RIKEN's new chip detects traces of miRNA in only 20 mins

Singapore: A new power-free microfluidic chip developed by researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Japan...

November 9, 2012 | Friday | News
Hoya appoints new executive officer

Singapore: Japan based Hoya Corporation has appointed Mr Augustine Yee as its executive officer, chief legal officer and...

May 26, 2014 | Monday | News
Takeda's center among Chicago's top 100 workplaces

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceuticals' Deerfield campus has been listed among Chicago's top 100 workplaces by the Chicago...

November 14, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Eisai launches beauty drink in Japan

Singapore: Japan-based Eisai is going to launch its new carbonated supplement drink named 'Chocola BB Sparkling + Fiber'...

February 26, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Eisai seeks nod for Helicobacter Pylori treatment

Singapore: Eisai, which has its headquarters in Tokyo, has submitted a marketing authorization application to Japan's Mi...

June 1, 2012 | Friday | News
Will Keryx's ferric citrate NDA get nod in Japan?

Singapore: Keryx Biopharmaceuticals announced that its Japanese partner, Japan Tobacco (JT), has filed a New Drug App...

January 8, 2013 | Tuesday | News
FDA accepts sNDA for Astellas cancer drug

Singapore: The US FDA has accepted Astellas Pharma's US subsidiary filing of a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) ...

January 17, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
EMA to review marketing plea for antipsychotic medication

Singapore: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted the marketing authorization application for review of an aty...

October 29, 2012 | Monday | News
Ranbaxy advisory: All our products are safe and efficacious

New Delhi: Ranbaxy issued an advisory claiming that all their products in the Indian and global markets are safe and eff...

June 3, 2013 | Monday | News
Amgen to acquire Onyx for $10 bn cash

Singapore: Global biopharmaceutical company Amgen plans to acquire all the outstanding shares of Onyx Pharmaceuticals fo...

August 26, 2013 | Monday | News
Effient trial by Daiichi, Lilly fails to meet primary endpoint

Singapore: The TRILOGY ACS study, a phase III trial comparing prasugrel plus aspirin to clopidogrel plus aspirin in pati...

August 27, 2012 | Monday | News
Takeda ends 3-year-old-deal with Amylin

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical mutually terminated its worldwide agreement with Amylin Pharmaceuticals, which was o...

December 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News
EMA committee positive on Teduglutide

Singapore: The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency has adopted a posi...

June 25, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Astellas Pharma opens office in Singapore

Singapore: Astellas Pharma, Japan's pharmaceutical giant with net sales of $10.7 billion and net income of $881 million ...

December 12, 2013 | Thursday | News
Sucampo gets $15 mn payment from Abbott

Singapore: Sucampo Pharmaceuticals' subsidiary SPL has received a $15 million milestone payment from Abbott's subsidi...

December 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Scotland approves Eisai's Fycompa

Singapore: Eisai announched that Scotland's health technology assessment (HTA) body, the Scottish Medicines Consortiu...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Zoll establishes Japanese subsidiary

Singapore: ZOLL Medical, a manufacturer of medical devices and related software solutions and a wholly owned US subsi...

October 29, 2012 | Monday | News
RLS, Parkinson's drug Neupro gets Japanese nod

Singapore: The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved Neupro (rotigotine transdermal pat...

December 28, 2012 | Friday | News
AVEO, Astellas cancer drug gets FDA nod

Singapore: AVEO Oncology and Astellas Pharma announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accep...

November 29, 2012 | Thursday | Regulatory
Mundipharma, Shionogi tie up for pain treatment in Japan

Singapore: Mundipharma has entered a license agreement with Japan-based Shionogi for the exclusive rights to develop, ma...

November 22, 2013 | Friday | News
Japan approves pioneering stem cell study for heart disease

Singapore: Cytori Therapeutics announced that a 40-patient, multi-center investigator-sponsored and funded clinical s...

September 17, 2012 | Monday | News
Isogenica appoints CTC Lab Systems to tap Japan

Singapore: Isogenica has appointed CTC Laboratory Systems (CTCLS) of Tokyo, Japan, to represent its business in Japan. C...

May 22, 2012 | Tuesday | News
ThermoGenesis sells product line to Asahi

Singapore: ThermoGenesis, a leading supplier of enabling technologies for the processing, storage and administration of ...

July 3, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Sanford-Burnham, Daiichi form new alliance

Singapore: US based Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and Japan's Daiichi Sankyo have formed a three year disco...

May 26, 2014 | Monday | News
Takeda strives to enter Europe's type 2 diabetes market

Singapore: Japan-based Takeda Global Research & Development Centre has received confirmation of the acceptance of su...

June 21, 2012 | Thursday | Regulatory