Collaboration between Biopolis and RIKEN

My eyes are on Biopolis, Singapore's biosciences research initiative occupying a futuristic campus next to the National University of Singapore. Championed by Philip Yeo, Chair of Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Start), Biopolis is still relatively early phase. But it already includes a crop of several shiny buildings connected by soaring above-ground walkways.

Biopolis has been making impressive connections lately, and actively working itself into the public imagination. Recent news describes a collaborative agreement with Japan's RIKEN (translated as "Institute of Physical and Chemical Research", but these days doing plenty of top biological research).

Biopolis goes into the RIKEN collaboration with an interest to expand its biomedical research focus beyond infectious disease to cancer drug development. The collaboration will focus on the exchange of ideas as well as training programs that will send Singapore's burgeoning supply of enthusiastic trainee scientists to Japan.


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