Eisai starts Phase III clinical trial for Alzheimer's drug

Eisai Co., Ltd. has announced that a global Phase III clinical study (Clarity AD/Study 301) of BAN2401, an anti-amyloid ...

March 25, 2019 | Monday | News
Eisai to present latest research on Alzheimer's Disease / Dementia Pipeline

Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that a total of seven presentations highlighting the latest data on its Alzheimer's disease/de...

March 22, 2019 | Friday | News
Biotech firm Spiber to develop artificial hair

Japanese startup Spiber has recently announced initiation of a joint research and development project using Spiber&rsquo...

March 21, 2019 | Thursday | News
Ono Pharma, twoXAR announce drug discovery research collaboration

Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., a Japanese pharmaceutical research and development company, and twoXAR, Inc., a US based a...

March 19, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Blackstone to acquire AYUMI Pharmaceutical

Blackstone has announced that private equity funds managed by Blackstone have entered into a definitive agreement to acq...

March 18, 2019 | Monday | News
Shimadzu incorporates AI in new chromatograph series

Shimadzu's new Nexera UHPLC series with AI and IoT enhancements sets industry standard for intelligence, efficiency and ...

March 15, 2019 | Friday | News
Chugai’s Hemlibra receives approval for severe Hemophilia A

Chugai Pharmaceutical has announced that Roche received the decision from the European Commission confirming that Hemlib...

March 15, 2019 | Friday | News
Aprecia, CMIC to bring 3DP pharmaceutical products to Japan

Privately held Aprecia Pharmaceuticals, LLC (Aprecia) and CMIC CMO Co., LTD (CMIC CMO) have announced that both com...

March 15, 2019 | Friday | News
Fujifilm to acquire Biogen in a $890 M deal

FUJIFILM Corporation ("Fujifilm") announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Biogen (Denmark) Manufactur...

March 13, 2019 | Wednesday | News
FDA accepts NDA for Lemborexant to treat Insomnia

Eisai Co., Ltd. and Imbrium Therapeutics L.P., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company and operating subsidiary of Pu...

March 12, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Oncoceutics licenses rights for its anti-cancer compound to Ohara

US based Oncoceutics, Inc. has announced the outlicense of the rights to the company’s lead compound, ONC201, for ...

March 12, 2019 | Tuesday | News
In a first ever head-to-head biologic clinical study in Ulcerative Colitis Takeda's Entyvio demonstrates superior results compared to Humira

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced results from the Phase 3b head-to-head VARSITY study which demonstra...

March 11, 2019 | Monday | News
Akili, Shionogi to develop digital therapeutics in key Asian markets

Akili Interactive, digital medicine company creating prescription treatments for people living with cognitive dysfunctio...

March 11, 2019 | Monday | News
Santen to raise disease awareness during World Glaucoma Week

Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Santen) announced on March 8 that as part of its initiatives to increase publ...

March 8, 2019 | Friday | News
Eisai submits marketing authorization application for Insomnia drug

Eisai Co., Ltd. has announced that a marketing authorization application has been submitted in Japan for lemborexant, an...

March 7, 2019 | Thursday | News
Study: Inflammation in the brain enhances the side-effects of hypnotic medication

In a study recently published in the European Journal of Pharmacology researchers at Okayama University show h...

March 6, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Scientists develop stem cell-derived kidney tubules in microfluidic chips

Scientists from the Hubrecht Institute, the University of Utrecht, and MIMETAS have successfully grown kidney tubules de...

March 6, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Avita Medical to commercialize wounds treatment device in Japan

Australia based AVITA Medical, regenerative medicine company, announced that it has collaborated with COSMOTEC, an M3 Gr...

March 7, 2019 | Thursday | News
Novo Nordisk, Health2Sync collaborate for digital diabetes management

Health2Sync and Novo Nordisk Pharma Ltd. are partnering in Japan to support digital diabetes management and fa...

March 5, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Sagent Pharma acquires Raleigh manufacturing site

Nichi-Iko Pharmaceutical and Sagent Pharmaceuticals, a Nichi-Iko Group Company, a leader of specialty pharmaceutical pro...

March 5, 2019 | Tuesday | News
AGC completes acquisition of Malgrat Pharma Chemicals

Tokyo based AGC Inc. has announced on March 4 the completion of its acquisition of Spain's synthetic...

March 4, 2019 | Monday | News
Thermo Fisher’s oncomine test receives expanded approval

Thermo Fisher Scientific recently announced that the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW), Japan's regulatory a...

March 1, 2019 | Friday | News
CAC and rfxcel announce partnership for Pharmaceutical Traceability

CAC Corporation has signed a partnership agreement with rfxcel Corporation in the pharmaceutical traceability field...

February 28, 2019 | Thursday | News
Eisai receives approval for an additional indication of HUMIRA

AbbVie and Eisai have announced that they have received approval for an additional indication of HUMIRA®, a fully hu...

February 25, 2019 | Monday | News
Japan second fastest pharma growth in 2019- CPhI Report

The Japanese pharma market is expected to grow quickly in 2019 following the release of a new report published ahead of ...

February 21, 2019 | Thursday | News
Sosei Heptares initiates new clinical development programme

Sosei Group Corporation, has announced that the first healthy subject has been dosed with a novel small molecule HTL0030...

February 22, 2019 | Friday | News
Generex Biotechnology Subsidiary granted approval for ECM hydrogel

Generex Biotechnology has announced that the company’s subsidiary Regentys Corporation, a clinical stage regenerat...

February 21, 2019 | Thursday | News
KCI launches ABTHERA Therapy in Japan

KCI, an Acelity Company, recently announced the launch of ABTHERA™ Open Abdomen Negative Pressure Therapy in Japan...

February 21, 2019 | Thursday | News
Fujitsu launches healthcare personal service platform

Fujitsu has announced the development of Fujitsu Healthcare Solution Healthcare Personal service Platform, a platform-as...

February 14, 2019 | Thursday | News
Eisai submits application in Europe to seek approval for Fycompa

Eisai Co., Ltd. has announced that it has submitted an application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for its in-hou...

February 15, 2019 | Friday | News
Researchers develop potential therapeutic model for Parkinson’s disease

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, implicating 10 million people worldwide b...

February 12, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Takeda receives EC approval to extend the marketing authorization for ADCETRIS

Seattle Genetics, Inc. has announced that its collaborator, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, received approval fro...

February 12, 2019 | Tuesday | News
ROOT OF SKIN sells out for fifth consecutive time on QVC Japan

AIVITA Biomedical, Inc., a biotech company specializing in innovative stem cell applications, has announced that the Com...

February 12, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Optical Topography to timely diagnose Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Hitachi, Ltd., Jichi Medical University (JMU), International University of Health and Welfare (IUHW) and Chuo University...

February 11, 2019 | Monday | News
Codexis signs enzyme supply agreement with Kyorin Pharma

Codexis, Inc. has recently announced a multi-year, exclusive supply agreement with KYORIN Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. for t...

February 11, 2019 | Monday | News
Kyowa Hakko Kirin initiates Ph 2 Clinical Study of Tenapanor

Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd. announced the initiation of a phase 2 clinical study in Japan for tenapanor, a small mol...

February 8, 2019 | Friday | News
Eiger BioPharma gets patent protection for HDV drug in Europe and Japan

Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc., focused on the development and commercialization of targeted therapies for rare and ultr...

February 8, 2019 | Friday | News
Roche & Chugai join WFH aid programme

Chugai Pharmaceutical has announced that Roche has joined the World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) Humanitarian Aid...

February 7, 2019 | Thursday | News
Taiho Pharma teams up with Cullinan Oncology

Taiho Pharmaceutical and Cullinan Oncology, LLC announced an agreement to develop TAS6417, a novel EGFR (epidermal growt...

February 5, 2019 | Tuesday | News
FALCO Bio, Promega kit obtains approval in Japan

Promega Corporation has announced FALCO biosystems of Kyoto, Japan, a core business company of FALCO HOLDINGS, working i...

February 6, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Kaneka to invest 18.5% shares in medical device company

Kaneka Corporation, Tokyo has entered into a strategic and investment agreement with an undisclosed US-based medical dev...

February 5, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Sosei announces collaboration with Medicxi

Sosei Group Corporation has announced that it has entered into a structured financing agreement with Medicxi, a venture ...

February 5, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Positive CHMP opinion for Chugai’s Hemlibra

Chugai Pharmaceutical  has announced that Roche has received notification that the EU Committee for Medicinal Produ...

February 4, 2019 | Monday | News
Eisai, Purdue Pharma announce significant data of ph 3 clinical study

Eisai Co., Ltd. and Purdue Pharma L.P. announced a six-month results from SUNRISE 2, a long-term Phase 3 clinical study ...

February 4, 2019 | Monday | News
Bayer ties up with Kyoto University for lung diseases treatment

Bayer and Kyoto University have agreed on a strategic research alliance to jointly identify new drug targets for the tre...

February 4, 2019 | Monday | News
Researchers in Japan develop strategy to strengthen skeletal muscles

Hokkaido University researchers have developed a strategy to fabricate materials that become stronger in response to mec...

February 1, 2019 | Friday | News
Hitachi to acquire apceth Biopharma

apceth Biopharma GmbH, a contract manufacturing organization in the field of cell and gene therapy has announced that Hi...

February 1, 2019 | Friday | News
Huadong Ningbo Medicine showcases its products at COSME TOKYO

Chinese healthcare solution leader Huadong Ningbo Medicine Co., Ltd. showcased its biotechnological skincare b...

January 30, 2019 | Wednesday | News
NextPharma to acquire Santen's Tampere manufacturing facility

Santen SA and NextPharma have announced that Santen’s Tampere manufacturing facility and related operations will b...

January 30, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Fujitsu launches SaaS solution tsClinical DDworks21/Trial Site

Fujitsu has enhanced its clinical trial-supporting Fujitsu Life Science Solution tsClinical DDworks21 series with the la...

January 29, 2019 | Tuesday | News
WHO employs directors for Western Pacific and Southeast Asia regions

The WHO has appointed Dr Takeshi Kasai as Regional Director for WHO’s Western Pacific Region, and re-app...

January 28, 2019 | Monday | News
Meiji Seika, Toray sign license agreement for antipuritic agent

Toray Industries, Inc. and Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd. have announced that the companies have signed an exclusive licen...

January 25, 2019 | Friday | News
Nipro to use FlowForma to automate field processes

FlowForma®, the leading provider of Process Automation tools for Microsoft Office 365®, has announced that Nipro...

January 24, 2019 | Thursday | News
Qiagen receives Japanese PMDA approval for cancer diagnostic kit

QIAGEN N.V. recently announced that the Japanese Pharmaceuticals and Medical Device Agency (PMDA) has approved the thera...

January 24, 2019 | Thursday | News
Polyplastics develops new DURACON(R) POM PM Series for healthcare industry

The Polyplastics Group has announced the development of the DURACON(R) polyoxymethylene (POM) PM series for drug contact...

January 23, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Eisai listed as Global 100 most sustainable corporation

Eisai Co., Ltd. has been listed in the 2019 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World (Global 100), a global...

January 22, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Mechanical stress may affect normal bone development

The bone matrix contains various proteins, namely, collagen and other non-collagenous proteins. Osteoblasts are responsi...

January 21, 2019 | Monday | News
Thyas signs a licensing agreement with iPS-AJ

Thyas has signed a licensing agreement with iPS Academia Japan, Inc. (iPS-AJ), a technology licensing organization of in...

January 18, 2019 | Friday | News
J&J completes acquisition of Ci:z Holdings

Johnson & Johnson has announced the completion of the acquisition of Ci:z Holdings Co., Ltd. for a total purchase pr...

January 18, 2019 | Friday | News
AIVITA gets IND nod for Phase 1B melanoma trial

AIVITA Biomedical, Inc., a biotech company specializing in innovative stem cell applications, announced that the U.S. Fo...

January 17, 2019 | Thursday | News
Daiichi Sankyo to lead open innovation research on cell therapy

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co., Ltd. and Tokyo Institute of Technology have announced that ...

January 11, 2019 | Friday | News
Japan approves Amgen's osteoporosis drug

Amgen and UCB  announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has granted a marketing authorizat...

January 10, 2019 | Thursday | News
Daiichi Sankyo receives regulatory approval for hypertension tablets

Exelixis, Inc. has announced that its partner Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited received approval from the Japanese Minist...

January 10, 2019 | Thursday | News
NapaJen Pharma closes $12.4M Series C financing

NapaJen Pharma, Inc., a biotherapeutics company leveraging its proprietary immune cell-targeted oligonucleotide delivery...

January 9, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Takeda completes acquisition of Shire

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (“Takeda”) announced the completion of its acquisition of Shire plc (&...

January 8, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Fujifilm to invest 10B Yen in Bio CDMO biz

FUJIFILM Corporation announced plans to invest approximately JPY 10 billion (approximately $90 million U.S. dollars) in ...

January 8, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Solasia initiates Phase III programme for PledOx

Solasia Pharma K.K. has announced the initiation of Phase III clinical trial for PledOx in Japan. In November 2017, Sol...

January 7, 2019 | Monday | News
Otsuka, Click Therapeutics to create therapy for mental illness

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. announces that its U.S. holding company subsidiary Otsuka America, Inc, and Click Therap...

January 7, 2019 | Monday | News
Takeda announces multiple cell therapy collaborations

Takeda Pharmaceutical  has announced new research collaborations in immuno-oncology (I-O), an area of key strategic...

January 4, 2019 | Friday | News
Researchers discover laminin which can convert stem cells into retinal-like cells

Researchers from Osaka University in Japan have discovered a way to convert human pluripotent stem cells into various ce...

January 2, 2019 | Wednesday | News
MediPharm Labs declares its addition to HMMJ Index

MediPharm Labs Corp., a specialized, research-driven cannabis extraction business licensed under the Cannabis Act, is pl...

December 31, 2018 | Monday | News
Taisho Pharmaceutical Holdings to purchase BMS's UPSA

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company recently announced that Taisho Pharmaceutical Holdings has offered to purchase Bristol-Myer...

December 30, 2018 | Sunday | News
Prevelance of colistin-resistance high in Vietnam: Research

A team of researchers led by Osaka University examined the dissemination of colistin-resistant bacteria among residents ...

December 28, 2018 | Friday | News
Chugai obtains approval for Genomic Mutation Analysis Program

Chugai Pharma has announced today that it has obtained regulatory approval from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfa...

December 27, 2018 | Thursday | News
Rakuten Aspyrian closes $284 Million Series C Financing for late-stage oncology pipeline

Rakuten Aspyrian, a biotechnology company developing precision-targeted cancer therapies based on its proprietary Photoi...

December 26, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Mundipharma applies for marketing Remimazolam in Japan

Mundipharma has submitted an application to the Japanese Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency to market Remimazola...

December 21, 2018 | Friday | News
Roivant Sciences, Daiichi Sankyo enter into broad pipeline partnership

Roivant Sciences has announced that it has entered into collaboration with Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (hereafter, D...

December 20, 2018 | Thursday | News
Ajinomoto and XL-protein unite to develop therapeutic compounds

Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services is a fully integrated contract development and manufacturing organization with sites in&nb...

December 19, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Fuji Pharma Invests in Alvotech for $50M

Biopharmaceutical company Alvotech has announced that Japan-based Fuji Pharma has acquired a 4.2% stake in the business ...

December 19, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Study shows Stelara works superbly in Crohn’s disease

Following the announcement of positive results from Janssen’s Phase III open-label long-term extension study, whic...

December 18, 2018 | Tuesday | News
AIVITA Biomedical to sell skincare line in Japan

AIVITA Biomedical, Inc., a biotech company specializing in innovative stem cell applications, has announced that the Com...

December 18, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Eisai signs pact with Eurofarma for anti-Obesity agent

Eisai Co., Ltd. has entered into an agreement to grant exclusive development and marketing rights for its anti-obesity a...

December 17, 2018 | Monday | News
Luye Pharma submits its Parkinson’s drug for clinical trial approval

Luye Pharma announced that its new investigational drug, Rotigotine Extended Release Microspheres for Injection (LY03003...

December 13, 2018 | Thursday | News
GHIT Fund to invest $4.6M for new projects on drug development

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund has announced a total of 520 million yen ($4.6 million) to support f...

December 13, 2018 | Thursday | News
Eisai, Takeda and GARDP sign pact to develop novel antibiotics

The Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP), Eisai Co., Ltd. and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Li...

December 13, 2018 | Thursday | News
HitGen, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma ink deal to foster drug discovery

China-based HitGen announced that the company has entered into a drug discovery research collaboration with Mitsubishi T...

December 11, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Mundipharma to distribute Norspan in Japan

Mundipharma and Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical have agreed that Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical will end distribution of dermally abs...

December 11, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Cabinet approves MoU between India, Japan for Healthcare and Wellness

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today has given its ex-post facto approval on the Memoran...

December 7, 2018 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo shows updated Phase 1 Data for U3-1402 in cancer patient

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited announced that updated efficacy and safety results from the ongoing phase 1/2 study...

December 6, 2018 | Thursday | News
AGC enters agreement to acquire Malgrat Pharma

AGC Inc., a world-leading manufacturer of glass, chemicals and high-tech materials, has announced that it has entered in...

December 5, 2018 | Wednesday | News
VSee Telehealth launches in Japan

VSee, the telehealth company behind NASA International Space Station, Walgreens, MDLIVE, DaVita, Trinity, Ascension and ...

December 5, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Researchers develop platelets in lab

Researchers have developed a way to grow human platelets in the laboratory from stem cells derived from fat tissue. Thes...

November 30, 2018 | Friday | News
Sun Pharma acquires Japan's Pola Pharma

Sun Pharmaceutical, recently announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pola Pharma Inc. (&ldq...

November 29, 2018 | Thursday | News
AminoIndex risk screening: Catching cancer before it starts

Singapore - The fact that Japanese people have the longest lifespan in the world—and that they live healthier well...

November 29, 2018 | Thursday | News
Ono files for approval of ONO-7643 in Japan

Ono Pharmaceutical  announced today that ONO has submitted in Japan an application for manufacturing and marketing ...

November 28, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo launches Trastuzumab Biosimilar in Japan

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has launched the antitumor agent trastuzumab Biosimilar for intravenous drip infusions 6...

November 28, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Sysmex, MolecularMD commence global partnership

Sysmex Corporation, a Japanese in vitro diagnostics company, and MolecularMD Corporation, a US based molecular diagnosti...

November 28, 2018 | Wednesday | News
EC Approves Takeda’s ALUNBRIG for ALK+ Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited announced that the European Commission (EC) granted marketing authorization for AL...

November 28, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Eisai to present new research on Eribulin at SABC Symposium

Eisai Co., Ltd. has announced that the latest information on its in-house discovered and developed anticancer agent erib...

November 27, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Mitsui invests in Indian healthcare platform biz

Mitsui & Co. ("Mitsui") on November 21, 2018, acquired a stake in GOQii Inc. ("GOQii"), a business providing a preve...

November 26, 2018 | Monday | News

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