Takeda’s Dengue vaccine candidate reveals protection in children

Japan based Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced that results from the primary endpoint analysis of ...

November 8, 2019 | Friday | News
Hitachi collaborates with CLB to fight cancer using AI

Tokyo headquartered Hitachi, Ltd. and Centre Leon Berard (CLB), a leading French Comprehensive Cancer Center in Lyon-Fra...

November 7, 2019 | Thursday | News
Olympus unveils corporate strategy

Olympus Corporation has announced its Corporate Strategy in central Tokyo. The announcement follows the company's e...

November 7, 2019 | Thursday | News
Takeda divests select products to STADA for $660M

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

November 6, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Fujifilm’s rapid TB diagnostic kit receives recognition

FUJIFILM Corporation is pleased to announce that its “Rapid Tuberculosis Diagnostic Kit” has won the Good De...

November 5, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Synthetic compound provides fast screening for potential drugs

A simple assay may benefit drug discovery for treating diabetes, Parkinson's, and Alzheimers disease, as well as studies...

November 4, 2019 | Monday | News
Promethera Biosciences spreads business activity to Japan

Promethera Biosciences SA (Group), a global innovator in cell-based medicines and liver diseases, had announced the foun...

November 4, 2019 | Monday | News
EMA and FDA accept marketing applications for Chugai's Satralizumab

Chugai Pharmaceutical has announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted the Marketing Authorization Ap...

October 31, 2019 | Thursday | News
Pandion, Astellas collaborate for pancreas targeted immunomodulators

US headquartered Pandion Therapeutics, Inc., and Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc. have announced the signing of a Licens...

October 31, 2019 | Thursday | News
Lobsor Pharma receives Japanese patent for APD solution

Lobsor Pharmaceuticals AB, a privately held Swedish company based in Uppsala, has announced the Japanese Patent Office h...

November 1, 2019 | Friday | News
Hitachi takes advanced Proton Therapy to the US

Japan headquartered Hitachi, Ltd., has announced that it has provided its advanced proton therapy system to Sibley Memor...

October 31, 2019 | Thursday | News
Biogen plans regulatory filing for Aducanumab for Alzheimer's

Biogen and Eisai, Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) has announced that, after consulting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administrati...

October 23, 2019 | Wednesday | News
MIMS and Ashfield Communications combine operations in Japan

MIMS Group, Asia's largest multi-channel provider of drug information, medical communications, events management and mar...

October 24, 2019 | Thursday | News
Rentschler Biopharma to expand Japanese operation base

Germany based Rentschler Biopharma SE, a world-class contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for biop...

October 23, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Takeda acquires license for celiac disease therapy

Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical Company  and US based COUR Pharmaceutical Development Company, Inc. have announ...

October 22, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Trastuzumab deruxtecan gets FDA priority review to treat metastatic breast cancer

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (Daiichi Sankyo) have announced that the US Food and Drug Administration...

October 18, 2019 | Friday | News
Avidity Science acquires Edstrom Japan Ltd

Avidity Science is pleased to announce it has completed its acquisition of Edstrom Japan Ltd. The acquisition furthers A...

October 17, 2019 | Thursday | News
Dr. Steven Rosenberg's achievements in cancer immunotherapy motivate young researchers

Using the function of the individual's own immune system to combat cancer, this out-of-the-box concept was proposed by D...

October 17, 2019 | Thursday | News
Astellas transfers three products in Asia region to Daiichi Sankyo

Astellas Pharma Inc. has announced that subsidiaries of Astellas will transfer their marketing authorizations, trademark...

October 17, 2019 | Thursday | News
Takeda divests select OTC to Acino for over $200M

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced that it has entered into an agreement to divest a portfolio of selec...

October 16, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Canon Medical launches new division in Dubai, UAE

Canon Medical Systems Corporation has announced the official opening of its Middle East Division in Canon Middle East Du...

October 14, 2019 | Monday | News
Shionogi to develop treatment for mycobacterial diseases

Japanese major research-driven pharmaceutical company Shionogi & Co., Ltd. has announced that it has enter...

October 15, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Japanese firm advances diagnostic application of radiolabeling platform

Fuzionaire Diagnostics, in partnership with Tokyo-based radiopharmaceutical company Japan Medical Isotope Technology Dev...

October 14, 2019 | Monday | News
Japan issues GMP Certificate to Lupin’s Mandideep facility

Pharma major Lupin has announced the receipt of GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) Certificate from the Pharmaceutical an...

October 11, 2019 | Friday | News
Viela Bio to develop autoimmune drug for nine Asian regions

US based Viela Bio, Inc. and Japanese firm Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation have announced a collaboration focused o...

October 11, 2019 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo launches new drug for AML treatment

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has announced the launch of VANFLYTA® (quizartinib), an oral FLT3 inhibitor, in...

October 11, 2019 | Friday | News
Gilead Sciences submits NDA to treat RA in Japan

Gilead Sciences, Inc. has announced the New Drug Application (NDA) for filgotinib, an investigational, oral, select...

October 9, 2019 | Wednesday | News
PHC, Kakehashi partner for healthcare IT solutions

PHC Corporation and Kakehashi Corporation have signed a sales partnership agreement for the sale of &ldqu...

October 9, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Bayer and RIKEN establish partnership for novel drug discovery

Bayer AG (Bayer), and RIKEN Innovation Co., Ltd. (RIKEN Innovation), have entered into a strategic collaboration agreeme...

October 9, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Shiseido acquires leading skincare brand

Japan headquartered Shiseido Company, Limited has announced that Shiseido Americas Corporation, a subsidiary of Shiseido...

October 10, 2019 | Thursday | News
Mik Japan launches new online drug store

Established 48 years ago in Japan, Mik Japan Co., Ltd., a drugstore chain managing over 50 outlets, has opened Samu...

October 8, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Japanese AI startup secures $42.9M in series B financing

AI Medical Service Inc., one of the world's first real-time endoscopic artificial intelligence (AI) developers, has anno...

October 8, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Rentschler Bio enhances collaboration in Japan

Rentschler Biopharma SE, a world-class contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for biopharmaceuticals...

October 7, 2019 | Monday | News
Prometheus Biosciences, Takeda to develop targeted IBD therapies

US based Prometheus Biosciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery, development, and commerci...

October 4, 2019 | Friday | News
Moberg inks deal with Taisho for anti-fungal candidate

Swedish pharma company Moberg Pharma AB has signed an exclusive license agreement with Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd fo...

October 3, 2019 | Thursday | News
MIMETAS and HUB to develop and promote Organoids-on-a-Chip

MIMETAS, with its presence in the Netherlands, US and Japan, and Hubrecht Organoid Technologies (HUB), a not-for-profit ...

October 2, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Eisai to work with Tokio towards prevention of dementia

Japanese firm Eisai Co., Ltd. and Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. have announced that the companies ...

September 30, 2019 | Monday | News
Eisai, Fronteo launch Coroban prediction system for inpatients

Eisai Co., Ltd. and FRONTEO, Inc. have launched the tumbling and falling prediction system Coroban to medical institutio...

September 27, 2019 | Friday | News
AGC Biologics appoints new General Manager for Japan

AGC Biologics, a global leader in clinical and commercial manufacturing of therapeutic proteins, announced the appointme...

September 26, 2019 | Thursday | News
Noven Announces Appointment of Dr. Naruhito Higo as CEO

Noven Pharmaceutical has announced its decision to appoint Dr. Naruhito Higo as Chief Executive Officer effective O...

September 24, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Eisai, Meiji receive approval for Parkinson's drug

Eisai Co., Ltd. and Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd. have announced the manufacturing and marketing approval in Japan for th...

September 24, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Takeda receives Ministry approval for depression drug

Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited  and Denmark based H. Lundbeck A/S jointly announced that the M...

September 23, 2019 | Monday | News
Evrenzo gets approval in Japan to treat anemia associated with CKD

Astellas Pharma Inc. and FibroGen, Inc. have announced that Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MH...

September 20, 2019 | Friday | News
Kao named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index

Kao Corporation has been selected for inclusion in the 2019 Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) and Dow Jo...

September 20, 2019 | Friday | News
Japan's Solasia set to start trials for Darinaparsin

Solasia Pharma KK has  announced that the darinaparsin Phase 2 study patient registration has reached the targ...

September 20, 2019 | Friday | News
FDA approves combo drug to treat endometrial carcinoma

Eisai and Merck have announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the combination of LENVIMA, the...

September 19, 2019 | Thursday | News
Toyobo to market RNA analysis kit based on RIKEN technology

Japan headquartered Toyobo Co., Ltd. has productized a ribonucleic acid (RNA) analysis kit based on a novel system title...

September 19, 2019 | Thursday | News
Mitsubishi Tanabe, Daiichi Sankyo tie alliance for ALS treatment agent

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation and Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited have announced that they have concluded a licens...

September 18, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Seattle Genetics, Astellas gets USFDA priority review for Enfortumab Vedotin

Seattle Genetics, Inc. and Astellas Pharma Inc. have announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has...

September 17, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Astellas, iota Biosciences enter into collaborative R&D agreement

Japanese firm Astellas Pharma and iota Biosciences, Inc. have announced a joint research and development agree...

September 17, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Eisai, Biogen discontinue clinical studies on AD drug candidate

Japan headquartered Eisai Co., Ltd. and US based Biogen Inc. have announced the decision to discontinue the Phase III cl...

September 16, 2019 | Monday | News
Astellas to accelerate early drug discovery

Astellas Venture Management, LLC, a wholly-owned venture capital subsidiary of Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc., and US ...

September 13, 2019 | Friday | News
Chugai Presents Results from Second Positive Global Phase III Clinical Study of Satralizumab

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:4519) announced that the results from SAkuraStar Study were presented at the...

September 12, 2019 | Thursday | News
Daiichi Sankyo brings new formulation for cancer pain treatment

Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited has announced it has launched a new generic formulation of oxycodone hydrochloride hydrat...

September 12, 2019 | Thursday | News
Daiichi Sankyo Advances [Fam-] Trastuzumab in Japan

 Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (hereafter, Daiichi Sankyo) has announced the submission of a New Drug Application...

September 10, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Takeda issues US recall of NATPARA, a parathyroid hormone

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, on 6 Sep 2019, announced that the company is issuing a US recall for all doses of...

September 9, 2019 | Monday | News
Eisai launches antimicrobial wet wipes

Eisai Co., Ltd. has launched Etak® Antimicrobial Wet Wipes (classified as miscellaneous goods) containing long-...

September 9, 2019 | Monday | News
BNV, Denso establish new medical IoT firm

Beyond Next Ventures Inc. and DENSO Corporation have announced that they have established OPExPARK Inc., a carve-out to ...

September 9, 2019 | Monday | News
Sumitomo Dainippon inks strategic collaboration with Roivant Sciences

Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd. , a leading Japanese pharmaceutical company, and Roivant Sciences Ltd., a technology...

September 6, 2019 | Friday | News
Sanyo Chemical receives certification for innovative surgical sealant

DEKRA, a European vehicle inspection , has  CE certificate to Japan headquartered Sanyo Chemical Industries fo...

September 6, 2019 | Friday | News
Eisai to develop cognitive function test with Cogstate

Tokyo headquartered Eisai Co., Ltd. has announced that it has entered into a business alliance agreement for exclusive d...

September 5, 2019 | Thursday | News
Japan looks out for rapidly growing ASEAN ageing population

ASEAN is facing rapid population ageing. It is estimated that all ASEAN countries will become ageing society (more than ...

September 4, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Kyowa Kirin gets FDA nod for Parkinson’s drug

Japan headquartered Kyowa Kirin has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for ...

September 3, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Invicro Appoints Hidenori Seshimo as Vice President of Biomarker Services, Japan

Invicro , a member of the Konica Minolta Group and a leading provider of biomarkers for imaging, core lab services and s...

August 30, 2019 | Friday | News
Eisai teams up with Merck to tackle NTDs in Kenya

Japan based pharmaceutical firm Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that it provides tanks to supply clean water for the neglected...

August 28, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Japan's BioWa extends partnership with Cantargia

Cantargia AB and BioWa Inc. have signed an extension of the license agreement around the BioWa proprietary POTELLIGENTTe...

August 27, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Atonarp Inc. completes $33M series C funding round

Atonarp, a Japan headquartered hi-tech molecular diagnostics company, has announced that it has raised $33 million&...

August 26, 2019 | Monday | News
Luye Pharma's anti-depression drug to start clinical trials in Japan

Luye Pharma Group has announced its submission of the clinical trials application for a new chemical drug, Ansofaxine Hy...

August 22, 2019 | Thursday | News
GSK submits first regulatory application for daprodustat in Japan

GSK has announced the submission of a Japanese New Drug Application (JNDA) to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare...

August 23, 2019 | Friday | News
Takeda files NDA for subcutaneous formulation of Vedolizumab

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the Ministry of Health, Labour and W...

August 21, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Japanese scientists develop 3D printed prosthetic hand

The Biological Systems Engineering Lab at Hiroshima University, Japan has developed a new 3D printed prosthetic hand com...

August 16, 2019 | Friday | News
Shimadzu receives FDA clearance for FLUOROspeed X1

Shimadzu Medical Systems, a subsidiary of Shimadzu Corporation Japan, is proud to announce that they have received FDA 5...

August 14, 2019 | Wednesday | News
OssDsign AB files regulatory approval for OssDsign Cranial in Japan

OssDsign AB (publ), the Swedish designer and manufacturer of innovative implants for bone regeneration, has filed for a ...

August 12, 2019 | Monday | News
Eisai refreshes medical skin care product Sahne

Eisai Co., Ltd. has announced that it refresh its SAHNE® CREAM (quasi-drug) which has been widely used as medic...

August 9, 2019 | Friday | News
Astellas Initiates Phase 3 Clinical Trials for Fezolinetant

Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc. has announced dosing of the first patient in the SKYLIGHT 1™ Phase 3 pivotal tria...

August 8, 2019 | Thursday | News
Pola Orbis to create unique value in dermatology

POLA Chemical Industries, Inc. Frontier Research Center (FRC) of POLA ORBIS Holdings Inc. and one of the world's top res...

August 7, 2019 | Wednesday | News
FDA approves Daiichi Sankyo's TURALIO

Daiichi Sankyo Company has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved TURALIO™(pexidartin...

August 5, 2019 | Monday | News
Sosei Heptares, Takeda enter into multi-target partnership

Sosei Group Corporation has announced that it has entered into a strategic multi-target partnership with Takeda Pharmace...

August 6, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Rakuten Medical to further develop its photo-immunotherapy

Rakuten Medical, Inc., a clinical-stage, global biotechnology company developing precision-targeted cancer therapies bas...

August 5, 2019 | Monday | News
Sysmex gets Japanese manufacturing and marketing approval

Sysmex Corporation has obtained Japanese manufacturing and marketing approval for the OncoBEAM™ RAS CRC Kit, ...

August 2, 2019 | Friday | News
Morimoto Pharma unveils new Exposure Prevention Prefilled Syringe Kits

Japanese firm Morimoto Pharma has revealed their new prefilled syringe product, the Morimoto S.A.F.E. Syringe ...

August 5, 2019 | Monday | News
Fujifilm completes acquisition of Biogen's Manufacturing Site in Denmark

FUJIFILM Corporation has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Biogen (Denmark) Manufacturing ApS, a large-...

August 2, 2019 | Friday | News
Marken acquires PCX International to strengthen supply chain footprint

Marken, a US headquartered patient-centric supply chain organization, has announced  the acquisition of PCX Interna...

August 2, 2019 | Friday | News
Kyowa Kirin buys back Tivozanib rights from AVEO oncology

Japan based pharma company Kyowa Kirin Co. and US headquartered AVEO Oncology announce that they have amended their lice...

August 2, 2019 | Friday | News
Sun Pharma announces regulatory filing of Tildrakizumab in Japan

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has announced that one of its wholly owned subsidiaries has filed an application for ...

August 1, 2019 | Thursday | News
Takeda, Pfizer terminate co-promotion of RA Drug Enbrel

Pfizer Japan Inc. and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited have announced the termination of co-promotion for the rheum...

July 31, 2019 | Wednesday | News
NEC acquires OncoImmunity AS to empower personalized cancer immunotherapy

OncoImmunity AS has announced that it has been acquired by NEC Corporation, the renowned Japanese IT and network co...

July 30, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Scientists in Japan develop prosthetics for retinal stimulation

In a study recently published in Advanced Biomedical Engineering, researchers at Okayama University in Japan report...

July 29, 2019 | Monday | News
Astellas submits biologics license application for Urothelial Cancer drug

Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc. and US headquartered Seattle Genetics, Inc. have announced submission of a Bi...

July 26, 2019 | Friday | News
Akebia submits new application for anemia drug in Japan

Akebia Therapeutics, Inc.  has announced that Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation (MTPC), its development and comm...

July 24, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Eisai, Merck receive breakthrough therapy designation from FDA

Japanese pharmaceutical firm Eisai, and Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., U.S.A., known as MSD outside th...

July 23, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Bayer, BMS, Ono Pharma enter into clinical collaboration for colorectal cancer

German pharma company Bayer, US based Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) Company and Japan headquartered Ono Pharmaceutical Co.,...

July 22, 2019 | Monday | News
Takeda, Kyoto University research collaboration develops further

The Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (&...

July 18, 2019 | Thursday | News
Sosei Heptares teams up with Genentech for multi-target R&D

Japan headquartered Sosei Group Corporation has entered into a multi-target research collaboration and license agreement...

July 17, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Kaneka launches takeover bid for 100% of AB-Biotics

AB-Biotics announced that Kaneka Europe Holding Company has launched a voluntary takeover bid for 100% of the share capi...

July 16, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Eisai Centre for G2D2 commences operation towards dementia treatment

Japan based pharmaceutical firm Eisai Co., Ltd. has announced that the Eisai Center for Genetics Guided Dementia Discove...

July 16, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Japanese researchers use AI to design novel endoscopy

Researchers at Okayama University have developed an early gastric cancer endoscopic diagnosis system using artificial in...

July 15, 2019 | Monday | News
PHC launches medical integrated chart system for doctors

PHC is launching Medicom-HRf, an integrated medical chart system for medical clinics, with the aim to strengthen communi...

July 12, 2019 | Friday | News
CMIC joins Align Clinical CRO

CMIC Group, a pioneer and a leading CRO (Contract Research Organizations) in Japan, announced on 10 July 2019, that the ...

July 10, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Eisai collaborates with University of Dundee for cancer drug discovery

Japanese pharmaceutical firm Eisai Co.,Ltd. has announced that it has entered into a collaboration research agreement wi...

July 9, 2019 | Tuesday | News

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