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
Volition raises over $1 mn for clinical trial

Singapore: VolitionRX, a life sciences company focused on developing blood-based diagnostic tests, has raised over $1 mi...

May 15, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Shimadzu launches smart device enabled HPLC system

Singapore: Japan-based global analytics technology provider, Shimadzu, has launched i-Series of new industry standard HP...

July 9, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Pfizer, GSK sign productivity pact with Singapore's A*Star

Singapore: Pharma industry leaders Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline have joined hands with global engineering giants Siemens t...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Why did mergers & acquisitions plunge in APAC?

The global bioscience industry, in 2012, reported 450 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions valued at $67 bill...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Duke-NUS instrumental in talent generation'

Singapore: At the graduation ceremony of the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Mr S Iswaran Minister in the Prime Minist...

June 2, 2014 | Monday | News
HIV generics to take over antivirals market

Singapore: Generics are predicted to take over the antiviral drugs market, especially in the case of HIV medication, as ...

July 2, 2012 | Monday | News
Singapore, Japan to develop eye disease detection technology

Singapore: A*STAR's Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), and Topcon Corporation, Japan based ophthalmic instruments an...

July 12, 2013 | Friday | News
Clearbridge BioMedics raises $7.2 million funding

Singapore: Singapore's Clearbridge BioMedics has closed a $7.2 million (S$9 million) Series B financing, led by Vertex V...

March 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
Agilent launches Multispan Liquid Handling System

Singapore: Agilent Technologies has launched Encore Multispan Liquid Handling System, featuring an array of unique techn...

November 2, 2012 | Friday | News
Laser-cooling holds promise for medical devices

Singapore: A latest discovery by scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore related to cooling ...

February 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
Aslan gastric cancer phase II study shows +ve results

Singapore: Aslan Pharmaceuticals has revealed the results of its phase II clinical trial with Aslan001, a small-molecule...

May 28, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Program for atrial fibrillation patients launched

Singapore: A patient education program targeting stroke reduction for patients with atrial fibrillation is being launche...

July 6, 2012 | Friday | News
Single-use technology: The way forward in vaccines

Single-use technologies are a particularly smart way of manufacturing vaccines during a pandemic, when there is urgency ...

July 17, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
GE launches noiseless MR scanner in Singapore

Singapore: GE Healthcare has installed Silent Scan, a MR scanner with reduced noise, at the National University Hospital...

July 2, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Healthcare in Nanjing gets a boost

Singapore: International Enterprise (IE) Singapore and the Nanjing Health Bureau have come together as part of a plan to...

May 21, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Singapore to encourage youth for biomedical R&D

Singapore: Polytechnic students and overseas Singaporeans will now have more avenues to pursue their interest in science...

July 27, 2012 | Friday | News
Chugai expands in Singapore with research institute

Singapore: Japan's Chugai Pharmabody Research (CPR) has started its operations in Singapore. The company started operati...

July 16, 2012 | Monday | News
Singapore joins hands with Italy's oldest tech univ

Singapore: Intellectual Property Intermediary of Singapore has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Japan Sci...

September 25, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Singapore, Dutch regulators sign health MoU

Singapore: Health Sciences Authority's (HSA) Asia Regulatory Conference 2013 saw Singapore and Dutch regulators sign a m...

January 29, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Singapore seizes counterfeit products worth $14,660

Singapore: The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in Singapore seized close to 13,000 units of products, including tablets,...

October 5, 2012 | Friday | News
A*STAR scientist conferred top Italian honor

Singapore: Professor Paola Castagnoli, scientific director at A*STAR's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), has been con...

July 20, 2012 | Friday | Influencers
Singapore embarks on personalized regulation

Fostering scientific developments in genomics study is not comprehensive enough to integrate personalized medicine into ...

February 6, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Avita Medical inks deal with S'pore based Mintcare

Singapore: UK based Avita Medical recently announced its collaboration with Asia-Pacific's specialized wound care produc...

June 8, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Tight funding strains traditional drug development

Singapore: The global biotechnology industry showed a second straight year of increasingly stable financial performance ...

June 20, 2012 | Wednesday | News
A*Star artificial liver to speed up drug R&D

Singapore: Researchers at A*Star's IBN have engineered an artificial human liver piece, which mimics the natural tissue ...

March 18, 2013 | Monday | News
Tissue bank launched for colorectal cancer research

Singapore: The Fortis-IBN TissueBank (FIT) for research and development in colorectal diseases will help accelerate tran...

July 19, 2012 | Thursday | News
A*STAR to commercialize nanospectrometers

Singapore: The Institute of Microelectronics (IME), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Resea...

August 29, 2012 | Wednesday | News
AITbiotech gets ISO certificate for genomic services

Singapore: AITbiotech, a leading genomics service provider in Singapore, has secured ISO 13485:2003 certification, for d...

October 15, 2012 | Monday | News
AbbVie invests $320 mn in bilogics manufacturing in Singapore

Singapore: Research based pharmaceutical company, AbbVie, has made investment of around USD320 million in Singapore to s...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Healthcare needs change in business process'

Singapore: Healthcare across the Asia-Pacific is in a state of accelerated evolution due to not only changing demographi...

January 21, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
Volition launches epigenetic immunoassays

Singapore: VolitionRx, a life sciences company focused on developing blood-based diagnostic tests, launched NuQ, its ra...

December 18, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Ultrasound-enhanced drug delivery for efficacy

One of the barriers to drug delivery is the presence of a prominent stromal matrix that separates blood vessels from tum...

March 13, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Singapore pharma to see only 4.4% pay hike in 2014

Singapore: A report published by the Hay Group, titled 'Building the Capabilities of the Next Generation Workforce', has...

May 31, 2013 | Friday | News
Clearbridge VitalSigns leverages on CardioLeaf

Singapore: Clearbridge VitalSigns, a Singapore-based medical device company, is leveraging its flagship product, CardioL...

November 14, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Singapore medtech firm raises $1mn seed funding

Singapore: Singapore medtech startup Healint, that develops mobile apps for chronic diseases, has raised over $1 million...

April 3, 2015 | Friday | News
Missing protien connects diabetes, obesity: Study

Singapore: Scientists from Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), a research institute under the Agency for Sci...

July 11, 2014 | Friday | News
HSA regulatory conference under way in Singapore

Singapore: Health Sciences Authority (HSA), which is the national regulator for health products in Singapore, inaugurate...

January 30, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Takeshi Yura is AMRI Asia discovery VP

Singapore: Dr Takeshi Yura has been promoted by AMRI to the position of vice president of discovery and development serv...

February 26, 2013 | Tuesday | News
APAC stem cell therapy market to reach $972mn in 2018

Singapore: A new study by Reports and Reports predicted that the stem cell therapy market in Asia Pacific (APAC) will gr...

January 1, 2013 | Tuesday | News
AMRI acquires Oso Biopharmaceuticals at $110 mn

Singapore: US based contract research firm, AMRI, with operations in Asia, has acquired Oso Biopharmaceuticals Manufactu...

July 2, 2014 | Wednesday | News
A*STAR, Fluidigm setup first-of-its-kind cellbio lab

Singapore: The Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and Flui...

December 17, 2012 | Monday | News
A*Star center promotes staff health, wins award

Singapore: A*Star's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), won the Singapore HEALTH (Helping Employees A...

December 4, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Thermo Fisher Scientific celebrates 20th year in Singapore

Singapore: Thermo Fisher Scientific has completed 20th year of its operation in Singapore. The company celebrated the mi...

August 30, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Chugai pharma to invest in its research center in Singapore

Singapore: Japan-based drug giant, Chugai pharmaceuticals recently announced that the company planned to invest nearly S...

February 2, 2015 | Monday | News
US-based TriReme looks for big growth in Asia

TriReme Medical, a US-based start-up medical devices company dedicated to the development and manufacturing of innovativ...

May 31, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
New hope for personalized cancer therapy

Singapore: A team of scientists led by Associate Professor Zeng Qi from A*Star's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
New Bio Accelerator boosts start-ups in Bangalore, Singapore

Singapore: In recent years Bangalore has emerged as one of the region's hottest destinations for budding entrepreneurs w...

July 19, 2014 | Saturday | News
APAC healthcare industry becomes cloud friendly

Singapore: A recent report presented by Frost & Sullivan has said that the healthcare industry in Asia Pacific is em...

November 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
R&D expenditure touches $6 bn in Singapore

Singapore: Singapore's gross expenditure on R&D (GERD) recorded a new high of $6 billion (S$7.4 billion) in 2011, ac...

December 14, 2012 | Friday | News
VeriStem wins BioSpectrum award for stem cell technology

Development of stem cell therapies requires innovative technologies and processes to overcome safety concerns and VeriSt...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Interventional radiology earned $591mn in 2012

Singapore: A new report by Frost & Sullivan titled 'Asia Pacific interventional radiology and cardiology market asse...

March 28, 2013 | Thursday | News
GoBalto cloud-based trials software gets $12 mn

Singapore: US-based GoBalto, which makes cloud-based software to support the clinical trials of pharmaceutical companies...

January 4, 2013 | Friday | News
Glaucoma causing genes found

Singapore: Singapore scientists have identified three new genes associated with primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG), a...

September 4, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Carego software to further remote health clinics

Singapore: US-based healthcare solution company, Carego International, has launched a new software built with the Progre...

November 27, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Biomarker and drug for brain cancer found

Singapore: A*STAR scientists have identified a biomarker of the most lethal form of brain tumours in adults, glioblastom...

September 4, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Novotech to support drug development in Korea

Singapore: Australian clinical research organization, Novotech, has partnered with Korea Drug Development Fund (KDDF) to...

July 5, 2014 | Saturday | News
What bioscience trends do the industry leaders predict for 2013?

The bioscience industry is about to step into 2013 and the year is predicted to unfold with new opportunities and trends...

January 3, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Medizone granted patent in Singapore for AsepticSure

Singapore: Medizone International, developers of AsepticSure, a unique room disinfection system, has been granted a pate...

February 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
NUS, Fujitsu leverage use of 'cloud' in healthcare

Singapore: Fujitsu Laboratories, Europe; Fujitsu Asia and National University of Singapore (NUS), have inked a collabora...

November 27, 2012 | Tuesday | News
PPD expands testing facilities at Singapore, Brussels

Singapore: Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD), a contract research organization providing drug discovery, developm...

February 8, 2013 | Friday | News
Singapore to open new skin research center

Singapore: The Skin Research Institute of Singapore has announced that the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A...

September 26, 2013 | Thursday | News
Japan, Singapore to bring innovation in drug, device, technology

Singapore: Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture's Global Collaboration Center for Life Innovation (GCC) and the Agency for Scienc...

November 29, 2013 | Friday | News
What are the key mergers & acquisitions of Q1 2013?

Most pharmaceutical companies are sitting on the patent cliff and their drug pipelines are facing severe exhaustion. The...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
New hydrogel destroys superbugs

Singapore: Researchers from the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) and IBM Research unveiled the firs...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Singapore opens research centre for circulating tumour cell

Singapore: National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) and Clearbridge BioMedics, in partnership with the Pathology Departme...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
TauRx gets $10.5 mn funding from Dundee Corp

Singapore: Singapore-based TauRx Pharmaceuticals recieved equity investment of $10.5 million from Toronto's Dundee Corpo...

March 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Singapore President awards the nation's scientific talents

Singapore: Professor Wang Yue from A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) received the President's Scie...

November 8, 2012 | Thursday | News
Singapore tele-healthcare system gets top award

Singapore: Eastern Health Alliance, the regional health system for eastern Singapore, and IHiS is recognized with top As...

October 22, 2012 | Monday | News
What were the top 20 M&A deals in pharma and biotech sector in 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
GIS team discover gene that controls neurogenesis

Singapore: Scientists at A*Star's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have discovered an unusual gene that controls the ...

August 30, 2013 | Friday | News
pSivida gets US patent

Singapore: pSivida, which is into developing sustained release, drug delivery products for treatment of back-of-the-eye ...

June 8, 2012 | Friday | News
Medtech companies need to bring innovation: PwC

Singapore: Medical technology companies may be losing their competitive edge and are in need of a different approach to ...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Singapore-UK joint event to advance skin research

Singapore: A*STAR's Institute of Medical Biology and the British High Commission are jointly holding the first Translati...

December 4, 2012 | Tuesday | News
NTU study find ways to prevent muscle loss, obesity and diabetes

Singapore: A research study from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has yielded important breakthroughs on how the ...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
FDA agrees to Mesoblast MPC supply in the US

Singapore: Mesoblast announced that US FDA is in agreement for the supply of its proprietary Mesenchymal Precursor Cell...

February 15, 2013 | Friday | News
Asia vaccine strategists call for collaboration

Asia needs a solution, that goes beyond traditional structure, models and pathways, to meet the essential vaccine supply...

June 18, 2013 | Tuesday | News
HIMSS leverages IT to solve healthcare problems

Singapore: Healthcare Information and Management System Society (HIMSS) AsiaPac12 conference and exhibition is being hel...

September 18, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Innovation in drug delivery system is in a constant state of evolution'

Ms Prasanna Vadhana Kannan is the industry analyst in medical devices & diagnostic imaging for Frost & Sullivan ...

March 14, 2012 | Wednesday | Opinion
Biosensors gets CE mark approval for heart stent

Singapore: Medical device developer, Biosensors International, received CE mark approval for its polymer-free drug-coate...

January 30, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Singapore embeds gold nanoparticle in genetic test kit

Singapore: Researchers at Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Singapore have developed a genetic test ...

May 29, 2014 | Thursday | News
Leo launches psoriasis education program

Singapore: Leo Pharma launched Psoriasis Coach All-Round Education (PsorCARE) program in Singapore on January 26, 2013....

January 30, 2013 | Wednesday | News
First ever genome-wide RNA structure revealed

Singapore: Scientists at A*Star's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and US-based Stanford University's School of Medic...

February 5, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Top 20: Singapore - High growth

Singapore: Singapore has been witnessing strong performance. Here are a few developments in the country that are proof...

July 9, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
How are patent laws leading to the harmonizing effect?

There have been recent changes to the US patent laws that have brought the US laws closer to those of the rest-of-the-wo...

February 11, 2013 | Monday | Opinion
Astellas Pharma opens office in Singapore

Singapore: Astellas Pharma, Japan's pharmaceutical giant with net sales of $10.7 billion and net income of $881 million ...

December 12, 2013 | Thursday | News
IBN engineered artificial human liver for drug testing

Singapore: The liver is an important target organ for drug testing because all drugs pass through it for detoxification...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
A*STAR, GSK develop medicines for emerging markets

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and A*STAR's Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES) have signed a five-y...

April 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Austrianova strengthens its Thailand operations

Singapore: Singapore based biotechnology firm, Austrianova, has received Board of Investment (BOI) status for its Thai s...

June 20, 2014 | Friday | News
Singapore's R&D reached new high in 2011

Singapore: Singapore's gross expenditure on R&D (GERD) recorded a new high of S$7.4 billion in 2011, according to t...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
A*Star develops microscale epigenomics technology

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

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Scientists identify new biomarker for cancer

Singapore: Scientists from Singapore have identified FAIM, a molecule that typically prevents cell death, as a potential...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Singapore opens window for Korea medtech firms

Singapore: Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Korean Health Industry Development Insti...

June 20, 2014 | Friday | News
Asia goes paperless for patient records

The rising demand for cost containment in healthcare and the need to improve quality of services are driving the growth ...

November 29, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Telecom services to boom in APAC healthcare sector: Report

Singapore: Telecommunication companies in Asia-Pacific are increasingly exploring vertical markets like healthcare to op...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Mundipharma, Shionogi tie up for pain treatment in Japan

Singapore: Mundipharma has entered a license agreement with Japan-based Shionogi for the exclusive rights to develop, ma...

November 22, 2013 | Friday | News
A*STAR scientists identify potential drug target for inflammatory diseases including cancers

Singapore: A*STAR scientists have identified the enzyme, telomerase, as a cause of chronic inflammation in human cancer...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Mesoblast to set up stem cell drug plant in Singapore

Singapore: Australian regenerative drug company, Mesoblast, is planning to expand its global manufacturing base and the ...

May 29, 2014 | Thursday | News