WuXi's subsidiary gets manufacturing nod in Japan

Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech's small-molecule process development and manufacturing subsidiary Shanghai SynTheAll Pharmace...

August 28, 2015 | Friday | News
Mednet, Biovisiq deal helps in zero-delay of trials

Singapore: AG Mednet signed a master services agreement with Biovisiq, a Japanese imaging core laboratory (ICL), to redu...

April 3, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Singulex's cardiovascular biomarker granted Japanese patent

Singulex Inc., California-based developer and provider of Single Molecule Counting technology for clinical diagnostics a...

April 29, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Chugai Pharma to set up sales unit in China

Singapore: With a capital of $30 million, Tokyo based Chugai Pharmaceutical has announced to establish a wholly owned dr...

December 26, 2013 | Thursday | News
Astellas, FibroGen start CKD anemia trial in Japan

Singapore: Japan-based Astellas Pharma and US-based FibroGen initiated a phase II clinical study in Japan of ASP1517/FG-...

July 31, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Cancer-specific killer T cells created from iPS cells

Singapore: Researchers from the RIKEN Research Centre for Allergy and Immunology in Japan have succeeded, for the first ...

January 7, 2013 | Monday | News
Will Japan be able to reduce its generic drug prices?

The Japanese pharmaceutical market is the second largest pharma market in the world following on the close heels of the ...

May 21, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Life Tech signs agreement with iPS Academia Japan

Singapore: Life Technologies has signed a non-exclusive agreement with iPS Academia Japan for its induced pluripotent st...

June 18, 2012 | Monday | News
Nagoya scientists discover new molecules that change circadian rhythm

A team of chemists and biologists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University, Japan, hav...

June 10, 2015 | Wednesday | News
BioDiem protozoan drug to get Japanese patent

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company, BioDiem, has received allowance of Jap...

May 27, 2013 | Monday | News
Eisai, Nihon Medi-Physics to work on dementia intervention

Japanese pharmaceutical giant Eisai Co. Ltd. and Nihon Medi-Physics Co. Ltd. have entered into a collaboration agreement...

April 28, 2015 | Tuesday | News
R-Tech Ueno acquires right to develop Santen Pharma's ophthalmic solution

R-Tech Ueno Ltd, headquartered in Tokyo, has acquired the right to develop and commercialize DE-105 from Santen Pharmace...

April 28, 2015 | Tuesday | News
French firm successfully completes Ph I trial of diabetes drug in Japan

Singapore: French biopharmaceutical company, Poxel, an innovative drug developer for type 2 diabetes, has succesfully co...

May 28, 2015 | Thursday | News
Tarceva tablets with Nexavar show no improvement

Singapore: A phase III trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of the addition of Tarceva (erlotinib) tablets to Nexava...

July 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Mylan signs a settlement agreement with OSI Pharma

Singapore: US generics major Mylan has entered into a settlement agreement with OSI Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Jap...

July 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
Sale of wound care devices spurs in Asia-Pacific: Frost & Sullivan analysis report

Singapore: Advanced wound care and modern wound closure products are gaining an edge over traditional wound dressings in...

September 4, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Biogen inks autoimmune deal with Mitsubhishi Tanabe pharma

Singapore: US-based Biogen, a leading developer of therapies for neurodegenerative diseases has inked a pact with Japan'...

September 11, 2015 | Friday | News
Japan approves Daiichi Sankyo's Cravit Injections

Tokyo: Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has obtained approval for partial changes concerning a supplementary indication ...

September 28, 2015 | Monday | News