Japan's Towa Phamaceuticals to enter the US market

Singapore: Japanese drug giant Towa Pharmaceuticals makes foray into the US markets banking on its new set of pills that...

November 15, 2016 | Tuesday | News
India urges Japan to provide wider pharma market access

Singapore: The Indian commerce Minister, Ms Nirmala Sitharaman has urged Japan to provide Indian pharmaceutical sector w...

October 14, 2016 | Friday | News
Zydus Cadila, Takeda to co-develop vaccine for chikungunya

Singapore: Japan's Takeda pharmaceuticals has joined hands with India-based Zydus Cadila in an aim to co-develop a vacci...

September 23, 2016 | Friday | News
Japan market forecast

Singapore: Japan's demographic profile will continue to create revenue earning opportunities for the pharmaceuticals and...

January 20, 2016 | Wednesday | Opinion
Stem cell scientist sues Nobel laureate for deception

Singapore: Dr Rongxiang Xu, a scientist who claims to be the founder of human body regenerative restoration science, has...

May 17, 2013 | Friday | News
Niigata Univ stroke therapy license for Shimojani

Singapore: Shimojani obtained exclusive license from Japan's Niigata University for worldwide development and commerc...

February 25, 2013 | Monday | News
Astellas prostrate cancer drug gets EU nod

Singapore: The European Commission has approved Xtandi (enzalutamide) capsules for the treatment of men with metastatic ...

June 25, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Columbia Asia receives $101mn investment from Mitsui & Co.

Singapore: Columbia Asia has announced it is receiving $101 million in investment from Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Columbia ...

July 27, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Teijin, Versartis partner for commercialization of Somavaratan in Japan

Singapore: Teijin Limited and Versartis, Inc. has announced that the companies and their wholly owned subsidiaries have ...

August 11, 2016 | Thursday | News
Tivozanib shows superiority over sorafenib in trial

Singapore: Investigational agent, tivozanib, has demonstrated statistically significant and clinically meaningful PFS su...

May 18, 2012 | Friday | News
Chugai gets positive outcome from Actemra Subcutaneous Injection trials

Japanese pharmaceutical giant Chugai Pharmaceutical Co Ltd has announced that its Actemra Subcutaneous Injection (Actemr...

May 17, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Prosetta Biosciences, Takeda to co-discover drugs for neurodegenerative diseases

Prosetta Biosciences Inc. has entered into a Feasibility and First Right of Negotiation Agreement with Japan's Takeda Ph...

May 3, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Histogenics to develop Purpose's NeoCart for Japanese Market

Histogenics Corporation, a NASDAQ-listed regenerative medicine company focused on developing and commercializing product...

May 11, 2016 | Wednesday | News
NCRM gets Japanese patent for nanotechnology-based corneal stem cell transplant

Tokyo: Corneal endothelial precursor cell transplantation methodology, employing a Nanocomposite gel sheet has been awar...

February 1, 2016 | Monday | News
Allergan's Botox Vista receives marketing authorization in Japan

Dublin-headquartered Allergan plc has announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved an...

May 25, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Microfluidics expert becomes Japan S&T agency licensee

Singapore: Microfluidics expert Dolomite is now a licensee of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) under JST's m...

August 27, 2012 | Monday | News
Daiichi Sankyo to reorganize supply chain business

Singapore: Japan's Daiichi Sankyo has decided to reorganize three of its Japanese supply chain subsidiaries, Daiichi San...

October 2, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo announces closure of its Hiratsuka Plant

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (hereafter Daiichi Sankyo) has announced its decision to close the Hiratsuka ...

April 4, 2016 | Monday | News
BIOTEC launches microbe management course

Singapore: Thailand's flagship biotechnology organization, BIOTEC, NITE Biological Resource Center (NBRC) of Japan an...

January 22, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Ajinomoto acquires US firm Althea

Singapore: Japan-headquartered Ajinomoto has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Althea Technologies, a US-ba...

March 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
Biobanking has attractive prospects in Asia

Asia is becoming increasingly important as a market for upcoming biobanks. Within Asia, India, China and Japan have attr...

June 12, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
Multiple sclerosis market to peak at $18.3 bn in 2018

Singapore: Leading independent healthcare analyst, Datamonitor Healthcare, has revealed in their latest research that th...

August 20, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Astellas EMEA appoints Eugene Van Rensburg as CFO

Tokyo: Astellas Pharma EMEA, the regional headquarters of Japan's Astellas Pharma Inc. for Europe, the Middle East an...

September 18, 2015 | Friday | News
TNAU, Japanese professors unravel key genetic features of barley

Singapore: India's Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) professor Natesan Senthil and a Japanese professor have tog...

August 5, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Eisai, Sysmex partner to develop diagnostic for dementia

Singapore: Eisai and Sysmex Corporation jointly announced that the two companies have entered into a comprehensive non-e...

February 16, 2016 | Tuesday | News