Davos Life Science Opens World's Largest R&D Centre on Tocotrienols in Singapore

13-Nov-2006

Davos Life Science, a manufacturer of active ingredients for health supplements, cosmeceuticals, functional foods, animal health and pharmaceutical products based on natural tocotrienols, opened the according to the company world's largest Research & Development Centre dedicated to tocotrienols in Singapore. This new state-of-the-art Centre, located at Biopolis, shall complement its manufacturing plant at Tuas which is capable of producing the largest quantity of natural tocotrienol concentrates in the world.

Tocotrienols were first found in 1955 and belong to the previously known family of Vitamin E. However, they have significantly different properties. Tocotrienol is an active ingredient with the potential for the pharmaceutical market sector as a single agent or in combination with other drugs. Under the initiative of one of North America's major cancer research institutes, Davos Life Science's Tocotrienol Isomers will be applied in phase I and phase II clinical studies.

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