Aspirin may suppress the impact of obesity on cancer

Aspirin can counter the ill effects of obesity on cancer development, according to a study that may pave the way for new...

April 30, 2018 | Monday | News
Takeda bids on Shire for $64-billion

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. reached a preliminary agreement to buy Shire Plc with takeover offer of about 46 billion pound...

April 27, 2018 | Friday | News
Aska, Neopharma arm team up for Rs350 Cr venture

Japan based Aska Pharmaceuticals Co. and Omnicare Drugs India Pvt Ltd, a 100 per cent subsidiary of the UAE's largest ph...

April 27, 2018 | Friday | News
Japan, Taiwan high on measles alert

Taiwan and Japan authorities have urged locals and tourists to take added precautions following an outbreak of measles. ...

April 26, 2018 | Thursday | News
Astellas sells certain U.S. research facilities to Gilead

Singapore- Japan’s Astellas Pharma and Kite Pharma, a Gilead Sciences subsidiary announced that an agreement has b...

April 19, 2018 | Thursday | News
Allergan moves in as Shire rebuffs $63B Takeda bid

Singapore-  Drugmaker Shire has rejected a third takeover bid worth nearly $63 billion from Japan's Taked...

April 19, 2018 | Thursday | News
Hitachi to carry out urine test for cancer detection

The engineering and IT conglomerate Hitachi is poised to carry out what it hailed as the world’s first experiment ...

April 18, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Fujitsu develops deep learning detection technology

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. has announced the development of AI technology that uses deep learning to detect objects, even...

April 16, 2018 | Monday | News
Researchers develop a compound to improve stroke patient recovery

A team of Japanese researchers has developed a new compound that enhanced motor function recovery after brain damage in ...

April 16, 2018 | Monday | News
Takeda looking for loans for Shire bid

Singapore – Takeda appears to be preparing its bid for rare diseases pharma Shire, reportedly sounding out major c...

April 12, 2018 | Thursday | News
Hitachi's First Heavy Ion Therapy System to sell in Taiwan

Hitachi Ltd. has received an order for a heavy ion therapy system from the Taipei Veterans General Hospital (Deh-Ming Ch...

April 4, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Rhythm Pharma in-licenses PWS candidate from Takeda

Singapore – Rhythm Pharmaceuticals acquires exclusive global rights to Takeda Pharmaceutical Company's T-3525770 (...

April 3, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Accuron divests Veredus Labs to Japanese diagnostic firm

Southeast Asia's largest medical device company, Accuron MedTech Group, today announced the completion of ...

April 3, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Fujifilm to acquire 2 biotech units for $800M

Fujifilm intends to expand its ability to develop and manufacture biopharmaceuticals and regenerative medicine treatment...

March 31, 2018 | Saturday | News
GHIT grants funds for malaria vaccine research

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund has awarded the University of Florida and partners in the United Sta...

March 30, 2018 | Friday | News
Eisai, Nichi-Iko Pharma enters strategic partnership

Eisai Co., Ltd. and Nichi-Iko Pharmaceutical announced today that they have entered into a strategic alliance agreement ...

March 29, 2018 | Thursday | News
Innovation research on Cancer Hyperthermia Therapy

Nagoya City University, Chubu University, Daiichi Sankyo Company ltd. and Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co. Ltd. announced that...

March 28, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Carna Bio, Sumitomo collaborate for neurological drug discovery

Carna Biosciences, Inc. and Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd. have signed an agreement on joint research with the aim ...

March 28, 2018 | Wednesday | News
USFDA grants priority to XTANDI's sNDA

Pfizer and Astellas Pharma announced that a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for XTANDI (enzalutamide) has been ...

March 20, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Japan donates $1.5 M for healthcare services in Yemen

The Government of Japan has donated $ 1.5 million to provide emergency services to vulnerable populations in conflict-af...

March 19, 2018 | Monday | News
Japan provides aid to Sri Lankan health services

Sri Lanka has signed a Rs. 15 billion loan agreement with Japan to improve Sri Lanka's health and medical services. This...

March 16, 2018 | Friday | News
PierianDx unites with Cancer Genetics to enrich patient’s care

PierianDx, the leading genomics technology company that enables precision medicine programs and molecular testing for he...

March 15, 2018 | Thursday | News
AGC Biologics sign up new Sr. Vice Presidents of BD

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

March 14, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Eisai, Merck develop a strategic oncology collaboration

Tokyo based Eisai Co., Ltd. and Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, have agreed upon a strategic c...

March 9, 2018 | Friday | News
Japan to further reduce price of Opidivo by 23 percent

As per reports from a Japanese news portal, the country’s health ministry said that the government-set price of bl...

March 7, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Constant Pharma announces Japanese patent issuance

Constant Pharmaceuticals LLC, a privately held US based biopharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of stroke rec...

March 7, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Takeda to build new facility in Dublin creating 70 new jobs

Japanese pharma giant Takeda has announced plans to invest €25 million in the construction of a new facility at&nbs...

March 5, 2018 | Monday | News
Takeda establishes centre of excellence for vaccine process optimisation

Singapore – Takeda Pharmaceuticals has announced the establishment of the centre of Excellence in Singapore for va...

March 1, 2018 | Thursday | News
Roche and Takeda use Organs-On-Chip technology for R&D

Roche and Takeda have announced that they will be using organ-chip technology in their R&D Programs through partners...

March 1, 2018 | Thursday | News
Valeant teams up with Kaken for psoriasis treatment

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International’s subsidiary has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Kaken Phar...

March 1, 2018 | Thursday | News
Genesis Healthcare raises 1.65 B Yen

Japan's pioneer genetic testing and research company, Genesis Healthcare Co. has completed a third-party equity allocati...

February 27, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Shionogi's thrombocytopenia drug receives 'priority review' designation by the US FDA

Japan’s Shionogi has announced that the New Drug Application (NDA) for lusutrombopag (S-888711) -an investigationa...

February 27, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Sumitomo Dainippon appoints Nomura as President & CEO

Japan based Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd. has announced the appointment of Hiroshi Nomura as Representative Direct...

February 26, 2018 | Monday | News
Medical Japan 2018: Japan’s only comprehensive medical show concludes successfully

Singapore- MEDICAL JAPAN 2018, one of the largest and most comprehensive trade show successfully concluded its fourth ed...

February 23, 2018 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo seeks approval for Diagnogreen

Daiichi Sankyo has has submitted a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour ...

February 23, 2018 | Friday | News
Takeda collaborates with Wave Life Sciences

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced that it has entered into a research, development and commercial coll...

February 21, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Scientists in Tokyo design smart skin ECG device

A group of researchers, at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Engineering in collaboration with Dai Nipp...

February 21, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Researchers in Japan develop a novel biosensing method

A group of researchers from Osaka University, Japan has developed a sensing method with the potential to significantly c...

February 20, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Iran health sector receives $14M aid from Japan

Iran’s Ministry of Health and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have signed a Memorandum of Unders...

February 20, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Japanese researchers design water-soluble warped nanographene

A team of scientists at Nagoya University, Japan has introduced substituted warped nanographene, which is soluble i...

February 13, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Japanese engineers test titanium fiber plates for fixing bone injuries

Researchers from Shinshu University have found that, unlike conventional plates, the titanium fiber plates do not cause ...

February 9, 2018 | Friday | News
Takeda teams with Cedars Sinai on tech tool to personalize IBD treatment choices

Singapore – Takeda has started a new initiative aimed at helping inflammatory bowel disease patients sort thr...

February 8, 2018 | Thursday | News
Lupin’s JV yields positive results for Etanercept clinical trials

YL Biologics (YLB), a joint venture by drugmaker Lupin and Yoshindo, has successfully completed the late phase clinical ...

February 8, 2018 | Thursday | News
Scottish biotech firm inks deal with Japan's NIPRO to co develop cancer drug

Scottish firm TC BioPharm has inked a strategic collaboration with the Japan’s NIPRO Corporation to co-d...

February 8, 2018 | Thursday | News
Immunologist Max Cooper receives 2018 Japan Prize

The Japan Prize Foundation has announced Max D. Cooper, MD, as a laureate of the 2018 Japan Prize. Cooper will receive a...

February 6, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Japan, Australia researchers work on early Alzheimer’s detection

Researchers at Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, and University of Melbourne, Australia and Japanese N...

February 6, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Scientists develop technology for studying blood vessel formation

A team of researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), the University of Tokyo, CNRS and INSERM, has report...

February 1, 2018 | Thursday | News
BiomX in-licenses novel bacterial targets for IBD treatment

BiomX Ltd., a microbiome company, announced that it has exclusively sub-licensed a set of bacterial targets from JSR Cor...

January 31, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Experts in Tokyo design a novel flourescent probe

A team of experts at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) has developed a new probe that coul...

January 25, 2018 | Thursday | News
HITACHI secures FDA 510(k) Clearance for its system

Hitachi, Ltd. and Hokkaido University announced that it has obtained U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) cl...

January 25, 2018 | Thursday | News
Astellas completes acquisition of Mitobridge

Tokyo based Astellas Pharma Inc. recently announced the acquisition of Mitobridge, Inc. Astellas paid $225 million to ac...

January 24, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Japan approves use of Nailin capsules to treat onychomycosis

Sato Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. has obtained marketing and manufacturing approval for the oral antifungal agent, Nailin ca...

January 22, 2018 | Monday | News
Telix Pharmaceuticals establishes Japanese Subsidiary, Appoints Key Executives

Telix Pharmaceuticals , an Australian biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of diagnostic and therapeutic...

January 15, 2018 | Monday | News
Japanese investors back a Cambridge Life Sciences firm, Storm Therapeutics

Storm Therapeutics, a Cambridge Life Sciences firm has attracted an additional £4m cash injection to its £12...

January 12, 2018 | Friday | News
Takeda to buy TiGenix for $626 M

Takeda Pharmaceutical is planning to acquire Belgian biopharmaceutical venture TiGenix with an aim of strengthening...

January 7, 2018 | Sunday | News
Alexion bags Japanese approval for Soliris

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, recently bagged approval for its key candidate Soliris (eculizumab) fromthe Ministry of Health,...

January 3, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Researchers in Japan develop new strategy for 3D printing of tissues

A group of researchers at Osaka University, Japan have refined the method of making bio-ink droplets stick to each other...

December 28, 2017 | Thursday | News
Otsuka collaborates with X-Chem for new drug compounds

US based X-Chem, Inc. and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Otsuka Holdings Co., Ltd. headquartered in To...

December 26, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Japanese scientists create a database of human plasma compounds

Scientists at Tohoku University in Japan have created a database of metabolites from blood samples collected from over 5...

December 26, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Israeli firm to invest in Japanese startups

Israel based Yozma Group is planning to invest in Japanese startups in the coming year, targeting companies in medicine,...

December 14, 2017 | Thursday | News
Kenya partners with Japan to promote healthcare

The Kenyan government has collaborated with the government of Japan and launched a health development program that seeks...

December 4, 2017 | Monday | News
Takeda appoints Fujimoto as Health Innovation Park GM

Toshio Fujimoto, MD, MBA has been appointed General Manager of the Health Innovation Park in Shonan, by Takeda Pharmaceu...

December 1, 2017 | Friday | News
Toshiba introduces advanced imaging technology

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation has launched its new computed tomography (CT) system, Aquilion Prime SP, to provide ...

November 29, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Researchers in Japan develop a color device for the heart

A group of researchers from Kyoto University’s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Science (iCeMS), in collabor...

November 21, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Mitsubhishi Tanabe Pharma's ALS drug treats more than 1000 people in three months

Japan’s Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma America, Inc. today announced that more than 1,000 people with amyotrophic latera...

November 17, 2017 | Friday | News
Health Ministry to increase hospitals in Japan

The health ministry in Japan is planning to expand the range of hospitals that can impose additional fees on patients wi...

November 17, 2017 | Friday | News
World's first health management smart belt "Welt" arrives in Japan

The member company of K-ICT Born2Global Centre, WELT, has developed the world's first smart belt, designed to assist use...

November 15, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Shimadzu enters into partnership with Cure & CK Sciences

Shimadzu, an analytical instrument manufacturer, has announced the formation of a partnership with Cure Pharmaceutical G...

November 2, 2017 | Thursday | News
Poxel, Sumitomo Dianippon Pharma ink $300 mn Asian deal for diabetes drug

Japan based Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma is adding a phase III drug Imeglimin to its growing diabetes product pipeline in a...

November 1, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Eisai, Biogen expand their agreement to codevelop and commercialize AD drug

  Japan’s Eisai and US based Biogen announced the expansion  of their existing collaboration agreement ...

October 24, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Biogen extends collaboration with Eisai

Eisai Co., Ltd. and Biogen Inc. have expanded their existing agreement to jointly develop and commercialize investigatio...

October 24, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Japanese scientists devise a method for developing living antibiotic

A group of researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan have discovered a method to ma...

October 23, 2017 | Monday | News
Japan provides funds to Pakistan for eradicating polio

The Government of Japan recently announced a grant provision of 520 million Yen to support the supply of essential polio...

October 19, 2017 | Thursday | News
McGill teams up with Japan’s NIPS for neuroscience research

McGill has entered into a formal partnership with Japan’s National Institutes of Physiological Sciences (NIPS) aft...

October 18, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Japanese scientists grow drugs In chicken eggs

Researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan have managed to genetically...

October 13, 2017 | Friday | News
Japan signs health agreement with Denmark

The health minister at Denmark, Ellen Trane Nørby, has signed an agreement with the Japanese deputy minister for ...

October 13, 2017 | Friday | News
Indonesia to cooperate with Japan for healthcare

The Indonesian government will boost cooperation with Japan in the area of health based on each country’s needs, s...

October 6, 2017 | Friday | News
Sato And Eisai Pharma co-promote antifungal agent in Japan

Sato Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Eisai Co. Ltd., and Seren Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced that Sato Pharma and Eisai will c...

October 3, 2017 | Tuesday | News
GSK receives Japanese nod for Benylsta

Global pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline PLC announced that it has received the Japanese nod for Benlysta for sale in Japan. ...

September 27, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Suven gets product patent from India and Japan

Drug firm Suven Life Sciences has been granted a patent each by India and Japan for a drug used in the treatment of neur...

September 26, 2017 | Tuesday | News
SymBio receives licensing rights from Eagle Pharma

Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has licensed rights to SymBio Pharmaceuticals Limited under Eagle’s intellectual prope...

September 20, 2017 | Wednesday | News
India and Japan join hands for stem cell research

In the light of Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to India, the two countries have signed a host of ...

September 14, 2017 | Thursday | News
Eisai announces combined clinical trial results on cancer

Eisai Co., Ltd. has announced that new findings indicating its in-house discovered and developed anticancer agent lenvat...

September 13, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Takeda collaborates with Noile-Immune Biotech

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited and Noile-Immune Biotech Inc. have entered into a collaboration to develop next ge...

September 8, 2017 | Friday | News
Japan’s iCure gets associated with Inter Milan

Inter Academy have begun working in the health and wellbeing sector thanks to the new Inter Academy Health project. The ...

September 8, 2017 | Friday | News
Scientists devise breakthrough therapy for Parkinson’s

Scientists at Kyoto University have successfully used reprogrammed stem cells to restore functioning brain cells in monk...

September 4, 2017 | Monday | News
Nobel Laureate honoured by Japan

Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner is known for helping to place Singapore's biotechnology sector on the world stage. The 90-...

August 31, 2017 | Thursday | News
Japanese researchers design device for drug toxicity

Researchers at Kyoto University‘s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences have developed a ‘body-on-...

August 28, 2017 | Monday | News
MDR TB drug by Otsuka reaches India

Japanese drug maker Otsuka Pharmaceutical has granted US pharmaceutical firm Mylan’s subsidiary an exclusive licen...

August 25, 2017 | Friday | News
Japanese researchers develop a long-lasting insulin analog

A group of researchers in from Tokai University, Tohoku University, and Osaka University has succeeded in developing syn...

August 24, 2017 | Thursday | News
Japanese researchers use brain imaging to detect kidney disease

Using tools originally designed for brain imaging, researchers in Japan have developed a technique that could replace in...

August 23, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Takeda partners with Cardurion Pharma

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited and Cardurion Pharmaceuticals announced the creation of a new cardiovascular devel...

August 4, 2017 | Friday | News
Researchers create a unique system for drug delivery

In an attempt to produce a better drug delivery system, researchers from Kumamoto University in Japan are focusing on a ...

July 28, 2017 | Friday | News
Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma to buy Neuroderm for $1.1 B

Japan's Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma is acquiring Israeli drug maker Neuroderm for $1.1 billion in cash as part of a strateg...

July 26, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Japan MHLW grants marketing approval for RA treatment

Eli Lilly and Company and Incyte Corporation announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) g...

July 18, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Malaysia, Japan ink deal to promote UHC

With a view to promote cooperation in Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Malaysia and Japan has inked a Memorandum of Coop...

July 18, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Scientists develop skin sensor to monitor health

Scientists at the University of Tokyo, Japan have developed a hypoallergenic, breathable sensor that can be worn on the ...

July 18, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Solasia announces Episil approval in Japan

Solasia Pharma K.K. announced that episil (SP-03) has been approved for the management of pain and relief of pain, sooth...

July 10, 2017 | Monday | News
European VC invests in Japan's Anaeropharma Science

 Singapore: According to a recent announcement, Japanese biopharmaceutical company Anaeropharma Science has receive...

July 6, 2017 | Thursday | News
Japanese regulators grant additional approval for the sale of Ipsen's rare cancer drug in Japan

Bringing in much needed relief for millions of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine cancer patients, the Japanese regul...

July 4, 2017 | Tuesday | News

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