Astellas completes patient recruitment in drug trial

Singapore: Japanese company Astellas Pharma has completed patient recruitment for the isavuconazole phase III registrati...

December 19, 2012 | Wednesday | News
EMA accepts market authorization plea for alogliptin

Singapore: The European Medicines Agency has accepted a marketing authorization application for alogliptin, a selective ...

May 25, 2012 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo expands drug discovery program

Singapore: Japan-based Daiichi Sankyo has decided to expand its collaborative drug discovery program with universities a...

July 30, 2013 | Tuesday | News
BioDiem granted Japanese patent for BDM-1

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy development company BioDiem has been granted a key Japanese patent for...

November 23, 2012 | Friday | News
Zecotek and Hamamatsu Photonics join hands

Singapore: Zecotek Photonics, a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific ...

July 17, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Oramed granted patent in Japan for its POD Tech

Singapore: Israel-based Oramed Pharmaceuticals, a developer of oral drug delivery systems, has announced receiving two a...

October 4, 2013 | Friday | News
Novo Nordisk insulin analogue gets Japanese nod

Singapore: Novo Nordisk announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved Ryzodeg (insu...

January 2, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Mitsubishi Tanabe, Cytochroma end agreement

Singapore: Japanese company Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma and Canada-based Cytochroma have terminated a license agreement exe...

June 6, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Will Ranbaxy, Wockhardt incidents affect brand India?

When the Indian generic sector forayed into the global arena almost two decades back, the affordability of its treatment...

May 29, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Takeda Gemini II trial shows positive results

Singapore: Positive results were reported from Takeda Pharmaceutical's international, randomized, placebo-controlled, ...

May 14, 2012 | Monday | News
Japanese stem cell firm ReproCell expands to US

Singapore: ReproCELL, a Japanese stem cell technology company, has opened the company's first branch and US office in Bo...

January 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Japanese firm suspends trial of ArQule candidate

Singapore: Japanese pharmaceutical company Kyowa Hakko Kirin temporarily suspended patient enrollment in an internationa...

August 30, 2012 | Thursday | News
Japan BIOtech 2013 concludes in huge success

Singapore: "BIOtech 2013 in Japan", which recorded significant growth both in the scale and the quality, concluded in hu...

June 3, 2013 | Monday | News
Study shows Lipitor well-tolerated among Asians

Singapore: A large-scale retrospective database analysis on atorvastatin (Lipitor) by Astellas Pharma and Pfizer Japan h...

November 7, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Astellas to do interim analysis of cancer trial

Singapore: Medivation and Astellas Pharma have established an updated interim analysis plan for the Prevail trial, a glo...

April 3, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Indian pharma to put up a grand show at Tokyo fair

Singapore: The Indian Department of Commerce is showcasing the achievement of the country's pharmaceutical sector at the...

July 2, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Japan to revise medical device approval procedures

Singapore: In order to speed up the approval process for medical devices, Japan is planning to introduce some changes in...

February 13, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Another Japanese university finds data manipulation for Novartis drug

Singapore: The Jikei University School of Medicine has become the second Japanese university to find that clinical data ...

July 31, 2013 | Wednesday | News