Takeda announces results of Phase 3b VARSITY studies

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced further results from the Phase 3b head-to-head VARSITY study, w...

May 20, 2019 | Monday | News
Daiichi Sankyo fails to hold up influenza vaccine project

Japanese pharma company Daiichi Sankyo has announced that the Company has been unable to fulfill its obligation to build...

May 20, 2019 | Monday | News
Eisai to present data on oncology pipeline and products

Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that presentations on a series of abstracts highlighting updates regarding its in-house discov...

May 16, 2019 | Thursday | News
Teijin and AMED to develop drugs for frail elders

Teijin Limited has announced that it has signed a research and development agreement with the Japan Agency for Medical R...

May 17, 2019 | Friday | News
Takeda's BLA for Vedolizumab gets approval by U.S. FDA

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company has announced that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for rev...

May 14, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo launches hypertension drug in Japan

Daiichi Sankyo has announced the launch in Japan of MINNEBRO® Tablets 1.25 mg, 2.5 mg and 5 mg (generic name: e...

May 15, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Eisai to sell anti-rheumatic injection in Japan

Eisai Co., Ltd. has entered into a license agreement with medac Gesellschaft für klinische Spezialpräparate mb...

May 14, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Takeda sells surgical patch to Ethicon for $400M

Japan headquartered Takeda Pharma has entered into an agreement to sell TachoSil®, a surgical patch designed to achi...

May 13, 2019 | Monday | News
Novartis to acquire Xiidra in a $5.3B deal

Novartis announced that it has entered into an agreement with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited to acquire the asset...

May 10, 2019 | Friday | News
Promethera Biosciences makes progress in HepaStem development programme

Promethera Biosciences SA, a global innovator in cell-based medicines and liver diseases, has announced the dosing of a ...

May 9, 2019 | Thursday | News
Promethera Biosciences completes €39.7 M Series D Financing

Promethera Biosciences, a global innovator in cell-based medicines and liver diseases has announced the closing of a &eu...

May 8, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo- AstraZeneca's breast cancer drug reveals positive response

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (Daiichi Sankyo) and AstraZeneca have announced positive topline results for the pivotal...

May 8, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Eisai with UK DRI launches new Post-Doctoral programme

Eisai Co., Ltd. and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) announced the launch of a joint post-doctoral programme ...

May 8, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Takeda collaborates with Skyhawk to develop solutions for neurodegenerative diseases

US based Skyhawk Therapeutics, Inc. has announced a strategic collaboration with Japan headquartered Takeda Pharmaceutic...

May 7, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Takeda opens new global research center in San Diego

Takeda has announced the opening of a new research facility in San Diego, California. Extending Takeda’s 14-year p...

May 3, 2019 | Friday | News
Takeda announces Andrey Potapov as ICMEA Area Head

Global biopharmaceutical company Takeda announced Andrey Potapov as its Area Head for India, CIS (the Commonwealth of In...

April 30, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Japanese scientists reveal potential of technology to detect cancer

Researchers at Okayama University in Japan have reported in the journal Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical that terahertz...

April 29, 2019 | Monday | News
Santen, Glaukos collaborate for exclusive distribution of the MicroShunt in the U.S.

Santen and Glaukos have announced that Santen’s U.S. subsidiary, Santen Inc., has entered into a multi-year agreem...

April 26, 2019 | Friday | News
Daiichi selects oncology candidate built on Zymeworks' Bispecific platform

Zymeworks Inc. a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing multifunctional biotherapeutics, and Daiichi Sankyo...

April 26, 2019 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo sells Its Nihonbashi building in Japan

Daiichi Sankyo Company LTD. (Daiichi Sankyo), dedicated to the creation and supply of innovative pharmaceutical products...

April 26, 2019 | Friday | News
Salix partners with Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma to market IBD drug

Salix Pharmaceuticals ("Salix"), one of the largest specialty pharmaceutical companies in the world committed to the pre...

April 26, 2019 | Friday | News
Velabs collaborates with Chiome for GPCR-Specific functional antibody screening

Velabs Therapeutics, specializing in the fast generation of functional therapeutic antibodies, announced that it has ent...

April 24, 2019 | Wednesday | News
LifeArc licenses lead stage molecules to Daiichi Sankyo

LifeArc, one of the UK’s leading medical research charities, has signed a deal to license an ion channel drug disc...

April 24, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Eisai selected as a Competitive IT Strategy Company 2019

Eisai Co has been selected by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE)...

April 24, 2019 | Wednesday | News
ACT Genomics to provide cancer genomic profiling service

ACTmed, a joint venture between Canon Medical Systems Corporation and ACT Genomics, has established an analysis laborato...

April 21, 2019 | Sunday | News