Aussie man contracts dengue in Japan

Singapore: As per a recent news report, an Australian traveler to Japan has been diagnosed with dengue fever. As per the...

September 15, 2014 | Monday | News
Rosetta Genomics receives first patent allowance in Japan

Singapore: Rosetta Genomics, a leading developer and provider of microRNA-based molecular diagnostics, announced that t...

February 16, 2015 | Monday | News
Japan uses Dolly sheep's method to clone mouse

Singapore: Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, have used the same technique that...

March 11, 2013 | Monday | News
Plea seeks approval to treat H. pylori gastritis with triple therapy

Singapore: Kyowa Hakko Kirin and Astellas Pharma have submitted a joint application to Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor...

September 3, 2012 | Monday | News
Cancer detection in less than an hour?

Singapore: Japan-based Hitachi and Kyushu University recently announced plans to develop a new device that can detect ca...

February 16, 2015 | Monday | News
Otsuka, Pioneer form alliance to develop endoscope

Singapore: Otsuka Medical Devices, a wholly owned subsidiary of Otsuka, and Pioneer have reached an agreement to form a ...

November 7, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Novel Solutions for Emerging Diseases: Molcure

With increased life expectancy, an ageing society, and evolving infections, there is a growing demand for novel treatm...

August 24, 2014 | Sunday | Analysis
Point-of-care diagnostics is revolutionary

In 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation rolled out a new grant of $31 million to fund innovation in point-of-ca...

December 17, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Roche, Astellas pharma ink pact to develop tissue diagnostic solutions

Singapore: Swiss giant Roche recently announced that its member company, Ventana Medical Systems has inked a pact with J...

April 16, 2015 | Thursday | News
Takeda boosts business presence in Turkey

Singapore: Japanese major Takeda Pharmaceutical and NEUTEC İLAÇ SANAYİ VE TİCARET A.Åž (Neutec) announce...

February 25, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Indo-Japan ties on the rise

The last five years have witnessed many collaborative deals between bioscience organizations in India and Japan. The ado...

February 18, 2013 | Monday | Analysis
FDA to review Takeda's depression drug

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical and H Lundbeck have recieved US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) acceptance for a sup...

August 11, 2015 | Tuesday | News
FDA not in favour of Otsuka's kidney drug Tolvaptan

Singapore: The US FDA Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee has disapproved Japan-based Otsuka Pharmaceutic...

August 6, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Pfizer, Japanese firm to jointly asses mAB for tumor

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, and Japanese firm, Kyowa Hakko Kirin, are jointly assessing the therap...

September 30, 2014 | Tuesday | News
GVK BIO strengthens tie-up with CTC Life Science Japan

Singapore: The drug repurposing platform called GRIP (GVK Bio Repurposing Integrated Platform) is a combination of sever...

December 9, 2014 | Tuesday | News
BMS takes on combination drug for cancer therapy

Singapore: Japan's Ono Pharmaceutical and Kyowa Hakko Kirin has partnered with Bristol-Myers Squibbs for Phase 1 clinica...

December 11, 2014 | Thursday | News
Toshiba adds new products to its portfolio

Singapore: Toshiba has announced the launch of a Hardware Development Kit (HDK) and a Software Development Kit (SDK), ab...

May 2, 2015 | Saturday | News
Eisai launches thyroid cancer therapy in UK

Eisai Co. Ltd., a leading global research and development-based pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, has launc...

June 11, 2015 | Thursday | News
Chugai seeks approval for anti-cancer agent Avastin in Japan

Singapore: Japan's Chugai Pharmaceutical filed an application with the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, ...

September 25, 2012 | Tuesday | News
A*STAR, Japanese bank ink partnership

Singapore: Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporat...

August 20, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Aspen to market some of GSK's generic drugs

Singapore: Aspen Global Incorporated (AGI), a subsidiary of Aspen Holdings Incorporated, announced its strategic partner...

October 10, 2014 | Friday | News
FUJIFILM expands cell manufacturing capacity

Singapore: Gobal contract manufacturing firm, FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, has expanded its cell culture manufactu...

August 20, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Roche has no plans to acquire Chugai'

Singapore: In the light of reports of Roche's anticipation to take 100 percent stake in Japan's Chugai Pharmaceutical gr...

August 20, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Takeda's dengue vaccine trials to being in 2015

Singapore: Japan's pharma giant Takeda Pharmaceutical has said that it is planning to begin the last phase of clinical t...

September 8, 2014 | Monday | News
Embryonic stem cells remain a sticky wicket

Dr Shinya Yamanaka and Sir John Gurdon's discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) has given the world an altern...

January 31, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Sun Pharma gets US FTC nod to buy Ranbaxy

On February 02, 2015, Sun Pharma announced that the company received US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) clearance for Ran...

February 5, 2015 | Thursday | News
AbbVie Submits NDA for Hep C drug in Japan

Singapore: US-based AbbVie has announced that the company has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the Japanese Mi...

February 16, 2015 | Monday | News
Mitsubishi system reduces radiotherapy time to 1/4

Singapore: Mitsubishi Electric has completed the construction of a new proton therapy system for cancer treatment at its...

May 15, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Accenture wins contract to handle IT maintenance and operations for Eisai

IT technology and services giant Accenture has signed a contract to provide information technology (IT) system maintenan...

June 25, 2015 | Thursday | News
Prasco Lab to market generics version of Colcrys in US

Singapore: US generics firm, Prasco Laboratories, has entered into alliance with US subisdiary of Japanese pharmaceutica...

January 13, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Japanese HAL robotic suit certified in Europe

Singapore: Japan-based Cyberdyne's Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) robotic exoskeleton, designed to help patients having dif...

August 8, 2013 | Thursday | News
Eisai, Santen enter agreement for new ophthalmic drugs

Singapore: Japan-based Eisai and Santen Pharmaceutical entered into an option agreement which grants Santen rights of ev...

September 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Antiviral drug for Ebola shows signs of efficacy

Singapore: Avigan is being provided to clinical trials in Guinea for patients with Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). The drug f...

February 25, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Ready, Fit, Build and Run: Solutions fast tracked

Singapore: The Japanese biotech company UNIGEN has taken Werum's PAS-X Manufacturing Execution System (MES) into operati...

August 19, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Japan patent office upheld claims in gene silencing trial

Singapore: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, a leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced that the Japanese Patent Office uphe...

October 10, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Eisai divests rights for Glidael Wafer to Arbor

Singapore: Eisai's US subsidiary has entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement to divest US rights for its Gli...

December 25, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Astellas announces global team promotions

Singapore: Astellas Pharma Global Development (APGD), a subsidiary of Astellas Pharma Inc. based in Tokyo, Japan has ann...

October 23, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Handheld hemoglobin testing device wins coveted Stevie award

Singapore: Masimo announced that its Pronto-7 handheld noninvasive hemoglobin, arterial oxygen saturation (SpO2), pulse...

September 24, 2012 | Monday | News
Otsuka buys Avanir pharmaceuticals for $3.5bn

Singapore: The Japanese drug maker Otsuka Pharmaceuticals announced the acquisition of Avanir pharmaceuticals for $3.5 b...

December 3, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Abbott partners with Japan's Sekisui

Singapore: Abbott Laboratories has inked a pact with Japan's Sekisui to offer coagulation testing solutions for laborato...

May 22, 2015 | Friday | News
One Lambda partners with GenoDive

Singapore: One Lambda, a Thermo Fischer scientific brand announced that it has inked a pact with Japan-based GenoDive Ph...

October 10, 2014 | Friday | News
Japan leukemia market to grow to $565mn in 2022

Singapore: A new study by research and consulting firm GlobalData, highlighted that Japan's chronic myeloid leukemia (CM...

May 22, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Suven secures three product patents for their NCEs in Canada, Japan and Korea

Suven Life Sciences Ltd, headquartered in Hyderabad, India, secured product patents from Canada, Japan and Korea corresp...

March 26, 2015 | Thursday | News
RetroNectin now available for clinical research

Singapore: In an effort to aid progress in gene therapy clinical research, representatives of Clontech Laboratories and ...

June 18, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Influenza can get worse with every season

Singapore: Acute viral respiratory infection influenza, or flu, strikes every winter, and several nations are preparing ...

October 23, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo seeks approval for TB drug in Japan

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo's generic subsidiary, Daiichi Sankyo Espha has submitted a supplemental New Drug Application (...

October 6, 2014 | Monday | News
Daiichi accuses Singh brothers of concealing facts

Singapore: The Japanese owners of Ranbaxy Laboratories, drug major Daiichi Sankyo has accused the Singh brothers, former...

November 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Japan worried as Dengue infections rise

Singapore: Japan has confirmed a rise in dengue fever cases and the country's health ministry has said that with the rec...

September 12, 2014 | Friday | News
Alexion files NDA in Japan for Asfotase Alfa

Singapore: Alexion pharma has announced the submission of New Drug Application (NDA) to the Japanese Ministry of Health,...

October 28, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Takeda's multiple myeloma drug meets primary endpoints

Singapore: Japanese pharma major Takeda Pharmaceutical Company has announced that the randomized, double-blind, placebo-...

February 11, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Japanese pharma market to be $80 bn by 2020: Analyst

Singapore: Japan's pharmaceutical market value is set to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.3 percent fro...

April 24, 2016 | Sunday | Analysis
Eisai botulinum toxin injection to help relax muscles

Singapore: Eisai launched NerBloc Intramuscular Injection 2500 Units (botulinum toxin type B, "NerBloc"), a neuromuscula...

April 1, 2013 | Monday | News
Harvard, Sony collaborate for Organs-on-Chips

Singapore: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University has collaborated with Sony DADC, d...

March 18, 2013 | Monday | News
Takeda files NDA for multiple sclerosis drug in Japan

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical has submitted a new drug application (NDA) to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour a...

December 26, 2014 | Friday | News
Ono pharma partners with Gilead lifesciences

Singapore: Japan-based Ono Pharmaceuticals recently announced that the company has entered into an agreement with Gilead...

December 22, 2014 | Monday | News
Sanofi gets 3rd rank on Access to Medicine Index

Singapore: Sanofi has been ranked third among 20 pharmaceutical companies on the 2012 Access to Medicine Index (ATM Ind...

November 29, 2012 | Thursday | News
Akebia, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma partner for 'Vadadustat'

Singapore: Akebia Therapeutics and Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation (MTPC)has announced that they have entered into ...

December 15, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Intra-nasal vaccine: Answer to avian influenza threat

There is a fear that avian H5N1 virus could cause a pandemic of new influenza in humans without any warning. To prevent ...

July 18, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
Shionogi's constipation medicine proves effective in trials

Tokyo: Shionogi, one of Japan's century-old pharmaceutical manufacturers, has announced that its once-daily naldemedine ...

August 4, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Asahi Kasei-SPI Pharma form alliance to market pharmaceutical additives

Tokyo: Japan's Asahi Kasei Chemicals and US-based SPI Pharma Inc. have agreed to form an alliance in the field of pharma...

December 16, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Aerocrine initiates pulmonary device sales in Japan

Singapore: Aerocrine AB, a Swedish medical products company, has launched its marketing and sales efforts of Aerocrine's...

April 24, 2015 | Friday | News
Japanese nod for Bayer's thyroid cancer drug

Singapore: The ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan has approved a drug for the treatment of patients w...

June 23, 2014 | Monday | News
Japan's new medical device receives FDA nod

Singapore: The US FDA has recently given its approval for a device that treats dialysis-related amyloidosis (DRA), a com...

March 9, 2015 | Monday | News
FDA grants orphan status to Eisai cancer drug

Singapore: Eisai announced that the US FDA has granted orphan drug designation to its investigational drug lenvatinib (...

February 15, 2013 | Friday | News
Pluristem's regenerative medicine convinces Japan PMDA

Singapore: Pluristem Therapeutics, an Israel-based developer of placenta-based cell therapy products, has announced that...

May 14, 2015 | Thursday | News
Taconic Biosciences expands its pact with Japan's Micell

Singapore: Taconic Biosciences, a global leading provider of genetically modified animal models to researchers, recently...

April 24, 2016 | Sunday | News
Zecotek receives $500,000 order from Hamamatsu

Singapore: Zecotek Photonics, a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific ...

August 1, 2013 | Thursday | News
AstraZeneca to commercialize Daiichi Sankyo's OIC drug

Singapore: AstraZeneca has partnered with Japan-based Daiichi Sankyo to co-commercialize Movantik (naloxegol) in the US,...

March 20, 2015 | Friday | News
Astellas to axe 300 jobs in home country in FY14

Singapore: Japanese pharmaceutical major Astellas Pharma has announced that it would cut down its group workforce in hom...

November 4, 2013 | Monday | News
R&D Antibodies gets nod from Japan Patent Office

Singapore: Research & Diagnostic Antibodies (R&D Antibodies) received a notice of allowance from the Japan Paten...

July 27, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
Takeda gastro norovirus vaccine shows +ve results

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical has achieved positive reponse from its phase I/II study of its intramuscular bivalent (...

October 7, 2013 | Monday | News
Targeted Medical Pharma assigns J-Network as distributor

Singapore: US-based Targeted Medical Pharma has signed an exclusive product distribution agreement with J-Network, a Cal...

February 24, 2015 | Tuesday | News
DSP, Edison sign deal for mitochondria disease

Singapore: Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma (DSP) has signed a research, development and commercial license agreement for the ...

April 1, 2013 | Monday | News
Japan approves extended indication of CryoLife's BioGlue

CryoLife Inc., a leading medical device and tissue processing company focused on cardiac and vascular surgery, announced...

July 10, 2015 | Friday | News
World's most powerful microscope ready for use

Singapore: The world's most powerful microscope, which resides in a specially constructed room at the University of Vict...

June 18, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Sosei buys Heptares Therapeutics

Singapore: Sosei Group Corporation, a leading Japanese biopharmaceutical company with operations in Japan and the UK, ha...

February 24, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Japan, Qatar collaborate on personalized medicine

Singapore: The Japanese Preventive Medicine & Diagnosis Innovation Program (RIKEN-PMI) has announced a collaboration...

January 29, 2015 | Thursday | News
NCKU Taiwan, Fujistu Taiwan ink a pact to establish cloud computing platform

Singapore: Japan-based technology giant Fujitsu Taiwan and Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) have signed a ...

August 14, 2014 | Thursday | News
Eisai leverages genetic research with Genomics

Singapore: Japanese firm, Eisai, and Oxford based Genomics has formed partnership to share Genomics' statistical analyse...

April 13, 2015 | Monday | News
New testing kit fast tracks Ebola diagnosis

Singapore: Japanese researchers at the Nagasaki University announced that they have developed a new diagnostic technique...

September 3, 2014 | Wednesday | News
What's the stem cell regulatory scenario like in APAC?

The pioneering work of Nobel Laureates Sir John Gurdon and Dr Shinya Yamanaka on reprogramming adult stem cells has open...

January 31, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Japanese scientists discover anti-cancer property in diabetes drug

Scientists at the Okayama University in Japan have announced that their studies have revealed how a diabetes drug helps ...

March 24, 2015 | Tuesday | News
GSK, Theravance withdraw COPD drug from Japan

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline and Theravance have withdrawn license application for the use of inhaled drug fluticasone fur...

July 16, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Tech drive demand for 3D medical imaging

Singapore: Global Industry Analysts (GIA) announces the release of a comprehensive global report on 3D medical imaging m...

July 12, 2013 | Friday | News
Fuji Pharma acquires Thai contract manufacturer Olic

Singapore: Japanese firm Fuji Pharma has entered into a share purchase agreement with swiss trading firm DKSH to acquir...

August 10, 2012 | Friday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: CROs hopeful despite stifled growth

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Roche, Meiji Seika Pharma, Fedora collaborate to develop bacterial resistance to antibiotics

Singapore: Pharmaceutical firms, Roche, Meiji Seika Pharma and Fedora have entered into a license agreement for the deve...

January 16, 2015 | Friday | News
Asia gets $15 mn donation for better sanitation

Singapore: Last year, the Asian Development Bank created the Sanitation Financing Partnership Trust Fund to help provide...

March 21, 2014 | Friday | News
McCann Healthcare forms new group in Japan

Singapore: McCann Healthcare Worldwide Japan (MHWWJ, a division of McCann Healthcare Worldwide, McCann Worldgroup and In...

May 14, 2012 | Monday | News
Takeda taps Sanofi's top exec to lead global R&D

Singapore: Japan-based, Takeda pharmaceuticals has tapped Sanofi's executive, Mr Andrew Plump, to head global research a...

December 19, 2014 | Friday | News
Japan says NO to smoking, first dip since 1965

Singapore: A survey conducted by Japan Tobacco has revealed that smoking rates in the country have fallen by 20 percent...

August 1, 2014 | Friday | News
Mauna Kea & Amco to distribute Cellvizio in Japan

Singapore: Mauna Kea Technologies, leader in the optical biopsy market and developer of Cellvizio, which the fastest way...

June 14, 2013 | Friday | News
Cardica's stapling cartridge seeks Japanese nod

Singapore: Japan's Century Medical has filed for regulatory approval of US-based Cardica's MicroCutter Xchange 30 cuttin...

August 13, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Japanese develops eye-based autism detector

Singapore: IP Shakti, an early-stage seed fund for biomedical and life science innovations, has entered into a partnersh...

March 29, 2013 | Friday | News
IHH healthcare acquires 5 nursing homes in Japan

Singapore: Malaysia's leading hospital operator, IHH healthcare recently announced that its subsidiary Parkway Life Rea...

March 19, 2015 | Thursday | News
Daiichi's Lixiana approved for ischemic stroke

Singapore: Japanese pharmaceutical company, Daiichi Sankyo, has received approval from the Ministry of Health, Labour an...

September 29, 2014 | Monday | Regulatory
Zeria Group's Tillotts, Numab collaborate to co-develop Inflammatory Bowel Disease therapeutics

Tillotts Pharma AG, a part of Japan-based Zeria Group, and Numab AG have entered into an exclusive global licensing agre...

June 10, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Toshiba, Johns Hopkins collaborate on big-data research

Singapore: To utilize the potential of Big Data to predict and prevent diseases, Toshiba has established a 'Toshiba Cent...

September 11, 2014 | Thursday | News
Fuji subsidiary AstaReal to build $30 mn plant in Japan

Singapore: Fuji Chemical Industry from Japan is planning to set up a $30 million manufacturing unit under its subsidiary...

July 17, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Bristol seeks Japanese nod of all-oral hepatitis C treatment

Singapore: US drugmaker, Bristol-Myers Squibb co has said that it is seeking Japanese health regulators approval of its ...

November 4, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory

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