Pentax Medical Remains Committed to Endoscopic Ultrasound Business

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 19 Dec, 2019

PENTAX Medical continues its commitment to Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) as an indispensable part of its flexible endoscopy portfolio. The recent launch of the PENTAX Medical EUS/EBUS-J10* li...Read more

Astellas strengthens immuno-oncology portfolio by acquiring Xyphos

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 27 Dec, 2019

Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc. and US headquartered Xyphos Biosciences, Inc. have announced that Astellas has acquired Xyphos. With the acquisition Astellas will gain Xyphos' novel a...Read more

USFDA approves Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca’s breast cancer drug

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 26 Dec, 2019

Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca have announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ENHERTU® (fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki), a HER2 directed antibody drug con...Read more

Gilead, Eisai to co-promote drug in Japan for RA treatment

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 26 Dec, 2019

Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Eisai Co., Ltd. have announced that Gilead Sciences K.K. and Eisai have entered into an agreement for the distribution and co-promotion of filgotinib, an investiga...Read more

Eisai gets USFDA nod for insomnia drug

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 24 Dec, 2019

Eisai has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved DAYVIGO™ (lemborexant) 5 mg and 10 mg for the treatment of adult patients with insomnia, characteriz...Read more

Towa to acquire Esteve’s generic division for 320M euros

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 24 Dec, 2019

Japan based TOWA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD. and Spain based pharma company ESTEVE have announced that TOWA will acquire 100% of Pensa Investments, SL (Pensa), the generic division of the Span...Read more

Takeda, Turnstone Biologics to develop novel viral immunotherapies

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Dec, 2019

US based Turnstone Biologics, a biotechnology company pioneering the development of engineered viral immunotherapies, has  announced a strategic collaboration with Japan based Tak...Read more

FDA grants accelerated approval to Astellas' and Seattle Genetics' PADCEV

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 19 Dec, 2019

Astellas Pharma Inc.  and Seattle Genetics, Inc. have announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted accelerated approval to PADCEV™ for the treatme...Read more

PHC Corporation makes investment in Kakehashi

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 19 Dec, 2019

Japan based PHC Corporation has announced it was taking a stake in KAKEHASHI Inc., based on a share purchase agreement with the company. Kakehashi developed Musubi, a next-generation elect...Read more

AMED awards 3 joint projects with A*STAR

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 18 Dec, 2019

Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) and Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have jointly selected three outstanding R&D projects ...Read more

Pfizer, Astellas' Xtandi Gets FDA nod

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 17 Dec, 2019

Pfizer and Japan based Astellas Pharma have announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for XTANDI® (enzaluta...Read more

PENTAX Medical gets CE Mark for AI aided Polyp Detector

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 17 Dec, 2019

PENTAX Medical, a division of the HOYA Group which is a global med-tech company based in Tokyo, Japan, has cleared CE mark for DISCOVERY™, an innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI) a...Read more

AstraZeneca, Daiichi Sankyo’s trastuzumab shows promise in Phase II Trial

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 16 Dec, 2019

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo Company presented positive detailed data from the global pivotal Phase II single-arm DESTINY-Breast01 trial of trastuzumab deruxtecan (DS-8201), a HER2-target...Read more

Eisai breaks ground for global drug discovery centre

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 16 Dec, 2019

Japan based Eisai Co., Ltd. has had a groundbreaking ceremony for a major renovation of its Tsukuba Research Laboratories (Ibaraki, Japan) as part of strategic investment to realize Eisai&r...Read more

FUJIFILM sets manufacturing facility for liposome formulation

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 12 Dec, 2019

FUJIFILM Toyama Chemical has announced the construction completion of a new manufacturing facility (facility name: 701) within its Toyama Second Fact...Read more

Solasia enters new license alliance with Maruho

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 11 Dec, 2019

Japan based Solasia Pharma K.K. has announced that it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Maruho Co., Ltd. for the commercialization of Solasia’s product SP-04 (PledO...Read more

Takeda, Enzyre to develop diagnostic device for hemophilia patients

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 10 Dec, 2019

Enzyre based in The Netherlands, which is developing breakthrough ambulant diagnostic technology for coagulation testing, has announced that it has entered into a research collaboration agr...Read more

Takeda presents Phase III Trial results in patients with amyloidosis

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 09 Dec, 2019

Japan based Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited announced the presentation of the results of tourmaline-AL1 trial in an oral session at the 61 to annual meeting of the American ...Read more