Eisai botulinum toxin injection to help relax muscles

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 1 Comment | 01 Apr, 2013

Singapore: Eisai launched NerBloc Intramuscular Injection 2500 Units (botulinum toxin type B, "NerBloc"), a neuromuscula...Read more

Harvard, Sony collaborate for Organs-on-Chips

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 18 Mar, 2013

Singapore: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University has collaborated with Sony DADC, d...Read more

Takeda files NDA for multiple sclerosis drug in Japan

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 26 Dec, 2014

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical has submitted a new drug application (NDA) to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour a...Read more

Ono pharma partners with Gilead lifesciences

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 22 Dec, 2014

Singapore: Japan-based Ono Pharmaceuticals recently announced that the company has entered into an agreement with Gilead...Read more

Sanofi gets 3rd rank on Access to Medicine Index

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 29 Nov, 2012

Singapore: Sanofi has been ranked third among 20 pharmaceutical companies on the 2012 Access to Medicine Index (ATM Ind...Read more

Akebia, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma partner for 'Vadadustat'

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 15 Dec, 2015

Singapore: Akebia Therapeutics and Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation (MTPC)has announced that they have entered into ...Read more

Intra-nasal vaccine: Answer to avian influenza threat

Japan |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 2 Comment | 18 Jul, 2012

There is a fear that avian H5N1 virus could cause a pandemic of new influenza in humans without any warning. To prevent ...Read more

Shionogi's constipation medicine proves effective in trials

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 04 Aug, 2015

Tokyo: Shionogi, one of Japan's century-old pharmaceutical manufacturers, has announced that its once-daily naldemedine ...Read more

Asahi Kasei-SPI Pharma form alliance to market pharmaceutical additives

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 16 Dec, 2015

Tokyo: Japan's Asahi Kasei Chemicals and US-based SPI Pharma Inc. have agreed to form an alliance in the field of pharma...Read more

Aerocrine initiates pulmonary device sales in Japan

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 24 Apr, 2015

Singapore: Aerocrine AB, a Swedish medical products company, has launched its marketing and sales efforts of Aerocrine's...Read more

Japanese nod for Bayer's thyroid cancer drug

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 23 Jun, 2014

Singapore: The ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan has approved a drug for the treatment of patients w...Read more

Japan's new medical device receives FDA nod

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 09 Mar, 2015

Singapore: The US FDA has recently given its approval for a device that treats dialysis-related amyloidosis (DRA), a com...Read more

FDA grants orphan status to Eisai cancer drug

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 15 Feb, 2013

Singapore: Eisai announced that the US FDA has granted orphan drug designation to its investigational drug lenvatinib (...Read more

Pluristem's regenerative medicine convinces Japan PMDA

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 14 May, 2015

Singapore: Pluristem Therapeutics, an Israel-based developer of placenta-based cell therapy products, has announced that...Read more

Taconic Biosciences expands its pact with Japan's Micell

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 24 Apr, 2016

Singapore: Taconic Biosciences, a global leading provider of genetically modified animal models to researchers, recently...Read more

Zecotek receives $500,000 order from Hamamatsu

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 01 Aug, 2013

Singapore: Zecotek Photonics, a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific ...Read more

AstraZeneca to commercialize Daiichi Sankyo's OIC drug

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 20 Mar, 2015

Singapore: AstraZeneca has partnered with Japan-based Daiichi Sankyo to co-commercialize Movantik (naloxegol) in the US,...Read more

Astellas to axe 300 jobs in home country in FY14

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 04 Nov, 2013

Singapore: Japanese pharmaceutical major Astellas Pharma has announced that it would cut down its group workforce in hom...Read more