Gilead Sciences submits NDA to treat RA in Japan

Gilead Sciences, Inc. has announced the New Drug Application (NDA) for filgotinib, an investigational, oral, select...

October 9, 2019 | Wednesday | News
PHC, Kakehashi partner for healthcare IT solutions

PHC Corporation and Kakehashi Corporation have signed a sales partnership agreement for the sale of &ldqu...

October 9, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Bayer and RIKEN establish partnership for novel drug discovery

Bayer AG (Bayer), and RIKEN Innovation Co., Ltd. (RIKEN Innovation), have entered into a strategic collaboration agreeme...

October 9, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Shiseido acquires leading skincare brand

Japan headquartered Shiseido Company, Limited has announced that Shiseido Americas Corporation, a subsidiary of Shiseido...

October 10, 2019 | Thursday | News
Mik Japan launches new online drug store

Established 48 years ago in Japan, Mik Japan Co., Ltd., a drugstore chain managing over 50 outlets, has opened Samu...

October 8, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Japanese AI startup secures $42.9M in series B financing

AI Medical Service Inc., one of the world's first real-time endoscopic artificial intelligence (AI) developers, has anno...

October 8, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Rentschler Bio enhances collaboration in Japan

Rentschler Biopharma SE, a world-class contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for biopharmaceuticals...

October 7, 2019 | Monday | News
Prometheus Biosciences, Takeda to develop targeted IBD therapies

US based Prometheus Biosciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery, development, and commerci...

October 4, 2019 | Friday | News
Moberg inks deal with Taisho for anti-fungal candidate

Swedish pharma company Moberg Pharma AB has signed an exclusive license agreement with Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd fo...

October 3, 2019 | Thursday | News
MIMETAS and HUB to develop and promote Organoids-on-a-Chip

MIMETAS, with its presence in the Netherlands, US and Japan, and Hubrecht Organoid Technologies (HUB), a not-for-profit ...

October 2, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Eisai to work with Tokio towards prevention of dementia

Japanese firm Eisai Co., Ltd. and Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. have announced that the companies ...

September 30, 2019 | Monday | News
Eisai, Fronteo launch Coroban prediction system for inpatients

Eisai Co., Ltd. and FRONTEO, Inc. have launched the tumbling and falling prediction system Coroban to medical institutio...

September 27, 2019 | Friday | News
AGC Biologics appoints new General Manager for Japan

AGC Biologics, a global leader in clinical and commercial manufacturing of therapeutic proteins, announced the appointme...

September 26, 2019 | Thursday | News
Noven Announces Appointment of Dr. Naruhito Higo as CEO

Noven Pharmaceutical has announced its decision to appoint Dr. Naruhito Higo as Chief Executive Officer effective O...

September 24, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Eisai, Meiji receive approval for Parkinson's drug

Eisai Co., Ltd. and Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd. have announced the manufacturing and marketing approval in Japan for th...

September 24, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Takeda receives Ministry approval for depression drug

Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited  and Denmark based H. Lundbeck A/S jointly announced that the M...

September 23, 2019 | Monday | News
Evrenzo gets approval in Japan to treat anemia associated with CKD

Astellas Pharma Inc. and FibroGen, Inc. have announced that Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MH...

September 20, 2019 | Friday | News
Kao named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index

Kao Corporation has been selected for inclusion in the 2019 Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) and Dow Jo...

September 20, 2019 | Friday | News
Japan's Solasia set to start trials for Darinaparsin

Solasia Pharma KK has  announced that the darinaparsin Phase 2 study patient registration has reached the targ...

September 20, 2019 | Friday | News
FDA approves combo drug to treat endometrial carcinoma

Eisai and Merck have announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the combination of LENVIMA, the...

September 19, 2019 | Thursday | News
Toyobo to market RNA analysis kit based on RIKEN technology

Japan headquartered Toyobo Co., Ltd. has productized a ribonucleic acid (RNA) analysis kit based on a novel system title...

September 19, 2019 | Thursday | News
Mitsubishi Tanabe, Daiichi Sankyo tie alliance for ALS treatment agent

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation and Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited have announced that they have concluded a licens...

September 18, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Seattle Genetics, Astellas gets USFDA priority review for Enfortumab Vedotin

Seattle Genetics, Inc. and Astellas Pharma Inc. have announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has...

September 17, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Astellas, iota Biosciences enter into collaborative R&D agreement

Japanese firm Astellas Pharma and iota Biosciences, Inc. have announced a joint research and development agree...

September 17, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Eisai, Biogen discontinue clinical studies on AD drug candidate

Japan headquartered Eisai Co., Ltd. and US based Biogen Inc. have announced the decision to discontinue the Phase III cl...

September 16, 2019 | Monday | News