Shionogi to develop prophylactic vaccine for COVID-19

Japan based Shionogi & Co., Ltd. has announced that Shionogi has officially made the decision to develop a prophylac...

May 18, 2020 | Monday | News
Japan to design personalized cancer vaccine

Transgene, a biotech company in Tokyo that designs and develops virus-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer,...

May 15, 2020 | Friday | News
Japan approves Remdesivir to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients

Gilead Sciences, Inc. has announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has grante...

May 13, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo gets BTD for potential gastric cancer drug

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited and AstraZeneca’s ENHERTU® (fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki) has been granted ...

May 13, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Hitachi opens First Europe based Proton Therapy system in Spain

Hitachi, Ltd. on 8 May 2020 announced that it has provided its advanced proton therapy system to Clinica Universidad de ...

May 8, 2020 | Friday | News
CoVIg-19 plasma alliance building strong momentum

The CoVIg-19 Plasma Alliance, an unprecedented plasma industry collaboration recently established to accelerate the deve...

May 8, 2020 | Friday | News
Ajinomoto inks manufacturing agreement for COVID-19 drug

Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing serviceswi...

May 7, 2020 | Thursday | News
Harvard, Astellas establish strategic research alliance

Harvard University and Japanese firm Astellas Pharma Inc. have established a three-year strategic research alliance to s...

May 1, 2020 | Friday | News
Astellas, Insilico Medicine bank on AI for drug discovery

Hong Kong based Insilico Medicine has announced that it has entered into a research collaboration agreement with Ja...

May 4, 2020 | Monday | News
ProThera Bio, Takeda work towards treating acute inflammatory conditions

US based ProThera Biologics, Inc. and Japan headquartered Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited have announced...

April 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japan observes cross protection from COVID-19 by JEV

A significant discrepancy in mortality among even geographically close regions could be explained by a cross protection ...

April 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
Takeda inks deal worth $670M with Orifarm

Japan based Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced that it has entered into an agreement to divest a p...

April 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Terumo donates $2.4 M for COVID-19 fight

As the world joins together to support healthcare workers and others on the front lines providing critical care to patie...

April 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Astellas acquires Nanna Therapeutics for £12 M

Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc. and UK based Nanna Therapeutics Limited have announced that Astellas has acquired Nanna...

April 27, 2020 | Monday | News
NEC designs blueprints for COVID-19 vaccines using AI

Japan based NEC Corporation has announced analysis results from efforts using AI prediction platforms to design blueprin...

April 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Esperion & Otsuka to develop treatment for hypercholesterolemia

US based Esperion has announced that the company has entered into a collaboration agreement with Otsuka Pharmaceutic...

April 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Daiichi Sankyo to donate $1M for COVID-19 relief fund

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has announced that, through the Japan Center for International Exchange, it will make a ...

April 17, 2020 | Friday | News
Fujifilm accelerates favipiravir production for COVID-19 treatment

Fujifilm is ramping up production of its antiviral treatment drug favipiravir, one of many approved drugs being tested...

April 16, 2020 | Thursday | News