Japanese food giant to buy GSK drinks for $2.35 bn

Singapore: Sky News has reported that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is in talks with Japanese firm Suntory to sell its drugs Luc...

September 9, 2013 | Monday | News
Boston Strategics gets rights for Eisai's cancer drug

Singapore: Boston Strategics Corp (BSC), a clinical-stage drug research and development (R&D) company has signed an ...

July 10, 2014 | Thursday | News
Dehaier signs deal with Beijing Kanglian Medicine

Singapore: Dehaier Medical has obtained a medical equipment procurement agreement valued at approximately $320,580 (RMB...

December 14, 2012 | Friday | News
Otsuka, Abdi İbrahim start joint venture in Turkey

Singapore: Japan-headquartered Otsuka Pharmaceutical and Turkish firm Abdi Ibrahim have established a joint venture, Abd...

November 16, 2012 | Friday | News
F&S: Personalization is the new mantra in healthcare

Singapore: Frost & Sullivan partner Ms Reenita Das during her keynote presentation at the 12th International BIOtech...

May 14, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Nexium gets nod in Japan for gastric ulcer

Singapore: AstraZeneca has received approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for a supplemental...

June 25, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Eisai's UK manufacturing plant gets EU license

Singapore: Japan-headquartered Eisai's UK manufacturing subsidiary Eisai Manufacturing, situated within the company's Eu...

September 27, 2012 | Thursday | News
Snoasis initiates distribution in Japan through Hausten Healthcare

Singapore: Snoasis Medical has signed a distribution agreement with Hausten Healthcare, whereby Hausten Healthcare will ...

July 30, 2012 | Monday | News
Terumo completes patient enrollment in the US for trial

Singapore: Terumo Interventional Systems, a strategic business unit of Terumo Medical Corporation, a US subsidiary of To...

July 12, 2012 | Thursday | News
Furiex, Menarini sign agreement for Priligy

Singapore: Furiex Pharmaceuticals and Menarini Group have signed an agreement giving Menarini rights to commercialize Pr...

May 15, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Human Metabolome Technologies opens US office

Singapore: Human Metabolome Technologies, a Japanese company that deals in capillary electrophoresis mass spectrometry (...

November 9, 2012 | Friday | News
Response Genetics renews deal with Taiho Pharma

Singapore: US-based Response Genetics, a company focused on the development and sale of molecular diagnostic tests that ...

July 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Eisai pulls drug from Germany due to unsuitable policies

Singapore: Eisai suspended sales of its epilepsy drug Fycompa (perampanel) in Germany due to unfavorable conditions set ...

June 26, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Daiichi, ArQule cancer trial fails to meet endpoint

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo Company and ArQule announced the top-line results of a randomized phase II signal generation ...

January 14, 2013 | Monday | News
Takeda builds $96 mn production plant in Russia

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical International completed the construction of its pharmaceutical manufacturing facility a...

September 11, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Takeda to collaborate with BC Cancer Agency for new drugs

Singapore: Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical has formed a research collaboration with the BC Cancer Agency to explore ...

September 3, 2012 | Monday | News
Singapore, Japan immunology school concludes

Singapore: A*STAR's Immunology Network (SIgN), Singapore, and Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka Univers...

January 25, 2013 | Friday | News
Japan to help export regenerative medicine tech to Qatar, KSA

Singapore: The Japanese government has plans to help private-sector companies in exporting as early as 2015 regenerative...

July 17, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Bayer receives approval for Gadovist injection in Japan

Bayer HealthCare received approval in Japan for Gadovist (gadobutrol) injection for use with magnetic resonance imaging ...

March 30, 2015 | Monday | News
Takeda acquires URL Pharma, adds to gout portfolio

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical, which has completed the acquisition of URL Pharma, will immediately assume responsibil...

June 5, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Shionogi 'painful intercourse' drug gets FDA nod

Singapore: Shionogi, US, received US FDA approval for Osphena (ospemifene) tablets for the treatment of moderate to se...

February 27, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Manchester United signs Toshiba for club's medical equipment

Singapore: Toshiba Medical Systems, part of Japan-based Toshiba Corporation, has entered into a partnership with Manches...

September 6, 2012 | Thursday | News
Novartis announces positive results in COPD portfolio trials

Singapore: Data from the once-daily chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) clinical trial programs were presented ...

September 4, 2012 | Tuesday | News
How to manage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)?

Singapore: Takeda today announced the launch of a new expert report on COPD on the occasion of the 2012 European Respira...

September 3, 2012 | Monday | News
Non-small cell lung cancer therapeutics APAC market to touch $2.9 bn by 2019'

Singapore: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) therapeutics market value in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, Australia, Ch...

March 19, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
Tatsuya Kimura: Japan is a steadily growing market

The Asian business strategy of multinational pharmaceutical companies in terms of resource reallocation and investment w...

May 15, 2013 | Wednesday | Opinion
Medical device packaging demand to exceed $25.7 billion in 2017

Singapore: Western Europe, the US and Japan will continue to account for almost 60 percent of the total market, accordin...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
Dr Takeshi Iwatsubo gets Takamine Memorial prize

Singapore: This year, the Tenth Takamine Memorial Daiichi Sankyo Prize will be awarded to Dr Takeshi Iwatsubo, professor...

June 13, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Covagen to collaborate with Mitsubishi for research

Singapore: Swiss company Covagen has entered into a strategic research collaboration and license agreement with Japanese...

November 7, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi announces trial results for Prasugrel

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo has announced data from the PRASFIT-ACS study, a double-blind randomized phase III trial compa...

September 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Mizuho to distribute Precision Spine products in Japan

Singapore: US-based Precision Spine has signed a long-term exclusive distribution agreement with Mizuho Ikakogyo. Mizuho...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | News
NovAliX, Kyowa Hakko Kirin sign deal

Singapore: France-based biopharma company NovAliX entered into a fragment-based drug discovery alliance with Kyowa Hakko...

January 15, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Dainippon invests in Retina Institute, gets stem cell technology

Singapore: Retina Institute Japan (RIJ), RIKEN, Japan, and Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma (DSP) have signed an agreement acco...

April 1, 2013 | Monday | News
Fujifilm, Lantheus enter 10-year deal in Japan

Singapore: Lantheus Medical Imaging, a global leader in developing, manufacturing and distributing innovative diagnosti...

January 4, 2013 | Friday | News
Ex-Novartis employee arrested for fudging data

Singapore: A former employee of the Japanese drug maker Novartis, was arrested with allegations of data manipulation. So...

June 12, 2014 | Thursday | News
Eisai receives positive opinion on epilepsy treatments in Europe

Eisai's UK subsidiary, Eisai Europe, has received a positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency's Committee for ...

May 28, 2012 | Monday | News
NDA for Lundbeck's vortioxetine with US FDA

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical and H. Lundbeck A/S have submitted a new drug application (NDA) to the US Food and Drug...

October 3, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Boston Scientific launches neuro product in Japan

Singapore: Boston Scientific's Japanese subsidiary has join hands with Fukuda Denshi to market and sell the former's Sp...

February 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
Japan research foundation names awardees

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo's affiliate, the Japan Research Foundation for Clinical Pharmacology, has awarded its 5th Japa...

June 29, 2012 | Friday | News
FibroGen, Astellas start trial of anemia therapeutic agent

Singapore: FibroGen and Japanese company Astellas Pharma have initiated the first clinical study in the phase III clinic...

December 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
BIOtech Japan 2014 introduces new features

Singapore: Even as the industry is gearing up for BIOtech Japan 2014 that starts on May 14 at Tokyo Big Sight this year,...

June 5, 2014 | Thursday | News
CMI announces SNaP system sales in Japan

Singapore: US-based Spiracur and Century Medical (CMI), Japan, have announced multiple system sales of the SNaP Wound Ca...

October 15, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Eisai, Epizyme, Roche develop lymphoma tool

Singapore: Eisai signed an agreement with US-based Epizyme and Roche Molecular Systems to collaborate on the development...

January 14, 2013 | Monday | News
Dr Reddy's plans to enter into Japanese market

Singapore: Dr Reddy's Laboratories Limited is planning to make a fresh foray into the Japanese market. "We are explorin...

April 2, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Japan team creates liver from stem cells

Singapore: A team of scientists from Japan have created a functioning human liver from stem cells, raising hopes of manu...

June 11, 2012 | Monday | News
Eisai launches implantable anti-tumor agent

Singapore: Nobelpharma and Eisai launched Gliadel 7.7 mg Implant (carmustine), an antineoplastic agent, in Japan on Janu...

January 11, 2013 | Friday | News
Takeda submits plea for cetilistat approval in Japan

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

October 31, 2012 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Australia to grow Chinese anti-cancer fruit

Singapore: University of Queensland (UQ) is soon going to globally launch a delicious berry-like ancient Chinese red bay...

December 13, 2012 | Thursday | News
Siemens renews partnership with Japanese lab solutions firm

Singapore: Sysmex Corporation and Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics have announced the signing of a five-year global supply...

July 20, 2012 | Friday | News
Sucampo, Takeda file patent suit against Aunchen

Singapore: Sucampo (an affiliate of Sucampo Pharmaceuticals), R-Tech Ueno, Takeda Pharmaceutical, and certain affiliate...

February 11, 2013 | Monday | News
Chugai to invest $160 mn in Singapore

Japan's Chugai Pharmaceutical, which pursues cutting-edge biopharmaceutical, antibody, and molecular targeted research t...

October 11, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
Eisai cancer drug gets orphan drug designation from Japan

Singapore: Eisai has received orphan drug designation from Japan's Ministry of Labour, Health and Welfare for its multi...

August 27, 2012 | Monday | News
Japan files criminal complaint against Novartis

Singapore: Japan's health ministry has lodged a criminal complaint against the local wing of the leading Swiss drug make...

January 10, 2014 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo enrolls patients for edoxaban trial

Singapore: Japan-headquartered Daiichi Sankyo has completed patient enrollment in the global Hokusai-VTE phase III study...

October 30, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo extends Medidata Clinical Cloud use to China

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo is expanding its use of US-based Medidata Solutions' cloud-based platform to support clinical ...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi, Amplimmune join hands for protein R&D

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo and Amplimmune have entered into a strategic collaboration to develop a new therapeutic prote...

January 8, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Sankyo halts phase III trial of cancer drug

Singapore: The independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) of the phase III MARQUEE (Met inhibitor ARQ 197 plus Erlotin...

October 4, 2012 | Thursday | News
Bioscience firms queue up for Japan market

Japan, which has the lowest infant mortality rate and highest adult life expectancy in the world, is fast turning into a...

June 1, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Mylan and Pfizer enter deal for EpiPen in Japan

Singapore: Mylan Specialty, a subsidiary of Mylan, and Pfizer entered into a license agreement, under which Pfizer will ...

August 8, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Eisai, UCL form neuro R&D alliance

Singapore: University College London (UCL) and Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai, have entered into a new agreement ...

December 14, 2012 | Friday | News
First-of-its-kind stroke symposium concludes in Tokyo

Singapore: Stroke, the destruction of brain tissue from blockage or rupture of blood vessels, is one of the leading caus...

September 14, 2012 | Friday | News
Japan's Eisai to start Down's syndrome therapy test

Singapore: Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai has said that it will soon begin therapeutic testing of a drug that it ...

July 16, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Eisai disagrees with IQWiG on epileptic drug

Singapore: Eisai has expressed strong disappointment with Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), G...

December 18, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Ono ties up with BioFocus for drug research

Singapore: Japanese firm Ono Pharmaceutical and BioFocus, a service division of Galapagos and based in the UK, have sign...

September 4, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Sosei completes phase I trial for SO-1105 in Japan

Singapore: Sosei has successfully completed a Japanese phase I trial for SO-1105 for the treatment of oropharyngeal cand...

July 3, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Millennium announces positive results of orteronel study

Singapore: Updated results from a phase II study of orteronel, a selective oral 17,20 lyase inhibitor, dosed without pre...

June 6, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Takeda to stop selling 13 Pfizer products in Japan

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

June 21, 2012 | Thursday | News
APAC's NSCLC market to show robust growth by 2019

Singapore: The GBI Research has revealed that the non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) therapeutics market value in the As...

March 21, 2014 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo to build biopharmaceuticals facility for govt

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo has been approved for the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's production facili...

July 13, 2012 | Friday | News
Kyowa Hakko Kirin to return rights of Busulfex

Singapore: Kyowa Hakko Kirin has agreed to return development and marketing rights of Busulfex, for use as a part of con...

September 17, 2012 | Monday | News
Which domain of clinical research do APAC CROs focus on?

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Aegerion begins phase III clinical trials in Japan

Singapore: Leading biopharmaceutical company Aegerion Pharmaceuticals that is dedicated to the development and commercia...

April 11, 2014 | Friday | News
Ranbaxy's fall from grace

Not long ago, it was one of India's iconic companies. Ranbaxy, which is now a subsidiary of Japanese giant Daiichi Sanky...

May 29, 2013 | Wednesday | Opinion
Celltrion files for Remsima approval in Japan

Singapore: Korea-based Celltrion has completed filing procedure of biosimilar drug Remsima to obtain Japan's Ministry of...

September 17, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Takeda fined $6 bn by US Federal jury

Singapore: Japanese pharmaceutical major Takeda has been ordered by a US Federal court to pay $6 billion in punitive dam...

April 11, 2014 | Friday | News
Cellectricon expands to Asia with distributors in Japan

Singapore: Cellectricon has expanded its sales and service network into Asia through a distribution agreement for its D...

March 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Tanabe Pharma to build new plant in China

Singapore: Japanese drug major Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma has announced that one of its subsidiaries, Tianjin Tanabe Seiya...

August 8, 2013 | Thursday | News
Japanese find body 'clock' that controls jet-lag

Singapore: Scientists at Kyoto University, Japan, have discovered the 'reset button' in the brain, which could be used t...

October 10, 2013 | Thursday | News
Takeda resubmits NDA to the US FDA for alogliptin

Singapore: Takeda Global Research & Development Center resubmitted New Drug Applications (NDAs) to the US FDA for al...

July 30, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
St Jude launches 3-D heart vessel imager

Singapore: St Jude Medical, a global medical device company, launched Ilumien Optis System, a next-generation technology...

March 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Pfizer trial of cancer drug INLYTA is a failure

Singapore: Pfizer has revealed that its phase III study of INLYTA (axitinib) did not meet the primary endpoint of demons...

October 22, 2012 | Monday | News
Takeda gets Japan's approval for hypertension drug NDA

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical has recieved Japan's approval for the New Drug Application (NDA) of Zacras tablets, a f...

March 27, 2014 | Thursday | Regulatory
Otsuka brings best-selling psychotic drug to Japan

Singapore: Japan-based Otsuka Pharmaceutical filed an additional indication for ABILIFY (aripiprazole), as Japan's first...

September 5, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Sucampo to acquire Japan's R-Tech Ueno for $278 mn

NASDAQ-listed Sucampo Pharmaceuticals Inc. has launched an all-cash tender offer in Japan by Sucampo's Japanese subsidia...

August 31, 2015 | Monday | News
Agenix gets patent protection in Japan

Singapore: Australian drug company Agenix received a key patent covering the manufacturing process of its ThromboView im...

May 18, 2012 | Friday | News
Novartis COPD trial meets primary endpoint

Singapore: The fifth QVA149 (indacaterol maleate / glycopyrronium bromide) phase III study of Novartis, SPARK, met its p...

August 30, 2012 | Thursday | News
Daiichi Sankyo reports positive results for tivantinib

Singapore: Biotech company ArQule and Japan-based Daiichi Sankyo have achieved positive results from a randomized, place...

June 4, 2012 | Monday | News
Eisai collaborates with Brazilian agency for vaccines

Singapore: Tokyo-headquartered Eisai has signed a global agreement with Brazil's Fundação Oswaldo Cruz for collabo...

October 31, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Qualyst to supply B-Clear hepatocytes kits in Japan

Singapore: Qualyst Transporter Solutions entered an alliance with GenoMembrane, Kanagawa, Japan, to make available its ...

January 22, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi pays Pieris for developing Anticalin

Singapore: Pieris received the first financial milestone in its discovery and development collaboration with Daiichi Sa...

October 10, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Japan approves Zoll's temp management system

Singapore: Zoll Medical, a manufacturer of medical devices and related software solutions, has received Shonin approval ...

February 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Japanese firm to begin clinical research in Bahrain

Singapore: SBI Pharmaceuticals, headquartered in Japan, has concluded a basic agreement to begin clinical research on di...

February 1, 2013 | Friday | News
Nanotec Thailand, AIST Japan join hands for R&D

Singapore: Thailand's Nanotec signed a collaborative Letter of Intent (LoI) with the Nanosystem Research Institute (NRI)...

February 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Takeda cancer unit is in a WIN-win situation

Singapore: Takeda Oncology and the Worldwide Innovative Network (WIN) in personalized cancer medicine consortium have fo...

April 1, 2013 | Monday | News
Cytori system to be used for fistula repair study in Japan

Singapore: An investigator-sponsored clinical study in Japan using Cytori's Celution System for treatment of cryptoglan...

August 13, 2012 | Monday | News
Oxford Immunotec TB test gets nod in Japan

Singapore: Oxford Immunotec, a medical diagnostic company developing tests in the fields of infectious and immunologica...

November 19, 2012 | Monday | News
Medtronic launches stent system in Japan

Singapore: Medtronic launched the Resolute Integrity Coronary Stent System in Japan, which is the world's second largest...

August 30, 2012 | Thursday | News
Aged society fuels growth of generics

A rapidly aging population has burdened the healthcare system both in terms of funding and facilities and is of great co...

June 1, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Clearbridge wins ¥3 mn award in Japan

Singapore: Clearbridge BioMedics has won the 2012 Asian Entrepreneurship Awards, which was held from May 9-11, 2012, in ...

May 16, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Deep in debt Elder Pharma decides to sell itself

Singapore: India-based Elder Pharmaceuticals is said to be up for sale, according to a report published in the Economic ...

June 11, 2013 | Tuesday | News

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