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 ...

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 | News
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