Eisai disagrees with IQWiG on epileptic drug

Singapore: Eisai has expressed strong disappointment with Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), G...

December 18, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Ono ties up with BioFocus for drug research

Singapore: Japanese firm Ono Pharmaceutical and BioFocus, a service division of Galapagos and based in the UK, have sign...

September 4, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Sosei completes phase I trial for SO-1105 in Japan

Singapore: Sosei has successfully completed a Japanese phase I trial for SO-1105 for the treatment of oropharyngeal cand...

July 3, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Millennium announces positive results of orteronel study

Singapore: Updated results from a phase II study of orteronel, a selective oral 17,20 lyase inhibitor, dosed without pre...

June 6, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Takeda to stop selling 13 Pfizer products in Japan

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical and Pfizer Japan have concluded an agreement that, as of December 31, 2012, Takeda will...

June 21, 2012 | Thursday | News
APAC's NSCLC market to show robust growth by 2019

Singapore: The GBI Research has revealed that the non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) therapeutics market value in the As...

March 21, 2014 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo to build biopharmaceuticals facility for govt

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo has been approved for the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's production facili...

July 13, 2012 | Friday | News
Kyowa Hakko Kirin to return rights of Busulfex

Singapore: Kyowa Hakko Kirin has agreed to return development and marketing rights of Busulfex, for use as a part of con...

September 17, 2012 | Monday | News
Which domain of clinical research do APAC CROs focus on?

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Aegerion begins phase III clinical trials in Japan

Singapore: Leading biopharmaceutical company Aegerion Pharmaceuticals that is dedicated to the development and commercia...

April 11, 2014 | Friday | News
Ranbaxy's fall from grace

Not long ago, it was one of India's iconic companies. Ranbaxy, which is now a subsidiary of Japanese giant Daiichi Sanky...

May 29, 2013 | Wednesday | Opinion
Celltrion files for Remsima approval in Japan

Singapore: Korea-based Celltrion has completed filing procedure of biosimilar drug Remsima to obtain Japan's Ministry of...

September 17, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Takeda fined $6 bn by US Federal jury

Singapore: Japanese pharmaceutical major Takeda has been ordered by a US Federal court to pay $6 billion in punitive dam...

April 11, 2014 | Friday | News
Cellectricon expands to Asia with distributors in Japan

Singapore: Cellectricon has expanded its sales and service network into Asia through a distribution agreement for its D...

March 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Tanabe Pharma to build new plant in China

Singapore: Japanese drug major Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma has announced that one of its subsidiaries, Tianjin Tanabe Seiya...

August 8, 2013 | Thursday | News
Japanese find body 'clock' that controls jet-lag

Singapore: Scientists at Kyoto University, Japan, have discovered the 'reset button' in the brain, which could be used t...

October 10, 2013 | Thursday | News
Takeda resubmits NDA to the US FDA for alogliptin

Singapore: Takeda Global Research & Development Center resubmitted New Drug Applications (NDAs) to the US FDA for al...

July 30, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
St Jude launches 3-D heart vessel imager

Singapore: St Jude Medical, a global medical device company, launched Ilumien Optis System, a next-generation technology...

March 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News