Amgen to acquire Onyx for $10 bn cash
Japan | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 26 Aug, 2013
Singapore: Global biopharmaceutical company Amgen plans to acquire all the outstanding shares of Onyx Pharmaceuticals fo...Read more
Effient trial by Daiichi, Lilly fails to meet primary endpoint
Japan | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 27 Aug, 2012
Singapore: The TRILOGY ACS study, a phase III trial comparing prasugrel plus aspirin to clopidogrel plus aspirin in pati...Read more
Takeda ends 3-year-old-deal with Amylin
Japan | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 26 Dec, 2012
Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical mutually terminated its worldwide agreement with Amylin Pharmaceuticals, which was ori...Read more
EMA committee positive on Teduglutide
Japan | Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 25 Jun, 2012
Singapore: The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency has adopted a posi...Read more
Astellas Pharma opens office in Singapore
Japan | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 12 Dec, 2013
Singapore: Astellas Pharma, Japan's pharmaceutical giant with net sales of $10.7 billion and net income of $881 million ...Read more
Sucampo gets $15 mn payment from Abbott
Japan | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 12 Dec, 2012
Singapore: Sucampo Pharmaceuticals' subsidiary SPL has received a $15 million milestone payment from Abbott's subsidiar...Read more
Scotland approves Eisai's Fycompa
Japan | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 24 Apr, 2013
Singapore: Eisai announched that Scotland's health technology assessment (HTA) body, the Scottish Medicines Consortium ...Read more
Zoll establishes Japanese subsidiary
Japan | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 29 Oct, 2012
Singapore: ZOLL Medical, a manufacturer of medical devices and related software solutions and a wholly owned US subsidi...Read more
RLS, Parkinson's drug Neupro gets Japanese nod
Japan | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 28 Dec, 2012
Singapore: The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved Neupro (rotigotine transdermal patch...Read more
AVEO, Astellas cancer drug gets FDA nod
Japan | Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 29 Nov, 2012
Singapore: AVEO Oncology and Astellas Pharma announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted fo...Read more
Mundipharma, Shionogi tie up for pain treatment in Japan
Japan | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 22 Nov, 2013
Singapore: Mundipharma has entered a license agreement with Japan-based Shionogi for the exclusive rights to develop, ma...Read more
Japan approves pioneering stem cell study for heart disease
Japan | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 1 Comment | 17 Sep, 2012
Singapore: Cytori Therapeutics announced that a 40-patient, multi-center investigator-sponsored and funded clinical stu...Read more
Isogenica appoints CTC Lab Systems to tap Japan
Japan | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 22 May, 2012
Singapore: Isogenica has appointed CTC Laboratory Systems (CTCLS) of Tokyo, Japan, to represent its business in Japan. C...Read more
ThermoGenesis sells product line to Asahi
Japan | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 03 Jul, 2012
Singapore: ThermoGenesis, a leading supplier of enabling technologies for the processing, storage and administration of ...Read more
Sanford-Burnham, Daiichi form new alliance
Japan | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 26 May, 2014
Singapore: US based Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and Japan's Daiichi Sankyo have formed a three year disco...Read more
Takeda strives to enter Europe's type 2 diabetes market
Japan | Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 21 Jun, 2012
Singapore: Japan-based Takeda Global Research & Development Centre has received confirmation of the acceptance of su...Read more
Bangkok to adopt Japanese technology to treat cancer
Japan | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 06 Nov, 2014
Singapore: Thailand hospital is planning to introduce Japanese cancer therapy technology using a heavy ion beam to treat...Read more
Novartis under fire from Tasigna allegations
Japan | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 14 May, 2014
Singapore: Swiss giant Novartis Pharma's Japanese arm has prompted the Japanese health ministry to launch an investigati...Read more