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The L’Oréal Group has opened an Advanced Research Centre in A*STAR’s
Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) to plug into the world-class
research environment in Biopolis and Singapore. This is part of
L’Oréal’s strategy to foster relations with local centres of scientific
excellence and internationalize its research to be closer to consumers
in support of its strategy to gain one billion new consumers over the
next 10 to 15 years.
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IMB’s expertise in skin biology research, together with the ethnically
diverse population in Singapore, complements L’Oréal’s interest in
understanding human skin diversity. This sparked off IMB’s first
partnership with L’Oréal in 2010, which aimed to reconstruct Asian skin
from cultured cells. After encouraging results from this project,
L’Oréal Research & Innovation (R&I) decided to open an Advanced
Research Centre in Biopolis, which currently houses eight scientists.
They are now expanding their collaborations with IMB, BMRC’s Skin
Biology Cluster Platform and beyond to the biomedical research
community in Biopolis and Singapore.
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“We are more than happy with the results we are getting with IMB and
thanks to the local scientific and technological expertise in
Singapore, we have extended our range and network of collaborations and
widened the new center’s field of research to “Skin biology”, said
Stéphane Ortiz, head of L’Oréal’s Asia R&I. “There are talented
young scientists in Singapore, professors from around the world and a
variety of laboratories, research institutions, start-ups, universities
of all sizes and disciplines. These are ideal situations for converting
scientific concepts into prototypes for products or evaluation methods.
Without doubt, Singapore offers an outstanding environment for piloting
science-driven innovation.”
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Prof Birgitte Lane, Executive Director of IMB, said: “We are very
excited about the L’Oréal research center in IMB as L’Oréal is a global
brand that is committed to advancing skin science for the benefit of
skin care. This will allow us to tap on each other’s strengths, to better
understand Asian skin, which will bring many applications, from
personal care to healthcare solutions. We welcome L’Oréal into the
lively scientific community at Biopolis. They join a growing number of
companies bringing their research into Biopolis, and will strengthen
the healthy cluster of public-private open research partnerships that
is developing here.”
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