Japanese firms Fujitsu and TOPPAN Holdings collaborate to expand medical big data business

Japan-based companies Fujitsu and TOPPAN Holdings Inc. have concluded a business alliance agreement to jointly promote t...

October 19, 2023 | Thursday | News
Smith+Nephew introduces REGENETEN Bioinductive Implant in Japan

British medtech company Smith+Nephew has announce the launch of its REGENETEN Bioinductive Implant allowing access to th...

October 20, 2023 | Friday | News
Japan's GHIT joins hands with Institut Pasteur de Dakar in Africa to develop new diagnostics & vaccines

The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund), headquartered in Japan, and the Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD...

October 16, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan accelerates open innovation and enhance life science ecosystem

Astellas Pharma, BioLabs Global and Mitsui Fudosan have agreed on a tri-party Memorandum of Understanding to e...

October 17, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Singapore and Japan join forces in pioneering telesurgery trial

Singapore's National University Hospital (NUH) and the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Sin...

October 13, 2023 | Friday | News
Japan-based Fujitsu and RIKEN develop AI drug discovery technology utilising generative AI

Fujitsu Limited and the High Performance Computing (HPC)- and AI-driven Drug Development Platform Division of the RIKEN ...

October 10, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japanese firm Mitsui invests $8 M in US-based clinical intelligence startup Lokavant

US-based Lokavant, the clinical trial intelligence platform company, has announced an $8 million strategic investment fr...

October 10, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Kyushu University signs strategic partnership agreement with GSK

GlaxoSmithKline K.K. and National University Corporation Kyushu University have signed a strategic partnership agreement...

October 9, 2023 | Monday | News
Japanese firm Kyowa Kirin to acquire UK-based startup Orchard Therapeutics for $477 M

Kyowa Kirin, a Japan-based global specialty pharmaceutical company and UK-based startup Orchard Therapeutics plc, a glob...

October 6, 2023 | Friday | News
WHO recommends Japanese firm Takeda's dengue vaccine for children aged 6 to 16 yrs

Japan-based pharmaceutical company Takeda has announced that the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Strategic Advis...

October 4, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Olympus names Dr John de Csepel as Chief Medical Officer

Olympus Corporation, a Japan-headquartered medtech company, has named Dr John de Csepel to the role of Chief Medical Off...

October 3, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Singapore-based Vela Diagnostics collaborates with SRL for product distribution in Japan

Singapore-based company Vela Diagnostics has announced a research collaboration with SRL Inc, a Japanese healthcare...

October 3, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan approves GSK's Arexvy, country’s first RSV vaccine for adults

British pharma firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (...

September 27, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Fujitsu and iSurgery launch bone health promotion project in Japan

Japanese firms Fujitsu and iSurgery will conduct a field trial as part of their 'bone health promotion project' from Oct...

September 29, 2023 | Friday | News
Japan's PeptiDream inks $40 M deal with Genentech for novel peptide-radioisotope drug conjugates

PeptiDream Inc., a Japan-based biopharmaceutical company, has announced a new multi-target collaboration and license agr...

September 20, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japanese medtech startup Medmain to expand to US

Medmain Inc, a Japanese medtech startup that offers PidPort, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cloud system t...

September 19, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japanese pharma firm Astellas to invest more than €330 M in Ireland facility

Japan headquartered Astellas Pharma has announced its intention to submit a planning application to build a new state-of...

September 18, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan to develop brain bio-digital twin technology

NTT Corporation and the National Center for Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP), in Japan, have entered into ...

September 15, 2023 | Friday | News