Asia an emerging hotspot in medical tourism

Japan |  Analysis | By Aishwarya Venkatesh  | 0 Comment | 09 Mar, 2015

Singapore: BioSpectrum feels the pulse of Asia's top destinations and major players in medical tourism.  Medical tour...Read more

GSK receives marketing authorization for Nucala in Japan

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 30 Mar, 2016

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has grant...Read more

Taiho licenses oral anticancer drug to France's Servier

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 16 Jun, 2015

Japan's Taiho Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and France's Servier have entered into an exclusive license agreement on June 12, ...Read more

Daiichi, UCB seek marketing authorization for epilepsy drug in Japan

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 26 Jun, 2015

Japanese pharmaceutical firms, Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited and UCB Japan Co. Ltd have announced that UCB Japan has ap...Read more

PeptiDream, Teijin to co-discover peptide-based therapeutics

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 30 Sep, 2015

Tokyo: PeptiDream Inc., a Tokyo-based biopharmaceutical company, has signed a multi-target discovery and optimization co...Read more

Japan's Denka group to acquire German biopharma business

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 12 Aug, 2015

Singapore: Japan's Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Denka Group) recently inked a pact to acquire Germany's Icon Gen...Read more

Ono, Bristol-Myers launch Orencia Auto-injector for treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 25 May, 2016

Osaka-headquartered Ono Pharmaceutical Co Ltd and Bristol-Myers Squibb K K have launched Orencia Subcutaneous Injection ...Read more

WuXi's subsidiary gets manufacturing nod in Japan

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 28 Aug, 2015

Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech's small-molecule process development and manufacturing subsidiary Shanghai SynTheAll Pharmace...Read more

Mednet, Biovisiq deal helps in zero-delay of trials

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 03 Apr, 2013

Singapore: AG Mednet signed a master services agreement with Biovisiq, a Japanese imaging core laboratory (ICL), to redu...Read more

Singulex's cardiovascular biomarker granted Japanese patent

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 29 Apr, 2015

Singulex Inc., California-based developer and provider of Single Molecule Counting technology for clinical diagnostics a...Read more

Chugai Pharma to set up sales unit in China

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 26 Dec, 2013

Singapore: With a capital of $30 million, Tokyo based Chugai Pharmaceutical has announced to establish a wholly owned dr...Read more

Astellas, FibroGen start CKD anemia trial in Japan

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 31 Jul, 2013

Singapore: Japan-based Astellas Pharma and US-based FibroGen initiated a phase II clinical study in Japan of ASP1517/FG-...Read more

Cancer-specific killer T cells created from iPS cells

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 07 Jan, 2013

Singapore: Researchers from the RIKEN Research Centre for Allergy and Immunology in Japan have succeeded, for the first ...Read more

Will Japan be able to reduce its generic drug prices?

Japan |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 2 Comment | 21 May, 2013

The Japanese pharmaceutical market is the second largest pharma market in the world following on the close heels of the ...Read more

Life Tech signs agreement with iPS Academia Japan

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 18 Jun, 2012

Singapore: Life Technologies has signed a non-exclusive agreement with iPS Academia Japan for its induced pluripotent st...Read more

Nagoya scientists discover new molecules that change circadian rhythm

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 10 Jun, 2015

A team of chemists and biologists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University, Japan, hav...Read more

BioDiem protozoan drug to get Japanese patent

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 27 May, 2013

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company, BioDiem, has received allowance of Jap...Read more

Eisai, Nihon Medi-Physics to work on dementia intervention

Japan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 28 Apr, 2015

Japanese pharmaceutical giant Eisai Co. Ltd. and Nihon Medi-Physics Co. Ltd. have entered into a collaboration agreement...Read more