21st Interphex Week Japan: Making the event as one of the largest pharma industry events in Asia

5 july 2019 , Tokyo. In Speaking with an official show director of Reed Exhibition , An official summarised an event as...

July 5, 2019 | Friday | Opinion
21st Interphex Week Japan concludes in Tokyo

5 July 2019 , Tokyo . Interphex Japan concludes in Tokyo 45,000 appx Visitors from around the world including all conc...

July 5, 2019 | Friday | News
More than 600 Pharma / Cosmetics / Chemical & Biotech executives attended Reed VIP Reception Party

04 July 2019 , Tokyo . The reception was held as a networking event that is greatly appreciated by attendees for gainin...

July 4, 2019 | Thursday | News
INTERPHEX Japan puts up an impressive show

INTERPHEX JAPAN is Japan's largest and Asia's leading exhibition for pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging technolo...

July 4, 2019 | Thursday | News
Miraca and 7SBio announce strategic investment

Seventh Sense Biosystems, Inc. (7SBio), makers of TAP™, the world's first push-button blood collection device, and...

July 4, 2019 | Thursday | News
Century Therapeutics launches with $250M financing for iPSC allogeneic cell therapy platform

Century Therapeutics, which was created by Versant Ventures as part of the firm’s core strategy to launch innovati...

July 2, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Takeda sells Xiidra to Novartis

Takeda has announced the completion of its sale of its Xiidra (lifitegrast ophthalmic solution) 5% product to Novartis f...

July 2, 2019 | Tuesday | News
PHC Holdings completes acquisition deal with Thermo Fisher

Japan headquartered PHC Holdings Corporation has announced the completion of its acquisition of Anatomical Pathology bus...

July 2, 2019 | Tuesday | News
PeptiDream announces new PDC collaboration with Novartis

PeptiDream Inc., a public Kanagawa-based biopharmaceutical company, on 27 June 2019, announced a new Peptide Drug Conjug...

June 28, 2019 | Friday | News
Takeda selects new partnerships for annual CSR programme

Japanese company Takeda Pharmaceutical has announced the addition of five partners to its Global CSR programme for 2019,...

June 26, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Sommetrics completes study of new sleep apnea treatment in ethnic Japanese subjects

Sommetrics, a company dedicated to developing state of the art products to treat obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has annou...

June 26, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo, GE Healthcare sign marketing deal for four imaging agents

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited and GE Healthcare have agreed that, Daiichi Sankyo will return the exclusive development...

June 26, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Gilead, Carna Biosciences announce R&D collaboration

US headquartered Gilead Sciences and Japan based Carna Biosciences has announced that the companies have entered in...

June 25, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Shionogi collaborates with Eddingpharm for TPO receptor agonist

Japanese research-driven pharmaceutical company Shionogi & Co., Ltd., on 24 June 2019, announces that the Company ha...

June 24, 2019 | Monday | News
Ricoh announces strategic business partnership with Elixirgen Scientific

Ricoh Company, Ltd., (Tokyo, Japan) has announced it has entered into a strategic business partnership with Elixirgen Sc...

June 21, 2019 | Friday | News
Toray launches TORAYMYXIN in EU market

Japan headquartered Toray has announced that a small size of TORAYMYXINTM (PMX-05R) had obtained EC certificate and is l...

June 21, 2019 | Friday | News
Myriad Genetics grants second manufacturing and marketing approval for BRACAnalysis Diagnostic System

Myriad Genetic Laboratories, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Myriad Genetics has announced  the Japanese Ministry...

June 21, 2019 | Friday | News
Eisai discovers new anti-cancer compound

Eisai, a leading global research and development-based pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan has announced ...

June 21, 2019 | Friday | News
Ricoh announces strategic business partnership with Elixirgen Scientific

Ricoh Company has announced it has entered into a strategic business partnership with Elixirgen Scientific, Inc. to deve...

June 20, 2019 | Thursday | News
Japan the first to approve Roche’s personalised medicine Rozlytrek

Roche has announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved Rozlytrek® (entrec...

June 19, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo’s VANFLYTA® receives approval for the treatment of Relapsed/Refractory FLT3-ITD AML

Daiichi Sankyo Company has announced that the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) of Japan has approved VANFLYT...

June 18, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Catalys Pacific to advance early-stage life sciences innovation

Catalys Pacific, a new venture capital firm in Japan built by a global team seasoned in life sciences investin...

June 18, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Teijin Pharma starts exclusive sale of TMS device in Japan

Teijin Pharma Limited, the core company of the Teijin Group’s healthcare business, has announced that it has ...

June 17, 2019 | Monday | News
Terumo secures exclusive global rights to Orchestra BioMed's SEB

Japan headquartered Terumo Corporation, a leading global medical device manufacturer has announced that it has secured e...

June 14, 2019 | Friday | News
BiomX licenses novel targets for phage therapy program

BiomX Ltd., a microbiome company developing both natural and engineered phage therapies has announced it has licensed a ...

June 13, 2019 | Thursday | News
Acucela gets EMA approval for Emixustat to treat Stargardt disease

Acucela Inc. (“Acucela”), a clinical-stage ophthalmology company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Kubota Pharm...

June 11, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Sosei Heptares to receive new $3 million milestone payment from Pfizer

Sosei Group Corporation and its strategic alliance partner Pfizer announce that a new clinical candidate from their mult...

June 10, 2019 | Monday | News
Hamamatsu Photonics develops novel 3D fluorescence scanner

Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. has developed a novel 3D fluorescence scanning method called “Zyncscan™” that...

June 11, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Parexel appoints Dr Makoto Sugita to lead its Japan organization

Parexel, a leading provider of Clinical, Consulting and Commercial solutions to accelerate the development of innovative...

June 7, 2019 | Friday | News
FujiFilm Corp introduces novel, fully integrated continuous production system

Japan headquartered FUJIFILM Corporation has announced an initial $10M USD investment to establish a...

June 7, 2019 | Friday | News
Takeda to discontinue trial in AL Amyloidosis

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced that the Phase 3 TOURMALINE-AL1 clinical trial in patients with...

June 6, 2019 | Thursday | News
A unique solution to boost immunization in developing countries

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, NEC Corporation, and Simprints Technology Ltd. have signed a memorandum of understanding on ...

June 10, 2019 | Monday | News
Otsuka Chemical acquires Cefixime business of Astellas Pharma

Otsuka Chemical Co., Ltd has announced its acquisition on cefixime business from Astellas Pharma, Inc. on 5 June 2019,...

June 10, 2019 | Monday | News
PeptiDream announces strategic partnership with drug-delivery expert PharmaIN

PeptiDream Inc., a public Kanagawa-based biopharmaceutical company, on 5 June 2019, announced a strategic partnership wi...

June 6, 2019 | Thursday | News
LPIXEL announces initiation of AI System development for cell evaluation with Astellas Pharma

LPIXEL Inc., a leader in image analysis and processing technology in life science and medical research has announced the...

June 5, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Takeda Makes First Private Sector Pledge for Global Fund Replenishment

Takeda Pharmaceutical have became the first private sector company to announce a financial commitment to the Global Fund...

June 4, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Thermo Fisher receives reimbursement coverage for Oncomine test

Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced that its Oncomine Dx Target Test CDx System has received reimbursement coverage f...

June 4, 2019 | Tuesday | News
World's First Digital nicotine-dependent Treatment App from CureApp for higher sustained smoking cessation (CAR) rate

The CureApp nicotine-dependent treatment app is clinically proved as a higher rate of sustained smoking cessation (CAR) ...

June 3, 2019 | Monday | News
Scientists bioengineer human liver disease in the lab

Scientists successfully bioengineered human liver organoids that faithfully mimic key features of fatal liver disease in...

May 31, 2019 | Friday | News
Beam Therapeutics, Bio Palette to develop microbiome-related therapeutics in Asia

Beam Therapeutics and Bio Palette have announced an exclusive cross-license agreement around each companies’ base ...

June 3, 2019 | Monday | News
PENTAX Medical launches MILES FOR HEALTH(TM) campaign

PENTAX Medical, a leading provider of endo-imaging solutions, will soon celebrate the 100th anniversary of the foundatio...

May 30, 2019 | Thursday | News
Hitachi signs contract with HIMED to Deliver Particle Therapy System

Japanese multinational conglomerate company Hitachi has signed a contract with Himed Hospital Management (Xuzhou) C...

May 31, 2019 | Friday | News
Chugai Pharma aims to create high quality innovative drugs

Japanese firm Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. has announced the decision to construct a core research laboratory, C...

May 30, 2019 | Thursday | News
Scientists develop technique for better detection of breast cancer

Researchers at Okayama University report in the journal Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical that terahertz radia...

May 24, 2019 | Friday | News
Menicon launches holistic approach for myopia control management

Japan headquartered Menicon Co. has announced the launch of the Menicon Bloom Myopia Control Management System...

May 28, 2019 | Tuesday | News
B dot Medical to develop ultra-compact proton cancer therapy

Japan based B dot Medical Inc. has announced that the company has initiated the development of an ultra-compact pro...

May 28, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Chugai’s Actemra Intravenous Infusion receives additional approval for Adult Still’s Disease

Chugai Pharmaceutical has announced that it has obtained regulatory approval for the humanized anti-human IL-6 receptor ...

May 24, 2019 | Friday | News
Japan approves use of Elekta Unity MRI therapy system

Elekta (EKTA-B.ST) has announced that its Elekta Unity magnetic resonance radiation therapy system has been approved for...

May 24, 2019 | Friday | News
Eisai brings Novartis executive on oncology board

Eisai Inc., the U.S. pharmaceutical subsidiary of Japan headquartered Eisai Co., Ltd., has announced the immediate appoi...

May 23, 2019 | Thursday | News
Takeda, Frazier Healthcare Partners to launch Phathom Pharma

Takeda Pharmaceutical and Frazier Healthcare Partners have announced a collaboration to launch Phathom Pharmaceuticals, ...

May 21, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Takeda announces results of Phase 3b VARSITY studies

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced further results from the Phase 3b head-to-head VARSITY study, w...

May 20, 2019 | Monday | News
Daiichi Sankyo fails to hold up influenza vaccine project

Japanese pharma company Daiichi Sankyo has announced that the Company has been unable to fulfill its obligation to build...

May 20, 2019 | Monday | News
Eisai to present data on oncology pipeline and products

Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that presentations on a series of abstracts highlighting updates regarding its in-house discov...

May 16, 2019 | Thursday | News
Teijin and AMED to develop drugs for frail elders

Teijin Limited has announced that it has signed a research and development agreement with the Japan Agency for Medical R...

May 17, 2019 | Friday | News
Takeda's BLA for Vedolizumab gets approval by U.S. FDA

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company has announced that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for rev...

May 14, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo launches hypertension drug in Japan

Daiichi Sankyo has announced the launch in Japan of MINNEBRO® Tablets 1.25 mg, 2.5 mg and 5 mg (generic name: e...

May 15, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Eisai to sell anti-rheumatic injection in Japan

Eisai Co., Ltd. has entered into a license agreement with medac Gesellschaft für klinische Spezialpräparate mb...

May 14, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Takeda sells surgical patch to Ethicon for $400M

Japan headquartered Takeda Pharma has entered into an agreement to sell TachoSil®, a surgical patch designed to achi...

May 13, 2019 | Monday | News
Novartis to acquire Xiidra in a $5.3B deal

Novartis announced that it has entered into an agreement with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited to acquire the asset...

May 10, 2019 | Friday | News
Promethera Biosciences makes progress in HepaStem development programme

Promethera Biosciences SA, a global innovator in cell-based medicines and liver diseases, has announced the dosing of a ...

May 9, 2019 | Thursday | News
Promethera Biosciences completes €39.7 M Series D Financing

Promethera Biosciences, a global innovator in cell-based medicines and liver diseases has announced the closing of a &eu...

May 8, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo- AstraZeneca’s breast cancer drug reveals positive response

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (Daiichi Sankyo) and AstraZeneca have announced positive topline results for the pivotal...

May 8, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Eisai with UK DRI launches new Post-Doctoral programme

Eisai Co., Ltd. and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) announced the launch of a joint post-doctoral programme ...

May 8, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Takeda collaborates with Skyhawk to develop solutions for neurodegenerative diseases

US based Skyhawk Therapeutics, Inc. has announced a strategic collaboration with Japan headquartered Takeda Pharmaceutic...

May 7, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Takeda opens new global research center in San Diego

Takeda has announced the opening of a new research facility in San Diego, California. Extending Takeda’s 14-year p...

May 3, 2019 | Friday | News
Takeda announces Andrey Potapov as ICMEA Area Head

Global biopharmaceutical company Takeda announced Andrey Potapov as its Area Head for India, CIS (the Commonwealth of In...

April 30, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Japanese scientists reveal potential of technology to detect cancer

Researchers at Okayama University in Japan have reported in the journal Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical that terahertz...

April 29, 2019 | Monday | News
Santen, Glaukos collaborate for exclusive distribution of the MicroShunt in the U.S.

Santen and Glaukos have announced that Santen’s U.S. subsidiary, Santen Inc., has entered into a multi-year agreem...

April 26, 2019 | Friday | News
Daiichi selects oncology candidate built on Zymeworks’ Bispecific platform

Zymeworks Inc. a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing multifunctional biotherapeutics, and Daiichi Sankyo...

April 26, 2019 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo sells Its Nihonbashi building in Japan

Daiichi Sankyo Company LTD. (Daiichi Sankyo), dedicated to the creation and supply of innovative pharmaceutical products...

April 26, 2019 | Friday | News
Salix partners with Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma to market IBD drug

Salix Pharmaceuticals ("Salix"), one of the largest specialty pharmaceutical companies in the world committed to the pre...

April 26, 2019 | Friday | News
Velabs collaborates with Chiome for GPCR-Specific functional antibody screening

Velabs Therapeutics, specializing in the fast generation of functional therapeutic antibodies, announced that it has ent...

April 24, 2019 | Wednesday | News
LifeArc licenses lead stage molecules to Daiichi Sankyo

LifeArc, one of the UK’s leading medical research charities, has signed a deal to license an ion channel drug disc...

April 24, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Eisai selected as a Competitive IT Strategy Company 2019

Eisai Co has been selected by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE)...

April 24, 2019 | Wednesday | News
ACT Genomics to provide cancer genomic profiling service

ACTmed, a joint venture between Canon Medical Systems Corporation and ACT Genomics, has established an analysis laborato...

April 21, 2019 | Sunday | News
Nagasaki University, NEC initiate program on Global Health

Nagasaki University and NEC Corporation have established a program on global health & biometric authentication with ...

April 18, 2019 | Thursday | News
Quantum dot imaging advances

Investigations of 'quantum dots' for looking deeply into body tissues are rapidly evolving, but more work is required to...

April 17, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Fujifilm and Kyoto University jointly developed AI-based diagnostic support technology

FUJIFILM and Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University (Professor Toyohiro Hirai...

April 16, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Permobil to launch its new F-Series in Japan

Permobil, a global leader in advanced rehabilitation technology, has updated its successful modular front wheel dri...

April 16, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo launches Tarlige Tablets for pain treatment in Japan

Daiichi Sankyo has announced the launch of Tarlige® Tablets 2.5 mg, 5 mg, 10 mg, 15 mg (generic name: mirogabal...

April 15, 2019 | Monday | News
Shionogi licenses Symproic to BioDelivery Sciences International Inc.

Shionogi, Japanese major research-driven pharmaceutical company dedicated to bringing benefits to patients has anno...

April 11, 2019 | Thursday | News
Kaken Pharma, HitGen to develop a novel class of drugs

HitGen has announced that HitGen Inc. and Kaken Pharmaceutical have entered into a license agreement to develop a n...

April 12, 2019 | Friday | News
EdiGene raises $15 M in Series B funding

EdiGENE, an emerging biotechnology company developing new CRISPR based therapies for the treatment of genetic disorders ...

April 11, 2019 | Thursday | News
Japan approves Rakuten Medical's ASP-1929 to treat cancer

Based on its exclusive license related to photoimmunotherapy, Rakuten Medical Inc., which is developing a cancer therapy...

April 10, 2019 | Wednesday | News
GeneDesign joins Ajinomoto Bio-pharma

Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing services has a...

April 9, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Japan grants Sakigake designation to Eisai’s novel FGFR

Eisai Co., Ltd. is a leading global research and development-based pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan. The co...

April 8, 2019 | Monday | News
Clinigen K.K., GC Pharma sign pact to market Hunterase ICV

Clinigen K.K. and GC Pharma have recently announced an exclusive licensing agreement in Japan to commercialize...

April 5, 2019 | Friday | News
Japan approves first drug for ADA deficiency

Teijin Pharma Limited, the core company of the Teijin Group’s healthcare business, has announced that it has acqui...

April 4, 2019 | Thursday | News
Takeda takes step towards EU Entyvio extension

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted a Marketing Author...

April 2, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Chugai Pharma sells Ulcerlmin business to Fuji Chemical

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokyo and Fuji Chemical Industries Co., Ltd., Toyama announced that two companies ...

April 3, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Hitachi's Radiation Therapy Systems start operation in Nagamori Memorial Center

Hitachi, Ltd. has announced that the radiation therapy started on April 1, 2019 at Nagamori Memorial Center of Innovativ...

April 2, 2019 | Tuesday | News
GHIT selects joint research project on dengue by Chugai, A*STAR

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. has announced that a joint research project between Chugai and the Agency for Science, T...

April 2, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Takeda, StrideBio to advance novel gene therapies for neuro diseases

StrideBio, Inc, a leading developer of novel adeno-associated viral (AAV) based gene therapies, recently announced the s...

April 1, 2019 | Monday | News
Daiichi Sankyo, AstraZeneca sign $6.9M deal for cancer drug

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has entered into a global development and commercialization agreement with AstraZeneca f...

March 29, 2019 | Friday | News
CPhI Japan sees Japanese R&D reinvigorated with international partnerships proliferating

CPhI Japan closes as a new wave of innovation is rising across the country, driven by structural and regulatory changes....

March 29, 2019 | Friday | News
Japan approves Gilead’s Biktarvy to treat HIV-1 Infection

Gilead Sciences, announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved Bikta...

March 28, 2019 | Thursday | News
GHIT Fund announces new investment worth 2.86B Yen

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund has announced a total of 2.86 billion yen to support 10 partnerships...

March 28, 2019 | Thursday | News
Japan Health Ministry approves immunoglobulins to treat CIDP

Global biotherapeutics leader CSL Behring recently announced that Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and ...

March 28, 2019 | Thursday | News
AbbVie gets the first global regulatory approval of SKYRIZI in Japan

AbbVie, a research-based global biopharmaceutical company, has announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour an...

March 27, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Lupin, YL Biologics receive PMDA approval for Etanercept biosimilar in Japan

Lupin has announced that YL Biologics Limited (YLB), a joint venture between Lupin’s subsidiary Lupin Atlantis Hol...

March 26, 2019 | Tuesday | News

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