India urges Japan to provide wider pharma market access

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 14 Oct, 2016

Singapore: The Indian commerce Minister, Ms Nirmala Sitharaman has urged Japan to provide Indian pharmaceutical sector with a wider share and greater market access in Japan. Ms Sitharaman f...Read more

Zydus Cadila, Takeda to co-develop vaccine for chikungunya

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 23 Sep, 2016

Singapore: Japan's Takeda pharmaceuticals has joined hands with India-based Zydus Cadila in an aim to co-develop a vaccine for chikungunya. As per the terms the companies will jointly devel...Read more

Japan market forecast

Japan |  Opinion | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 20 Jan, 2016

Singapore: Japan's demographic profile will continue to create revenue earning opportunities for the pharmaceuticals and healthcare industry. Supported by an expansive universal healthcare ...Read more

Stem cell scientist sues Nobel laureate for deception

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 17 May, 2013

Singapore: Dr Rongxiang Xu, a scientist who claims to be the founder of human body regenerative restoration science, has filed a lawsuit against Dr Shinya Yamanaka, one of the winners of th...Read more

Niigata Univ stroke therapy license for Shimojani

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 25 Feb, 2013

Singapore: Shimojani obtained exclusive license from Japan's Niigata University for worldwide development and commercialization of an invention that reduces the risk of hemorrhage in acute...Read more

Astellas prostrate cancer drug gets EU nod

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 25 Jun, 2013

Singapore: The European Commission has approved Xtandi (enzalutamide) capsules for the treatment of men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, whose disease has progressed on...Read more

Columbia Asia receives $101mn investment from Mitsui & Co.

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 27 Jul, 2016

Singapore: Columbia Asia has announced it is receiving $101 million in investment from Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Columbia Asia, part of Seattle-based Columbia Pacific Management, has 27 hospi...Read more

Teijin, Versartis partner for commercialization of Somavaratan in Japan

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 11 Aug, 2016

Singapore: Teijin Limited and Versartis, Inc. has announced that the companies and their wholly owned subsidiaries have entered into an exclusive license and supply agreement for the develo...Read more

Tivozanib shows superiority over sorafenib in trial

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 18 May, 2012

Singapore: Investigational agent, tivozanib, has demonstrated statistically significant and clinically meaningful PFS superiority versus approved targeted agent sorafenib in advanced Renal ...Read more

Chugai gets positive outcome from Actemra Subcutaneous Injection trials

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 17 May, 2016

Japanese pharmaceutical giant Chugai Pharmaceutical Co Ltd has announced that its Actemra Subcutaneous Injection (Actemra), the humanized antihuman IL-6 receptor monoclonal antibody, succes...Read more

Prosetta Biosciences, Takeda to co-discover drugs for neurodegenerative diseases

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 03 May, 2016

Prosetta Biosciences Inc. has entered into a Feasibility and First Right of Negotiation Agreement with Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, to conduct a feasibility study for the ...Read more

Histogenics to develop Purpose's NeoCart for Japanese Market

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 11 May, 2016

Histogenics Corporation, a NASDAQ-listed regenerative medicine company focused on developing and commercializing products in the musculoskeletal space, announced that it has acquired the de...Read more

NCRM gets Japanese patent for nanotechnology-based corneal stem cell transplant

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 01 Feb, 2016

Tokyo: Corneal endothelial precursor cell transplantation methodology, employing a Nanocomposite gel sheet has been awarded a Japanese patent to Chennai-based Nichi-in Centre for Regenerati...Read more

Allergan's Botox Vista receives marketing authorization in Japan

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 25 May, 2016

Dublin-headquartered Allergan plc has announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved an additional use for Botox Vista (Allergan's botulinum toxin type A pr...Read more

Microfluidics expert becomes Japan S&T agency licensee

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 27 Aug, 2012

Singapore: Microfluidics expert Dolomite is now a licensee of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) under JST's microdroplet generation technology. Dolomite is authorized to grant sub-...Read more

Daiichi Sankyo to reorganize supply chain business

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 02 Oct, 2012

Singapore: Japan's Daiichi Sankyo has decided to reorganize three of its Japanese supply chain subsidiaries, Daiichi Sankyo Propharma (DSPP), Daiichi Sankyo Chemical Pharma (DSCP) and Daiic...Read more

Daiichi Sankyo announces closure of its Hiratsuka Plant

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 04 Apr, 2016

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (hereafter Daiichi Sankyo) has announced its decision to close the Hiratsuka plant owned by its subsidiary, Daiichi Sankyo Chemical Pharma Co., Lt...Read more

BIOTEC launches microbe management course

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 22 Jan, 2013

Singapore: Thailand's flagship biotechnology organization, BIOTEC, NITE Biological Resource Center (NBRC) of Japan and World Data Center for Microorganisms (WDCM), have launched a training...Read more