The Singapore government has built Biopolis- a high-tech biomedical park, at a cost of S$500 million. Biopolis includes a seven-building complex linked by skybridges and offers a built-up area of 185,000 sqm. Here, scientists can interact at both personal and scientific levels with colleagues of several A-STAR Institutes as well as corporate research groups. Located in close proximity to the National University of Singapore, National University Hospital and the Singapore Science Parks, the Biopolis is Asia's leading center for biomedical sciences research and development.
Biotech & Pharma companies
Several key government agencies, publicly funded research institutes, R&D laboratories of pharmaceutical and Biotech companies are located here. These include five of A-STAR's Biomedical Research Institutes - The Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, Bioprocessing Technology Institute, the Genome Institute of Singapore, the Bioinformatics Institute and the Institute for Bio-engineering and Nanotechnology and the Division of Biomedical Sciences. The Johns Hopkins in Singapore, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline and Isis Pharmaceuticals Singapore have also established new facilities at Biopolis. Biopolis has all the latest state-of-the-art equipment and features a bar, a day-care center and an underground facility made to house a quarter-million laboratory mice.
Stem Cell Bank at Biopolis
A stem cell bank is also being set up at Biopolis.This stem bank will be able to count on some of the world's most liberal laws on human embryonic cell usage. Singapore offers grants for R&D projects and technology training. Lower corporate taxes and even full tax exemption are available to the biopharma industry because it's considered a strategically important industry in the city-state. No wonder, these international companies are flocking to Biopolis.
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