Whole-genome sequence data can now be transmitted in real-time by Quantum cryptography

Tohoku University and Toshiba Corporation have achieved a world first, transmitting the whole genome sequence data of ...

December 14, 2020 | Monday | News
GHIT invests 230 M Yen for developing malaria and chagas disease drugs

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund in Japan has announced a total of approximately 230 million yen ($2....

December 11, 2020 | Friday | News
Japan develops way to rapidly measure eye lens opacity

Japan's Kyushu University international team of researchers has developed a new system through which objective...

December 9, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Olympus expands respiratory portfolio by acquiring Veran Medical Technologies

Japan's Olympus Corporation has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Veran Medical Technologies, I...

December 8, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Japanese firm adopts blockchain to enhance clinical trials efficiencies

Japanese firm SUSMED, Inc. has announced that it has received a response from both the Ministers of Health, Labor, ...

December 7, 2020 | Monday | News
Sosei Heptares, Biohaven ink $380M deal for treating CGRP-mediated disorders

Japanese firm Sosei Group Corporation has announced that it has entered into a global collaboration and license agr...

December 3, 2020 | Thursday | News
AstraZeneca's Forxiga approved in Japan for chronic heart failure

AstraZeneca’s Forxiga (dapagliflozin) has been approved in Japan for the treatment of patients with chro...

December 2, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Takeda completes sale of select products to Celltrion for $278M

Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced the completion of its previously-announced sale of a p...

December 2, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Eisai and Wren Therapeutics collaborate for potential treatment of synucleinopathies

Japanese firm Eisai Co., Ltd. and US based Wren Therapeutics Ltd. have announced that the companies have entered into an...

December 1, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Balancing digitalized healthcare services and data security

COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way healthcare, pharma and clinical industry operate and has propelled the pace of dig...

January 20, 2021 | Wednesday | Opinion
Takeda makes Nihon Pharma wholly owned subsidiary

Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced a share exchange where Takeda will be the wholly-owning pare...

November 26, 2020 | Thursday | News
Japan's Fujitsu drives digital transformation in hospitals and clinics

Fujitsu on 25 Nov 2020 announced the commercial debut of its "FUJITSU Healthcare Solution Online Healthcare Solution" in...

November 25, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Omron leads $65M investment round for AliveCor

Omron Healthcare Co, Ltd announced additional investment into AliveCor by its Japanese parent company, Om...

November 25, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japan detects repetitive DNA sequence that causes health risks

A new synthetic probe offers a safe and straightforward approach for visualizing chromosome tips in living cells. The pr...

November 24, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Sai Life Sciences opens representative office in Japan

Sai Life Sciences, one of India's fastest growing Contract Research, Development & Manufacturing Organizat...

November 20, 2020 | Friday | News
Hitachi launches "treatment support for cancer drug therapy" using AI interviews & tablet robots

The Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research Ariake Hospital and Hitachi, Ltd. are using tablet robots. From the end of N...

November 20, 2020 | Friday | News
Gilead, Eisai launch rheumatoid arthritis drug in Japan

Gilead Sciences K.K. (Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and Representative Director: Luc Hermans) and Eisai Co.,...

November 19, 2020 | Thursday | News
Takara Belmont develops new hair care system

Takara Belmont Corporation (Takara Belmont), based out in Japan, has recently developed a new technology for analyzing h...

November 18, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Sumitomo Chemical accelerates next-gen biz utilizing synthetic biology

Japanese firm Sumitomo Chemical has decided to establish a new organisation, SynBio Hub, within the Biorational Research...

November 17, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo creates new biz unit for oncology

Japanese firm Daiichi Sankyo Company has announced that it will create a new Oncology Business Unit, effective April 1, ...

November 13, 2020 | Friday | News
Takeda, OrigiMed to develop genomic based clinical treatment platform

OrigiMed, a China-based leading precision medicine company, and Takeda, a global biopharmaceutical company based in Japa...

November 12, 2020 | Thursday | News
Fujitsu, TMDU leverage world's fastest supercomputer to perform cancer gene network analysis

Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) and Fujitsu Laboratories Limited have recently completed, in less than a day,...

November 10, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Olympus brings procedure kits into endotherapy portfolio

Japan-based Olympus has recently announced the launch of the Olympus Procedure Kits, in partnership with US-based Ruhof ...

November 11, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japanese firm develops urethane microfoam film for cell culture

Japan based Toyoda Gosei has developed a urethane microfoam film for cell culture, using the knowledge of urethane mater...

November 6, 2020 | Friday | News
Japan's researcher's efficiently converts body heat to electricity

Thermo-electrochemical cells newly developed by researchers at Japan's Kyushu University offer a promising route to flex...

November 6, 2020 | Friday | News
Japan researchers uncover COVID-19’s impact on the energy transition

Exploring the unique set of scenarios put into motion by the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from Japan's Kyushu Universi...

November 4, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan, Australia, Japan & US stage GCTF virtual workshop on combating COVID-19 related crimes

A virtual workshop on combating illegal activity related to COVID-19 was held by Taiwan, Australia, Japan and the U.S....

November 4, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Sosei Heptares and Aditum Bio to advance clinical program for neurological diseases

Sosei Group Corporation, an international biopharmaceutical group focused on the discovery and early development of...

November 3, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Olympus announces acquisition of French orthopedics company

Olympus Corporation, based in Japan, has announced that it has acquired FH ORTHO SAS, an international orthopedic compan...

November 3, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Eli Lilly collaborates with Daiichi Sankyo for commercialisation of migraine drug in Japan

Eli Lilly Japan K.K. and Daiichi Sankyo Company have concluded an agreement on commercialization collaboration in Japan ...

November 2, 2020 | Monday | News
Takeda expands COVID-19 vaccine supply in Japan

Takeda Pharmaceutical has announced that it will import and distribute 50 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19...

October 30, 2020 | Friday | News
PHCNA, On-chip bring world’s first damage-free microfluidic chip cell sorter

PHC Corporation of North America (hereafter PHCNA) has announced a new partnership with On-chip Biotechnologies (USA) Co...

October 28, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Novo Nordisk procures Chugai's Ab engineering technologies

Japanese firm Chugai Pharmaceutical has announced that it has entered into a license agreement for worldwide non-exclu...

October 26, 2020 | Monday | News
Eisai focuses on digital cognitive assessment technologies

Japan-based Eisai Co., Ltd. and Melbourne based Cogstate, Ltd. announced that the companies have entered into ...

October 27, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Fujitsu initiates joint research to support remote health occupational system

Japan's Fujitsu Laboratories has announced that the company will work toward the realization of an occupat...

October 23, 2020 | Friday | News
Japan's Casio to exhibit medical camera for global market at virtual.MEDICA 2020

Casio Computer Co., Ltd. on 22 Oct 2020 announced that it will unveil its medical camera to the global market ...

October 22, 2020 | Thursday | News
Japan pledges $130M to support global access to COVID-19 vaccines

The global effort to ensure equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines received a boost with the announcement of a maj...

October 21, 2020 | Wednesday | News
BioNTech, Pfizer to initiate Ph 1/2 trial of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine candidate in Japan

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE on 21 Oct 2020 announced the start of a Phase 1/2 study in Japan for their BN...

October 21, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Astellas to present new roxadustat data in anemia of CKD at ASN kidney week

Japan-based Astellas Pharma Inc. (Astellas) has announced that in collaboration with FibroGen and AstraZeneca, 42 roxadu...

October 19, 2020 | Monday | News
Fujifilm includes additional indication for COVID-19 drug

Japanese firm FUJIFILM Toyama Chemical Co., Ltd. has announced that the company filed an Application for Partial Changes...

October 19, 2020 | Monday | News
Pediatric indication for partial-onset seizures accepted in China

Eisai Co., Ltd. on 16 Oct 2020 announced that the supplementary new drug applications for its in-house discovered and de...

October 16, 2020 | Friday | News
SK Biopharma takes anti-seizure medication to Japan

SK Biopharmaceuticals in South Korea and Japanese firm Ono Pharmaceutical announced that they have entered into an exclu...

October 16, 2020 | Friday | News
Astellas, Seagen announce positive results in Ph 2 pivotal trial of PADCEV

Japan-based Astellas Pharma Inc. and Seagen Inc. in the US have announced positive topline results from the second cohor...

October 14, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Takeda accelerates digital transformation with Accenture and AWS

Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical has entered into a five-year strategic agreement with Accenture and Amazon Web Servi...

October 14, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Olympus launches ENDO-AID, an AI-powered platform for Its endoscopy system

Olympus Corporation has announced the launch of ENDO-AID, a cutting-edge platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI...

October 13, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Eisai collaborates with University of Tokyo for protein degradation drug discovery

The University of Tokyo and Eisai Co., Ltd. have announced a collaboration aiming for the development and drug discovery...

October 13, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Fast-tracking innovation and transformative care to patients

The present pandemic scenarios are continuing to place immense pressure on healthcare systems across Asia Pacific (APAC)...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | Opinion
Takeda inks deal worth $1.04B with Arrowhead for liver disease therapy

Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Takeda) and Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc. in the US have announced a...

October 12, 2020 | Monday | News
Santen, Orbis to tackle increasing burden of eye diseases in Asia

Japanese firm Santen Pharmaceutical and Orbis International in the US have announced a long-term, ten-year partnership t...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | News
Transgene, NEC, BostonGene collaborate for ovarian and head & neck cancers trials

Transgene, a biotech company that designs and develops virus-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer, a leader...

October 7, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Nagase increases rare amino acid productivity using Smart Cell technology

The Nagase R&D Center, the research and development arm of NAGASE & CO., LTD. based in Tokyo, has been deve...

October 8, 2020 | Thursday | News
Eisai to involve jointly in COVID-19 drug discovery utilizing Eritoran and E6011

Japan's Eisai has entered into a joint research agreement with four research organizations (KAN Research Institute, Nati...

October 7, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japan invents novel tool to alter gene activity in stem cells

Researchers from Kyoto University’s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) and Tokai University i...

October 6, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Shionogi partners with HanaVax for pneumonia vaccine candidate

Shionogi & Co. and HanaVax Inc., both based in Japan, have announced they have entered into a license agreement for ...

October 5, 2020 | Monday | News
Shionogi examines mortality in patients with severe bacterial infections

Shionogi & Co. Ltd., a global, research-driven pharmaceutical company headquartered in Osaka, Japan (Shionogi) has r...

October 1, 2020 | Thursday | News
OriCiro launches world's first cell-free circular DNA amplification technology

Japanese firm OriCiro Genomics, a pioneer in the cell-free synthesis and amplification of genome-scale large DNA for gen...

October 2, 2020 | Friday | News
Aji Bio-Pharma, DNDi to develop treatment for cutaneous leishmaniasis infections

Japan's Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services ("Aji Bio-Pharma"), a leading provider of biopharmaceutical contract development a...

October 1, 2020 | Thursday | News
Japan gathers genetic information for predicting COVID-19 severity

Japanese researchers have launched the Joint Research Coronavirus Task Force to gather genetic information for predictin...

September 30, 2020 | Wednesday | News
GHIT Fund infuses 1.37 B yen to develop new lifesaving drugs

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund in Japan has announced a total of 1.37 billion yen to invest in...

September 29, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Japan approves Jyseleca for rheumatoid arthritis treatment

Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Eisai Co., Ltd. have announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW)...

September 28, 2020 | Monday | News
Sun Pharma launches plaque psoriasis drug in Japan

Indian firm Sun Pharmaceutical Industries has announced that its wholly-owned Japanese subsidiary has launched ILUM...

September 24, 2020 | Thursday | News
Avigan shows promising results in treating COVID-19 patients in Japan

Healthcare solutions provider Global Response Aid (GRA) and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories announced that the anti-viral ...

September 24, 2020 | Thursday | News
Hitachi Chemical adopts new name for global regenerative medicine biz

The regenerative medicine business of Hitachi Chemical, headquartered in Japan, has announced that it has adopted the na...

September 24, 2020 | Thursday | News
Takeda inks evaluation agreement with Elektrofi

Elektrofi, a US based biotechnology company focused on drug formulation and delivery innovations, has announced it has e...

September 23, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Eisai receives EMA's CHMP approval for Antiepileptic agent Fycompa for pediatric use

Eisai Co., Ltd. on 23 announced that it has received a positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency (EMA)'s Commi...

September 23, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Takeda to divest TachoSil for €350 M

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company has announced that it has entered into an agreement to divest its TachoSil® Fibri...

September 18, 2020 | Friday | News
VR startup in US brings immersive drug design software to Japan

US based virtual reality (VR) startup Nanome, Inc. has entered into an agreement with Fujitsu to bring their signature p...

September 17, 2020 | Thursday | News
Takeda opens new R&D cell therapy manufacturing facility

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited in Japan has announced the expansion of its cell therapy manufacturing c...

September 16, 2020 | Wednesday | News
TransEnterix opens surgical training centre in Japan

TransEnterix, Inc., a US based medical device company that is digitizing the interface between the surgeon and the patie...

September 15, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Nippon Express to supply pharmaceuticals worldwide

Nippon Express Co., Ltd. is in the process of developing pharmaceutical supply chain networks that meet both hardware an...

September 10, 2020 | Thursday | News
Takeda divests select non-core assets for $562 M

Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical has announced that it has entered into an agreement to divest a portfolio of se...

September 9, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japan develops novel test to tackle hospital acquired infections

Proteins developed at Kyushu University in Japan may soon make tests for identifying the presence of particular endotoxi...

September 8, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Japan uses virtual reality to improve physical, cognitive functions

Researchers at the Smart-Aging Research Center (IDAC) at Tohoku University have developed an innovative training protoco...

September 7, 2020 | Monday | News
Fujitsu, TSH embark on AI R&D for COVID-19 diagnosis

Fujitsu and Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital (TSH) have announced the launch of a joint R&D project for AI technology to sup...

September 3, 2020 | Thursday | News
bitBiome raises 700M JPY to accelerate growth

Japanese startup bitBiome, Inc., an emerging leader in microbiome analytics, has raised 700 million JPY (appro...

September 4, 2020 | Friday | News
INSIGHTEC receives reimbursement from Japan for treatment of parkinson's disease

Israel based INSIGHTEC®, a global medical technology innovator of incisionless surgery, recently announced that it h...

September 2, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Hitachi builds management platform for regenerative medicines

Japanese firm Hitachi, Ltd. has constructed a platform for the integrated management of cell and tracing information thr...

September 2, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Propeller Health enters Japan for asthma medications

Propeller Health has announced it will begin distributing in Japan, via a collaboration with Novartis to connect the Pro...

September 1, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Asia’s first therapeutic app gets approval in Japan

Headquartered in Japan, CureApp, Inc. received regulatory authorization for the manufacturing and sale of Asia’s f...

August 28, 2020 | Friday | News
Graft versus host disease market to grow at 8.2% CAGR across 5 APAC markets in 10 years

The market for graft versus host disease (GvHD) prophylaxis and treatment in the five growth markets (5GM*) in the Asia-...

August 27, 2020 | Thursday | News
Eisai launches skin care products

Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that it has launched Sahne Medical Spray and Sahne Medical Cream (both are category-2 OTC drug...

August 27, 2020 | Thursday | News
Takeda divests consumer healthcare biz for JPY 242 B

Japan based Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced that it has entered into an agreement to divest Tak...

August 24, 2020 | Monday | News
AI accelerates drug repurposing to find potential COVID-19 therapies, says GlobalData

Out of all the different approaches available to find new therapies to treat COVID-19, drug repurposing is one of the fa...

August 19, 2020 | Wednesday | Analysis
Japan studies inhibitory effect of hydroxy radicals on coronavirus

Panasonic Corporation has announced that it, in partnership with Mayo Yasugi, Associate Professor, Department of Ve...

August 20, 2020 | Thursday | News
Japan develops novel method to create several building blocks of pharmaceutical drugs

Japan-based Waseda University scientists have recently demonstrated a new method of producing a specific class of organi...

August 19, 2020 | Wednesday | News
FUJIFILM and Novavax to manufacture COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

Japan's FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, world-leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for ...

August 18, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Chugai's Enspryng receives FDA approval for NMOSD

Tokyo based Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has appr...

August 18, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Isofol inks oncology deal with Solasia for $100M

Isofol Medical AB, Sweden has announced that it entered into a license agreement with Solasia Pharma K.K, a specialized ...

August 18, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Japan picks Daiichi Sankyo for COVID-19 vaccine supply

Daiichi Sankyo Company has announced that it was selected by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan to be a...

August 17, 2020 | Monday | News
PHC Holdings Corp infuses $50M into Senseonics

Japan headquartered PHC Holdings Corporation and Ascensia Diabetes Care, a PHC Group company, have announced a strategic...

August 13, 2020 | Thursday | News
OssDsign AB inks agreement with Muranaka Medical in Japan

Swedish firm OssDsign AB has announced that the company has signed a business partner agreement with Muranaka Medical In...

August 14, 2020 | Friday | News
Regeneus, Kyocera ink $19M deal for knee osteoarthritis treatment

Regeneus Ltd, an Australian clinical-stage regenerative medicine company, has announced that Japanese manufacturing gian...

August 12, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Jeol releases new scanning electron microscope

JEOL Ltd., based in Japan, has announced the release in August 2020 of a new Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), th...

August 11, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Novavax, Takeda to develop COVID-19 vaccine candidate in Japan

Novavax Inc. (NVAX), a late-stage biotechnology company headquartered in the US developing next-generation vaccines for ...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | News
Regulations and geopolitics themes for Japanese companies to reduce dependence on China

Regulations, China Impact and Geopolitics were the top themes in 2020 for Japanese companies to reduce dependency on Chi...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | Analysis
Japan uses quantum technology for genomic medicine

Tokyo based Toshiba Corporation, Tohoku University Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo) and Tohoku University Ho...

August 10, 2020 | Monday | News
Japan's Olympus acquires Arc Medical Design to expand therapeutic device offerings

Japan's Olympus Corporation on 7 August 2020 announced signing a definitive agreement to acquire Arc Medical D...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | News
Asahi Kasei to commercialize HA nanogel as pharmaceutical excipient

Tokyo based Asahi Kasei has established industrial manufacturing technology for hyaluronic acid (HA) nanogel as a new ph...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | News
Takeda announces results for first quarter of fiscal 2020

Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Takeda) recently announced financial results for the first quarter of...

August 3, 2020 | Monday | News
Takeda receives U.S. FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Pevonedistat

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited on 30 July 2020 announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FD...

July 30, 2020 | Thursday | News

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