Toray signs pact with JICA to support infection control capacity

Japan headquartered Toray Industries, Inc., has made an agreement with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)...

November 20, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Novartis to buy Aspen’s Japanese operations

Sandoz has announced that it has entered into a binding agreement for the planned acquisition of the Japanese business o...

November 18, 2019 | Monday | News
Lupin bids goodbye to Japan

Indian pharma major Lupin Limited (including its subsidiaries, together referred to as  ‘Lupin’) a...

November 18, 2019 | Monday | News
Clinical Trial of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy commences in Japan

Cancer Intelligence Care Systems, Inc. (CICS) and STELLA PHARMA CORPORATION will commence a Phase I clinical trial of Bo...

November 18, 2019 | Monday | News
Takeda announces 12 new molecular entities

Japan headquartered Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited recentky hosted an R&D meeting in New York City to ou...

November 15, 2019 | Friday | News
NEC, VAXIMM to advance personalized neoantigen cancer vaccines

Japan based NEC Corporation, a leader in IT and network technologies, and VAXIMM AG, a Swiss/German biotech company focu...

November 15, 2019 | Friday | News
Yokogawa acquires nanopipette technology for life science applications

Japan headquartered Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has acquired a nanopipette technology that was devel...

November 14, 2019 | Thursday | News
Novo Nordisk obtains worldwide licence to potential NASH candidate

Novo Nordisk A/S and Japanese chemical company UBE Industries Ltd. recently announced that Novo Nordisk has obtained an ...

November 8, 2019 | Friday | News
Takeda, Anderson Cancer Center accelerate cell therapy

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center) and Takeda P...

November 12, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Kayentis opens Japanese subsidiary

Kayentis, a global provider of eCOA (electronic Clinical Outcome Assessment) solutions for clinical trials, has announce...

November 11, 2019 | Monday | News
Fujitsu improves efficiency in Cancer Genomic Medicine in joint AI research

Fujitsu, on 7 Nov 2019, announced the results of a joint research project it has been conducting with the Institute of M...

November 8, 2019 | Friday | News
Takeda’s Dengue vaccine candidate reveals protection in children

Japan based Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced that results from the primary endpoint analysis of ...

November 8, 2019 | Friday | News
Hitachi collaborates with CLB to fight cancer using AI

Tokyo headquartered Hitachi, Ltd. and Centre Leon Berard (CLB), a leading French Comprehensive Cancer Center in Lyon-Fra...

November 7, 2019 | Thursday | News
Olympus unveils corporate strategy

Olympus Corporation has announced its Corporate Strategy in central Tokyo. The announcement follows the company's e...

November 7, 2019 | Thursday | News
Takeda divests select products to STADA for $660M

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

November 6, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Fujifilm’s rapid TB diagnostic kit receives recognition

FUJIFILM Corporation is pleased to announce that its “Rapid Tuberculosis Diagnostic Kit” has won the Good De...

November 5, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Synthetic compound provides fast screening for potential drugs

A simple assay may benefit drug discovery for treating diabetes, Parkinson's, and Alzheimers disease, as well as studies...

November 4, 2019 | Monday | News
Promethera Biosciences spreads business activity to Japan

Promethera Biosciences SA (Group), a global innovator in cell-based medicines and liver diseases, had announced the foun...

November 4, 2019 | Monday | News