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In this webinar on "Accessing The Chinese Market: A Perspective From Two Start-Ups", Dr. Likun Wang, Mrs. Yang Feng and Dr. Li Wei will share their knowledge on emerging areas in pharmaceutical developments, experiences entering the China pharma market and the network that supported them going through this entrepreneurial journey.

The second webinar of the series titled “A Scientist’s Journey to Entrepreneurship - The story of Enleofen” was moderated by Ms. Sabrina Ng, Chief Finance Officer, CXA Group and featured Dr. Sebastian Schaefer, Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorder, Duke-NUS Medical School.

In this interview, we spoke to Mr Kuan Chee Mun, Executive Director, and Dr. Andrea Pavesi, Consultant, to find out about AIM Biotech’s journey as a start-up, their experiences navigating the biotech industry as start-up founders, and to seek their advice for aspiring start-ups in Singapore.

In this EVX-BCS webinar, Professor Andrew Lo from the MIT Sloan School of Management will explain how the tools of financial engineering—portfolio theory, securitization, credit default swaps, and other commonly used financial techniques—can be used to reduce the risk and increase the attractiveness of biomedical innovation so as bring new therapies to patients faster.

In this EVX-BCS webinar on the journeys of three scientists in biotech, Dr Tan Si Hui, Dr Wai Lu-En, and Dr. Lee Yin Loon will share with us their journeys from academia to biotech start-ups. This panel of scientists will introduce to us a path for those with a spirit of creativity, courage and capability to bring their scientific discoveries to the market.

What is a shareholders' agreement, why is it important, and what does it need to contain? Faith Sing of fsLAW demystifies the function and contents of a shareholders' agreement, and offers tips on what you need to know when starting your new venture.

This November, join our second Future of Healthcare Week where 2,000+ healthcare leaders will explore how to navigate the opportunities and challenges around innovation, accessibility, efficiency, sustainability and the inevitable acceleration of digital healthcare that the pandemic has catalysed.

In this post-event summary, we revisit a webinar hosted by BCS on 23rd September 2020, featuring Bianca Coulter, Martin Grindrod and Neha Rajdev of Coulter Partners, a global Life Science board and senior level executive search firm.

In this instalment of the BCS Startup Series on funding schemes, we invite managers and program directors from National Health Innovation Centre (NHIC) Singapore and SME Centre @ Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SME Centre@SICCI), an initiative of Enterprise Singapore, to share with us about the capability assistance programmes and other programs under the same initiative (i.e. Startup SG programs), that businesses can explore and some useful information about the application process.

In this webinar, we will feature the story of PairX Bio ("PairX"), a new Singapore-based Biotech Company in cancer immunotherapy and latest spin-off from Duke-NUS AMC. The panel featuring Dr Raymond Lee, Scientific Co-founder of PairX; Mr XQ Lin, an investor in PairX; and Ms Cheryl McCaffrey, Director of Duke-NUS' CTed, will share their insights on the opportunities and challenges of starting a biotech company.