Heartseed collaborates with Itochu Chemical Frontier

Heartseed, a Tokyo-based biotechnology company developing iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes for the treatment of heart failure...

March 13, 2020 | Friday | News
Japan to test AIM ImmunoTech’s Ampligen for COVID-19

AIM ImmunoTech, an immunopharmaceutical company focused on the development of immunological, viral and multiple cancer t...

March 10, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Nagase Medicals, Osaka University to work on drug delivery systems

NAGASE & CO., LTD. (NAGASE) and Osaka University have launched DDS Products Joint Development Research Cha...

March 6, 2020 | Friday | News
Takeda initiates development of Plasma-Derived Therapy for COVID-19

Japan based Takeda Pharmaceutical Company will share with members of the United States Congress that it is initiating th...

March 5, 2020 | Thursday | News
Saki Corporation opens new factory in Japan

Japan based Saki Corporation, an innovator in the field of automated optical and X-ray inspection equipment, announces t...

March 4, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Takeda to divest select assets to Hypera for $825M

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

March 3, 2020 | Tuesday | News
UCB, Daiichi Sankyo to offer new treatment option for epilepsy

UCB Japan Co., Ltd, and Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited are pleased to announce that a supplemental application for VIMP...

March 2, 2020 | Monday | News
Takeda acquires PvP Biologics focusing on celiac disease treatment

Japan based Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited announced that it has acquired US based PvP Biologics, Inc. follo...

February 28, 2020 | Friday | News
Eisai, FUJI YAKUHIN to work on hyperuricemia and gout treatment

Japan based Eisai Co., Ltd. and FUJI YAKUHIN CO., LTD.  have concluded a license agreement concerning dotinurad (ge...

February 27, 2020 | Thursday | News
Softbank leads $165 M funding for Karius

Japanese multinational conglomerate holding company SoftBank Group led the new funding round for US based firm...

February 26, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Eisai receives recognition for contribution towards liver diseases

Japan based pharmaceutical firm Eisai announced that it has received the President’s Award at the 8th Technology M...

February 25, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Eisai’s H3 Biomedicine appoints new CMO

H3 Biomedicine, Inc. (H3), precision medicine research & development subsidiary of Eisai Co has announced the a...

February 24, 2020 | Monday | News
BIO cancels Asia conference in Tokyo amid COVID-19 outbreak

The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) has announced, it is canceling the annual BIO Asia conference in Tokyo s...

February 24, 2020 | Monday | News
BitOne enhances remote medical services with 5G technology

Japan based BitOne Group Company Limited and IBO Telecom Company Limited, a Hong Kong-based subsidiary of IBO Techn...

February 19, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Chugai receives Orphan Drug Designation for RG6042

Japan based Chugai Pharmaceutical has announced that the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has des...

February 18, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Researchers investigate cancer genomic landscape of Japan

Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), ACT Genomics (Taipei, Taiwan), and ACTmed (Japan) launched a joint clinical ...

February 17, 2020 | Monday | News
Japan explores muscular dystrophy associated cardiomyopathy

In a study recently published in Nature Communications, scientists at Japan based Okayama University describe ...

February 14, 2020 | Friday | News
Foundation Medicine & Chugai announce partnership with NCC

Foundation Medicine, Inc. and Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. have entered into an agreement with the&nbs...

February 13, 2020 | Thursday | News
Nippon Shinyaku inks new agreement for prostate cancer treatment

Japan based Nippon Shinyaku Co., LTD. has announced that Janssen Pharmaceutical K.K. and Nippon Shinyaku entered into a ...

February 12, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japan suggests combined drug treatment for lung cancer

Researchers at Japan based Kanazawa University report in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology a promising novel ap...

February 11, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Chugai collaborates with National Cancer Center

Japanese firm Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. has announced that it has entered into an agreement with National Cancer C...

February 10, 2020 | Monday | News
Santen, Verily to develop unique ophthalmic devices

Japan based Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and US based Verily, an Alphabet company, have announced the establishment o...

February 7, 2020 | Friday | News
Sumitomo Dainippon, Exscientia begin clinical study of AI based OCD drug

Japan based Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd. and UK based Exscientia Ltd. have announced that a phase I clinical stud...

February 3, 2020 | Monday | News
Japan unveils herbal medicines to treat stomach disorders

In a recent study researchers at Okayama University, Japan illustrate the potential of berberine, a herbal Chinese medic...

January 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
Kitakyushu Hospital to initiate Senhance Digital Laparoscopy Program

TransEnterix, Inc. a medical device company that is digitizing the interface between the surgeon and the patient to impr...

January 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
AgeX accelerates hypoimmunogenic cells development in Japan

US based AgeX Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing therapeutics for human aging and regeneration, announced ...

January 31, 2020 | Friday | News
JT to market CORECTIM in Japan to treat atopic dermatitis

Japan Tobacco Inc. and Torii Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Torii) have announced that JT has received manufacturing and mark...

January 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
Eisai and PGDx jointly start R&D of cancer genetics panel test

Japanese firm Eisai Co., Ltd., has entered into a joint research and development agreement with Personal Genome Diagnost...

January 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Eisai’s DAYVIGO gets approval in Japan to treat insomnia

Japanese firm Eisai Co., Ltd has obtained the manufacturing and marketing approval in Japan for its in-house discovered ...

January 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Sasakawa Health Foundation focuses on World Leprosy Day 2020

Sasakawa Health Foundation has announced the start of its first-ever social media campaign with organizations of persons...

January 25, 2020 | Saturday | News
Amgen Astellas Biopharma to become wholly owned Amgen affiliate

Amgen, Astellas Pharma and Amgen Astellas BioPharma K.K. announced that on April 1, 2020, Amgen will purchase the 49% of...

January 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Eisai gets approval of anti-epileptic drug in Japan

Japanese firm Eisai Co., Ltd. has obtained the approvals of supplementary new drug applications in Japan for its in-hous...

January 27, 2020 | Monday | News
Japan Ministry approves Propess for cervical ripening

Swiss firm Ferring Pharmaceuticals has announced that Propess® (dinoprostone) has been approved by the Minister...

January 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Poxel appoints industry leader Dr. David E. Moller as CSO

POXEL, headquartered France, and with subsidiaries in Japan, is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development o...

January 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Darolutamide gets marketing authorization in Japan

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has granted marketing authorization for darolutamide, under th...

January 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Takeda announces liquidation of holding company

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, headquartered in Japan, is a value-based research-driven biopharmaceutical leader...

January 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Hitachi Chemical inks pact with Ori Biotech

Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions, LLC,  a US subsidiary of Japanese firm Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd....

January 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
PhoreMost, Otsuka collaborate for multi drug discovery projects

PhoreMost Limited, the UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to drugging ‘undruggable’ disease target...

January 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
ViiV Healthcare wins Japanese approval for Dovato to treat HIV-1

ViiV Healthcare, the global specialist HIV company majority owned by GSK, with Pfizer Inc. and Shionogi Limited as share...

January 20, 2020 | Monday | News
Astellas completes acquisition of Audentes Therapeutics

Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc. has successfully completed the previously announced acquisition of Audentes Therapeutic...

January 20, 2020 | Monday | News
Astellas invests ¥10B to build new manufacturing facility

Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc. has announced that the Third Fermentation Building (provisional name) will be construct...

January 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Charles River inks scientific collaboration with Takeda

US based company Charles River has announced a multi-year drug discovery collaboration with Japanese firm Takeda Pharmac...

January 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Astellas, Adaptimmune to develop CAR-T & TCR T-cell therapies

Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary Universal Cells, Inc. and Adaptimmune Therapeutics...

January 17, 2020 | Friday | News
ASKA, KinoPharma unite to treat cervical dysplasia

ASKA Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and KinoPharma, Inc., both based in Tokyo, announced that they have entered into...

January 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Hitachi starts commercial manufacturing of Zynteglo

apceth Biopharma GmbH, a subsidiary of Japan headquartered Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. and a leading company for the manu...

January 15, 2020 | Wednesday | News
ERS Genomics licenses CRISPR gene editing technology to Daiichi Sankyo

ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property co-...

January 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
FDA approves sNDA for Astellas’s antifungal drug

Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc. has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its supplem...

January 13, 2020 | Monday | News
Chugai signs licensing deal with Verastem for cancer drug

Japanses firm Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. has announced that the Company entered into a global licensing agreem...

January 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Huya Bioscience ropes in Meiji as distributor for Asian region

US based HUYA Bioscience International CEO & Executive Chair, Dr. Mireille Gillings announced the appointm...

January 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Alma receives excellence award in Japan

Alma, a global innovator of Laser, Light-based, Radiofrequency, Plasma and Ultrasound solutions for the aesthetic and su...

January 9, 2020 | Thursday | News
Transgene, NEC initiate trials with AI-Powered Cancer Vaccine

French firm Transgene, a biotech company that designs and develops virus-based immunotherapies for the treatment of canc...

January 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
aTyr Pharma, Kyorin to work on interstitial lung diseases

US based aTyr Pharma, Inc., a biotherapeutics company engaged in the discovery and development of innovative medicines b...

January 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Urovant inks $300M loan agreement with Sumitomo Pharma

Urovant Sciences, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma has announced that it has entered into a $300 million term l...

January 2, 2020 | Thursday | News
Japan develops new tumour-on-a-chip device

Kyoto University researchers have developed a new 'tumor-on-a-chip' device that can better mimic the environment inside ...

January 1, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Eisai presented research data on Eribulin (Halaven) at 42nd Annual SABCS2019

Eisai Co., Ltd. presented its latest information on its in-house discovered and developed eribulin mesylate (halich...

December 16, 2019 | Monday | News
Daiichi Sankyo unveils drug for treating colorectal cancer

Daiichi Sankyo Company has announced that it has launched the antitumor agent bevacizumab BS for intravenous drip infusi...

December 31, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Pentax Medical Remains Committed to Endoscopic Ultrasound Business

PENTAX Medical continues its commitment to Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) as an indispensable part of its flexible endoscop...

December 19, 2019 | Thursday | News
Astellas strengthens immuno-oncology portfolio by acquiring Xyphos

Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc. and US headquartered Xyphos Biosciences, Inc. have announced that Astellas has acq...

December 27, 2019 | Friday | News
USFDA approves Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca’s breast cancer drug

Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca have announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ENHERTU®...

December 26, 2019 | Thursday | News
Gilead, Eisai to co-promote drug in Japan for RA treatment

Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Eisai Co., Ltd. have announced that Gilead Sciences K.K. and Eisai have entered into an agreem...

December 26, 2019 | Thursday | News
Eisai gets USFDA nod for insomnia drug

Eisai has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved DAYVIGO™ (lemborexant) 5 mg and...

December 24, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Towa to acquire Esteve’s generic division for 320M euros

Japan based TOWA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD. and Spain based pharma company ESTEVE have announced that TOWA will acquire 10...

December 24, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Takeda, Turnstone Biologics to develop novel viral immunotherapies

US based Turnstone Biologics, a biotechnology company pioneering the development of engineered viral immunotherapies,&nb...

December 20, 2019 | Friday | News
FDA grants accelerated approval to Astellas' and Seattle Genetics' PADCEV

Astellas Pharma Inc.  and Seattle Genetics, Inc. have announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FD...

December 19, 2019 | Thursday | News
PHC Corporation makes investment in Kakehashi

Japan based PHC Corporation has announced it was taking a stake in KAKEHASHI Inc., based on a share purchase agreement w...

December 19, 2019 | Thursday | News
AMED awards 3 joint projects with A*STAR

Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) and Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Resear...

December 18, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Pfizer, Astellas' Xtandi Gets FDA nod

Pfizer and Japan based Astellas Pharma have announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a su...

December 17, 2019 | Tuesday | News
PENTAX Medical gets CE Mark for AI aided Polyp Detector

PENTAX Medical, a division of the HOYA Group which is a global med-tech company based in Tokyo, Japan, has cleared CE ma...

December 17, 2019 | Tuesday | News
AstraZeneca, Daiichi Sankyo’s trastuzumab shows promise in Phase II Trial

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo Company presented positive detailed data from the global pivotal Phase II single-arm DEST...

December 16, 2019 | Monday | News
Eisai breaks ground for global drug discovery centre

Japan based Eisai Co., Ltd. has had a groundbreaking ceremony for a major renovation of its Tsukuba Research Laboratorie...

December 16, 2019 | Monday | News
FUJIFILM sets manufacturing facility for liposome formulation

FUJIFILM Toyama Chemical has announced the construction completion of a new manufacturing facility (facil...

December 12, 2019 | Thursday | News
Solasia enters new license alliance with Maruho

Japan based Solasia Pharma K.K. has announced that it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Maruho Co., L...

December 11, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Takeda, Enzyre to develop diagnostic device for hemophilia patients

Enzyre based in The Netherlands, which is developing breakthrough ambulant diagnostic technology for coagulation testing...

December 10, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Takeda presents Phase III Trial results in patients with amyloidosis

Japan based Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited announced the presentation of the results of tourmaline-AL1 trial in a...

December 9, 2019 | Monday | News
Hitachi to provide CNAO with Proton Therapy System

Japan headquartered Hitachi, Ltd. has entered into an agreement to provide Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica (C...

December 9, 2019 | Monday | News
BitBiome to analyse gut bacteria related to cancer

bitBiome, Inc., a start-up company from Waseda University in Japan, and National Cancer Center of Japan&n...

December 6, 2019 | Friday | News
Astellas to acquire Audentes Therapeutics in a $3B deal

Japan headquartered Astellas Pharma Inc. and Audentes Therapeutics, Inc. have entered into a definitive agreement for As...

December 3, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Chugai Pharma's study on satralizumab published in The New England Journal of Medicine

 Chugai Pharmaceutical has announced that the "New England Journal of Medicine" (NEJM) online edition November 27 R...

December 2, 2019 | Monday | News
Fujitsu Labs, ACC to advance cancer genomic medicine

Japan based Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Aichi Cancer Center (ACC) have successfully concluded a comprehensive cooperat...

December 2, 2019 | Monday | News
Ono Pharma seeks Japanese approval for tirabrutinib

Japan based Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. has announced that ONO submitted an application of tirabrutinib hydrochloride (...

November 28, 2019 | Thursday | News
ONO Submits Supplemental Application for additional Opdivo®

Intravenous Infusion Monotherapy Dosage and Schedule in Japan Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. has announced that ONO submit...

November 28, 2019 | Thursday | News
Hitachi develops automation technology of 3D culture

Hitachi, Ltd. headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is focusing on Social Innovation Business combining its operational technol...

November 29, 2019 | Friday | News
Ardelyx and Kyowa Kirin expand partnership

US based Ardelyx, Inc., a specialized biopharmaceutical company focused on developing first-in-class medicines to improv...

November 28, 2019 | Thursday | News
Asahi Kasei collaborates with Woolsey Pharma

US based Woolsey Pharmaceuticals has announced that it has completed a license agreement with Japanese pharmaceutical co...

November 27, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Eisai Launches First Amazon Alexa Skill Designed for Epileptic Children

 Eisai Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Eisai Co., Ltd., has announced the launch of Ella the Jellyfish, the first Amaz...

November 26, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Shionogi receives FDA approval for cUTI drug

Japan based Shionogi & Co., Ltd. has announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved FETROJA®...

November 26, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Eisai launches Parkinson's drug in Japan

Tokyo headquartered Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that it has launched the Equfina® 50mg TABLETS (safinamide mesila...

November 25, 2019 | Monday | News
Astellas and Welldoc collaborate for digital therapeutics

Japan headquartered Astellas Pharma Inc. and US based Welldoc, Inc. have entered into a collaboration and license agreem...

November 22, 2019 | Friday | News
Japan grants ODD to Merck's investigational therapy Tepotinib

Merck, a leading science and technology company, has announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare ...

November 21, 2019 | Thursday | News
Toray signs pact with JICA to support infection control capacity

Japan headquartered Toray Industries, Inc., has made an agreement with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)...

November 20, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Novartis to buy Aspen’s Japanese operations

Sandoz has announced that it has entered into a binding agreement for the planned acquisition of the Japanese business o...

November 18, 2019 | Monday | News
Lupin bids goodbye to Japan

Indian pharma major Lupin Limited (including its subsidiaries, together referred to as  ‘Lupin’) a...

November 18, 2019 | Monday | News
Clinical Trial of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy commences in Japan

Cancer Intelligence Care Systems, Inc. (CICS) and STELLA PHARMA CORPORATION will commence a Phase I clinical trial of Bo...

November 18, 2019 | Monday | News
Takeda announces 12 new molecular entities

Japan headquartered Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited recentky hosted an R&D meeting in New York City to ou...

November 15, 2019 | Friday | News
NEC, VAXIMM to advance personalized neoantigen cancer vaccines

Japan based NEC Corporation, a leader in IT and network technologies, and VAXIMM AG, a Swiss/German biotech company focu...

November 15, 2019 | Friday | News
Yokogawa acquires nanopipette technology for life science applications

Japan headquartered Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has acquired a nanopipette technology that was devel...

November 14, 2019 | Thursday | News
Novo Nordisk obtains worldwide licence to potential NASH candidate

Novo Nordisk A/S and Japanese chemical company UBE Industries Ltd. recently announced that Novo Nordisk has obtained an ...

November 8, 2019 | Friday | News
Takeda, Anderson Cancer Center accelerate cell therapy

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center) and Takeda P...

November 12, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Kayentis opens Japanese subsidiary

Kayentis, a global provider of eCOA (electronic Clinical Outcome Assessment) solutions for clinical trials, has announce...

November 11, 2019 | Monday | News
Fujitsu improves efficiency in Cancer Genomic Medicine in joint AI research

Fujitsu, on 7 Nov 2019, announced the results of a joint research project it has been conducting with the Institute of M...

November 8, 2019 | Friday | News

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