JT to market CORECTIM in Japan to treat atopic dermatitis

Japan Tobacco Inc. and Torii Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Torii) have announced that JT has received manufacturing and mark...

January 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
Eisai and PGDx jointly start R&D of cancer genetics panel test

Japanese firm Eisai Co., Ltd., has entered into a joint research and development agreement with Personal Genome Diagnost...

January 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Eisai's DAYVIGO gets approval in Japan to treat insomnia

Japanese firm Eisai Co., Ltd has obtained the manufacturing and marketing approval in Japan for its in-house discovered ...

January 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Sasakawa Health Foundation focuses on World Leprosy Day 2020

Sasakawa Health Foundation has announced the start of its first-ever social media campaign with organizations of persons...

January 25, 2020 | Saturday | News
Amgen Astellas Biopharma to become wholly owned Amgen affiliate

Amgen, Astellas Pharma and Amgen Astellas BioPharma K.K. announced that on April 1, 2020, Amgen will purchase the 49% of...

January 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Eisai gets approval of anti-epileptic drug in Japan

Japanese firm Eisai Co., Ltd. has obtained the approvals of supplementary new drug applications in Japan for its in-hous...

January 27, 2020 | Monday | News
Japan Ministry approves Propess for cervical ripening

Swiss firm Ferring Pharmaceuticals has announced that Propess® (dinoprostone) has been approved by the Minister...

January 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Poxel appoints industry leader Dr. David E. Moller as CSO

POXEL, headquartered France, and with subsidiaries in Japan, is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development o...

January 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Darolutamide gets marketing authorization in Japan

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has granted marketing authorization for darolutamide, under th...

January 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Takeda announces liquidation of holding company

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, headquartered in Japan, is a value-based research-driven biopharmaceutical leader...

January 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Hitachi Chemical inks pact with Ori Biotech

Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions, LLC,  a US subsidiary of Japanese firm Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd....

January 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
PhoreMost, Otsuka collaborate for multi drug discovery projects

PhoreMost Limited, the UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to drugging ‘undruggable’ disease target...

January 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
ViiV Healthcare wins Japanese approval for Dovato to treat HIV-1

ViiV Healthcare, the global specialist HIV company majority owned by GSK, with Pfizer Inc. and Shionogi Limited as share...

January 20, 2020 | Monday | News
Astellas completes acquisition of Audentes Therapeutics

Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc. has successfully completed the previously announced acquisition of Audentes Therapeutic...

January 20, 2020 | Monday | News
Astellas invests ¥10B to build new manufacturing facility

Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc. has announced that the Third Fermentation Building (provisional name) will be construct...

January 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Charles River inks scientific collaboration with Takeda

US based company Charles River has announced a multi-year drug discovery collaboration with Japanese firm Takeda Pharmac...

January 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Astellas, Adaptimmune to develop CAR-T & TCR T-cell therapies

Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary Universal Cells, Inc. and Adaptimmune Therapeutics...

January 17, 2020 | Friday | News
ASKA, KinoPharma unite to treat cervical dysplasia

ASKA Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and KinoPharma, Inc., both based in Tokyo, announced that they have entered into...

January 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Hitachi starts commercial manufacturing of Zynteglo

apceth Biopharma GmbH, a subsidiary of Japan headquartered Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. and a leading company for the manu...

January 15, 2020 | Wednesday | News
ERS Genomics licenses CRISPR gene editing technology to Daiichi Sankyo

ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property co-...

January 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
FDA approves sNDA for Astellas's antifungal drug

Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc. has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its supplem...

January 13, 2020 | Monday | News
Chugai signs licensing deal with Verastem for cancer drug

Japanses firm Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. has announced that the Company entered into a global licensing agreem...

January 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Huya Bioscience ropes in Meiji as distributor for Asian region

US based HUYA Bioscience International CEO & Executive Chair, Dr. Mireille Gillings announced the appointm...

January 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Alma receives excellence award in Japan

Alma, a global innovator of Laser, Light-based, Radiofrequency, Plasma and Ultrasound solutions for the aesthetic and su...

January 9, 2020 | Thursday | News
Transgene, NEC initiate trials with AI-Powered Cancer Vaccine

French firm Transgene, a biotech company that designs and develops virus-based immunotherapies for the treatment of canc...

January 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News