Japan Govt. takes lead to collaborate Japanese Healthcare with Germany

As the world's third largest economy, Japan is leading the way for aging societies. Therefore, the Government ...

November 23, 2018 | Friday | News
Eisai to present latest data on Perampanel at AES annual meeting

Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that the latest data on its antiepileptic drug (AED) perampanel (product name: Fycompa) will b...

November 23, 2018 | Friday | News
Takeda receives clearance from EC for proposed acquisition of Shire

Takeda has announced that it has received clearance from the European Commission for the proposed acquisition of Shire a...

November 22, 2018 | Thursday | News
Alvotech, Fuji Pharma partner for biosimilars

Alvotech and Fuji Pharma has announced that the two companies are entering into an exclusive partnership for the commerc...

November 20, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Mundipharma to bring world's first gene therapy for knee osteoarthritis

In a multi-year agreement for up to USD 600 million, Mundipharma has acquired the exclusive rights for Invossa in Japan ...

November 19, 2018 | Monday | News
Karl Deisseroth receives Japan’s Kyoto prize in advanced technology

The Inamori Foundation has announced that it has presented its 34th annual Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology to Dr. Kar...

November 19, 2018 | Monday | News
HeartFlow receives reimbursement approval in Japan

HeartFlow, Inc. has announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has approved the recommenda...

November 19, 2018 | Monday | News
Takeda sets target date to close $62B Shire deal

Singapore – Aiming to close its deal for Shire on Jan. 8, Japanese drugmaker, Takeda Pharmaceutical will ...

November 12, 2018 | Monday | News
Philips, Allm to develop mobile diagnostic solutions

Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, has announced a collaboration with Japanese healthcare informatics ...

November 12, 2018 | Monday | News
Japan conducts world’s first iPS cell transplant for Parkinson’s

A research team from Kyoto University, Japan has conducted the world’s first transplant of induced pluripotent ste...

November 10, 2018 | Saturday | News
MEI Pharma, KHK to develop and commercialize ME-401

MEI Pharma, Inc. and Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd. (KHK), have announced the execution of a license agreement granting KHK...

November 5, 2018 | Monday | News
HKSTP showcases Hong Kong's Innovation and Technology edge

Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) announced its fruitful participation in promoting Hong K...

November 2, 2018 | Friday | News
Kissei buys exclusive rights of Tavalisse in Asian countries

Japanese drugmaker Kissei Pharmaceutical has acquired exclusive rights to develop and commercialize Tavalisse (fostamati...

November 1, 2018 | Thursday | News
Green Science Alliance starts production of Chitin, Chitosan Nanofiber

Chitin nanofiber is a new material made from crab shells. In brief, it can be prepared by making chitin on a nanoscale. ...

October 30, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Mitsui Chemicals, Chitose Group launch novel open innovation initiative

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. and Chitose Group, a group of biotechnology startups have jointly launched the "0 to 1 Project" a...

October 30, 2018 | Tuesday | News
NEC, Transgene collaborate for individualized cancer immunotherapy

NEC Corporation and Transgene have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a strategic collabor...

October 30, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi enters clinical collaboration with Merck, Pfizer

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited announced that it has entered into a clinical trial collaboration agreement with Merck K...

October 27, 2018 | Saturday | News
Mesoblast licensee seeks expanded indication for stem cell product in Japan

Singapore –  Mesoblast announces that Japanese licensee JCR Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. plans to seek a new...

October 24, 2018 | Wednesday | News
J & J announces Offer to Acquire Ci:z Holdings Co., Ltd.

Johnson & Johnson has announced that they have agreed with Ci:z Holdings Co., Ltd. a Japanese company focused on the...

October 23, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Eisai, MSD start marketing activity for LENVIMA

Eisai Co., Ltd. and MSD K.K., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., U.S.A., have announced that the t...

October 23, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Anaeropharma, Chugai come together to create Novel Oncology Drugs

Anaeropharma Science and Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. headquartered in Tokyo have concluded a collaborative rese...

October 22, 2018 | Monday | News
Eisai discovers new compound to treat Parkinson's disease

A joint research group centered around Professor Hideyuki Okano and Associate Professor Jun Kohyama, Department of Physi...

October 19, 2018 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo submits NDA in Japan for leukemia drug

Daiichi Sankyo Company,  recently announced that it has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to Japan’s Min...

October 17, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Eisai, Purdue Pharma declare positive results of SUNRISE 2

Eisai Co., Ltd. and Purdue Pharma L.P. announced positive topline results from SUNRISE 2, a long-term Phase 3 efficacy a...

October 17, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Eisai signs pact with Eurofarma for anti-obesity agent

Eisai Co., Ltd. has entered into an agreement with Eurofarma Laboratorios, to grant exclusive development and marketing ...

October 16, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Hitachi's heavy ion beam therapy system starts treatment at Osaka

Hitachi, Ltd. announced that its heavy ion beam therapy system has started treatment at Osaka Heavy Ion Therapy Center a...

October 16, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Innovus Pharma receives approval from Amazon for expansion in Japan

Innovus Pharmaceuticals, an emerging commercial-stage pharmaceutical company that delivers safe, innovative and effectiv...

October 15, 2018 | Monday | News
GHIT Fund partners with Ono Pharmaceutical

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund has welcomed Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Ono) to join GHIT as a ne...

October 15, 2018 | Monday | News
Scientists develop in vivo skin imaging technology

A team of scientists from Tohoku University in collaboration with Advantest has developed in vivo skin imaging technolog...

October 13, 2018 | Saturday | News
GenAhead Bio, ERS Genomics enter into CRISPR/Cas9 license agreement

GenAhead and ERS Genomics has announced a non-exclusive license agreement to provide GenAhead with access to ERS Genomic...

October 9, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Novan inks $11M deal with Japanese firm

US based pharmaceutical company Novan has announced an extended license agreement with Sato Pharmaceutical Co, a Japanes...

October 9, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Japan MHLW grants orphan designation to Axicabtagene Ciloleucel

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has announced that axicabtagene ciloleucel (formerly KTE-C19) has been granted Orphan Dr...

October 8, 2018 | Monday | News
Orgenesis announces license agreement with HekaBio in Japan

Orgenesis, a manufacturer, service provider and developer of advanced cell therapies, has announced that it has entered ...

October 5, 2018 | Friday | News
Researchers develop rapid test for infectious diseases

Researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) and Keio University (Japan) have developed a pract...

October 4, 2018 | Thursday | News
Tasuku Honjo wins Nobel in medicine

Japanese scientist Tasuku Honjo has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, for his discov...

October 3, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Eisai receives FDA approval for antiepileptic drug

Eisai Co., Ltd. has announced that its U.S. subsidiary Eisai Inc. received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administ...

October 1, 2018 | Monday | News
GHIT Fund invests in innovative TB diagnostics tools

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund, Japan recently announced an investment of approximately 420 million...

September 27, 2018 | Thursday | News
PeptiDream announces agreement with Santen Pharmaceutical

Peptidream Inc., a public Kanagawa-based biopharmaceutical company has announced that it has entered into a broad-based ...

September 26, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Anaeropharma Science signs research agreement with Astellas

Anaeropharma Science Inc. headquartered in Tokyo (hereafter "Anaeropharma") has announced that Anaeropharma and Ast...

September 25, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Takeda gets positive CHMP opinion for ALUNBRIG

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medic...

September 24, 2018 | Monday | News
Mylan, Fujifilm receive European marketing authorization for Hulio Biosimilar

Mylan  and Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics recently announced that the European Commission (EC) has granted mar...

September 24, 2018 | Monday | News
Medtronic starts Onyx ONE Clear study in Japan and US

Medtronic has initiated a new clinical study in patients implanted with its Resolute Onyx drug-eluting stent (DES) durin...

September 14, 2018 | Friday | News
NEGTEC via crowdfunding portal promotes regenerative medicine

NEGTEC, an originator of the Sakura Bloom (SKB) cryptocurrency project, has announced a new donation-based crowdfunding ...

September 4, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Chugai, Nippon Shinyaku bring Gazyva in Japan

Tokyo based Chugai Pharmaceutical and Nippon Shinyaku have launched Gazyva (obinutuzumab), an anti-CD20 monoclonal antib...

August 30, 2018 | Thursday | News
Nissui Pharmaceutical Launches Colony Counter Service Based on AI Technology

Nissui Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is carrying out the trial operation to count colonies cultured in the "simple culture me...

August 30, 2018 | Thursday | News
Astellas announces approval of Linzess Tablets in Japan

Astellas Pharma and Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, recently announced that approval has been obtained in Japan for the guanyl...

August 27, 2018 | Monday | News
Rakuten Aspyrian raises $150M in Series C Financing

Tokyo-headquartered e-commerce group Rakuten Inc’s CEO and chairman of Rakuten Aspyrian Hiroshi Mikitani has led a...

August 27, 2018 | Monday | News
Eisai gets marketing approval from EC for LENVIMA

Eisai Co., Ltd. and Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth N.J., U.S.A., known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada...

August 23, 2018 | Thursday | News
Tokyo to host Medtec Japan 2019

Asia's largest exhibition and conference dedicated to the Medical Device Design and Manufacturing industry, "Medtec...

August 22, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Shionogi submits NDA for INTUNIV

Shire plc has announced that its partner in Japan, Shionogi & Co., Ltd has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) fo...

August 21, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Telix, Nihon collaborate on renal cancer imaging for Japanese market

Singapore – Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development o...

August 20, 2018 | Monday | News
Eisai, Merck get FDA approval for LENVIMA capsules to treat HCC

Eisai Inc. and Merck known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administrati...

August 17, 2018 | Friday | News
Medtronic introduces IN.PACT Admiral DCB in Japan

Dublin-based Medtronic has announced the commercial launch of the IN.PACT Admiral Drug-Coated Balloon (DCB) in Japan. I...

August 17, 2018 | Friday | News
Kaneka officially starts continuous manufacturing under GMP

Japan based Kaneka Corporation has installed continuous manufacturing equipment to be applied to pharmaceutical products...

August 14, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Kyowa Hakko Kirin announces results of Phase 3 trial of patients with Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma

Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd., (Kyowa Kirin) has announced that results of the global Phase 3 MAVORIC study (Mogamulizumab...

August 13, 2018 | Monday | News
A device to assist exact hemodialysis catheter placement

Researchers at Okayama University developed a supporting device for accurately placing hemodialysis catheters on kidney ...

August 10, 2018 | Friday | News
Takeda unite Ambys to treat serious liver disease

Takeda has entered into a $100 million partnership with newly-launched biotech Ambys Medicines to support its discovery ...

August 10, 2018 | Friday | News
Qiagen, SRL to accelerate launch of companion diagnostics

Qiagen N.V. has announced a collaboration with SRL, Inc., the largest clinical testing laboratory company in Japan, to p...

August 3, 2018 | Friday | News
Eisai to market anti-Obesity agent in China through CY Biotech

Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that it has entered into an agreement to grant exclusive development and marketing rights for ...

July 31, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Eisai, Merck gets U.S. FDA breakthrough therapy designation for LENVIMA

Eisai Co., Ltd. and Merck & Co., Inc. announced  that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Break...

July 31, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Japan to lead human trial using stem cell to treat Parkinson's

A team of researchers from Kyoto University, Japan has announced the world's first human trial using a kind of stem cell...

July 31, 2018 | Tuesday | News
SanBio Receives $20 Million Grant From CIRM

SanBio, Inc., a scientific leader in regenerative medicine for neurological disorders, has announced that it has been aw...

July 30, 2018 | Monday | News
Mylan, Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics declares positive CHMP opinion for Hulio

Mylan N.V. and Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics Co., Ltd. announced that the European Medicines Agency's Committee for Med...

July 30, 2018 | Monday | News
Solasia Pharma announces approval of Sancusco in China

Japan's Solasia Pharma, a specialty pharmaceutical company based in Asia, has officially announced that Sancuso (Granise...

July 27, 2018 | Friday | News
Eisai, Biogen present Clinical study of Elenbecestat for Alzheimer's at AAIC 2018

Eisai Co., Ltd. and Biogen Inc. announced detailed results from a Phase II clinical study (Study 202) of the investigati...

July 26, 2018 | Thursday | News
Terumo acquires China based Essen Tech

Terumo Corporation recently announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Essen Technology (Beijing) Co., L...

July 26, 2018 | Thursday | News
Oramed gets Japanese Patent for GLP-1 analog capsule

Oramed Pharmaceuticals is a technology pioneer in the field of oral delivery solutions for drugs currently delivered via...

July 24, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Researchers use AI to diagnose stomach cancer

Researchers at Riken and the National Cancer Centre in Japan have succeeded in using artificial intelligence (AI) to ide...

July 24, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Eisai to bring NAILIN capsules in japan

Sato Pharmaceutical obtained marketing and manufacturing approval for NAILIN® Capsules 100mg as an oral treatment fo...

July 19, 2018 | Thursday | News
Latest Data on Eisai's Alzheimer's disease to be presented at AAIC 2018

Eisai Co., Ltd. announces that a total of 13 presentations highlighting results from a Phase II clinical study (Study 20...

July 19, 2018 | Thursday | News
Japan's Otsuka Pharma to acquire Visterra for $430 mn

Japan's Otsuka Pharmaceutical recently announced that it has acquired  US-based Visterra  for approximately US...

July 18, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Ieon-nanodrugs announces collaboration with Takeda

leon-nanodrugs GmbH is pleased to announce that its proprietary MicroJet Reactor nano-technology has been selected ...

July 17, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Otsuka acquires Visterra for $430 M

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Visterra, Inc. have announced that they have entered into a definitive merger a...

July 13, 2018 | Friday | News
Takeda bags Japan's approval for ulcerative colitis drug

Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Company recently announced that it has obtained a New Drug Application Approval from the J...

July 6, 2018 | Friday | News
Researchers in Japan devise method to produce steroid antibiotics

A group of researchers at the University of Tokyo, Japan, has developed a method to produce steroid antibiotics that do ...

July 5, 2018 | Thursday | News
Philips powers first tele-intensive care eICU program in Japan

Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, and Japan-based Showa University announced the launch of Japan's fi...

July 4, 2018 | Wednesday | News
PharmaMar, Chugai terminate License Agreement for Zepsyre

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. had exercised its right to terminate without cause the License, Development and Commerci...

June 27, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Lupin, Nichi-Iko unite to market biosimilar Etanercept in Japan

Pharma major Lupin and Nichi-Iko announced that the two companies have entered into an agreement for the distribution, p...

June 18, 2018 | Monday | News
Sage Therapeutics, Shionogi ink deal for MDD treatment

US-based Sage Therapeutics, and Japan's Shionogi recently announced they have entered into a strategic collaboratio...

June 17, 2018 | Sunday | News
AbbVie, Eisai launch auto-injector drug delivery pen

AbbVie has partnered with Eisai and its gastrointestinal diseases unit EA Pharma to introduce an auto-injection delivery...

June 15, 2018 | Friday | News
NirogStreet raises $ 300K from Japanese venture

India’s first tech induced Ayurveda platform, NirogStreet raising USD 300k from the Japanese venture fund Spiral V...

June 13, 2018 | Wednesday | News
VistaGen nabs Japanese patent

Singapore – VistaGen Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing and commer...

June 12, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Fluence Analytics announces partnership with Nihon Rufuto

Fluence Analytics, a manufacturer of industrial and laboratory analytics products has announced that it has signed a dis...

June 8, 2018 | Friday | News
Verastem, Yakult Honsha Co. Ltd sign exclusive license agreement

Verastem, Inc. and Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd. have announced their entry into an exclusive licensing agreement for Yakult t...

June 7, 2018 | Thursday | News
GHIT Fund names Hiroki Nakatani as Board Chair

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund has announced the appointment of Hiroki Nakatani, MD, PhD, MHPEd, fo...

June 7, 2018 | Thursday | News
USFDA grants Priority Review to Astellas's NDA for Gilteritinib

Japan’s Astellas Pharma recently announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted, with Pri...

June 5, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Scientists use RFID chips to track biological samples

Researchers in the U.S. and Japan plan to use Radio frequency identification (RFID) chips for keeping track of organoids...

June 1, 2018 | Friday | News
Telix, Osaka University receive funding for alpha nuclide research

Singapore- Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of diagn...

May 31, 2018 | Thursday | News
Eisai, Merck provide Update on sNDA for Lenvatinib

Eisai Inc. and Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced that the U.S. Food and Dr...

May 25, 2018 | Friday | News
Eisai, Purdue to present latest Clinical Data on Lemborexant

Eisai Co., Ltd. and Purdue Pharma L.P. announced they will present the latest data from two key Phase I clinical studies...

May 23, 2018 | Wednesday | News
AstraZeneca submits sNDA for Forxiga in Japan

Global drug giant, AstraZeneca has submitted a supplemental new drug application (sNDA) to Japan’s Pharmaceuticals...

May 22, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Study shows new possibilities with cardiac T-high sensitive test

Singapore – Results published in the International Journal of Cardiology show that the 0-hour/1-hou...

May 21, 2018 | Monday | News
Takeda Divests Techpool to Joint-Venture Partners in China

Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical recently announced it has entered into an agreement to sell its majority shareholding...

May 21, 2018 | Monday | News
Japan approves stem cell based trials for heart treatment

A special health ministry panel gave Osaka University the approval to carry out a study involving the use of induce...

May 17, 2018 | Thursday | News
Platelet BioGenesis licenses induced pluripotent stem cell technology

Platelet BioGenesis, a pioneer in the production of functional human platelets from stem cells, has announced it has lic...

May 14, 2018 | Monday | News
Kaneka Corp. to appeal to Federal Court on Patent case

Kaneka Corporation, the Japan based chemical manufacturing company, is set to appeal to the District Court for the Centr...

May 10, 2018 | Thursday | News
Aquinox, Astellas ink deal to develop and commercialize Rosiptor in APAC

Aquinox Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company discovering and developing novel drug candidate...

May 10, 2018 | Thursday | News
Takeda clinches $62B deal to drugmaker Shire

Singapore– Takeda Pharmaceutical agreed to buy London-listed Shire for 45.3 billion pounds ($61.50 billion) a...

May 8, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Ono Pharma submits marketing approval of metyrosine in Japan

Japanese drugmaker Ono Pharmaceutical has submitted a new drug application for the approval of pheochromocytoma (PCC) tr...

May 2, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Aspirin may suppress the impact of obesity on cancer

Aspirin can counter the ill effects of obesity on cancer development, according to a study that may pave the way for new...

April 30, 2018 | Monday | News

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