Shimadzu expands joint research in China

Shimadzu will undertake more joint research in China with local universities and institutes, seeing more openings for it...

June 28, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Japan’s Z- Works raises funding

Tokyo-based Z-Works, the Japanese startup developing IoT (Internet of Things) healthcare monitoring solutions especially...

June 28, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Takeda, Biological E ink pact to develop and commercialize vaccines

Singapore: Japan’s Takeda pharmaceuticals have inked two licensing pacts with Biological E for development and del...

June 27, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Canopy Biosciences Announces Distribution Agreement with Cosmo Bio

Canopy Biosciences, an emerging provider of gene editing and personalized medicine technologies, announced a distributor...

June 23, 2017 | Friday | News
Plant based medicine to treat Alzheimer’s

Japanese scientists at the University of Toyama have developed a method to isolate and identify active compounds in plan...

June 21, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Nanosonics expands into Japan

Nanosonics Limited has announced it has entered into Japan, through a strategic relationship with infection prevention c...

June 19, 2017 | Monday | News
Nanosonics partners with Sakura Seiki

Nanosonics has entered into a strategic relationship with Sakura Seiki Co. Ltd, one of Japan’s leading organisatio...

June 19, 2017 | Monday | News
Shimadzu launches new analytical balances

Shimadzu announced the addition of three high-sensitivity semi-micro analytical balances to its AP-W series lineup. The ...

June 5, 2017 | Monday | News
Shimadzu in agreement with Phytronix

Shimadzu, one of the world's fastest growing mass spectrometry companies, and Phytronix, world leader in high throughput...

June 5, 2017 | Monday | News
Japan's Maz World opens lab in Hong Kong

Seeing a big opportunity in China for bird-flu masks and skin care products, Japanese biotech startup Maz World has open...

May 29, 2017 | Monday | News
Japan ratifies Nagoya Protocol on use of genetic resources

Japan completed the process of ratifying the Nagoya Protocol on access to genetic resources and the sharing of benefits ...

May 24, 2017 | Wednesday | News
A palm sized medical gamma-ray camera invented

A team of scientists has invented a medical gamma-ray camera which weighs only 580 gm and fits in the palm of a hand, ma...

May 23, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Janssen inks deal with Japan's PeptiDream

Singapore: Tokyo based PeptiDream recently announced that it has eneterd into a business collaboration with US-based Jan...

April 18, 2017 | Tuesday | News
India and Japan intensify cooperation in medical device regulations

India and Japan will intensify their joint cooperation for the development of a world-class medical device regulatory ec...

May 5, 2017 | Friday | News
A $21 million Series A funding closed by LensGen

LensGen, Inc., a private company developing Juvene™, the world's first modular, fluid-optic accommodating intraocu...

May 2, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Takeda announces FDA Accelerated approval of ALUNBRIG (brigatin)

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited announced that ALUNBRIG (brigatinib) has received Accelerated Approval from the U....

May 2, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Astellas pharma to acquire Belgium firm Ogeda

Singapore: If reports are to be believed, Japan's Astellas pharma is all set to acquire Belgium's clinical-stage drug di...

April 7, 2017 | Friday | News
Takeda off-loads some drug development to JV

Singapore: In a bid to concentrate resources on the core focus areas, Japanese drug giant Takeda Pharmaceutical has form...

March 15, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Lupin inks pact to distribute antidepressant drug in Japan

Singapore: India based drug giant Lupin pharmaceuticals Japanese subsidiary Kyowa recently inked a pact with Japan's Ast...

February 27, 2017 | Monday | News
Daiichi Sankyo closes its Japanese research subsidiary

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo recently announced its plans to close its Japanese research subsidiary Asubio Pharma that focu...

February 13, 2017 | Monday | News
Japan's Takeda to invest €40 million in Irish facility

Singapore: Japanese drug giant Takeda is planning to invest nearly €40 million in a new facility in Dublin in a mo...

December 6, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Sanofi to launch 20 new drugs in Japan by 2020

Singapore: If reports are to be believed French drug giant Sanofi is all set to launch 20 new drugs in Japan by 2020. In...

November 29, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Fujifilm Holdings to acquire Takeda's arm?

Singapore: If sources are to be believed, Japan's Fujifilm Holdings is all set to buy pharma giant Takeda Pharmaceutical...

November 7, 2016 | Monday | News
Japanese firm invests $11.4 mn in TB and malaria research

Singapore: With a view to curb the menace of malaria and tuberculosis(TB), Japan's investment firm, Global Health Innova...

November 3, 2016 | Thursday | News
Cardinal Health expands cardiovascular portfolio

Singapore: Cardinal Health has expanded its current distribution agreement with Biosensors as the exclusive distributor...

November 2, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Clinigen makes foray into Japan

Singapore: Further building on its presence in the Asian region, Burton-based Clinigen Group,has launched its Japanese b...

October 19, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Towa Phamaceuticals to enter the US market

Singapore: Japanese drug giant Towa Pharmaceuticals makes foray into the US markets banking on its new set of pills that...

November 15, 2016 | Tuesday | News
India urges Japan to provide wider pharma market access

Singapore: The Indian commerce Minister, Ms Nirmala Sitharaman has urged Japan to provide Indian pharmaceutical sector w...

October 14, 2016 | Friday | News
Zydus Cadila, Takeda to co-develop vaccine for chikungunya

Singapore: Japan's Takeda pharmaceuticals has joined hands with India-based Zydus Cadila in an aim to co-develop a vacci...

September 23, 2016 | Friday | News
Japan market forecast

Singapore: Japan's demographic profile will continue to create revenue earning opportunities for the pharmaceuticals and...

January 20, 2016 | Wednesday | Opinion
Stem cell scientist sues Nobel laureate for deception

Singapore: Dr Rongxiang Xu, a scientist who claims to be the founder of human body regenerative restoration science, has...

May 17, 2013 | Friday | News
Niigata Univ stroke therapy license for Shimojani

Singapore: Shimojani obtained exclusive license from Japan's Niigata University for worldwide development and commercia...

February 25, 2013 | Monday | News
Astellas prostrate cancer drug gets EU nod

Singapore: The European Commission has approved Xtandi (enzalutamide) capsules for the treatment of men with metastatic ...

June 25, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Columbia Asia receives $101mn investment from Mitsui & Co.

Singapore: Columbia Asia has announced it is receiving $101 million in investment from Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Columbia ...

July 27, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Teijin, Versartis partner for commercialization of Somavaratan in Japan

Singapore: Teijin Limited and Versartis, Inc. has announced that the companies and their wholly owned subsidiaries have ...

August 11, 2016 | Thursday | News
Tivozanib shows superiority over sorafenib in trial

Singapore: Investigational agent, tivozanib, has demonstrated statistically significant and clinically meaningful PFS su...

May 18, 2012 | Friday | News
Chugai gets positive outcome from Actemra Subcutaneous Injection trials

Japanese pharmaceutical giant Chugai Pharmaceutical Co Ltd has announced that its Actemra Subcutaneous Injection (Actemr...

May 17, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Prosetta Biosciences, Takeda to co-discover drugs for neurodegenerative diseases

Prosetta Biosciences Inc. has entered into a Feasibility and First Right of Negotiation Agreement with Japan's Takeda Ph...

May 3, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Histogenics to develop Purpose's NeoCart for Japanese Market

Histogenics Corporation, a NASDAQ-listed regenerative medicine company focused on developing and commercializing product...

May 11, 2016 | Wednesday | News
NCRM gets Japanese patent for nanotechnology-based corneal stem cell transplant

Tokyo: Corneal endothelial precursor cell transplantation methodology, employing a Nanocomposite gel sheet has been awar...

February 1, 2016 | Monday | News
Allergan's Botox Vista receives marketing authorization in Japan

Dublin-headquartered Allergan plc has announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved an...

May 25, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Microfluidics expert becomes Japan S&T agency licensee

Singapore: Microfluidics expert Dolomite is now a licensee of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) under JST's mic...

August 27, 2012 | Monday | News
Daiichi Sankyo to reorganize supply chain business

Singapore: Japan's Daiichi Sankyo has decided to reorganize three of its Japanese supply chain subsidiaries, Daiichi San...

October 2, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo announces closure of its Hiratsuka Plant

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (hereafter Daiichi Sankyo) has announced its decision to close the Hiratsuka ...

April 4, 2016 | Monday | News
BIOTEC launches microbe management course

Singapore: Thailand's flagship biotechnology organization, BIOTEC, NITE Biological Resource Center (NBRC) of Japan and ...

January 22, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Ajinomoto acquires US firm Althea

Singapore: Japan-headquartered Ajinomoto has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Althea Technologies, a US-ba...

March 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
Biobanking has attractive prospects in Asia

Asia is becoming increasingly important as a market for upcoming biobanks. Within Asia, India, China and Japan have attr...

June 12, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
Multiple sclerosis market to peak at $18.3 bn in 2018

Singapore: Leading independent healthcare analyst, Datamonitor Healthcare, has revealed in their latest research that th...

August 20, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Astellas EMEA appoints Eugene Van Rensburg as CFO

Tokyo: Astellas Pharma EMEA, the regional headquarters of Japan's Astellas Pharma Inc. for Europe, the Middle East and ...

September 18, 2015 | Friday | News
TNAU, Japanese professors unravel key genetic features of barley

Singapore: India's Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) professor Natesan Senthil and a Japanese professor have tog...

August 5, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Eisai, Sysmex partner to develop diagnostic for dementia

Singapore: Eisai and Sysmex Corporation jointly announced that the two companies have entered into a comprehensive non-e...

February 16, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Orient, NanoCarrier sign deal for Nanoplatin trial

Singapore: Taiwan company Orient Europharma and Japan-based pharmaceutical company NanoCarrier have signed a new agreeme...

November 29, 2012 | Thursday | News
ALK's Japanese partner reports positive results for hay fever drug

Copenhagen-based ALK has announced that its partner in Japan, Torii Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, has reported positive results...

August 10, 2015 | Monday | News
Breast cancer market will rise to $3.4 billion by 2021'

Singapore: The Asia-Pacific (APAC) breast cancer market is set to experience considerable expansion from $1.9 billion in...

February 16, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Infraredx to launch TVC Imaging System in Japan

Singapore: Infraredx, a medical device company committed to advancing the diagnosis and management of coronary artery an...

June 28, 2012 | Thursday | News
Mitsubishi Tanabe to manufacture diabetes drug Tenelia

Singapore: Japanese company Mitsubishi Tanabe has received approval to manufacture and market the selective DPP-4 inhibi...

July 2, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Otsuka expands collaboration with Lundbeck

Singapore: Japanese company Otsuka Pharmaceutical and H Lundbeck, Denmark-based company, have outlined co-promotion plan...

March 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Novartis' Alcon recalling more intraocular lenses in Japan

Singapore: Novartis' Alcon expanded the recall of its intraocular lenses in Japan, pushing the number of affected units ...

December 7, 2015 | Monday | News
Global respiratory syncytial virus treatment market to touch $2.3 bn by 2024

Singapore: The global Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) treatment market will expand to unprecedented levels over the ne...

January 14, 2016 | Thursday | News
Eisai enters license agreement with HUYA Bioscience

Singapore: Eisai has entered into an exclusive license agreement with HUYA Bioscience International to develop and marke...

February 2, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Eisai receives positive CHMP opinion on new indication for anticancer agent

Singapore: Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that its European regional headquarters Eisai Europe Ltd. has received a positive o...

July 26, 2016 | Tuesday | News
St. Jude launches cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator

Singapore: St. Jude Medical, a global medical device company, has launched the Unify Quadra cardiac resynchronization th...

July 18, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Mallinckrodt's pharmaceutical gas approved in Australia and Japan

Tokyo: United Kingdom's Mallinckrodt plc has announced that INOmax (nitric oxide) for inhalation has received regulator...

November 2, 2015 | Monday | News
Thailand, Japan to develop medical robots

Singapore: Thailand Center of Excellence for lifesciences has signed a pact with Mahidol University's Faculty of Enginee...

February 13, 2015 | Friday | News
NDA approval for obesity drug Oblean in Japan

Singapore: Netherlands-based Norgine BV and Japanese drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical have announced the approval of the ...

September 20, 2013 | Friday | News
Japan's PeptiDream partners with Genentech

Singapore: PeptiDream, Tokyo-based biopharmaceutical company, has entered into a multi-target discovery and optimization...

December 22, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo files NDA for Prasugrel in Japan

Singapore: Japanese drug major Daiichi Sankyo submitted a New Drug Application to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welf...

June 19, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Shimadzu Global Pharma Summit gathers veterans to share regulatory challenges

Singapore: 5th Shimadzu Global Pharma Summit 2015, the flagship event of Shimadzu that provides a platform for the globa...

January 7, 2016 | Thursday | News
Eisai buys Chinese Generics Company Liaoning TianYi

Singapore: Eisai announced that regarding the acquisition of Chinese generic pharmaceutical company Liaoning TianYi Biol...

January 6, 2016 | Wednesday | News
HMT opens office in US

Singapore: Human Metabolome Technologies (HMT), the leading provider of capillary electrophoresis mass spectrometry (CE...

November 13, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Aricept leads Japan pharma market with $1.81 bn

The top 10 pharmaceutical products being sold in the Japanese market, by both local and foreign players, contribute to a...

June 12, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Japan nods Pfizer arthritis drug Xeljanz

Singapore: Pfizer's Xeljanz (tofacitinib citrate) has received approval for the treatment of adults with rheumatoid arth...

March 28, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
R-Tech Ueno, Hokkaido University to co-develop diabetic intervention

Singapore: JASDAQ-listed R-Tech Ueno has decided to conduct collaborative research with a group led by professor Susumu ...

May 19, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Taiho establishes Taiho Ventures to foster oncology biotech start-ups

Taiho Pharmaceutical Co Ltd (TPC), a full-fledged oncology pharmaceutical company headquartered in Tokyo, has establishe...

May 11, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Amgen,Astellas announce the launch of Repatha in Japan

Singapore: Japanese pharma giant Amgen Astellas BioPharma and Astellas Pharma recently announced the launch of their pro...

April 28, 2016 | Thursday | News
Japan driving innovation in drug delivery devices

Within the Asia-Pacific region, Japan has maintained its leadership role as the largest pharmaceutical market, second on...

July 2, 2012 | Monday | Opinion
Cubist gets right to Astellas' ceftolozane

Singapore: Cubist Pharmaceuticals and Astellas Pharma entered into an agreement under which Cubist will obtain the right...

March 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Takeda partners with Nanotherapeutics to expand influenza vaccine program

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical has recieved expanded commercialization and technology access rights related to Nanothe...

August 28, 2015 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo's tumor treatment gets Breakthrough Therapy Designation

Tokyo: Daiichi Sankyo Inc and Plexxikon Inc, a member of the Daiichi Sankyo Group, has announced that the US Food and Dr...

November 2, 2015 | Monday | News
Future of Healthcare in Asia

Healthcare industry is in a period of evolution accelerated by changing demographics and market forces propelled by insu...

May 5, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
MIT, Kyoto researchers invent RNA-based gene circuits

Tokyo: A joint collaboration between the researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Center for ...

August 4, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Japan creates sperm bank for endangered species

Singapore: Researchers at the Institute of Laboratory Animals, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan, hav...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Takeda close to releasing Norovirus vaccine

Singapore: Japan's drug major Takeda Pharmaceutical has said that they are set to finish the early stage human studies o...

July 8, 2013 | Monday | News
Challenges in mHealth integration'

Singapore: Medidata Solutions is a provider of cloud computing-based solutions for clinical development process to impro...

January 19, 2016 | Tuesday | Opinion
TriReme catheter gets approval in Japan

Singapore: TriReme Medical's Japanese partner Century Medical has received Shonin approval, the approval to market in Ja...

November 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
Medtronic's CoreValve system approved in Japan

Medical device manufacturer Medtronic has announced Japanese regulatory approval for the self-expanding transcatheter Co...

April 1, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Takeda, DND to accelerate drug discovery for parasite infection

Singapore: Geneva based Drugs for Neglected Diseases and Japan's Takeda have collaborated for a Lead Optimization Progra...

July 29, 2015 | Wednesday | News
ReproCELL to launch human iPS-derived neurons

Singapore: ReproCELL, which commercializes human pluripotent stem cells as an effective tool for drug discovery and deve...

June 8, 2012 | Friday | News
Abbott marks success with naturally dissolving stent in Japan

Global life sciences company Abbott has announced that the company has observed positive clinical results from ABSORB Ja...

September 2, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Takeda selected for Dow Jones social responsibility index

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical has been selected for the third consecutive year for the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia...

September 27, 2012 | Thursday | News
ICON appoints APAC and Japan VPs

Singapore: ICON, a global provider of drug development solutions and services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and m...

November 3, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo launches LIXIANA sales alliance in Europe

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo announced that its European subsidiary, Daiichi Sankyo Europe (DSE) GmbH Group has granted exc...

February 18, 2016 | Thursday | News
Eisai subsidiary announces cancer trial results

Singapore: Eisai announced the preliminary results of its global phase III study (Study FAR 131, MORAb-003-004) of farl...

January 15, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Positive results for Otsuka's MDR-TB treatment

Singapore: Clinical trial results on the safety and efficacy of delamanid, Otsuka Pharmaceutical's investigational compo...

June 7, 2012 | Thursday | News
Naveed Shams is CEO of Santen US subsidiary

Singapore: Japan-based Santen Pharmaceutical appointed Dr Naveed Shams as president, CEO and chief scientific officer of...

March 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
“We think India is a worthy country to expand our business”

Could you briefly outline CMIC's profile and its presence in Japan? I can proudly admit that CMIC is the first Contract...

September 8, 2015 | Tuesday | Opinion
Astellas, FHU study finds neurogenesis deficits in schizophrenics

Singapore: A new research study has found deficits in the maturation steps of neurogenesis within the hippocampus of pat...

July 26, 2012 | Thursday | News
Academia, industry team up for Japan's genomic research project

Singapore: Led by the National Cancer Center of Japan, a joint research pact has been inked by many private companies an...

August 31, 2015 | Monday | News
Japan approves Bayer's EYLEA Injection

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. has announced that Bayer HealthCare's Japanese subsidiary, Bayer Yakuhin Ltd, has receive...

June 29, 2015 | Monday | News
Japanese patent for Imugene drug delivery tech

Singapore: Australian drug delivery technology company, Imugene, has received Japanese patent for its novel drug deliver...

March 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News

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