{"id":97894,"date":"2026-11-06T13:34:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T05:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97894"},"modified":"2026-11-06T13:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T05:34:59","slug":"from-cancer-to-diabetes-singapore-biomedical-startups-expand-into-china-to-accelerate-development-of-new-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97894","title":{"rendered":"From cancer to diabetes: Singapore biomedical startups expand into China to accelerate development of new treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>At the same time, development is in the works for a cheaper \u201coff-the-shelf\u201d version of its cell therapy that could be manufactured in different countries, potentially making the treatment more accessible to global markets.<\/p>\n<p>The firm is also exploring the use of artificial intelligence to expand its therapies to other tumours and diseases such as lung and breast cancer.<\/p>\n<h2>CHINA\u2019S VAST PATIENT POOL<\/h2>\n<p>Meanwhile, fellow A*STAR spin-off BetaLife is developing stem cell therapies that could replace cells damaged by diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>China, with about 148 million adults living with diabetes, presents a key market for the Singapore med-tech startup. The figure accounts for roughly a quarter of the world\u2019s adult diabetes population, according to 2024 estimates from the International Diabetes Federation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see China as an important part of (our) Asia and global development strategy,\u201d said BetaLife co-founder and director Novanne Seah.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/singapore-biomedical-startups-expand-china-cancer-diabetes-treatments-6516196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n<p><center><script>\n  atOptions = {\n    'key' : 'ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540',\n    'format' : 'iframe',\n    'height' : 90,\n    'width' : 728,\n    'params' : {}\n  };\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highrevenueformat.com\/ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540\/invoke.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the same time, development is in the works for a cheaper \u201coff-the-shelf\u201d version of its cell therapy that could be manufactured in different countries,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25362,32469,280,832,5496,278,4799,22,26334,10546],"class_list":["post-97894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-accelerate","tag-biomedical","tag-cancer","tag-china","tag-development","tag-diabetes","tag-expand","tag-singapore","tag-startups","tag-treatments","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}