Daiichi Sankyo in discussion with AZ for COVID-19 vaccine supply

Japan based Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has announced its agreement to proceed with discussions with AstraZeneca for...

July 2, 2020 | Thursday | News
Japan reveals breakthrough research in cancer

Researchers in Japan claim that they have replicated cancer cells from diseased bladder tissue in dogs, minimizing the u...

July 1, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japan repurposes hypertension vaccine for COVID-19 treatment

The Osaka-based Japanese biotech AnGes Inc. expects its potential COVID-19 vaccine to be ready as early as the first hal...

June 29, 2020 | Monday | News
Japan develops saliva test to detect COVID-19 in 30-min

Nihon University and Tokyo Medical University are developing a novel RT-PCR method for detection of SARS-CoV2 virus. Unl...

June 26, 2020 | Friday | News
Thermo Fisher, Daiichi Sankyo to co-develop CDx for NSCLC

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Daiichi Sankyo have expanded their partnership by signing a new agreement to co-develo...

June 30, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) impact on Asia-Pacific markets

HONG KONG Prevalence CVD, including heart attack and stroke, is the third leading cause of death in Hong Kong (aft...

June 23, 2020 | Tuesday | Analysis
EIU launches APAC Economist Intelligence Unit report for heart ailments

  The Cost of Inaction: Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Asia-Pacific   Rehabilitation ...

June 23, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo to develop mRNA vaccine against COVID-19

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has announced its decision to develop a genetic (mRNA) vaccine for the novel corona viru...

June 23, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Japan develops breakthrough treatment for osteoarthritis

A break through feat of growing pluripotency expressing cells from osteoarthritis (OA) affected cartilage tissue of knee...

June 24, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Santen, Orbis to develop training tools for eye care

Japanese firm Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and US based Orbis International have announced a partnership to develop a...

June 25, 2020 | Thursday | News
Joimax develops partnership with Japan Medicalnext

Joimax, the German based market leader in technologies and training methods for full-endoscopic and minimally invasive s...

June 22, 2020 | Monday | News
Japan studies genetic differences of COVID-19 and SARS viruses

Researchers at the University of Tokyo in Japan have identified specific portions of the genetic codes of the COVID-19 a...

June 19, 2020 | Friday | News
Takeda partners with Neurocrine Biosciences to focus on psychiatric disorders

US based Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. and Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited have announced a...

June 18, 2020 | Thursday | News
Astellas develops science based exercise programs

Astellas Pharma Inc. has developed science-based exercise programs in cooperation with  the City of Yokohama, Kanag...

June 16, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Takeda to divest select APAC assets to Celltrion for $278M

Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced that it has entered into an agreement to divest a...

June 15, 2020 | Monday | News
AbbVie, Genmab enter $4B cancer immunotherapy partnership

US-based AbbVie and Genmab announced on 10 June 2020 that they had formed the partnership that will focus on b...

June 11, 2020 | Thursday | News
Fujifilm to invest 100B yen at Denmark site

Japanese multinational firm FUJIFILM Corporation will make a major capital investment of approximately 100 billion yen (...

June 12, 2020 | Friday | News
Eisai takes Counter-Measures to tackle COVID-19 spread in Africa

Eisai Co., Ltd. announced on 10 June 2020 that it has committed the equivalent of 1 million USD in aid towards various a...

June 10, 2020 | Wednesday | News