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Videos: Smart Health Summit: Understanding the Health Revolution
Building on the launch of the Smart Health platform, an initiative by the French Chamber of Commerce in Singapore, the Smart Health Summit held on 28 May 2019 themed "Understanding the Health Revolution", brought together a great range of 300 actors in the healthcare...
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AXA Insurance Empowers People in Singapore to “Rewrite the Rules” with Launch of New Brand Campaign
AXA Insurance unveiled today its new brand campaign that aims to empower people in Singapore to know they can “Rewrite the Rules” and reflects its global transformation from being a claims payer to being an encouraging partner to its customers. The local...
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bioMérieux acquires a majority stake in Hybiome and strengthens its presence both in China and in the immunoassay market
bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, today announces the acquisition of a majority holding in Suzhou Hybiome Biomedical Engineering Co.Ltd. This announcement follows the acquisition of a minority stake in July 2018. Founded in 2009...
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An Interview with Pascal de Petrini, Chairman of Danone: On Innovation, Food, Sustainability & Health
ISSUE #67 – In our interview with a Patron Member, Pascal de Petrini (pictured below), Chairman at Danone, shares with us about his career, the company's strategy and its latest activities in Asia Pacific. Do share with us about your career at Danone....
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Free From Legacy Baggage, Asian Insurtech Firms Are Reimagining The Insurance Industry
Insurance is one of the oldest modern industries. Most policies sold today are still based on concepts of coverage and pricing invented centuries ago, by early insurance companies in England and continental Europe. Now the industry is being re-invented—and much of the...
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bioMérieux reinforces its offering of High Medical Value immunoassay biomarkers with the acquisition of Astute Medical
bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, announces today the acquisition of Astute Medical Inc., a company dedicated to improving the diagnosis of high-risk medical conditions and diseases through the identification and validation of protein...
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Videos: Smart Health Symposium: The Innovative and Digital Healthcare Leap
Building on the launch of the Smart Health platform, an initiative by the French Chamber of Commerce in Singapore, the Smart Health Symposium held on 26 April 2018 themed "The Innovative and Digital Healthcare Leap", brought together a great range of actors in the...
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Asia’s food supply chain could be on the verge of reinvention
A new breed of entrepreneurs is emerging in Asia. Far from chasing the latest technological fads like blockchains and ICOs, these founders have set their sights on the food supply chain – a sector that remains relatively untouched by the ever-expanding appetite of the...
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Ipsen receives positive CHMP opinion for Cabometyx® (cabozantinib) for the first-line treatment of adults with intermediate- or poor- risk advanced renal cell carcinoma
Cabozantinib is the first and only monotherapy to demonstrate superior clinical efficacy over sunitinib in treatment-naïve patients with intermediate- or poor-risk aRCC Ipsen (Euronext: IPN; ADR: IPSEY) announced today that the Committee for Medicinal Products...
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A*STAR to group its different R&D activities into 5 categories
To respond to industry shifts and national needs, and for scientists to have greater clarity on funding and expected research outcomes, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) will be changing the way it organises its research and development...
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Danone Nutricia Research’s digital laboratory will provide tailored nutritional solutions to parents
Danone Nutricia Research inaugurated its new Precision Nutrition D-Lab at Biopolis Singapore. The lab will be a global hub of innovation, using advanced digital technology to provide tailored nutritional care in early life. The Precision Nutrition D-Lab comes...
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UEX raises 1.3 million SGD to accelerate its growth on the Singapore SMEs market
UEX, one of the first InsurTech platform in Singapore has just raised 1.3 million SGD of funding from its seed investor VERSPIEREN, a French insurance broker, to strengthen its presence on the Singaporean market. UEX will use part of the proceeds to...
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Upcoming Symposium: 26 April 2018: “The Innovative and Digital Healthcare Leap”
Following the launch of Smart Health in June 2017, the French Chamber is organising a Smart Health Symposium on Thursday, 26 April 2018. Smart Health is a platform which brings together the French expertise in the healthcare sector to address the context of...
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Ipsen and Exelixis announce phase 3 trial results of cabozantinib demonstrating significant overall survival benefit in patients with previously treated advanced hepatocellular carcinoma
Pivotal phase 3 CELESTIAL trial results, including additional subset analyses, to be presented during oral session on Friday, January 19 at the 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium (ASCO GI) In line with and in collaboration...
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Digital Marketing in Pharma: Turning Digital Marketing Data to Stories with AI: Experience Sharing with Sanofi Pasteur
As Sanofi Pasteur ramps up its efforts in making millions of people aware of the benefits of vaccines and ensure that no one suffers or dies from a vaccine-preventable disease, digital channels are key to reach out to Consumer and Healthcare workers. With a...
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Insurtech startup UEX launches digital referral programme UEX POP
UEX POP, a new digital interface for UEX members to refer UEX services to their « buddies » UEX, the two-year-old InsurTech Startup that enables expats and SMEs in Singapore to personalise, buy and sign their health insurance contracts online, has...
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