PHC Corporation makes investment in Kakehashi

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 19 Dec, 2019

Japan based PHC Corporation has announced it was taking a stake in KAKEHASHI Inc., based on a share purchase agreement with the company. Kakehashi developed Musubi, a next-generation elect...Read more

AMED awards 3 joint projects with A*STAR

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 18 Dec, 2019

Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) and Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have jointly selected three outstanding R&D projects ...Read more

Pfizer, Astellas' Xtandi Gets FDA nod

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 17 Dec, 2019

Pfizer and Japan based Astellas Pharma have announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for XTANDI® (enzaluta...Read more

PENTAX Medical gets CE Mark for AI aided Polyp Detector

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 17 Dec, 2019

PENTAX Medical, a division of the HOYA Group which is a global med-tech company based in Tokyo, Japan, has cleared CE mark for DISCOVERY™, an innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI) a...Read more

AstraZeneca, Daiichi Sankyo’s trastuzumab shows promise in Phase II Trial

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 16 Dec, 2019

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo Company presented positive detailed data from the global pivotal Phase II single-arm DESTINY-Breast01 trial of trastuzumab deruxtecan (DS-8201), a HER2-target...Read more

Eisai breaks ground for global drug discovery centre

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 16 Dec, 2019

Japan based Eisai Co., Ltd. has had a groundbreaking ceremony for a major renovation of its Tsukuba Research Laboratories (Ibaraki, Japan) as part of strategic investment to realize Eisai&r...Read more

FUJIFILM sets manufacturing facility for liposome formulation

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 12 Dec, 2019

FUJIFILM Toyama Chemical has announced the construction completion of a new manufacturing facility (facility name: 701) within its Toyama Second Fact...Read more

Solasia enters new license alliance with Maruho

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 11 Dec, 2019

Japan based Solasia Pharma K.K. has announced that it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Maruho Co., Ltd. for the commercialization of Solasia’s product SP-04 (PledO...Read more

Takeda, Enzyre to develop diagnostic device for hemophilia patients

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 10 Dec, 2019

Enzyre based in The Netherlands, which is developing breakthrough ambulant diagnostic technology for coagulation testing, has announced that it has entered into a research collaboration agr...Read more

Takeda presents Phase III Trial results in patients with amyloidosis

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 09 Dec, 2019

Japan based Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited announced the presentation of the results of tourmaline-AL1 trial in an oral session at the 61 to annual meeting of the American ...Read more

Hitachi to provide CNAO with Proton Therapy System

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 09 Dec, 2019

Japan headquartered Hitachi, Ltd. has entered into an agreement to provide Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica (CNAO) with its proton therapy system. In the comprehensive public ten...Read more

BitBiome to analyse gut bacteria related to cancer

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 06 Dec, 2019

bitBiome, Inc., a start-up company from Waseda University in Japan, and National Cancer Center of Japan have signed a collaborative research agreement on the analysis of...Read more

Astellas to acquire Audentes Therapeutics in a $3B deal

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 03 Dec, 2019

Japan headquartered Astellas Pharma Inc. and Audentes Therapeutics, Inc. have entered into a definitive agreement for Astellas to acquire Audentes at a price of US$60.00 per share in cash, ...Read more

Chugai Pharma's study on satralizumab published in The New England Journal of Medicine

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 02 Dec, 2019

 Chugai Pharmaceutical has announced that the "New England Journal of Medicine" (NEJM) online edition November 27 Results of the global phase III SAkuraSky clinical study (NCT02028884)...Read more

Fujitsu Labs, ACC to advance cancer genomic medicine

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 02 Dec, 2019

Japan based Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Aichi Cancer Center (ACC) have successfully concluded a comprehensive cooperative research agreement to leverage newly developed AI technology to i...Read more

Ono Pharma seeks Japanese approval for tirabrutinib

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 28 Nov, 2019

Japan based Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. has announced that ONO submitted an application of tirabrutinib hydrochloride (ONO-4059) (“Tirabrutinib”), a Bruton’s tyrosine kin...Read more

ONO Submits Supplemental Application for additional Opdivo®

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 28 Nov, 2019

Intravenous Infusion Monotherapy Dosage and Schedule in Japan Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. has announced that ONO submitted a supplemental application for a partial change in the approved i...Read more

Hitachi develops automation technology of 3D culture

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 29 Nov, 2019

Hitachi, Ltd. headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is focusing on Social Innovation Business combining its operational technology, information technology and products, has developed a new automat...Read more