Orphan blood disease drugs to gain market

Singapore: Physicians treating rare blood disorders now have more drug treatments to choose from to treat patients. This...

February 7, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Takeda develops first-ever vomiting bug vaccine

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical is developing a vaccine against norovirus, also known as the winter vomiting bug. Dr Ra...

June 26, 2013 | Wednesday | News
NPS gets orphan drugs' rights from Takeda

Singapore: NPS Pharma has re-gained the full worldwide rights to teduglutide and recombinant human parathyroid hormone ...

March 20, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Eisai expands R&D in Belgium with office in Brussels

Singapore: Eisai EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa, Russia and Oceania), the R&D division of the Japan-based company...

September 16, 2013 | Monday | News
Genzyme's Cerdelga capsules approved in Japan

Genzyme, a Sanofi company, announced that the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has granted marketing approv...

April 1, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Baring to acquire Japan's Bushu pharma

Singapore: Baring Private Equity Asia announced recently that it has agreed to acquire Japanese drugmaker, Bushu pharmac...

November 18, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Bristol-Myers collaborates with Onopharma

Singapore: Bristol-Myers Squibb, a US-based pharma giant declared that it had inked a strategic accord with Japan's Ono ...

August 6, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Thermo Fisher next gen sequencing system is for clinical use'

Singapore: Thermo Fisher Scientific's Ion PGM Dx next generation sequencing system has been listed with the US Food and ...

September 19, 2014 | Friday | News
Takeda terminates prostrate cancer drug trial

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical has terminated the development program for orteronel (TAK-700) for prostate cancer foll...

June 24, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Shimadzu to adopt Agilent's RC.Net instrument drivers

Singapore: Agilent Technologies and Shimadzu are going to exchange RapidControl.NET (RC.Net) instrument drivers. Shimadz...

May 30, 2013 | Thursday | News
Toshiba inaugurates a new healthcare unit in Japan

Singapore: Following footsteps of Microsoft, Samsung, Apple and other technology giants, Toshiba too has decided to incr...

December 18, 2014 | Thursday | News
Japan, Vietnam sign MoU to advance healthcare

Singapore: The Vietnamese Ministry of health recently inked a pact with Japan's medical universities in Kansai region an...

February 13, 2015 | Friday | News
Japan's Sosei group to buy Jitsubo

Singapore: Japan-based pharma major, Sosei, recently announced the acquisition of Jitsubo, a Japanese peptide technology...

December 15, 2014 | Monday | News
Taconic strengthens distribution and animal breeding partnerships in Japan

US-based Taconic Biosciences, a leading provider of genetically modified solutions to researchers worldwide, announced a...

March 19, 2015 | Thursday | News
International Stem Cell Corporation receives Stem Cell Patent in Japan

International Stem Cell Corporation, a California-based biotechnology company developing novel stem cell based therapies...

March 19, 2015 | Thursday | News
APAC colorectal cancer market to touch $2.9 bn by 2020

Singapore: Colorectal Cancer (CRC) therapeutics market in Asia-Pacific (APAC) is set to increase in value, from $1.9 bil...

December 18, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Boston Therapeutics, Advance Pharmaceutical to market diabetes drug in Japan

Boston Therapeutics, Inc., a leading developer of complex carbohydrates to treat diabetes and inflammatory diseases, and...

March 19, 2015 | Thursday | News
Global Type1 diabetes market to touch $13.6 bn by 2023'

Singapore: Global treatment market for Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) will expand from $6.6 billion in 2013 to an estimated $13.6...

March 19, 2015 | Thursday | Analysis
US firm files antibody patent in Japan, Korea

Singapore: MMRGlobal received confirmation of the filings of a divisional application for its antibody technology in Jap...

August 27, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Italian, Japanese robot firms sign healthcare deal

Singapore: Italy-headquartered Health Robotics has signed two long-term contract extensions of its exclusive partnership...

February 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Takeda, US-based BioMotiv join hands

Singapore: Japan's largest drug company Takeda Pharmaceutical has entered into a strategic investment partnership with U...

September 26, 2014 | Friday | News
Asia faces an acute skills gap challenge

Shortage of skills and qualification among life science professionals to pursue risk laden activities is proving to be a...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Takeda, Teva working on glatiramer deals in Japan

Singapore: In a bid to provide a new treatment options to patients with multiple sclerosis in Japan, Israel's Teva Pharm...

December 6, 2013 | Friday | News
APAC Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma treatment market to touch $1.7 bn'

Singapore: Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) treatment market in Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries including India, Australia, Chin...

September 26, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
Eisai signs deal with Sabin Vaccine Institute

Singapore: Japanese firm Eisai has entered into a partnership agreement to supply the Sabin Vaccine Institute with E6020...

September 19, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Takeda, Affymax announce supply agreement

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceuticals America has entered into a supply agreement for sourcing and supply of Omontys (pegine...

July 13, 2012 | Friday | News
Suven Lifesciences receives five patents from four countries

Singapore: India-based Suven Lifescinces has secured patents for its new chemical entities (NCEs) from Japan, China, New...

December 17, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Japan gets Certara's D360 to boost drug discovery

Singapore: Certara, a drug development and drug safety consultancy firm has launched its D360 software in Japan for prov...

August 4, 2014 | Monday | News
Novartis Japan admits to concealing side effects

Singapore: Landing in trouble again, the Japanese arm of the Swiss drug maker Novartis has now admitted that it conceale...

September 2, 2014 | Tuesday | News
First semi-rigid heart ring implanted in man

Singapore: Sorin Group received authorization from the Japanese Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) to mar...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | News
Japanese nod for Given Imaging's PillCam SB 3

Singapore: Israel -based Given Imaging, makers of gastrointestinal medical devices and pioneer of capsule endoscopy, has...

September 26, 2013 | Thursday | News
Neurons reveal brain, whiskers network link

Singapore: Human fingertips have several types of sensory neurons that are responsible for relaying touch signals to the...

October 17, 2013 | Thursday | News
Teijin, Ipsen launch gigantism drug

Singapore: Teijin Pharma, the core company of the Teijin Group's healthcare business, and Ipsen launched Somatuline 60/...

January 18, 2013 | Friday | News
Fujifilm hopeful for anti-influenza drug as ebola treatment

Singapore: Japan's Fujifilm has already started the production of its anti-influenza drug Avigan Tablet 200mg (Favipirav...

November 12, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Stem cell scientist Dr Yoshiki Sasai is dead

Singapore: Dr Yoshiki Sasai, former Director of Japan's RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) and a stem cell sci...

August 5, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Taiho terminates oranitib Ph III trial

Singapore: Faced with disappointing results, Japan's large drugmaker, Taiho Pharmaceutical has said that it is terminati...

August 5, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Dainippon sets up cancer drug subsidiary in the US

Singapore: Japan-based Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma (DSP), has decided to establish an anti-cancer drugs sales company in t...

October 10, 2013 | Thursday | News
Japanese, Korean firm to jointly develop breast cancer drug

Singapore: Japanese company, Kyowa Hakko Kirin and Korean firm, Syndax Pharmaceuticals, have entered into a license agre...

January 8, 2015 | Thursday | News
Cook gives Zilver PTX to doctors in US, EU, Japan

Singapore: US-based medical device manufacturer Cook Medical is again shipping its Zilver PTX Drug-Eluting Peripheral St...

August 13, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Novartis' Cosentyx receives Japanese nod

Singapore: The Japanese Ministry for Health and Welfare has recently given its nod for Novatris' Cosentyx, that treats p...

February 6, 2015 | Friday | News
UK delists breast cancer drug, eribulin, from Cancer Drug Fund

Singapore: Halaven (Eribulin), indicated for the treatment of advanced or metastatic breast cancer, developed by Japanes...

January 8, 2015 | Thursday | News
Pronova, Takeda launch Lotriga in Japan

Singapore: Pronova BioPharma and Takeda's Lotriga granular capsule 2g is now available for the treatment of hyperlipide...

January 11, 2013 | Friday | News
Takeda to distribute Kaketsuken's influenza vaccine in Japan

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical has partnered with Chemo-Sero-Therapeutic Research Institute for the distribution of Ka...

May 21, 2015 | Thursday | News
Daiichi Sankyo exits Sun Pharma

Singapore: The board of directors of Japanese pharmaceutical giant Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited approved a resolution ...

April 21, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Asthma therapy market to touch $23.1 bn by 2023

Singapore: Asthma treatment market value will grow from approximately USD15.9 billion in 2013, across eight major countr...

September 8, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
New device promises to detect cancer in 3 min!

Singapore: Japanese researchers claim that they have developed a new device that can detect cancer from a drop of blood ...

June 19, 2015 | Friday | News
Mochida seeks Ulcerative Colitis drug approval in Japan

Tokyo's Mochida Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has filed for a new drug application (NDA) for MD-0901 with the Japanese Ministr...

November 6, 2015 | Friday | News
Investors eye Japan's pharma law reformation

Singapore: Assuming the role of Prime Minister of Japan in December 2012, Mr Shinzo Abe has provided a boon for Japanese...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Yokohama sets platform for 700 bio-pharmas to convene at BioJapan 2015

The seventeenth edition of BioJapan 2015, one of Asia's largest partnering events, will be held for three days from Octo...

August 31, 2015 | Monday | News
Eylea by Bayer gets Japanese nod for myopic CNV

Singapore: Bayer's Eylea (aflibercept) injection for myopic choroidal neovascularization (myopic CNV) has received an ap...

September 23, 2014 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Japan: 1 out of 27 babies born through IVF in 2013

Singapore: Revealing that one out of 27 babies born in Japan in 2012 were through test-tube fertilization, Japan's Assoc...

September 23, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Astellas inks a pact with Immunomic therapeutics

Singapore: Astellas pharma recently announced collaboration with Immunomic Therapeutics to develop and commercialize JRC...

January 30, 2015 | Friday | News
Pharma sector may lose $65 bn by 2019: Analyst

Singapore: Pharmaceutical companies will suffer an estimated $65 billion drop in sales by 2019 worldwide due to the pate...

December 11, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Astellas, UMN: Recombinant flu vaccine is better

Singapore: Astellas Pharma and UMN Pharma have highlighted that the summary results for phase III clinical trial showed...

March 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Japan approves Novartis' psoriasis drug

Singapore: Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved Novartis' Cosentyx (secukinumab, formerly...

December 26, 2014 | Friday | News
APAC type 2 diabetes market to touch $10.5 bn by 2020'

Singapore: Type 2 diabetes treatment market in Asia-Pacific (APAC) will rise in value from an estimated $6.5 billion in ...

January 7, 2015 | Wednesday | Analysis
More clinical trials are being conducted across Asia'

Singapore: Medidata, a global provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research in life science industry, recently...

October 12, 2015 | Monday | Opinion
Mersana Therapeutics inks a pact with Takeda

Singapore: Forging its relationship with Takeda further, Mersana Therapeutics has inked a pact to develop targeted cance...

January 14, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Neurocrine Biosciences collaborates with Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma

Nasdaq-listed Neurocrine Biosciences has entered into an exclusive collaboration and licensing agreement for the develop...

April 5, 2015 | Sunday | News
Daiichi Sankyo initiates TaNeDS drug discovery program in Europe

Tokyo: Japan's Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited has announced details of the application for its Take a New Challenge for ...

October 1, 2015 | Thursday | News
Almac expands in Singapore, Japan

Singapore: Almac, a global clinical trial solution provider, is expanding clinical services and technologies capabilitie...

March 13, 2014 | Thursday | News
PPD forms JV to tap Japan clinical trial market

Singapore: Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) and Japan based Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories (SNBL) have form...

April 9, 2015 | Thursday | News
Takeda to acquire Multilab in Brazil

Singapore: Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical has decided to acquire Brazil-based Multilab. Takeda expects that the trans...

May 28, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Companion diagnostic drug for prostate cancer from Japan

Singapore: Japan's Tokai Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel therapi...

March 17, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Hitachi Aloka launches advanced versatile ultrasound

Singapore: Hitachi Aloka Medical announced that they have introduced an advanced versatile ultrasound, Noblus. Diagnost...

November 21, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Ranbaxy now recalls 64,000 bottles of generic heart drug

Singapore: Ranbaxy Laboratories, which is already reeling under several regulatory rebukes owing to quality apprehension...

March 11, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Japan, Korea suspend wheat import from the US

Singapore: Japan partially suspended imports of wheat from the US on Friday after the US government revealed that a stra...

June 3, 2013 | Monday | News
Sun Pharma buys Takeda subsidiary

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company announced that Takeda's wholly-owned subsidiary, Takeda Pharmaceuticals US (TP...

December 18, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Eisai establishes subsidiary in Russia

Singapore: Eisai has established a new pharmaceutical sales subsidiary in Moscow, Russia, which will be named a limited...

April 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Toshiba Medical to set up Korean subsidiary

Singapore: Toshiba Medical Systems (TMSC) will acquire 70 percent of the stock in the Korean company, TI Medical Systems...

March 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Rheumatoid arthritis mAb market to reach $15.7 bn

Singapore: Since 2004, the market for monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has experienced tremendo...

February 15, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
OMRON develops hand gesture recognition technology

Singapore: OMRON developed a new hand gesture recognition technology that is capable of simultaneously recognizing the p...

May 30, 2012 | Wednesday | News
LEADERS Free Japan Trial Completes Enrollment

Singapore: Biosensors International has announced completion of patient enrollment in LEADERS Free Japan, a trial involv...

February 11, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Amgen & Astellas form JV, will co-develop biologics

Singapore: US-based Amgen and Japanese firm Astellas Pharma have entered into a strategic alliance to co-develop and co-...

May 30, 2013 | Thursday | News
Life expectancy gains worldwide: WHO

Singapore: People everywhere are living longer, according to World Health Statistics 2014 and women are living longer th...

May 21, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
CRO survey: India, China dominate market

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November 24, 2012 | Saturday | Analysis
Mundipharma appoints new president in Japan

Singapore: Mundipharma has appointed Mr Shosuke Kimura as president and representative director of Mundipharma to take o...

August 26, 2014 | Tuesday | Influencers
Mesoblast's heart treatment MPCs patented in Japan

Australia-based Mesoblast Limited has announced that the Japanese Patent Office has allowed a key patent covering the us...

March 30, 2015 | Monday | News
Japan approves Teijin Pharma's Feburic

Japan's Teijin Pharma Limited has announced that Feburic indicated for the treatment of hyperuricemia, with or without g...

May 25, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Takeda gets Japan's nod for multiple sclerosis injection

Singapore: Japan based Takeda Pharmaceutical has a obtained new drug application approval for Copaxone Subcutaneous Inje...

September 29, 2015 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Breast cancer drug market to touch $13.1 bn by 2020'

Singapore: Increased use of targeted therapies, along with a greater uptake of branded drugs and rising incidence popula...

July 24, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Anti-ebola drug to be used widely

Singapore: Guinea government officials have announced that the anti-ebola experimental drug, being developed by Toyama C...

February 9, 2015 | Monday | News
Dako partners with Ono pharmaceuticals

Singapore: Dako, an Agilent Technologies company, has announced cooperation with Ono pharmaceuticals to develop potentia...

February 17, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Otsuka expands in Australia

Singapore: Japan's firm, Otsuka Pharmaceutical, has established a direct presence in Sydney, Australia, to bring innovat...

January 29, 2015 | Thursday | News
Takeda to stop selling 13 of Pfizer's drugs

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company and Pfizer Japan have concluded an agreement that, as of December 31, 2012, Ta...

June 19, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Takeda partners with Monash University

Singapore: The Japanese pharma major Takeda, recently announced that the company has entered into a strategic partnershi...

December 11, 2014 | Thursday | News
Drug development challenges and opportunities in Asia

Singapore: Approximately 15 years ago, PAREXEL envisioned Asia would becomean important player in clinical research and ...

November 13, 2014 | Thursday | Opinion
Eisai submits marketing application for thyroid cancer drug

Singapore: Japan's pharmaceutical company, Eisai, has submitted its application to the regulatory authority in South Kor...

December 2, 2014 | Tuesday | Regulatory
AstraZeneca-Takeda to bid for Israeli incubator

Singapore: UK pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is the second bidder for the dedicated biotech incubator being set up b...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Novasep inks two deals with Japanese firms

Singapore: Further expanding its presence in Asia, Novasep, a global leading supplier of services and technologies for t...

June 22, 2015 | Monday | News
Eisai overhauls production management structure

Singapore: Eisai announced that the Eisai Group's production management structure will undergo a transformation that wi...

October 1, 2012 | Monday | News
Asia's Fastest 50 bio-firms shine

The annual list of Asia's fastest growing pharma companies, compiled painstakingly by the BioSpectrum Asia team, is out....

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Opinion
Shimadzu wins F&S South Africa 'leadership award'

‎Singapore: Based on its recent analysis of the general X-ray devices market, Frost and Sullivan has recognised Sh...

April 19, 2013 | Friday | News
India, Japan to find a remedy for sickle cell anemia

Singapore: During his recent visit to Japan, the Indian Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi discussed cooperation with Kyoto...

September 2, 2014 | Tuesday | News
BIOTEC to collaborate with Japanese research body on microbial community

Singapore: Thailand's National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC) and the National Institute of T...

May 14, 2012 | Monday | News
Japan to take action on Novartis' fabricated data

Singapore: Japan's health minister Mr Norihisa Tamura has pointed out that the test data on a widely used Novartis blood...

July 15, 2013 | Monday | News
Smartphones preferred channel for healthcare'

Singapore: Smart phones are the preferred tool for patient's engagement and communication with their healthcare provider...

July 6, 2014 | Sunday | Analysis
Novartis finds no evidence of wrongdoing in clinical trials

Singapore: Novartis Pharma KK has found no evidence that data on clinical trials for its hypertension drug Diovan had be...

July 31, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Protein A chromatography resin for purification of antibody drugs

Singapore: Kaneka launched KanCapA, a new protein A chromatography resin for the purification of therapeutic antibodies...

October 9, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Eisai seeks approval for antiepileptic agent in Japan

Singapore: Eisai has submitted a marketing authorization application to Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (M...

August 31, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory

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