Japan News
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ACT Genomics to provide cancer genomic profiling service
Japan | News | 0 Comment | 21 Apr, 2019
ACTmed, a joint venture between Canon Medical Systems Corporation and ACT Genomics, has established an analysis laboratory named "Shonan iPark Laboratory" in "Shonan Health Innovation Park"...Read more
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Nagasaki University, NEC initiate program on Global Health
Japan | News | 0 Comment | 18 Apr, 2019
Nagasaki University and NEC Corporation have established a program on global health & biometric authentication with Nagasaki University's Graduate School of Tropical Medicine and Global...Read more
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Japan | News | 0 Comment | 17 Apr, 2019
Investigations of 'quantum dots' for looking deeply into body tissues are rapidly evolving, but more work is required to ensure they are safe, according to a review published in the journal...Read more
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Fujifilm and Kyoto University jointly developed AI-based diagnostic support technology
Japan | News | 0 Comment | 16 Apr, 2019
FUJIFILM and Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University (Professor Toyohiro Hirai) have succeeded in jointly developing technology that uses artificia...Read more
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Permobil to launch its new F-Series in Japan
Japan | News | 0 Comment | 16 Apr, 2019
Permobil, a global leader in advanced rehabilitation technology, has updated its successful modular front wheel drive chair with new functions for improved body support and comfort, mo...Read more
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Daiichi Sankyo launches Tarlige Tablets for pain treatment in Japan
Japan | News | 0 Comment | 15 Apr, 2019
Daiichi Sankyo has announced the launch of Tarlige® Tablets 2.5 mg, 5 mg, 10 mg, 15 mg (generic name: mirogabalin besilate; hereafter, the drug) for the treatment of pain in Japan....Read more
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Shionogi licenses Symproic to BioDelivery Sciences International Inc.
Japan | News | 0 Comment | 11 Apr, 2019
Shionogi, Japanese major research-driven pharmaceutical company dedicated to bringing benefits to patients has announced that BioDelivery Sciences International, a rapidly gr...Read more
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Kaken Pharma, HitGen to develop a novel class of drugs
Japan | News | 0 Comment | 12 Apr, 2019
HitGen has announced that HitGen Inc. and Kaken Pharmaceutical have entered into a license agreement to develop a novel class of drugs. The licensed compounds were identified using Hit...Read more
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EdiGene raises $15 M in Series B funding
Japan | News | 0 Comment | 11 Apr, 2019
EdiGENE, an emerging biotechnology company developing new CRISPR based therapies for the treatment of genetic disorders has announced that it has raised 1.6 Billion-yen (approx. $15 Million...Read more
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Japan approves Rakuten Medical's ASP-1929 to treat cancer
Japan | News | 0 Comment | 10 Apr, 2019
Based on its exclusive license related to photoimmunotherapy, Rakuten Medical Inc., which is developing a cancer therapy to target cancer cells, announced that ASP-1929 received Sakigake de...Read more
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GeneDesign joins Ajinomoto Bio-pharma
Japan | News | 0 Comment | 09 Apr, 2019
Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing services has announced that GeneDesign has joined the global organization. GeneDesi...Read more
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Japan grants Sakigake designation to Eisai’s novel FGFR
Japan | News | 0 Comment | 08 Apr, 2019
Eisai Co., Ltd. is a leading global research and development-based pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan. The company has announced that its in-house discovered fibroblast growth fa...Read more
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Clinigen K.K., GC Pharma sign pact to market Hunterase ICV
Japan | News | 0 Comment | 05 Apr, 2019
Clinigen K.K. and GC Pharma have recently announced an exclusive licensing agreement in Japan to commercialize Hunterase (Idursulfase-beta) ICV, a human recombinant iduronate-2-su...Read more
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Japan approves first drug for ADA deficiency
Japan | News | 0 Comment | 04 Apr, 2019
Teijin Pharma Limited, the core company of the Teijin Group’s healthcare business, has announced that it has acquired marketing approval for Revcovi 2.4 mg for intramuscular injection...Read more
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Takeda takes step towards EU Entyvio extension
Japan | News | 0 Comment | 02 Apr, 2019
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted a Marketing Authorization Line Extension Application for a subcutaneous (SC) formulatio...Read more
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Chugai Pharma sells Ulcerlmin business to Fuji Chemical
Japan | News | 0 Comment | 03 Apr, 2019
Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokyo and Fuji Chemical Industries Co., Ltd., Toyama announced that two companies entered into a business transfer agreement recently for Ulcerlmin®...Read more
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Hitachi's Radiation Therapy Systems start operation in Nagamori Memorial Center
Japan | News | 0 Comment | 02 Apr, 2019
Hitachi, Ltd. has announced that the radiation therapy started on April 1, 2019 at Nagamori Memorial Center of Innovative Cancer Therapy and Research at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medi...Read more
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GHIT selects joint research project on dengue by Chugai, A*STAR
Japan | News | 0 Comment | 02 Apr, 2019
Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. has announced that a joint research project between Chugai and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore (A*STAR) since 2015 for an anti-den...Read more
