Office of Business Development (OBD)
Within the Genome Institute of Singapore, innovation is our answer to today’s biomedical challenges. Through our research, we create the basis for state-of-the-art genome technologies for novel diagnostics and pioneering medicines.
In this context, the OBD provides a pathway for resolving business-related matters, manages the business operations, and engages with governance committees to enable strategic alignment with our partners. We serve as a dynamic bridge between GIS laboratories and industry to make certain that promising new technologies and findings are translated into successful products and services that benefit society, both in Singapore and worldwide. This is achieved by:
- Stimulating technology development and innovation within the GIS and securing all necessary protection of the resulting intellectual property.
- Licensing agreements, establishing new ventures and building value around GIS innovations.
- Building research collaborations with industry around our research projects.
In addition, OBD not only oversees and manages our flagship programs in diagnostics for pathogens and cancer, cancer treatment and in personalized genomic medicine, but also continues to evaluate and searches for promising opportunities arising from scientific projects within the GIS or with academic, industrial, biotech and pharma partners. We seamlessly work together with our scientific teams to provide the best chance of success for innovation.
The Office of Research Affairs (ORA)
The ORA is responsible for overseeing and coordinating scientific processes within the GIS to support researchers’ objectives and meet GIS goals. We are also the administrative liaison between our researchers and all external funding bodies.
A key role of the ORA is to coordinate the management of GIS internal scientific resources through our Project Management System (ProMS). Under this portfolio, ORA co-ordinates multidisciplinary projects, assuring timely completion of milestones and project reporting for GIS’ principal investigators.
Another important function of this office is to organize and facilitate activities of the institute’s Scientific Advisory Board.
The ORA is responsible for the organizing of selected scientific meetings, the management of senior staff recruitment and promotion, as well as the coordination of overseas visits.
We work closely with the Business Development unit of GIS to identify, capture and develop new working opportunities with pharmaceutical industries, biotech companies, and the clinical community.