Pfizer, BioNTech to supply 120M doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Japan

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE have announced an agreement with the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan ...

August 3, 2020 | Monday | News
Novavax, Fujifilm to manufacture COVID-19 vaccine at large scale

US based Novavax, Inc., a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious di...

July 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
Japanese Beta Glucan recommended for clinical trial in COVID-19 patients

A unique Beta 1,3-1,6 Glucan produced by the AFO-202 strain of a black yeast Aureobasidium pullulans is worth considerin...

July 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
CPhI Japan announces 2021 postponement

CPhI Japan – organised by Informa Markets – announces that, following a detailed review with partners a...

July 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo signs deal with AstraZeneca for $6B

Japanese firm Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has announced that it has entered into a global development and commercial...

July 27, 2020 | Monday | News
Takeda advances in Personalized Care for people with bleeding disorders

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited on 12 July 2020 announced that 13 abstracts are being presented from the company&r...

July 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Chugai, Biofourmis to develop objective assessment of pain using AI technology

Japan's Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Biofourmis, a Boston-based digital therapeutics company,...

July 27, 2020 | Monday | News
Hitachi Global Foundation to support infectious diseases research

Japanese firm Hitachi, Ltd. has announced that it will donate 100 million yen to The Hitachi Global Foundation to suppor...

July 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo & Gustave Roussy collaborate for oncology research

Tokyo based Daiichi Sankyo Company Ltd. and France based Gustave Roussy recently announced a multi-year, multi-study res...

July 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Japan enters into research collaboration with Canada

Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) has signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with the Canadian ...

July 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Fujitsu established new company "Fujitsu Japan Ltd."

On 17 July 2020, Fujitsu announced the establishment of its new company "Fujitsu Japan Ltd." on October 1...

July 17, 2020 | Friday | News
FCNT initiates joint research with National Longevity Medical Research Center

Japan based Fujitsu Connected Technologies Limited (FCNT), a national longevity medical research Institute at Obu City, ...

July 20, 2020 | Monday | News
Daiichi Sankyo announces participation in AMR action fund

Japanese firm Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has announced its decision to participate in the Antimicrobial Resistance ...

July 17, 2020 | Friday | News
Terumo acquires Quirem Medical to enhance interventional oncology field

Japanese company Terumo Corporation has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Quirem Medical B.V., a N...

July 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
AVATAMED Partners CBmed in Europe on Precision Cancer Project

AVATAMED and CBmed, together with AIMEDBIO and Shimadzu Corporation, are collaborating in a Precision Cancer Project, le...

July 13, 2020 | Monday | News
Eisai enters industry-academia-government joint research agreement

Japanese firm Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that it has entered into an industry-academia-government joint research agreemen...

July 15, 2020 | Wednesday | News
PHC Group strengthens life sciences biz in Asia

Japan headquartered PHC Holdings Corporation has announced the completion of its acquisition of an additional 55.01...

July 13, 2020 | Monday | News
Thermo Fisher signs CDx agreement with Chugai Pharma

Thermo Fisher Scientific has signed a companion diagnostic (CDx) agreement with Japan based Chugai Pharmaceutical C...

July 9, 2020 | Thursday | News
Genesis Healthcare Ancestry Kit detects Asian genetic diversity and ancestral heritage

Genesis Healthcare Co., Japan's leading genetic testing and research company, has announced the launch of its ...

July 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
HOYA and Hitachi collaborate to supply Endoscopic Ultrasound Systems

HOYA Corporation and Hitachi, Ltd. on 6 July 2020 announced a five-year contract regarding Endoscopic Ultrasound Systems...

July 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Aichi Cancer Center, NEC study advanced cancer immunotherapy

Japan based Aichi Cancer Center and NEC Corporation have announced the launch of fundamental research aiming to realize ...

July 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Japan launches Fine Granule Formulation of Anti-epileptic Drug Fycompa

Eisai Co., Ltd. announced on 6 July 2020 that it has launched a new fine granule formulation of its in-house-discov...

July 6, 2020 | Monday | News
Eisai launches anti-insomnia drug in Japan

Japanese firm Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that it has launched its in-house-discovered and developed orexin receptor antag...

July 8, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Hitachi, ThinkCyte focus on AI-driven cell analysis and sorting system

Japan based companies Hitachi, Ltd. and ThinkCyte, Inc. have announced that they have entered into a collaboration focus...

July 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Fujifilm, Dr. Reddy and Global Response Aid to co-develop anti COVID-19 drug

FUJIFILM Corporation partners with Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd., a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in...

July 3, 2020 | Friday | News
Eisai joins REMAP-CAP on innovative trial to combat COVID-19

US based Global Coalition for Adaptive Research and Japanese firm Eisai Co., Ltd., in collaboration with UPMC (Universit...

July 6, 2020 | Monday | News
Japan begins research on vitals measurement headset

Kyocera Corporation and Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) announced a joint research project to develop a wirel...

July 3, 2020 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo in discussion with AZ for COVID-19 vaccine supply

Japan based Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has announced its agreement to proceed with discussions with AstraZeneca for...

July 2, 2020 | Thursday | News
Japan reveals breakthrough research in cancer

Researchers in Japan claim that they have replicated cancer cells from diseased bladder tissue in dogs, minimizing the u...

July 1, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japan repurposes hypertension vaccine for COVID-19 treatment

The Osaka-based Japanese biotech AnGes Inc. expects its potential COVID-19 vaccine to be ready as early as the first hal...

June 29, 2020 | Monday | News
Japan develops saliva test to detect COVID-19 in 30-min

Nihon University and Tokyo Medical University are developing a novel RT-PCR method for detection of SARS-CoV2 virus. Unl...

June 26, 2020 | Friday | News
Thermo Fisher, Daiichi Sankyo to co-develop CDx for NSCLC

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Daiichi Sankyo have expanded their partnership by signing a new agreement to co-develo...

June 30, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) impact on Asia-Pacific markets

HONG KONG Prevalence CVD, including heart attack and stroke, is the third leading cause of death in Hong Kong (aft...

June 23, 2020 | Tuesday | Analysis
EIU launches APAC Economist Intelligence Unit report for heart ailments

  The Cost of Inaction: Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Asia-Pacific   Rehabilitation ...

June 23, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo to develop mRNA vaccine against COVID-19

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has announced its decision to develop a genetic (mRNA) vaccine for the novel corona viru...

June 23, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Japan develops breakthrough treatment for osteoarthritis

A break through feat of growing pluripotency expressing cells from osteoarthritis (OA) affected cartilage tissue of knee...

June 24, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Santen, Orbis to develop training tools for eye care

Japanese firm Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and US based Orbis International have announced a partnership to develop a...

June 25, 2020 | Thursday | News
Joimax develops partnership with Japan Medicalnext

Joimax, the German based market leader in technologies and training methods for full-endoscopic and minimally invasive s...

June 22, 2020 | Monday | News
Japan studies genetic differences of COVID-19 and SARS viruses

Researchers at the University of Tokyo in Japan have identified specific portions of the genetic codes of the COVID-19 a...

June 19, 2020 | Friday | News
Takeda partners with Neurocrine Biosciences to focus on psychiatric disorders

US based Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. and Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited have announced a...

June 18, 2020 | Thursday | News
Astellas develops science based exercise programs

Astellas Pharma Inc. has developed science-based exercise programs in cooperation with  the City of Yokohama, Kanag...

June 16, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Takeda to divest select APAC assets to Celltrion for $278M

Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced that it has entered into an agreement to divest a...

June 15, 2020 | Monday | News
AbbVie, Genmab enter $4B cancer immunotherapy partnership

US-based AbbVie and Genmab announced on 10 June 2020 that they had formed the partnership that will focus on b...

June 11, 2020 | Thursday | News
Fujifilm to invest 100B yen at Denmark site

Japanese multinational firm FUJIFILM Corporation will make a major capital investment of approximately 100 billion yen (...

June 12, 2020 | Friday | News
Eisai takes Counter-Measures to tackle COVID-19 spread in Africa

Eisai Co., Ltd. announced on 10 June 2020 that it has committed the equivalent of 1 million USD in aid towards various a...

June 10, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japan explores Nafamostat inhalation formulation for COVID-19 treatment

The University of Tokyo, RIKEN, Nichi-Iko Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited have reached a ba...

June 10, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Healthtech startup Ubie raises $18.7M in Series B financing

Ubie, a Tokyo based HealthTech startup who is the developer of AI-based healthcare products, has raised JPY2 billio...

June 9, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Healios establishes proprietary universal donor cell research line

Healios K.K., Japan's leading clinical-stage biotechnology company, has been creating Universal Donor Cells (U...

June 8, 2020 | Monday | News
Daiichi Sankyo inks clinical research collaboration with Merck

Japan based Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited announced that it has entered into a clinical trial collaboration agreement ...

June 4, 2020 | Thursday | News
Eisai unveils new insomnia drug DAYVIGO

Japan based Eisai Co., Ltd. has announced that its U.S. subsidiary Eisai Inc. has launched its in-house discovered orexi...

June 3, 2020 | Wednesday | News
NCC Japan joins Illuminox Alliance Institutes network

US based Rakuten Medical, Inc., a global biotechnology company developing precision, cell-targeting investigational ther...

June 2, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Astellas receives approval for prostate cancer drug

Japanese firm Astellas Pharma Inc. has announced that the Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approv...

June 1, 2020 | Monday | News
Shinshu University, Toshiba develop tumor-tropic liposome technology

Japan based Toshiba Corporation and a team led by Professor Yozo Nakazawa at the Department of Pediatrics, Shinshu Unive...

May 29, 2020 | Friday | News
Takeda focuses on potential new therapies for COVID-19

Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited is a key leader of a coalition who has announced that world-leading ...

May 28, 2020 | Thursday | News
Daiichi Sankyo launches novel oncology medicine in Japan

Japanese firm Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has announced the launch of ENHERTU® (trastuzumab deruxtecan), a HER2 ...

May 27, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Fujifilm to use AI-based technology for COVID-19 diagnosis

Japan based FUJIFILM Corporation is commencing a research study to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based technology...

May 26, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Cytiva, Takara Bio to scale up COVID-19 vaccine candidate

Cytiva (formerly part of GE Healthcare Life Sciences), a global provider of technologies and services that advance and a...

May 21, 2020 | Thursday | News
AGC Biologics partners with Takara Bio in COVID-19 fight

Denmark headquartered AGC Biologics, a global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) for Biopharmace...

May 22, 2020 | Friday | News
Eisai to launch new Selbelle Premium Tablets and Fine Granules

Japan based Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that it has launched New Selbelle Premium Tablets and New Selbelle Premium Fine Gr...

May 19, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Shionogi to develop prophylactic vaccine for COVID-19

Japan based Shionogi & Co., Ltd. has announced that Shionogi has officially made the decision to develop a prophylac...

May 18, 2020 | Monday | News
Japan to design personalized cancer vaccine

Transgene, a biotech company in Tokyo that designs and develops virus-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer,...

May 15, 2020 | Friday | News
Japan approves Remdesivir to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients

Gilead Sciences, Inc. has announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has grante...

May 13, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo gets BTD for potential gastric cancer drug

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited and AstraZeneca’s ENHERTU® (fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki) has been granted ...

May 13, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Hitachi opens First Europe based Proton Therapy system in Spain

Hitachi, Ltd. on 8 May 2020 announced that it has provided its advanced proton therapy system to Clinica Universidad de ...

May 8, 2020 | Friday | News
CoVIg-19 plasma alliance building strong momentum

The CoVIg-19 Plasma Alliance, an unprecedented plasma industry collaboration recently established to accelerate the deve...

May 8, 2020 | Friday | News
Ajinomoto inks manufacturing agreement for COVID-19 drug

Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing serviceswi...

May 7, 2020 | Thursday | News
Harvard, Astellas establish strategic research alliance

Harvard University and Japanese firm Astellas Pharma Inc. have established a three-year strategic research alliance to s...

May 1, 2020 | Friday | News
Astellas, Insilico Medicine bank on AI for drug discovery

Hong Kong based Insilico Medicine has announced that it has entered into a research collaboration agreement with Ja...

May 4, 2020 | Monday | News
ProThera Bio, Takeda work towards treating acute inflammatory conditions

US based ProThera Biologics, Inc. and Japan headquartered Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited have announced...

April 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japan observes cross protection from COVID-19 by JEV

A significant discrepancy in mortality among even geographically close regions could be explained by a cross protection ...

April 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
Takeda inks deal worth $670M with Orifarm

Japan based Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced that it has entered into an agreement to divest a p...

April 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Terumo donates $2.4 M for COVID-19 fight

As the world joins together to support healthcare workers and others on the front lines providing critical care to patie...

April 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Astellas acquires Nanna Therapeutics for £12 M

Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc. and UK based Nanna Therapeutics Limited have announced that Astellas has acquired Nanna...

April 27, 2020 | Monday | News
NEC designs blueprints for COVID-19 vaccines using AI

Japan based NEC Corporation has announced analysis results from efforts using AI prediction platforms to design blueprin...

April 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Esperion & Otsuka to develop treatment for hypercholesterolemia

US based Esperion has announced that the company has entered into a collaboration agreement with Otsuka Pharmaceutic...

April 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Daiichi Sankyo to donate $1M for COVID-19 relief fund

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has announced that, through the Japan Center for International Exchange, it will make a ...

April 17, 2020 | Friday | News
Fujifilm accelerates favipiravir production for COVID-19 treatment

Fujifilm is ramping up production of its antiviral treatment drug favipiravir, one of many approved drugs being tested...

April 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Daiichi Sankyo commences gene therapy research to restore vision

Japan based Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co., Ltd. and Nagoya Institute of Technology ha...

April 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Takeda and CSL Behring to Develop Potential COVID-19 Hyperimmune Therapy

Takeda and CSL Behring, a provider of plasma-derived and recombinant therapies based in King of Prussia, PA, on 6 April ...

April 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Chugai starts Ph III trial of Actemra for COVID-19 pneumonia

Japan based Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. has announced that it is working to start a Phase III clinical trial in Japa...

April 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Jolly Good, NCCBTR collaborate for VR Therapeutics

Japanese startup Jolly Good Inc. and the National Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Research (NCCBTR) announced ...

April 6, 2020 | Monday | News
SanBio, Ocumension enter into biz alliance for treating eye diseases

Japan based SanBio and Hong Kong based Ocumension have entered into a business alliance for the research, development an...

April 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Genesis Healthcare unveils new detection test for COVID-19

Genesis Healthcare Co., Japan's leading genetic testing and research company, today announced the launch of a real-time ...

April 3, 2020 | Friday | News
Japan Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Pandemic Dashboard : Daily Confirmed Cases

Daily New Confirmed Cases : Japan   ...

April 3, 2020 | Friday | News
Japan’s MEXT awarded the A-PRAS certificate to Impact Science

Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) awarded Impact Science with the Accr...

April 2, 2020 | Thursday | News
Daiichi Sankyo, Ultragenyx partner for gene therapy manufacturing technology

Japan based Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with US based...

April 1, 2020 | Wednesday | News
GHIT Fund announces new investment of 3.29 B Yen

Japan based Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund has announced a total of 3.29 billion yen (US$30 m...

April 1, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Hitachi to establish Lumada Data Science lab

Japan based Hitachi, Ltd. on 30 March 2020 announced that on April 1, it will establish the "Lumada(1) Data Science Lab....

March 31, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo ends influenza vaccine sales deal with Kitasato

Japan based Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited and Kitasato Pharmaceutical Industry Co., Ltd. have announced the terminatio...

March 30, 2020 | Monday | News
CG Oncology inks agreement with Kissei Pharma for $40M

US based CG Oncology, Inc. has announced an exclusive license, development and commercialization agreement with Japanese...

March 27, 2020 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo receives approval for new breast cancer drug

Japan based Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has announced the approval of ENHERTU® (trastuzumab deruxtecan), a HER2 ...

March 26, 2020 | Thursday | News
CytomX, Astellas to find cure for cancer

US based CytomX Therapeutics and Japan based Astellas Pharma have entered into a strategic collaboration agreement focus...

March 25, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Diagnostic biomarker for acute adult T-cell cancers discovered

A study jointly conducted by Dean and Professor Takuya Fukushima, M.D., Ph.D., Graduate School of Health Sciences, Unive...

March 23, 2020 | Monday | News
Eisai to launch digital tool to assess brain health

Japan based company Eisai will launch "NouKNOWTM" (pronounced "NOH-NOH"), a new digital tool (non-medical device) for se...

March 24, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Gifu University, Astellas to create new treatments for bacterial infections

Japan based Gifu University and Astellas Pharma Inc. have announced that the parties have established, inside Gifu Unive...

March 23, 2020 | Monday | News
Eppendorf acquires centrifuge biz of Koki Holdings

Eppendorf AG and Koki Holdings Co., Ltd., have reached an agreement that Eppendorf will acquire Koki’s centri...

March 20, 2020 | Friday | News
Japan approves Novartis' SMA drug

Novartis Pharma has announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) approved Zolgensma (o...

March 19, 2020 | Thursday | News
Fujifilm invests $83M to expand microbial production capacity

Japan based FUJIFILM Corporation has announced that it will invest approximately 9 billion yen ($83M USD)...

March 19, 2020 | Thursday | News
Ribomic inks license agreement with Aju Pharma for AMD drug

Japan based RIBOMIC Inc., a clinical stage pharmaceutical company specializing in aptamer therapeutics has signed the li...

March 18, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japan develops new strategy to treat oral cancer

Researchers at Okayama University in Japan have recently published a study in Cells in which they reduced the ...

March 17, 2020 | Tuesday | News

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