Japan's Yokogawa announces new acquisition to build bioprocess solutions

Japan-based Yokogawa Electric Corporation has acquired all shares of Insilico Biotechnology AG, a Germany-based develope...

November 3, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan's venture capitalism elevates deep-tech startups in Southeast Asia region

Venture capitals play a major role in providing financial support to startup companies through strategic investments/men...

November 2, 2021 | Tuesday | Opinion
Japan offers new treatment option for brain cancer

Japanese firm Daiichi Sankyo Company has launched DELYTACT® (teserpaturev/G47∆), an oncolytic virus developed by t...

November 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Takeda makes new deal to accelerate gamma-delta T cell-based therapies

Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical has announced the exercise of its option to acquire UK-based GammaDelta Therape...

October 28, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan proposes drug cocktail to stop SARS-CoV-2 infection of stem cells

A team of scientists at the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University in Japan, has sho...

October 27, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo to commercialize mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in Japan within 2022

Daiichi Sankyo has announced the progress of development of DS-5670, an mRNA vaccine in Japan, being evaluated against t...

October 26, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan brings highly sensitive bio-technology to detect SARS-CoV-2

Tokai University, Toyohashi University of Technology, Chubu University, and DENSO Corporation in Japan have been develop...

October 25, 2021 | Monday | News
Fujitsu to offer AI-based personalised cancer treatment in Japan

Aichi Cancer Center and Fujitsu have announced the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) based solution ab...

October 22, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan emphasises on escalating global anxiety and depression crisis

Japanese firm Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma and US-based BehaVR, Inc. have signed definitive agreements to develop and ...

October 19, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan identifies molecules for building stronger antibodies

A team of researchers at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi) at Kyoto University, Japan&n...

October 15, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan develops ML-based screening tool for cervical myelopathy

A research team from Tokyo Medical and Dental University and Keio University in Japan combined a finger motion analysis ...

October 13, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Mass spec technology by Shimadzu unveils novel approach for immunotherapy success

Japan's Shimadzu Corporation collaborated with Drs William Redmond and Yoshinobu Koguchi of the Providence Cancer Instit...

October 11, 2021 | Monday | News
Fujitsu and University of Tokyo Hospital embark joint AI R&D for heart disease

Fujitsu Limited has started joint clinical research with the University of Tokyo Hospital to verify the effectiveness of...

October 11, 2021 | Monday | News
Catalent Opens New Full-Service Clinical Supply Facility in Shiga, Japan

The 6,000 square-meter site will provide flexible clinical supply solutions, serving both local and global biotech and p...

October 10, 2021 | Sunday | News
Japan identifies emerging infectious disease caused by new 'nairovirus'

A previously unknown virus that can infect humans and cause disease has been identified by scientists in Japan. The nove...

October 8, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan's Olympus sets-up corporate venture capital fund

Japan-based Olympus Corporation is establishing Olympus Innovation Ventures, LLC as a corporate venture capital fund. I...

October 5, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Israel's CytoReason introduces AI clinical drug development platform to Japan’s pharma market

CytoReason, an AI company developing computational disease models for discovery and clinical drug development, and Summi...

September 30, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan's Fujifilm promotes industrial application of iPS cell-derived regenerative medicine

Japan-based FUJIFILM Corporation has reached agreement on core terms with Australian regenerative medicine venture Cynat...

October 4, 2021 | Monday | News
Japan to commercialize next-gen Hunter Syndrome therapy

Japanese firms Takeda Pharmaceutical Company and JCR Pharmaceuticals have announced a geographically-focused exclusive c...

October 1, 2021 | Friday | News
"Stem cell-based therapeutics poised to become mainstream option”

To make the trial investments more meaningful and to avoid ambivalence in animal models, medical science is adopting nov...

October 1, 2021 | Friday | Opinion
New osteoporotic bone loss kit enters Japanese market

US-based AgNovos Healthcare and Japanese firm Asahi Kasei Pharma Corporation have entered into an exclusive option agree...

September 30, 2021 | Thursday | News
Aptamer brings Optimer binders-based technology for Japanese scientists

UK-based Aptamer Group and BizCom Japan, Inc., a Japan-based trading and consultancy company, have entered into a distri...

September 28, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan approves first and only antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) to treat Urothelial Cancer

Astellas Pharma Inc. and Seagen Inc. announced that Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved P...

September 27, 2021 | Monday | News
Japan approves first orally administered therapy for rare autoimmune renal disease

Swiss firm Vifor Fresenius Medical Care Renal Pharma (VFMCRP) has announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health and La...

September 27, 2021 | Monday | News
Japan's Takeda Pharma picks new partners to help strengthen health systems in LMICs

Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical has announced the addition of four partnerships to its Global Corporate So...

September 23, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan sets eyes on rare pediatric liver diseases

US-based Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical have entered into an exclusive licensing ag...

September 22, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Olympus unveils advanced bipolar surgical energy products

Olympus Corporation has announced the launch of the first devices in the new POWERSEAL™ family of advanced bipolar...

September 21, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Innovative home dialysis therapies to support Japan’s growing needs

German firm Fresenius Medical Care has announced a strategic distribution partnership with JMS Co. Ltd, a provider of me...

September 17, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan finds molecular code that powers up cancer-fighting immune cells

A synthetic molecular code shows promise towards improving the response of some cancer patients to immunotherapy treatme...

September 15, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Kyowa Kirin addresses sepsis-associated acute kidney injury in Japanese population

The Netherlands based AM-Pharma B.V. and Japanese firm Kyowa Kirin have entered into an exclusive license agre...

September 14, 2021 | Tuesday | News
French firm Poxel launches type 2 diabetes drug in Japan

French firm POXEL SA along with its partner, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma,  is launching TWYMEEG (Imeglimin hydro...

September 10, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan's TANAKA holdings encourage overseas medical startups by investment opportunities

TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. which is a subsidiary of TANAKA Holdings Co., Ltd. and operates the TANAKA Precious Metals m...

September 9, 2021 | Thursday | News
US-based CLRO firm Advanced Clinical continues APAC expansion

Advanced Clinical, a global clinical research services organization (CLRO), has announced that the company’s globa...

September 9, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan to benefit from personalized stem cell banking service expansion by I Peace

I Peace, Inc., a Palo Alto-based biotech startup focusing on Nobel Prize-winning technology of induced pluripo...

September 8, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan buys 150 M doses of Novavax COVID-19 vaccine

Takeda Pharmaceutical has announced that the Government of Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MH...

September 8, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan lays focus on early detection of heart diseases

Japanese firms Astellas Pharma Inc., Nitto Denko Corporation, and M. Heart Co., have announced that the three companies ...

September 6, 2021 | Monday | News
Japan's Fujifilm sells radiopharma biz to PeptiDream for 30.5 billion yen

Japan-based Fujifilm Corporation has announced the transfer of the radiopharmaceutical business of Fujifilm Toyama Chemi...

September 3, 2021 | Friday | News
Rapid acceleration of medical education in Japan using virtual reality

At many Japanese institutions offering medical education, students are unable to attend clinical practice due to the spr...

September 2, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan's REPROCELL to boost its GMP iPSC - Master Cell Bank (MCB) manufacturing service

REPROCELL has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with TEXCELL JAPAN, a TEXCELL Group Company, for GMP iPSC ...

September 2, 2021 | Thursday | News
Eli Lilly Japan, Daiichi Sankyo ink pact to commercialise migraine drug

Eli Lilly Japan and Daiichi Sankyo Company have concluded an agreement on commercialisation collaboration in Japan for t...

September 1, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan to distribute hyperuricemia drug in five ASEAN countries

Japan-based Eisai and FUJI YAKUHIN have inked a license agreement concerning dotinurad (generic name), a treatment for h...

August 31, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan suggests DNA deletion to treat mitochondrial diseases

Mutant DNA sequences inside cellular mitochondria can be eliminated using a bespoke chemical compound. The approach, dev...

August 30, 2021 | Monday | News
Shimadzu contributes to PCR screening tests for COVID-19 mutant strains in Japan

Shimadzu has released the SARS-CoV-2 Mutation Assay Core Kit, Primer/Probe Mix for N501Y, Primer/Probe Mix for L452R, an...

August 27, 2021 | Friday | News
Cryoport, Mitsubishi Logistics Corp to bring temperature-controlled supply chain solutions to APAC region

Cryoport, a leading global provider of innovative temperature-controlled supply chain solutions to the life sciences inc...

August 26, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan to leverage advanced IoT technology for flatfoot patients

Japan-based NEC  has signed a joint research agreement with Teikyo University, and Mizonokuchi Hospital to vis...

August 26, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan invents organ-on-a-chip imaging tool to visualize cell functions

Japan's Tohoku University researchers have developed a new analytical method that visualizes cell functions in MPS using...

August 23, 2021 | Monday | News
Japan's Shimadzu, HORIBA release LC-Raman System for multi-R&D applications

Shimadzu Corporation and HORIBA have released a new LC-Raman system that combines a Shimadzu high-performance liquid chr...

August 19, 2021 | Thursday | News
Taiwan's digital trade elites gather to create business opportunities in Japanese market

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of digital consumption patterns, as well as assist companies in their ...

August 16, 2021 | Monday | News
Fujifilm launches AI-powered chest X-ray in Japan

Fujifilm Corporation has announced its AI-powered product for analyzing chest X-ray 'CXR-AID' will be commercially avail...

August 13, 2021 | Friday | News
FDA approves combination therapy for Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC)

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a combination therapy from Eisai and Merck (MSD) namely,&...

August 12, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan reveals adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination in youngsters

A cross-sectional study was recently conducted to clarify the adverse events of COVID-19 vaccines in Japanese young popu...

August 11, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Healx’s AI-platform to create world’s most detailed rare disease biomedical knowledge graph

Healx, the AI-powered, UK-founded global drug discovery company, has entered a partnership with Japan's Ono Pharmace...

August 10, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Otsuka Pharma receives $17.8 M grant for TB drug trial

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc., a subsidiary of Japan-based Otsuka Pharmaceutical, has ...

August 10, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Taiwanese firm to manufacture Japanese generic drug to strengthen synergy

KYOWA Pharmaceutical Industry Co. Ltd., a premier Japanese pharmaceutical company, has contracted with Bora Pharmac...

August 6, 2021 | Friday | News
Mr. Ryoichi Tanaka Joins Telix Japan as Chief Operating Officer

Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited announced that Mr. Ryoichi Tanaka has joined the Telix Japan leadership team in the role o...

August 6, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan builds mathematical simulator to guide COVID-19 isolation policies

In a new study, a multi-national effort that included researchers at the Institute for Advanced Study of Biology (ASHBi)...

August 4, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Chugai Pharma unveils comprehensive genomic profiling test for cancer

Japan-based Chugai Pharmaceutical has launched FoundationOne Liquid CDx Cancer Genomic Profile as a liquid biopsy-based ...

August 3, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Takeda launches new biopharma venture for norovirus vaccine candidate

Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda and US-based Frazier Healthcare Partners have announced a collaboration to l...

July 30, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan's PHC Corp offers medicated refrigerated storage solutions

Japan-based PHC Corporation is now available for medical institutions and research facilities in the form of n...

July 29, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan's Shimadzu unveils device for measuring amyloid peptides in blood

Shimadzu Corporation has released the Amyloid MS CL system for measuring amyloid peptides in blood. This “controll...

July 28, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan uses quantum physics to destroy cancer cells

Scientists at Japan-based Kyoto University’s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) and colleague...

July 27, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan develops 20-min test to detect antibodies against SARS-CoV-2

A team of scientists from Japan, at Hokkaido University’s Faculty of Engineering, has developed a 20-minute test t...

July 26, 2021 | Monday | News
Takeda expands Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine supply in Japan

Takeda Pharmaceutical has announced an additional agreement with Moderna and the Government of Japan’s Minist...

July 21, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japanese startup OriCiro raises ¥1 B to advance cell-free DNA technology

Japan-based startup OriCiro Genomics has announced that it has raised ¥800 million in Series B financing led by The&...

July 21, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan approves Regeneron's antibody cocktail for COVID-19 treatment

US-based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has announced that Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHL...

July 20, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Product launches by Asian pharma cos can benefit antiviral drug makers in APAC: Graphical Research

    The global antiviral drugs market growth is stimulated by a growing focus toward therapeutic management ...

July 19, 2021 | Monday | News
Japan's Topcon Healthcare acquires VISIA Imaging

Japan-based Topcon Corporation has announced that it has acquired VISIA Imaging S.r.l, an ophthalmic device manufacturer...

July 16, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan's GHIT Fund invests 97.4M yen in drug discovery project for TB

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund, in Japan, has announced a total of approximately 97.4 million ...

July 15, 2021 | Thursday | News
NEC's AI tool aids in determining whether colorectal lesions are potentially neoplastic

Japan's NEC Corporation announced the development of an AI technology for supporting doctors in determining if colorecta...

July 15, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan explores complex lipid metabolism networks for studying various diseases

Researchers at Keio University, Japan, describe cutting edge mass spectrometry technology that offers unpreced...

July 14, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan sets COVID-19 drug trials up for success

As scientists continue to search high and low for effective COVID-19 treatments, a new modeling study by Japanese resear...

July 9, 2021 | Friday | News
SE Asia's Austrianova secures significant investment from Japan's Real Tech Fund

Austrianova (the SG Austria group, Austrianova Singapore and Austrianova Thailand) announced that Real Tech Fund (m...

July 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan harness potential of self-assembling peptides (SAPs) in intracellular spaces

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have set out to harness the potential of self-assembling pept...

July 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
PHC Corp launches next-generation sequencer DNBSEQ series in Japan

PHC Corporation has announced that China-based MGI Tech Co., Ltd. develops and manufactures next-generation sequenc...

July 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Sosei Heptares partners InveniAI to launch multi-target AI-powered drug discovery platform

Japan headquartered Sosei Group Corporation, the world leader in GPCR-focused structure-based drug design...

July 6, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Fujifilm invests ¥90 B to increase capacity for biologics

FUJIFILM Corporation, based in Japan, has announced a ¥90 Billion Yen (~$850 Million) investment package to accelera...

July 6, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Scientists propose repurposing anti-malarial drug Mefloquine to fight COVID-19

Japanese scientists are scanning the possibility of using an anti-malarial drug called mefloquine....

July 2, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan's Sysmex Corp teams up with QIAGEN for global cancer companion diagnostics

QIAGEN has announced a global strategic alliance with Japan’s Sysmex Corporation for the development and commercia...

July 2, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan plans data scientist training program for pharma industry

Japanese firms Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and ALBERT Inc, have jointly developed a data scientist training program ...

June 29, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japanese startup B dot Medical promotes spread of proton therapy

B dot Medical Inc., a startup based in Japan, has confirmed the superconductivity of a superconducting bending magnet de...

June 28, 2021 | Monday | News
Takara Bio grants BioNTech a commercial patents license of CAR T-cell Therapy drug

Takara Bio Inc. world leader in biotechnology R&D, announces that it has entered into a License and Supply Agre...

June 25, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan aims to prevent CVDs using AI and home measurement data

OMRON Healthcare and Kyoto University have announced a new Collaborative Research Program called "Healthc...

June 25, 2021 | Friday | News
Japanese healthcare firms to find potential startup partners at virtual convention

The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) has announced that 12 major Japanese corporate venture capital g...

June 24, 2021 | Thursday | News
Fujitsu Japan deploys world's fastest supercomputer for COVID-19 therapies

Fujitsu Japan has announced that it will initiate a new research project with a research team led by Japan's Resear...

June 22, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Rakuten Medical, Shimadzu to develop photoimmunotherapy-based medical device

Rakuten Medical, Inc. and Shimadzu Corporation, with operations in both Japan & US, have announced a joint...

June 18, 2021 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo discontinues development of Nafamostat in Japan for COVID-19 treatment

Japanese pharma firm Daiichi Sankyo Company has announced that it has decided to discontinue development of nafamostat i...

June 16, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan demonstrates ability of chlorine dioxide aqueous solution to combat SARS-CoV-2

Taiko Pharmaceutical based in Osaka, Japan, has announced that long-lasting chlorine dioxide (ClO2) aqueous solutio...

June 11, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan's Eisai helps Alzheimer’s patients access ADUHELM post-FDA approval

Following U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) accelerated approval of ADUHELMTM (aducanumab-avwa) as th...

June 8, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan hosts Gavi COVAX AMC summit virtual event securing $2.4 B

World leaders joined forces on 2 June at the “One World Protected” - Gavi COVAX Advance Market Commitme...

June 7, 2021 | Monday | News
Countries, health partners discuss efforts to curb COVID-19 in WHO South-East Asia Region

The World Health Organization convened a meeting of member countries and health partners to discuss the strengthening of...

June 3, 2021 | Thursday | News
Eisai ties up with ITO EN to support people living with dementia

Tokyo-headquartered Eisai Co and ITO EN have entered into a business alliance agreement concerning the initiatives for s...

June 2, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Shimadzu and Shionogi partner to explore wastewater viral infections

Japanese firms Shimadzu Corporation and Shionogi & Co. have inked the basic agreement of business partnership to tar...

June 3, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan takes step forward towards treating hereditary deafness

Researchers at Juntendo University in Japan report in the journal Human Molecular Genetics that a stem-cell te...

May 31, 2021 | Monday | News
Fujitsu Japan revamps Electronic Medical Record System for clinics

Fujitsu Japan to support a wide range of doctors' work, such as treatment of chronic diseases and medical treatment...

May 31, 2021 | Monday | News
Japan's Fujifilm launches SARS-CoV-2 mutation kit to detect Indian variant

FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Corporation has announced the launch of the E484Q mutation detection kit, capable of detecti...

May 28, 2021 | Friday | News
Sosei Heptares and Pfizer collaborate for multi-target drug discovery

Sosei Group Corporation has been notified by Pfizer that the first subject in a clinical trial has been dosed with a new...

May 24, 2021 | Monday | News
Japanese firms to develop novel AI-based cell analyzers and testing techniques

Sysmex Corporation and ThinkCyte, Inc. have signed a joint development and investment agreements during Ma...

May 14, 2021 | Friday | News
Mitsubishi's air purification filtering technology can inactivate SARS-CoV-2

Japanese firm Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems, Ltd. (MHI Thermal Systems), a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Indust...

May 13, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan aids India with oxygen generation plants

The Government of Japan and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India have partnered to provide oxygen generatio...

May 11, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan secures supply of investigational antibody cocktail for COVID-19 treatment

Chugai Pharmaceutical has announced that the company has agreed with the Japanese government regarding the antibody cock...

May 11, 2021 | Tuesday | News

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