Singapore civil servant to moonlight in biotech company

Washington Post, 16 Jul 2012
The co-founder of a local biotechnology company, Chang, who was the subject of a Capital Business story last December, has been living in the tiny Southeast Asian country since March. He works in a government lab developing a cancer cell diagnostic platform.
OptoBioSense could soon follow him to Singapore. Chang’s co-founder and faculty mentor, David J. Nagel, will fly there next month to discuss the possibility of licensing the technology to developers in Singapore.
“If it were done in Singapore, then Chia-Pin’s there, and that would be nice,” Nagel added. “But he has a very demanding full-time job now, so his boss would have to back off on his assignments.
The company is also seeking funding here. Nagel said they will resubmit a previously unsuccessful application for a National Institutes of Health research grant
and pursue discussions with investors based in the U.S. ” Full story