 2012 | Monday | News
Transcu to acquire Nanomizer

Singapore: Transcu Group, a life sciences company engaged in the research, development and commercialization of cutting-...

February 11, 2013 | Monday | News
BioSpectrum rolls out 2nd Smart Healthcare survey

Singapore: BioSpectrum Asia (BSA) rolls out the second edition of the Smart Healthcare survey for the Asia Pacific (APAC...

October 1, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Get the best out of single-use bioreactors

Singapore: The high value of growth media and the length of a typical cell culture process spur for highest scrutiny whe...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | Influencers
China Cord Blood Corporation to partner with Cordlife Group

Singapore: China Cord Blood Corporation (CCBC), the first and largest cord blood banking operator in China, and Cordlife...

August 17, 2012 | Friday | News
MRI scan minus the acoustic discomfort

Singapore: GE Healthcare's recently-launched Silent Scan is a revolutionary technology under magnetic resonance imaging ...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | Influencers
Medical tourism market to reach $32.5 bn globally in 2019: Report

Singapore: The global medical tourism market was valued at $10.5 billion in 2012 and is estimated to reach a market wort...

October 3, 2013 | Thursday | News
Nobel Laureate Yamanaka gives lecture at A*STAR

Singapore: A*STAR invited the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology, Professor Shinya Yamanaka, to give a lectur...

April 3, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Biopolis marks 10 years of biomedical R&D

Singapore: Biopolis, an international research and development (R&D) centre located in Singapore, is marking the com...

October 17, 2013 | Thursday | News
SMC Biotech uses sugar to repair bones

Singapore: SMC Biotechnology, a regenerative medicine company focused on developing carbohydrate compounds that enhance ...

July 19, 2013 | Friday | News
Biomaterials market will be worth $88.4 bn by 2017

Singapore: A new report by MarketsAndMarkets titled 'Biomaterials market and applications - Global forecasts to 2017', e...

March 26, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Ayoxxa gets funding, collaborates with NUS

Singapore: Singapore-based biotech company, AyoxxA Biosystems received $488,003 (0.6 million SGD) as second closing of t...

January 21, 2013 | Monday | News
BioSpectrum Asia launches 5th CRO survey

Singapore: After four consecutive successful annual surveys on the developments in the clinical research industry, BioSp...

July 30, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Start-ups sign agreement for A*STAR technology

Singapore: Five start-ups, including three from the bioscience sector, have signed licensing agreements with Exploit Tec...

June 4, 2012 | Monday | News
MEI Pharma to acquire S*BIO's Pracinostat

Singapore: MEI Pharma, an oncology company focused on the clinical development of novel therapies for the treatment of c...

August 10, 2012 | Friday | News
Logistics demand attention as outsourcing picks up

The European Medical Agency (EMA) recently raised concerns that since many sources of active substances for life-saving ...

December 27, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Singapore firm to launch next-gen cancer study device

Singapore: Singapore's emerging company Clearbridge BioMedics plans to launch its ClearCell FX System at American Societ...

May 27, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Japanese biomedical firm sets up lab in Singapore

Singapore: Japan-based biopharmaceutical firm, Kyowa Hakko Kirin (KHK) has setup Singapore Translational Research Labora...

September 9, 2013 | Monday | News
Pharmacovigilance: A strategic opportunity

For many Asian pharmaceutical companies, pharmacovigilance is a critical component of any drug development program. As p...

September 6, 2012 | Thursday | Opinion
BioMatrix Technology gets wider reach

Singapore: Singapore's Biosensors International and Terumo Corporation have extended their existing licensing agreements...

October 2, 2012 | Tuesday | News
MNCs boost Asia biologics industry

Entry of multinational companies has been a big boost to Asia's position in biologics manufacturing, especially with cGM...

March 7, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Singapore health IT CEO wins ASEAN CIO Award

Singapore: CEO of Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS), Dr Chong Yoke Sin, has received the Asean CIO Award in H...

September 25, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Bayer cancer drug Stivarga gets Singapore nod

Singapore: The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) of Singapore has approved Bayer' Stivarga, the first oral targeted therap...

September 3, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Malaysia appoints standard assessment firm

Singapore: BSI, a global standard assessment company, has been registered by the Malaysian Medical Device Bureau as one ...

July 29, 2013 | Monday | News
India's Bodhi Health Education wins NUS-DBS Social venture challenge

Singapore: India based healthcare solution provider start-up firm, Bodhi Health Education, is among the winners of DBS-N...

June 12, 2014 | Thursday | News
Dr Steven Fang, Clearbridge Accelerator: Industry focus will shift from pharma to biopharma in 2013

I foresee a number of interesting upcoming trends within the biomedical sector, including a shift from pharmaceutical-ba...

December 25, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
What functional roles do CROs play in APAC?

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
A*Star scientists discover new cancer genes

Singapore: Scientists at A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have identified genes that are potential targets f...

July 29, 2013 | Monday | News
Vela develops genetic tests for H7N9 bird flu

Singapore: Vela Diagnostics has launched PCR-based Research-Use-Only (RUO) tests for the identification of genetic targe...

June 11, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Novartis invests over $500 in new Singapore facility

Singapore: Novartis is investment over $500 million for a new state-of-the-art biotechnology production site in Singapor...

October 31, 2012 | Wednesday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: New CRO players emerge in APAC

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Nose cancer emerges as a potent killer in Asia

Singapore: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a rare form of cancer in Western Europe and North America and is emerging a...

September 19, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Non-biomarker solution to target cancer

Early detection, complete cure and curbing relapse are big challenges in cancer therapy. Many biotechnology companies ha...

March 26, 2012 | Monday | News
Scientists find cellular origin of cervical cancer

Singapore: A team of scientists from A*STAR's Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) and Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS)...

June 14, 2012 | Thursday | News
A*Star scientists discover new class of WBCs

Singapore: Scientists at A*STAR's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have discovered a new class of white blood cells i...

July 17, 2013 | Wednesday | News
BioPharma Asia: Dr Deborah Rathjen wins Life Science Woman Executive of the Year award

Singapore: Dr Deborah Rathjen, CEO of Australia based Bionomics, was awarded the Life Science Woman Executive of the Yea...

March 17, 2014 | Monday | Influencers
CROs fertile ground for career growth

        Over the past few years, a significant shift has occurred in the depth and type of relationships that ...

May 31, 2012 | Thursday | Opinion
Researchers find new link to study brain tumor

Singapore: A joint study by researchers at the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI), National University of Singapore (...

June 8, 2012 | Friday | News
Smart Healthcare creates buzz in Asia

Healthcare Information and Management system society (HIMSS) AsiaPac12 kicked off in Singapore from Sep 17-19, bringing ...

September 20, 2012 | Thursday | News
A*Star welcomes its first 9-year-old scientist

Singapore: The Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), A*Star, Singapore, partnered with Make-A-Wish found...

December 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Thermo Fisher opens first-ever DPM plant in Singapore

Singapore: Thermo Fisher Scientific has opened a new manufacturing plant in Singapore to produce dry powder media (DPM),...

August 5, 2013 | Monday | News
Antibody that can kill dengue virus found

Singapore: A team of research scientists here have uncovered a human antibody that can neutralize and kill the dengue vi...

June 26, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Medical laser market to reach $8.8 bn by 2018: GIA

Singapore: Technological advancements in laser technology have created a plethora of applications in the medical field, ...

July 19, 2013 | Friday | News
Clearbridge BioMedics reveals ClearCell FX System

Singapore: Clearbridge BioMedics revealed its next generation ClearCell FX System, which is developed for in-vitro diagn...

June 3, 2013 | Monday | News
Thermo Fisher, NUS study Singapore's water

Singapore: Thermo Fisher Scientific and National University of Singapore's (NUS) Environmental Research Institute (NERI)...

January 29, 2013 | Tuesday | News
F&S: Health record spendings to rise $29 mn

Singapore: As the healthcare industry across Asia Pacific (APAC) moves towards digitization, electronic health informati...

April 18, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Researchers get close to developing viable tissue

Singapore: Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Singapore, have developed a simple m...

August 20, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Waterproof cochlear implant processor in Singapore

Singapore: The Hearing Solution Group, Southeast Asia's largest Hearing Care Company, has launched the Neptune Sound Pro...

July 25, 2012 | Wednesday | News
What were Asia's Top 20 bio companies in 2012?

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

June 19, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Social media, mobile apps transform healthcare in APAC

Key tenets pervade the way in which healthcare ecosystems are rapidly changing: quality, outcomes, cost (efficiencies ...

August 29, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion
What were the top 20 global M&A transactions of 2012?

A majority of life science firms are standing on the edge of the patent cliff and their drug pipelines are experiencing ...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Spring Singapore, Netherlands' Univ sign bio MoU

Singapore: Spring Singapore and Maastricht University Medical Center of Netherelands have signed a partnership to promot...

June 14, 2013 | Friday | News
Medtech firm TriReme expands distribution in China

‎Singapore: Singapore-based TriReme Medical has signed a distribution agreement with Weihai Weigao Medical Devices...

March 27, 2013 | Wednesday | News
A*Star, QuantuMDx to develop lung cancer assays

Singapore: A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) has signed an agreement with QuantuMDx (QMDx), a UK-based biotec...

May 29, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Pfizer, Glaxo, Siemens form A*Star R&D consortium

Singapore: Pfizer Asia Pacific, Glaxo Wellcome Manufacturing and Siemens have signed on as founding members of a new A*S...

June 21, 2013 | Friday | News
Biochips firm AyoxxA gets $3.37 million funding

Singapore: AyoxxA Biosystems, an international biotechnology company, has closed a $3.37 million (2.6 million Euro) seri...

September 21, 2012 | Friday | News
L'Oreal opens research center at A*Star's IMB

Singapore: The L'Oréal Group has opened an Advanced Research Centre in A*STAR's Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) t...

December 19, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Telemedicine is revolutionizing healthcare access

Telemedicine is re-defining access to healthcare in many ways. It has, in particular, proved to be an effective solution...

November 30, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
A*Star's Patrick Tan gets Chen Award from HUGO

Singapore: Dr Patrick Tan from A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) has received 2013 Chen New Investigator Awar...

April 18, 2013 | Thursday | Influencers
Consumers are winners in the BRCA gene case

In the wake of US Supreme Court's win-win verdict in Association for Molecular Pathology vs Myriad Genetics case, Frost ...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
New discovery helps in understanding diseases better

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

February 8, 2013 | Friday | News
A*Star identifies gastric cancer trigger

Singapore: Scientists at A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have discovered four processes by which gastric ca...

January 30, 2013 | Wednesday | News
DHL launches air freight service for bio firms

Singapore: DHL Global Forwarding, air and ocean freight specialist, has launched DHL Thermonet, a new air freight produc...

June 13, 2013 | Thursday | News
BioPharma Asia Convention 2013 being held in Singapore

Singapore: BioPharma Asia Convention 2013, which is bringing together more than 4,000 key stakeholders and decision make...

March 20, 2013 | Wednesday | News
HIMSS APAC kicks off in Singapore

Singapore: HIMSS (Healthcare Information Management Systems Society) Asia Pacific Digital healthcare Week kicked off in ...

September 15, 2014 | Monday | News
Greatbatch to start R&D center in Singapore

Singapore: US-based medical device technology company Greatbatch plans to establish an Active Implantable Medical Device...

July 18, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Garth Tierney is executive VP of INC CRO

Singapore: INC Research has promoted Mr Garth Tierney to executive vice president, Asia Pacific. He will be responsible...

March 4, 2013 | Monday | News
Invest in quality, FDA tells Asian firms

Singapore: The ISPE Singapore Conference, being held in association with Interphex Asia 2012, started with a clear note ...

May 28, 2012 | Monday | News
Novel protein complex to combat gastric cancer

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

July 8, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Shimadzu pharma summit concurs that innovation is the key

Singapore: The Shimadzu Global Pharma Summit 2012 held in Singapore sent out an unaninmous message that it is high time ...

November 2, 2012 | Friday | News
Stem cells from a drop of blood!!

Singapore: Dr Loh Yuin Han Jonathan, Principal Investigator at A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) h...

April 28, 2014 | Monday | Influencers
Mr Cameron Reynolds, VolitionRx: Patient awareness & demand will fuel diagnostics in 2013

The diagnostics market is growing rapidly as patients demand earlier diagnosis of diseases through the use of less invas...

December 26, 2012 | Wednesday | Opinion