Daiichi, Ranbaxy integrate Thailand business

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo and Ranbaxy Laboratories will integrate their business operations in Thailand, in order to lev...

January 16, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Takeda to acquire LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals

Singapore: The wholly owned subsidiary of Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical, Takeda America Holdings, has entered into a...

October 5, 2012 | Friday | News
Astellas, UCB launch Cimzia in Japan

Singapore: Astellas Pharma and UCB Japan have launched Cimzia (certolizumab pegol) in Japan for adult patients with rheu...

March 11, 2013 | Monday | News
BabyLance safety heelstick receives EU patent

Singapore: US-based MediPurpose, a master distributor and manufacturer of medical products, has announced an addition to...

August 26, 2013 | Monday | News
Museum gets $250,000 from Takeda to train teachers

Singapore: Takeda announced that it will donate $250,000 to Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry mainly to suppor...

October 23, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Eisai, Biogen boost manufacturing in US

Singapore: Eisai's US subsidiary entered into a strategic manufacturing alliance with Biogen Idec to bolster the manu...

December 13, 2012 | Thursday | News
KHK advances DsiRNA cancer target, pays $5 mn

Singapore: Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, a RNA interference (RNAi) company focused on developing breakthrough oncology the...

January 4, 2013 | Friday | News
BMS seeks Hep C therapy approval in Japan

Singapore: Bristol-Myers Squibb has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to Japan's Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices...

November 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
Daiichi US appoints Glenn Gormley as chairman

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo has appointed Dr Glenn Gormley, as president and chairman of Daiichi Sankyo, US. Dr Gormley w...

October 4, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Catalent, UMN collaborate for biosimilars

Singapore: Catalent Pharma Solutions and UMN Pharma announced the signing of an agreement to provide UMN Pharma a bro...

December 14, 2012 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo generics' unit to launch 5 drugs

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo's pharmaceuticals subsidiary, Daiichi Sankyo Espha is all set to launch five generic products ...

December 17, 2012 | Monday | News
Medtronic to help rebuild hospital in Japan

Singapore: Medtronic Foundation will partner with Project HOPE to rebuild the Yamada General Hospital in Japan's norther...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | News
New details of rice fungus may help control disease

Singapore: A study by an international team of researchers has shed light on how the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe oryz...

June 20, 2013 | Thursday | News
Tablet coating inspection technology developed in Japan

Singapore: Sumitomo Electric Industries and Kwansei Gakuin University have jointly developed a tablet coating inspect...

September 25, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Shimadzu to launch gas chromatograph Tracera

Singapore: Shimadzu will introduce Tracera, a high-sensitivity gas chromatograph equipped with the newly developed barri...

February 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Ovaries of early menopausal women 'awakened' to conceive baby

Singapore: Doctors at Stanford University, US, and St Marianna University School of Medicine, Japan, have used a new tec...

October 3, 2013 | Thursday | News
Daiichi, Sanofi seeks nod for baby vaccine in Japan

Singapore: Kitasato Daiichi Sankyo, a member of the Daiichi Sankyo Group, has applied for approval of its tetravalent co...

February 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
Mitsubishi Tanabe files NDA for Canagliflozin

Singapore: Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma announced that the company has submitted an application for the manufacturing and ma...

May 30, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
US FDA approves Xtandi for prostate cancer

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval to Xtandi (enzalutamide) capsules for the trea...

September 3, 2012 | Monday | News
Ganesh Ramaswamy is Pentax's global president

Singapore: Japan-based Hoya Group's Pentax Medical has appointed Mr Ganesh Ramaswamy to the position of global president...

October 4, 2013 | Friday | News
Fujikura to license Cellmid's cancer antibody

Singapore: Japan-based Fujikura Kasei is going to licence cancer diagnostic antibody midkine (MK) developed by Australia...

July 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Molecular diagnostics is key to future

China, Japan, India and Singapore are leveraging on genetic technologies to develop molecular diagnostic platform which ...

June 18, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
GE Healthcare, Osaka University join hands

Singapore: GE Healthcare Life Sciences has tied up with Osaka University to allow students to have access to GE Healthca...

August 20, 2013 | Tuesday | News
OHK & Mitsubishi to launch HemaClear in Japan

Singapore: OHK Medical Devices, manufacturer of the HemaClear, single-use, sterile exsanguinating tourniquet device, ann...

June 14, 2013 | Friday | News
Neuland Labs strengthens commitment to Japan

Hyderabad: Neuland Laboratories entered into a manufacturing collaboration with Tokyo-based API named Apic, which is ...

March 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News