GARDP partners with Institute of Science Tokyo to focus on drug resistant infections

The Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP) and Institute of Science Tokyo, in Japan, have sign...

July 22, 2025 | Tuesday | News
NKGen Biotech and HekaBio enter strategic partnership to bring novel NK cell therapy to Japan

US-headquartered NKGen Biotech, Inc. a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development and commerci...

July 21, 2025 | Monday | News
Japan's GHIT announces investment of $7.3 M in Malaria and TB R&D projects

Japan-headquartered Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund has announced a total investment of approximately&nb...

July 18, 2025 | Friday | News
Japan's Next-generation 'nanoball' approach strives for a paradigm shift in vaccine technology

(From Left to Right) Professor Kouichi Morita, Dean, Program Coordinator, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki Un...

July 16, 2025 | Wednesday | Opinion
Fujitsu and Acer Medical deploy AI tool to assess disease risk in elderly patients through gait abnormality

Japan's Fujitsu and Taiwan-based Acer Medical Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered medical imaging a...

July 16, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Japan's JCR Pharma and Acumen announce collaboration to develop therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease

Japan-based JCR Pharmaceuticals Co., a global specialty biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing therapies...

July 15, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Omron Healthcare to soon roll out Made-in-India blood pressure monitors

Omron Healthcare, a global leader in the field of clinically proven, innovative medical equipment for home health monito...

July 11, 2025 | Friday | News
I Peace and Vita Therapeutics to develop iPS cells for transplantation therapy

Leading GMP cell CDMO I Peace, Inc., specialising in induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and iPSC-derived cell therap...

July 10, 2025 | Thursday | News
Japan's JCR Pharma licenses gene therapy platform to AstraZeneca Rare Disease unit for $825 M

Japan's JCR Pharmaceuticals Co. has entered into a license agreement with Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease, for JCR&rsq...

July 10, 2025 | Thursday | News
Chugai and Gero ink $250 M deal to develop new therapies for age-related diseases

Japan's Chugai Pharmaceutical and Gero, a Singapore-based biotechnology company, have entered into a joint research...

July 9, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Verified Clinical Trials launches operations in Japan

Verified Clinical Trials (VCT), the global leader in clinical trial subject registry solutions, has officially laun...

July 8, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Shimadzu receives US FDA's premarketing notification for Positive PET system

Japan's Shimadzu Corporation has obtained premarketing notification from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for i...

July 7, 2025 | Monday | News
BioVersys inks deal worth CHF 479 M with Japan's Shionogi to treat infectious diseases

BioVersys AG, a multi-asset, clinical stage biopharmaceutical company based in Switzerland, focusing on research an...

July 4, 2025 | Friday | News
AN Venture Partners announces one of the largest Japan focused biotech funds to date

AN Venture Partners (ANV), a global biotech venture capital firm, has announced the final close of its first fund, AN Ve...

July 3, 2025 | Thursday | News
PHC announces exclusive distribution of MaxCyte ExPERT platform in Japan

The Biomedical Division of Japan-based PHC Corporation (PHCbi), a subsidiary of PHC Holdings Corporation (PHCHD), has si...

July 2, 2025 | Wednesday | News
“The burden on medical and long-term care systems due to ageing is expected to intensify in Japan”

What major initiatives are lined up for Asahi's healthcare business in 2025 and beyond? Are you planning any major inves...

July 1, 2025 | Tuesday | Opinion
Japan’s strategic medtech alignment with India

Japan has one of the highest life expectancies in the world, with over 28 per cent of its population being 65 years or o...

July 1, 2025 | Tuesday | Analysis
AvenCell Japan wins $40 M AMED grant to advance allogeneic CAR-T programme

AvenCell Japan, a wholly owned subsidiary of AvenCell Therapeutics, a private, clinical-stage biotechnology company deve...

July 1, 2025 | Tuesday | News