Daiichi, Ranbaxy promote generics in Brazil

New Delhi: Daiichi Sankyo and Ranbaxy will work in synergy in Brazil to expand the business of both companies in the cou...

April 18, 2013 | Thursday | News
Japan medtech firm signs $9 mn deal with A*Star

Singapore: Japan's technology company, Arkray is investing $9.1 million over a five-year period in a research venture an...

May 27, 2013 | Monday | News
Fujifilm opens new lens factory in Philippines

Singapore: Fujifilm Corporation has started full-scale operation of Fujifilm Optics Philippines in Laguna. The new compa...

July 17, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo, National Cancer Center enter research alliance

Singapore: National Cancer Center of Japan and pharma company Daiichi Sankyo have agreed to form a comprehensive resear...

May 23, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Phospagenics, Nippon Zoki to develop pain drug

Singapore: Australian drug delivery technology company Phosphagenics has extended its collaboration with its high calib...

April 2, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Japan's BIOtech 2013 witnesses 10,362 visitors

Singapore: BIOtech 2013 in Japan, which is one-of-the-largest bio events in Asia, concluded successfully. The event was ...

May 21, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Mystic gets Japan, China patent nod for containers

Singapore: Mystic Pharmaceuticals, US, received key notices of allowance from Asian patent offices in the company's ong...

October 3, 2013 | Thursday | News
Century Medical gets Japanese nod for Glider catheter

‎Singapore: TriReme Medical's Japanese partner, Century Medical, has received Shonin approval for Glider PTCA cath...

April 22, 2013 | Monday | News
Stem cell industry has substantial growth potential

The Nobel prize for Physiology to two stem cell research scientists in 2012 has firmly put the spotlight on this promisi...

January 31, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Ariad begins phase I/II trial of ponatinib in Japan

Singapore: Ariad Pharmaceuticals, an emerging global oncology company focused on discovery, development and commercializ...

August 23, 2012 | Thursday | News
Eisai gets 6 months US exclusivity for Aciphex

Singapore: Eisai has been able to meet the US FDA's written request requirements for pediatric exclusivity for Aciphex ...

December 12, 2012 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Abbott starts Absorb Japan trial in CAD patients

Singapore: Abbott announced that it has initiated the Absorb Japan randomized controlled clinical trial to evaluate the ...

June 13, 2013 | Thursday | News
Chugai seeks nod for breast cancer drug in Japan

Singapore: Japanese multinational Chugai Pharmaceutical has filed a new drug application to the Ministry of Health, Labo...

February 1, 2013 | Friday | News
Japanese stem cell researcher wins 2012 Nobel in medicine

Singapore: Dr Shinya Yamanaka, director of the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, ha...

October 8, 2012 | Monday | News
Chugai Pharma appoints new CMO

Singapore: Chugai Pharma USA, Berkeley Heights, NJ a wholly owned subsidiary of Chugai Pharmaceutical, Tokyo, Japan, mem...

April 29, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Japan to host its first-ever medicine expo in 2014

Singapore: Japan is hosting its first personalised medicine and diagnostics expo in May 14-16, 2014.The Japanese governm...

September 20, 2013 | Friday | News
Medical devices: A hot segment in Japan

The aging population in Japan is not only driving the medical care and pharmaceutical industry but also the medical devi...

June 1, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Eisai's Halaven now available in Spain

Singapore: Eribulin, an anticancer drug marketed by Japan-based Eisai under the trade name Halaven, has received reimbur...

September 5, 2013 | Thursday | News