Metoject subcutaneous injection pen launches in Japan for rheumatic arthritis treatment

Eisai Co. and nippon medac Co., a subsidiary of medac group, have launched the anti-rheumatic agent 'Metoject Subcutaneo...

May 22, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Astellas partners with Yaskawa to create innovative cell therapy ecosystem in Japan

Astellas Pharma Inc. has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Yaskawa Electric Corporation to begin discussio...

May 21, 2024 | Tuesday | News
"Japan's success in digital health is attributed to the collaborative efforts between the government, private sector, and academic institutions"

Could you elaborate on some of the most prominent trends shaping the landscape of clinical trials in the Asia-Pacific re...

May 20, 2024 | Monday | News
Japan's HOYA Group to distribute AI-assisted lesion detection device in US

HOYA Group Company, PENTAX of America, Inc. (PENTAX Medical,  a division of HOYA Group) and MAGENTIQ-EYE , an artif...

May 18, 2024 | Saturday | News
AC Immune and Takeda Pharma ink $2.1 B deal for immunotherapy to delay Alzheimer's progression

Japan-headquartered pharmaceutical firm Takeda and Swiss firm AC Immune SA have announced an exclusive, worldwide o...

May 15, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Shionogi announces $150 M deal to develop first oral therapy for Pompe Disease

Japan-based Shionogi & Co. and Maze Therapeutics, Inc., in the US, have completed an exclusive worldwide license agr...

May 13, 2024 | Monday | News
Japan's GHIT invests $10.8 M to develop new drugs for malaria & NTDs

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund has announced a total investment of approximately JPY 1.64 bill...

May 9, 2024 | Thursday | News
Japan Kidney Association and Renalys Pharma form collaborative agreement to overcome kidney disease

The Japan Kidney Association, a nonprofit organisation, and Renalys Pharma, Inc., have entered into a collaborat...

May 10, 2024 | Friday | News
Takara Bio launches first commercial dissolvable microfluidic lentiviral transduction enhancer

Takara Bio USA, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan-headquartered Takara Bio Inc., has announced the launch of the ...

May 7, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Japan approves AI-powered surgical visualisation tool Eureka α

Anaut Inc., a pioneering developer in surgical support software led by Dr Nao Kobayashi, has announced the regulato...

May 3, 2024 | Friday | News
Japan-based PeptiDream inks $2.71 B deal with Novartis

Japan-based PeptiDream Inc has announced an expansion of its peptide discovery collaboration with Swiss-based firm&...

May 2, 2024 | Thursday | News
US based C₂N Diagnostics expands Alzheimer’s diagnostics into Japan

C₂N Diagnostics, a specialty diagnostics company with a vision to bring Clarity Through Innovation, has announced a pa...

April 30, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Yokogawa helps to revolutionise Single-Cell Lipidomics

Japanese multinational company Yokogawa Electric Corporation’s latest single-cell analysis solution, the Single Ce...

April 29, 2024 | Monday | News
デュポンは STARLIMS を使用して 研究開発ラボでの試験を統合しました

200 年を超える歴史があるデュポンは、常に先頭に立って化学分野における革新的なイノ...

April 11, 2024 | Thursday | News
Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research collaborates with Takeda Pharma

Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research (JFCR) and Takeda Pharmaceutical have signed a partnership agreement with the go...

April 24, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Takeda, Astellas and Sumitomo to establish JV for drug discovery programmes in Japan

Takeda Pharmaceutical, Astellas Pharma and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), in Japan, have signed a master ag...

April 23, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Shimadzu establishes Supersulfides Life Science Co-Creation Research Centre in partnership with Tohoku University

Japan-headquartered Shimadzu Corporation and Tohoku University have opened the Shimadzu × Tohoku University Supers...

April 22, 2024 | Monday | News
Eisai's antiepileptic drug Fycompa injection formulation launches in Japan

Eisai Co. has announced that the injection formulation of its in-house discovered antiepileptic drug (AED) Fycompa (pera...

April 18, 2024 | Thursday | News
Taiwan approves Japan-based Shionogi's influenza drug for paediatric use

Japanese pharma behemoth Shionogi & Co. has announced that its group company Taiwan Shionogi has received approv...

April 17, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Nanoform partners with CBC to bring best-in-class nanomedicine technology to Japan

Nanoform Finland Plc has announced a strategic partnership whereby CBC Co. will utilise its extensive experience in the ...

April 15, 2024 | Monday | News
World Orphan Drug Alliance expands to Japan & South Korea

The World Orphan Drug Alliance (WODA), a global alliance of commercial distributors dedicated to providing access to tre...

April 12, 2024 | Friday | News
Canon starts clinical research with Hiroshima University in Japan on photon-counting computed tomography

Japan-headquartered Canon Medical Systems Corporation and Hiroshima University have begun clinical research, using a Can...

April 10, 2024 | Wednesday | News
French sales subsidiary of Japanese pharma firm Eisai divests rights of neurology drugs for € 56.5 M

Japan headquartered pharma company Eisai Co. has announced that its French sales subsidiary Eisai S.A.S. has entered int...

April 9, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Japanese firms Mitsui & Rohto Pharma buy Singapore-based consumer healthcare brand for ¥88 B

Japan-based Mitsui & Co., has decided to acquire shares in Eu Yan Sang International (EYS) jointly with Rohto Pharma...

April 8, 2024 | Monday | News
Japan-based Shimadzu acquires California X-ray Imaging Services

Japan headquartered Shimadzu Corporation has acquired all shares of California X-ray Imaging Services, Inc. (CIS) throug...

April 5, 2024 | Friday | News
Japan's NS Pharma & UK-based MiNA Therapeutics lay focus on rare diseases of Central Nervous System

NS Pharma, Inc. has announced that its parent company, Nippon Shinyaku Co., headquartered in Kyoto, Japan, has ente...

April 4, 2024 | Thursday | News
Asahi Kasei Medical and AW Technologies enter exclusive distribution agreement for TrachFlush in Japan

AW Technologies and Asahi Kasei Medical, a core operating company of the Japanese technology company Asahi Kasei, have e...

April 3, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Eisai to divest rights for Merislon and Myonal in Japan to Kaken Pharma for ¥ 3.8 B

Eisai Co. has entered into an agreement to divest its rights for vertigo and equilibrium disturbance treatment Merislon ...

March 29, 2024 | Friday | News
Japanese pharma firms Eli Lilly, Nippon Shinyaku join hands to strengthen haematologic oncology field

Nippon Shinyaku and Eli Lilly Japan K.K have entered into an alliance agreement in Japan for pirtobrutinib, which ...

March 28, 2024 | Thursday | News
Japan's NTT and Olympus begin world’s first joint demo experiment of cloud endoscopy system

Japan-based NTT Corporation and Olympus Corporation have announced that the two companies have jointly begun a demonstra...

March 27, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Shimadzu releases Nexera FV ultra high performance liquid chromatograph for online analysis

Japan-based Shimadzu has released the Nexera FV ultra high performance liquid chromatograph (UHPLC) for online...

March 26, 2024 | Tuesday | News
NEC and TMDU in Japan use AI to assist self-care for chronic lower back pain

Japan-based NEC Corporation and Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) have developed a technology to support s...

March 22, 2024 | Friday | News
Japan injects $5 M to enhance digital health services in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Government of Japan have joined forces to enhance digital health servi...

March 21, 2024 | Thursday | News
Japan's Shonan iPark commences collaboration with KBIOHealth in South Korea

Japan-based iPark Institute and Korea’s Osong Medical Innovation Foundation, a public institution in South Korea a...

March 20, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Takeda Hospital Group allies with TriNetX Network to revolutionize medical care in Japan

Takeda Hospital Group, a leading healthcare provider in Kyoto, Japan Prefecture, has joined the TriNetX, LLC (TriNe...

March 19, 2024 | Tuesday | News
STARLIMS and INFOCOM launch partnership in Japan.

Founded in 1983, Infocom Corporation is a well-established publicly traded company engaged in the provision of IT soluti...

March 19, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Olympus rescinds purchase of Korean gastrointestinal stent firm Taewoong Medical

Japan's Olympus Corporation has agreed with the former shareholders of Taewoong Medical Co., a Korean medical devi...

March 15, 2024 | Friday | News
Japanese electronics company Ricoh enters into CRISPR/Cas9 license agreement with ERS Genomics

Ricoh Company has announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement in the US and Japan, with Ireland-headquartered ERS Geno...

March 13, 2024 | Wednesday | News
CPHI Japan 2024 to see more than 20% year-on-year rise

CPHI Japan 2024, being held from 17 to19 April, will see a 20+% year-on-year rise, with a record attendance of an expect...

March 12, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Beckman Coulter expands collaboration with Fujirebio for neurodegenerative disease assays

American firm Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, a clinical diagnostics leader, and Japan-based Fujirebio, a leader in neurolo...

March 12, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Casio launches Uterocervical Observation Camera in the US, Au and NZ

Casio Computer Co., Ltd. announced that its medical camera designed for uterocervical observation and photography in gyn...

March 12, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Sosei Heptares inks €750 M deal with Boehringer Ingelheim for schizophrenia treatment

German firm Boehringer Ingelheim and Japan-based Sosei Group Corporation have entered a global collaboration and exclusi...

March 12, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Japan’s Nagasaki University and Shionogi extend industry-academia partnership to eliminate malaria

Japan's Nagasaki University and Shionogi & Co. have signed an agreement for the second phase of "Comprehensive partn...

March 11, 2024 | Monday | News
Japan's Kyowa Kirin invests $200 M to build first North American pharma manufacturing operation

Kyowa Kirin has selected Lee County to build its first North American pharmaceutical manufacturing operation, creating...

March 11, 2024 | Monday | News
Nippon Express acquires stake in Japanese startup expanding 3D-printed prosthetics biz

Nippon Express (NX) Holdings has acquired an equity stake in Japan-based startup Instalimb, which is expanding its 3D-pr...

March 6, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Japanese firm Eisai invests $15 M in US-based C2N Diagnostics to simplify Alzheimer's detection

Japan-headquartered pharmaceutical firm Eisai Co. has announced that its US subsidiary Eisai Inc. has decided to in...

March 6, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Japan's NEC forges clinical development of Neoantigen Cancer Vaccine

Japan's NEC Corporation, AI and digital tech firm along with Transgene, which develops virus-based immunotherapies for c...

March 5, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Toyoda Gosei invests in Japanese startup developing urine test kits for early cancer detection

Toyoda Gosei Co. has invested in Craif, Inc., a startup out of Nagoya University, Japan that develops urine te...

March 5, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Medigene AG expands patent portfolio in Japan for iM-TCR Technology

Medigene AG, an immuno-oncology platform company focusing on the discovery and development of T cell immunotherapie...

March 4, 2024 | Monday | News
Shionogi and Osaka University unveils a new joint research lab to review anti-COVID-19 drug

Shionogi & Co., Ltd. and Osaka University have established a joint research laboratory (research lab’s name: J...

March 1, 2024 | Friday | News
"One example of success is the development of a potential new paediatric treatment for schistosomiasis"

Could you give us an overview of the GHIT Fund's mission and how it originated? The idea for the GHIT (Global Health In...

March 1, 2024 | Friday | Opinion
Japan's Otsuka Pharma enters into $30 M investment contract with AN Venture Partners

Japan headquartered Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. has concluded an investment contract of $30 million with AN Venture Part...

March 1, 2024 | Friday | News
Japan's Daiichi Sankyo invests €1B in Germany site, expanding into innovation centre

With investments of approximately one billion euros, Japan headquartered Daiichi Sankyo will expand its production and ...

February 29, 2024 | Thursday | News
Japan's Takeda accelerates dengue vaccine access through manufacturing partnership with Biological E in India

Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda has announced a strategic partnership with Biological E, a le...

February 27, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Nanophoton strengthens Bruker’s portfolio of molecular microscopy research solutions

US-based Bruker Corporation has announced the acquisition of Nanophoton Corporation, a pioneer focused on...

February 19, 2024 | Monday | News
Japan's Astellas Pharma inks oncology deal worth $800 M with US-based biotech startup Kelonia

Japan headquartered Astellas Pharma and US-based biotech startup Kelonia Therapeutics have announced a collaborative eff...

February 20, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Japan first in world to approve Dupixent for chronic spontaneous urticaria

The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan has granted marketing and manufacturing authorisation for Dup...

February 16, 2024 | Friday | News
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention opens new East Asia and Pacific office in Tokyo

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Mandy Cohen has announced the opening of the new C...

February 16, 2024 | Friday | News
Japan approves Metoject Methotrexate Autoinjector pen for rheumatoid arthritis

Japan has approved manufacturing and marketing authorisation for the Metoject Subcutaneous Injection Pen (Methotrex...

February 16, 2024 | Friday | News
Korea's STARmed accelerates global market entry of medtech products through Olympus in Japan

STARmed, a South Korea-based medical device manufacturer specialising in thermal ablation technology, has announced glob...

February 15, 2024 | Thursday | News
Takeda, Dundee and Cambridge reunite in fight against dementia

UK-based University of Dundee’s Drug Discovery Unit has announced a renewed partnership with Japanese pharmaceut...

February 14, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Shimadzu announces development of new technology to improve healthy life expectancy

Japan-based Shimadzu Corporation and Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) have announced the development of an innovati...

February 13, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Sysmex and Hitachi High-Tech to collaboratively develop New Genetic Testing Systems

Sysmex Corporation and Hitachi High-Tech Corporation are collaborating to develop novel genetic testing systems based on...

February 8, 2024 | Thursday | News
ZimVie launches Next-Generation TSX® dental Implant in Japan

ZimVie Inc., a global life sciences leader in the dental and spine markets, has launched TSX® Implant in Japan....

February 8, 2024 | Thursday | News
BridgeBio Pharma and Kyowa Kirin ink $100 M deal for skeletal dysplasias treatment in Japan

BridgeBio Pharma, Inc. and Kyowa Kirin have announced a partnership wherein BridgeBio’s affiliate, QED Therapeutic...

February 12, 2024 | Monday | News
Japan's Chugai to position Singapore subsidiary as permanent global drug discovery research centre

Chugai Pharmaceutical has decided to position its research subsidiary in Singapore, Chugai Pharmabody Research...

February 5, 2024 | Monday | News
Japan's Takeda Pharma inks haematology deal worth $300 M with US-based Protagonist Therapeutics

Japan-based pharmaceutical firm Takeda and US-based Protagonist Therapeutics have inked a global license and collaborati...

February 2, 2024 | Friday | News
Renalys Pharma to bring innovative medicines to Japan and other countries in Asia

Catalys Pacific, a transpacific life science investment firm, and SR One, a transatlantic life sciences investment firm,...

January 30, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Nikon builds new research hubs in US & Japan to support for drug discovery and innovation

Nikon Instruments Inc. has announced the establishment of the Nikon BioImaging Lab Lexington in Massachusetts, US, ...

January 26, 2024 | Friday | News
Japan-based PRISM BioLab raises ¥ 1.5 B to advance technologies for protein-protein interactions

PRISM BioLab, a Japan-based discovery and development biotechnology company designing small molecule inhibitors of prote...

January 25, 2024 | Thursday | News
Japanese biotech startup RevolKa to create highly functional proteins by using AI-driven platform

RevolKa, a venture-backed biotech company providing a game-changing protein engineering technology platform, based in Ja...

January 24, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Fujirebio & Agappe ink business collaboration for CLIA based immunoassay products

Japan-based Fujirebio Holdings and Indian firm Agappe Diagnostics have entered into an agreement of Contract Development...

January 22, 2024 | Monday | News
Quantum-Si introduces world’s first next-generation protein sequencer in Japan

US-based Quantum-Si Incorporated (QSI), The Protein Sequencing Company, has entered into an agreement with a n...

January 19, 2024 | Friday | News
Epicore Biosystems scales personalised hydration wearable across Asia

US-based startup Epicore Biosystems, a digital health solutions company developing advanced sweat-sensing wearables...

January 18, 2024 | Thursday | News
Parexel and Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research announce strategic alliance

US-based clinical research organisation Parexel and the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research (JFCR), the first a...

January 17, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Korean FUST Lab's DEBREX Nano-Emulsion/Dispersion equipment enters Japan market

Korean spin-off company from the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, FUST Lab's DEBREX Nano-Emulsion...

January 16, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Japan-based Canon and Olympus enter into commercial alliance for endoscopic ultrasound systems

Canon Medical Systems Corporation and Olympus Corporation, both in Japan, have reached an agreement to collaborate on En...

January 16, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Japan approves first at-home migraine treatment in the form of Neurolief's neuromodulation device

US-based Neurolief has announced the approval of its neuromodulation device, Relivion, by the Japanese Ministry of Healt...

January 10, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Shimadzu automates coating processes of medical systems components

An opening ceremony was recently held for a new building at Shimane Shimadzu Corporation, a manufacturing subsidiary of ...

January 5, 2024 | Friday | News
Japan introduces world's first machine learning model to screen Alzheimer's disease

Japan-based Oita University and pharmaceutical firm Eisai Co. have announced the development of the world's first machin...

January 2, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Japan-Germany collaboration for cancer research to design novel immunotherapies

BioMed X has announced a new joint research project with Ono Pharmaceutical, marking the start of the collaboration betw...

December 28, 2023 | Thursday | News
Biocon Biologics partners with Sandoz for distribution of Adalimumab biosimilar in Japan

Indian firm Biocon Biologics Ltd (BBL), a fully integrated global biosimilars company and subsidiary of B...

December 22, 2023 | Friday | News
AGC invests 50 Billion Yen to expand biopharmaceutical CDMO capability in Japan

AGC Inc, Japan-headquartered manufacturer of glass, chemicals, and high-tech materials, has decided to expand its biopha...

December 26, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Ono Pharma enters into research collaboration with UK Dementia Research Institute

Japan-based Ono Pharmaceutical has entered into a research collaboration agreement with UK Dementia Research Institute (...

December 21, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japan's Shimadzu releases new gas chromatograph mass spectrometer

Japan-based Shimadzu Corporation is releasing the GCMS-QP2050 quadrupole gas chromatograph mass spectrometer. The intern...

December 19, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan-based GHIT Fund invests $8.8 M in new drug development projects for malaria

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund, headquartered in Japan, has announced an investment of approximatel...

December 15, 2023 | Friday | News
LEQEMBI to launch in Japan for Alzheimer's disease on December 20

Swedish firm BioArctic AB's partner Eisai has announced that LEQEMBI (lecanemab) will be launched in Japan&nbs...

December 13, 2023 | Wednesday | News
French firm Depixus collaborates with Japan's Daiichi Sankyo to accelerate RNA-targeted drug discovery

Interactomics pioneer Depixus, based in Paris, has entered a collaboration with Daiichi Sankyo to use their novel MAGNA ...

December 12, 2023 | Tuesday | News
GMP cell CDMO I Peace obtains accreditation as ISO 17025: 2017 compliant

Leading GMP cell CDMO I Peace, Inc., specialising in induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and iPSC-derived cell therap...

December 11, 2023 | Monday | News
India's Meril Life Sciences inks pact with Japan Lifeline for global expansion

Indian firm Meril Life Sciences has signed an agreement with Japan’s leading cardiovascular medtech company, Japan...

December 2, 2023 | Saturday | News
Fujifilm invests $200 M into cell therapy development and manufacturing capabilities in US

Japan-headquartered Fujifilm Corporation has announced the investment of $200 million in two subsidiaries to significant...

December 8, 2023 | Friday | News
India's Dr. Bhatia Medical Coaching Institute partners with Japan-based M3, Inc

Dr. Bhatia Medical Coaching Institute (DBMCI) has announced a ground breaking joint venture with M3, Inc., a prominent J...

December 7, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japanese pharma firm Eisai partners with Thailand Health Ministry for dementia treatment

Japanese pharma major Eisai Co. has made an agreement to collaborate with the Department of Medical Services (DMS), Mini...

December 4, 2023 | Monday | News
Japanese firm PRISM BioLab inks $660 M drug discovery pact with Eli Lilly

Japan-based PRISM BioLab, a leading discovery and development biotechnology company designing small molecule inhibitors ...

November 30, 2023 | Thursday | News
Daiichi Sankyo to supply omicron XBB.1.5-adapted COVID-19 vaccine in Japan

Daiichi Sankyo has reached an agreement with Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) to supply the o...

November 22, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Fujitsu delivers advanced technology to US-based startup for treating delirium

Japan-based Fujitsu Limited and Delight Health, a Bay Area startup, have announced that Fujitsu will license its Topolog...

November 20, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan's Astellas Pharma buys US-based startup Propella Therapeutics for $175 M

Japan-based Astellas Pharma and US-based startup Propella Therapeutics have entered into a merger agreement pursuant to ...

November 20, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan's Astellas Pharma & University of Tsukuba partner to create new drug discovery startups

Japan-based University of Tsukuba and Astellas Pharma have signed a letter of confirmation regarding a strateg...

November 17, 2023 | Friday | News
Japan-Korea partnership to propel growth of advanced biotechnology sector

Japan-based iPark Institute has announced the signing of a groundbreaking business agreement with South Korea's Small an...

November 16, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japan's Fujitsu inks agreement with Spain to advance regional healthcare cybersecurity ecosystem

Japanese firm Fujitsu has signed a General Action Protocol with the Regional Government of Andalusia, Spain to establish...

November 15, 2023 | Wednesday | News

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