Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean's visit to ETC
13 Feb 2017
Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean's visit to ETC on 13 Feb 2017
Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean visited A*STAR on Monday- 13 February 2017- to learn more about Singapore’s drug discovery and development landscape. He toured the Singapore Screening Centre which is critical to A*STAR’s drug discovery efforts. The Singapore Screening Centre is a drug screening platform within A*STAR’s Experimental Therapeutics Centre (ETC) that provides a full spectrum of state-of-the-art automation technologies to biomedical researchers- enabling highly efficient drug screening in one location. The Singapore Screening Centre conducts high-throughput screening to identify potential drug candidates against disease- using a library of over 500-000 chemical compounds.
