Effient trial by Daiichi, Lilly fails to meet primary endpoint

Singapore: The TRILOGY ACS study, a phase III trial comparing prasugrel plus aspirin to clopidogrel plus aspirin in pati...

August 27, 2012 | Monday | News
Takeda ends 3-year-old-deal with Amylin

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical mutually terminated its worldwide agreement with Amylin Pharmaceuticals, which was o...

December 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News
EMA committee positive on Teduglutide

Singapore: The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency has adopted a posi...

June 25, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Astellas Pharma opens office in Singapore

Singapore: Astellas Pharma, Japan's pharmaceutical giant with net sales of $10.7 billion and net income of $881 million ...

December 12, 2013 | Thursday | News
Sucampo gets $15 mn payment from Abbott

Singapore: Sucampo Pharmaceuticals' subsidiary SPL has received a $15 million milestone payment from Abbott's subsidi...

December 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Scotland approves Eisai's Fycompa

Singapore: Eisai announched that Scotland's health technology assessment (HTA) body, the Scottish Medicines Consortiu...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Zoll establishes Japanese subsidiary

Singapore: ZOLL Medical, a manufacturer of medical devices and related software solutions and a wholly owned US subsi...

October 29, 2012 | Monday | News
RLS, Parkinson's drug Neupro gets Japanese nod

Singapore: The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved Neupro (rotigotine transdermal pat...

December 28, 2012 | Friday | News
AVEO, Astellas cancer drug gets FDA nod

Singapore: AVEO Oncology and Astellas Pharma announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accep...

November 29, 2012 | Thursday | Regulatory
Mundipharma, Shionogi tie up for pain treatment in Japan

Singapore: Mundipharma has entered a license agreement with Japan-based Shionogi for the exclusive rights to develop, ma...

November 22, 2013 | Friday | News
Japan approves pioneering stem cell study for heart disease

Singapore: Cytori Therapeutics announced that a 40-patient, multi-center investigator-sponsored and funded clinical s...

September 17, 2012 | Monday | News
Isogenica appoints CTC Lab Systems to tap Japan

Singapore: Isogenica has appointed CTC Laboratory Systems (CTCLS) of Tokyo, Japan, to represent its business in Japan. C...

May 22, 2012 | Tuesday | News
ThermoGenesis sells product line to Asahi

Singapore: ThermoGenesis, a leading supplier of enabling technologies for the processing, storage and administration of ...

July 3, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Sanford-Burnham, Daiichi form new alliance

Singapore: US based Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and Japan's Daiichi Sankyo have formed a three year disco...

May 26, 2014 | Monday | News
Takeda strives to enter Europe's type 2 diabetes market

Singapore: Japan-based Takeda Global Research & Development Centre has received confirmation of the acceptance of su...

June 21, 2012 | Thursday | Regulatory
Bangkok to adopt Japanese technology to treat cancer

Singapore: Thailand hospital is planning to introduce Japanese cancer therapy technology using a heavy ion beam to treat...

November 6, 2014 | Thursday | News
Novartis under fire from Tasigna allegations

Singapore: Swiss giant Novartis Pharma's Japanese arm has prompted the Japanese health ministry to launch an investigati...

May 14, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Genmab in research deal with Kyowa Hakko Kirin

Singapore: Genmab has entered into a research collaboration with Japan-based Kyowa Hakko Kirin to create bispecific anti...

December 7, 2012 | Friday | News
Japanese-Thai program to fund three projects

Singapore: Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) ...

July 27, 2012 | Friday | News
Daiichi seeks approval for influenza antiviral in Japan

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo has submitted an application for a partial label change in Japan to manufacture and market the...

November 19, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Mitsubishi and Daiichi Sankyo to launch diabetes drug in Japan

Singapore: Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma and Daiichi Sankyo will launch selective DPP-4 inhibitor Tenelia 20mg tablets (tenel...

August 28, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Pic Gallery - 7th in-Pharma Japan and 26th Interphex Japan

7th in-Pharma Japan and 26th Interphex Japan, which was held from July 10-12, 2013, at Tokyo Big Sight, Japan...

August 5, 2013 | Monday | Analysis
Pharma companies focus on supply chain in Japan

Singapore: Pressures felt in Japan as a result of the country's aging population, drug price revisions and patent expiri...

July 19, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Takeda subsidiary suspended for 'no drug label'

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical received an Order for Corrective Action regarding the manufacturing and marketing of Al...

February 20, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Thermo Fisher enters into agreement Fujirebio

Singapore: Thermo Fisher Scientific signed a long-term license agreement with Fujirebio to make its biomarker assay P...

November 21, 2012 | Wednesday | News