Japan's Omron Healthcare to soon roll out Made-in-India blood pressure monitors

Omron Healthcare, a global leader in the field of clinically proven, innovative medical equipment for home health monito...

July 11, 2025 | Friday | News
I Peace and Vita Therapeutics to develop iPS cells for transplantation therapy

Leading GMP cell CDMO I Peace, Inc., specialising in induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and iPSC-derived cell therap...

July 10, 2025 | Thursday | News
Japan's JCR Pharma licenses gene therapy platform to AstraZeneca Rare Disease unit for $825 M

Japan's JCR Pharmaceuticals Co. has entered into a license agreement with Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease, for JCR&rsq...

July 10, 2025 | Thursday | News
Chugai and Gero ink $250 M deal to develop new therapies for age-related diseases

Japan's Chugai Pharmaceutical and Gero, a Singapore-based biotechnology company, have entered into a joint research...

July 9, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Verified Clinical Trials launches operations in Japan

Verified Clinical Trials (VCT), the global leader in clinical trial subject registry solutions, has officially laun...

July 8, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Shimadzu receives US FDA's premarketing notification for Positive PET system

Japan's Shimadzu Corporation has obtained premarketing notification from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for i...

July 7, 2025 | Monday | News
BioVersys inks deal worth CHF 479 M with Japan's Shionogi to treat infectious diseases

BioVersys AG, a multi-asset, clinical stage biopharmaceutical company based in Switzerland, focusing on research an...

July 4, 2025 | Friday | News
AN Venture Partners announces one of the largest Japan focused biotech funds to date

AN Venture Partners (ANV), a global biotech venture capital firm, has announced the final close of its first fund, AN Ve...

July 3, 2025 | Thursday | News
PHC announces exclusive distribution of MaxCyte ExPERT platform in Japan

The Biomedical Division of Japan-based PHC Corporation (PHCbi), a subsidiary of PHC Holdings Corporation (PHCHD), has si...

July 2, 2025 | Wednesday | News
“The burden on medical and long-term care systems due to ageing is expected to intensify in Japan”

What major initiatives are lined up for Asahi's healthcare business in 2025 and beyond? Are you planning any major inves...

July 1, 2025 | Tuesday | Opinion
Japan’s strategic medtech alignment with India

Japan has one of the highest life expectancies in the world, with over 28 per cent of its population being 65 years or o...

July 1, 2025 | Tuesday | Analysis
AvenCell Japan wins $40 M AMED grant to advance allogeneic CAR-T programme

AvenCell Japan, a wholly owned subsidiary of AvenCell Therapeutics, a private, clinical-stage biotechnology company deve...

July 1, 2025 | Tuesday | News
AGC Biologics expands cell therapy development operations to Asia

AGC Biologics will commence cell therapy process development and clinical manufacturing services on July 1, 2025, at AGC...

June 26, 2025 | Thursday | News
Japan's Fujirebio acquires Plasma Services Group to provide biological raw materials to IVD industries

H.U. Group Holdings Inc., and its wholly owned subsidiary, Fujirebio Holdings, Inc. has announced that Fujirebio Diagnos...

June 24, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Ono Pharma and Vertex to commercialise Povetacicept in Japan and South Korea for nephropathy treatment

Japan-based Ono Pharmaceutical Co., and Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, in the US, have announced an exclusive coll...

June 24, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Harbour BioMed & Otsuka Pharma ink $670 M agreement for treatment of autoimmune diseases

Harbour BioMed, a China-based biopharmaceutical company, has announced a global strategic collaboration with Japan-headq...

June 23, 2025 | Monday | News
Japan gives nod to Israeli startup MedHub-AI's coronary physiology diagnostic software

Israel-based startup MedHub-AI, a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cardiovascular diagnostics,...

June 20, 2025 | Friday | News
NEC and Chugai Pharmaceutical use AI to potentially enhance cancer treatment in Japan

Japan-based NEC Corporation, in collaboration with Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., has conducted an experiment usin...

June 19, 2025 | Thursday | News