Current News

Contact | Print version | PDF version | Send article | RSS-Feed

British High Commission in Singapore Opens Science and Tech Office at research hub Biopolis
Singapore Life-Sciences Company Opens Research and Production Facility

01 Dec 2004 - The British High Commission opened a new Science and Technology Office at the Biopolis. While the high commission has more than 20 science and technology offices around the world, its unit at Biopolis' Helios building is the first to be located in a research hub. The British High Commission is setting up shop at research hub Biopolis so it can be a science matchmaker for Singapore and Britain. International patent firm Lloyd Wise recently set up an office while Switzerland has set up its 'scientific embassy', Swiss House. On the same day too, pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline opened its research facility at Biopolis. A total of $62 million will be pumped into finding a cure for memory-related conditions such as Alzheimer's.
 
In addition, one of Singapore's first home-grown life-science companies is opening a multi-million-dollar research and production facility here. It also has ambitious plans to go regional with a cream for osteoarthritis and joint-injury sufferers. Lynk Biotechnologies' facility costs several million dollars and includes top-of-the-line proteomics equipment to sieve through various molecules - which are potential drugs - that switch on, or off, the functions of cells in the body. There are also animal-testing facilities and a semi-automated plant to produce the joint cream. Lynk's subsidiary, MediLynk, uses so-called transdermal technology to deliver drugs through the skin.