Cancer Clinical Trials & Investigational Medicine Units

The Cancer Clinical Trials and Investigational Medicine Units platform aims to drive impactful and innovative clinical research and elevate Singapore’s position as a leading destination for conducting cancer clinical trials. We offer unique solutions to support and streamline clinical trial conduct by bringing together the expertise, capabilities and resources across the three healthcare clusters in Singapore.

Our platform works closely with research and pharmaceutical/ biotechnology organisations in both the public sector and industry with the common goal of facilitating access to innovative treatments for cancer patients.

Our capabilities and initiatives

• An established framework for collaborative multi-centre cancer research with streamlined contracting and centralised workflows for facilitation of multi-centre studies

• Coordinate and promote translational cancer research collaborations for and amongst different Large Collaborative Grant (LCG) programmes and cancer groups

• Founded a national Key Opinion Leader (KOL) network – the STCC Tumour Groups - comprising of multidisciplinary experts from Singapore’s three healthcare clusters aimed to:

  • Develop strategic cancer research agenda aligned with national needs.

  • Shape Singapore’s cancer research ecosystem through top priority trials with high translational value.

  • Drive regional clinical trial networks for the conduct of cross-border trials.

  • Groups have been established in the following areas of cancer research:

    • Breast Cancer

    • Thoracic Cancer and Head and Neck

    • Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancers

    • Genito-urinary (GU) Cancers

    • Sarcoma/Rare Malignancies (including central nervous system cancers)

    • Lymphoma

    • Myeloma

    • Leukemia

    • Gynaecologic Cancer

    • Phase 1 and Clinical Pharmacology

    • Nucleic Acid Therapeutics and Cancer Vaccines

You can find a list of currently recruiting oncology clinical trials hereby selecting “Cancer” in the Therapeutic Area field.

For feasibility requests or clinical trial enquiries, please send them to mailbox@stcc.cris.sg