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5 February 2026
Singapore’s cancer screening gap is widening at a critical moment
Low participation rates, late diagnoses and younger patients point to the urgent need for a rethink. Some recent health statistics paint a troubling picture.
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7 April 2025
National Cancer Centre's Ravindran Kanesvaran on future of cancer care, treatment costs
Measures to strengthen clinical capacity, accelerate innovation in treatment, and ensure more equitable access as Singapore adapts to changing cancer demographics and the growing role of advanced therapies.
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14 March 2025
Professor Ashok Venkitaraman elected as Fellow of prestigious AACR Academy
Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, CSI Singapore Director and STCC Board Oversight Committee member, is elected to the 2025 class of Fellows of the prestigious AACR Academy for his pioneering contributions to cancer research.
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1 March 2025
Partnership for advancing cancer research and biobanking in Asia
The National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) in Taiwan and the Singapore Translational Cancer Consortium (STCC) sign an MoU to strengthen cross-border biobanking and translational cancer research.
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22 January 2025
Discovering a breakthrough in bladder cancer treatment landscape
In a brief conversation with Biospectrum Asia, Dr Kanesvaran, outlined his extensive expertise in tackling Advanced Bladder Cancer (ABC) and its prophylaxis with reference to recent clinical findings.
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3 January 2025
Advancing Cancer Research & Translation in Singapore – A Look Back at 2024
Highlights from 2024
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31 October 2024
Appointment of Associate Professor Ravindran Kanesvaran as Co-Director, STCC from 31 October 2024
Senior leadership appointment change at STCC
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29 July 2024
Media Coverage: Singapore patients may get greater access to novel cancer drugs under R&D partnership
STCC named first Southeast Asian member of imCORE — what it means for Singapore.
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24 July 2024
The Singapore Translational Cancer Consortium (STCC) Becomes First Southeast Asian Member of Roche’s imCORE Network of Leading Global Research Centres to Advance Understanding of Cancer Immunotherapy
STCC Becomes First Southeast Asian Member of Roche’s imCORE Network
Media Releases
30 December 2023
STCC and NCCS collaboration to advance organ on chip platform using Philips technology
STCC and NCCS announce a research collaboration to develop a Philips-enabled Organ-on-Chip platform to scale tumour organoid models and accelerate pre-clinical cancer research in Singapore.
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