Teikoku Pharma gets USFDA nod for non-alcohol docetaxel injection

Singapore: Japan's Teikoku Pharma has recieved USFDA approval for Docetaxel injection, a non-alcohol formula for the tre...

January 4, 2016 | Monday | News
Sysmex gets FDA nod for XN hematology analyzers

Singapore: Sysmex America, and Sysmex, Kobe, Japan, announced that the US FDA has cleared the Sysmex XN-Series Hematolo...

October 24, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Netzsch acquires Bruker's thermal analyzer business in Japan

Singapore: Netzsch Japan KK acquired Bruker Corporation's thermal analysis instruments business in Japan. Netzsch Japan ...

September 5, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Boston Scientific completes enrollment in SuperNOVA trial

Singapore: Boston Scientific has completed enrollment in the SuperNOVA trial - a global, single arm, prospective, multic...

August 21, 2013 | Wednesday | News
mHealth apps market to reach $20.7 bn by 2018: Report

Singapore: A recent report by Research and Markets estimates that global mHealth apps market will reach $6.6 billion in ...

October 22, 2013 | Tuesday | News
CSL Behring seeks Japan PMDA approval for Hemophilia drug

Global biotherapeutics company CSL Behring has submitted its new drug application (NDA) to Japan's Pharmaceuticals and M...

December 22, 2015 | Tuesday | News
BBK Worldwide opens Tokyo office; appoints new Managing Director

BBK Worldwide, a leading clinical trial marketing firm, has appointed Toshio Mori to Managing Director of Operations, Ja...

June 18, 2015 | Thursday | News
Gore's new endovascular therapy set to go for trials in Japan and US

W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. (Gore) has announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has consented to the ...

June 18, 2015 | Thursday | News
Baylor Miraca Genetics appoints Gary Huff as President, CEO

Baylor Miraca Genetics Laboratories LLC (BMGL), a joint venture company between Japan-based Miraca Holdings and Baylor C...

June 18, 2015 | Thursday | News
Multiple myeloma treatment market to reach $8.9 bn by 2021, analyst

Singapore: Global multiple myeloma treatment market value will expand from $7.3 billion in 2014 to $8.9 billion by 2021,...

August 21, 2015 | Friday | Analysis
Teijin, Pulmagen enter agreement for asthma drug

Singapore: Tokyo-based Teijin Pharma, the core company of the Teijin Group's healthcare business, and Pulmagen Therapeu...

September 28, 2012 | Friday | News
Australian Cellmid acquires Japanese Advangen

Singapore: Australia-based Cellmid plans to acquire Japanese firm Advangen that owns the FGF-5 inhibitor hair growth tec...

May 9, 2013 | Thursday | News
Belgium 3D printing firm forays into Japan

Materialise NV, a Belgium-based provider of 3D software and sophisticated 3D printing solutions, and a pioneer in medica...

July 28, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Mitsubishi Tanabe pharma to revamp operations

Singapore: With a view to streamline operations and speed up new drug launches, Japan's Mitsubishi Tanabe pharma recentl...

July 28, 2015 | Tuesday | News
NTT's conductive fiber to help in biomedical recordings

Singapore: Japanese company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) has developed a conductive fiber by coating...

March 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
Daiichi, ArQule enroll patient for cancer trial

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo and ArQule announced that the first patient has been enrolled in the pivotal phase III METIV-...

February 1, 2013 | Friday | News
Three major Japanese labs collaborate on Parkinson's disease research

Tokyo: Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co. Ltd., Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University (CiRA) and Hit...

July 27, 2015 | Monday | News
BIO joins coalition to caution against further restructuring of Japan's Pharmaceutical Pricing

Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) has made an announcement that the organization has joined a coalition of organ...

July 31, 2015 | Friday | News
Japanese researchers discover potential drug target for muscle disease

Tokyo: In collaboration with the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto University, a team of CiRA researchers...

August 24, 2015 | Monday | News
Biocon, Fujifilm launch Insulin Glargine in Japan

Singapore: Marking a major achievement in Indian biosimilar history, India's Biocon announced that close on the heels of...

July 19, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Takeda USA joins National Pharmaceutical Council

Tokyo: The National Pharmaceutical Council (NPC) has inducted Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. (Takeda), a wholly-owned s...

July 15, 2015 | Wednesday | News
No more needles, no more pain!

Singapore: Vaccination will no longer be a painful process as researchers from Japan's Osaka University have developed a...

July 21, 2015 | Tuesday | News
HUYA appoints Yoshiki Shimamura as VP for Japan Operations

The international operation of Chinese pharmaceutical company, HUYA Bioscience International (HUYA) has expanded its Sen...

July 1, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Kowa, Chugai to market liver cancer drug

Singapore: Japan's Kowa Company and Chugai Pharmaceutical have entered into license agreement for liver cancer drug pere...

July 21, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo to develop Cell Therapy's Heartcel for Japanese market

Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited has signed a license agreement with UK-based Cell Therapy Ltd for an exclusive license in...

May 11, 2016 | Wednesday | News
RaQualia, Interprotein to research on pain drug

Singapore: RaQualia Pharma and Interprotein entered into a collaborative research agreement. The partnership will focus...

February 4, 2013 | Monday | News
Japan accepts Pluristem's regenerative cells as safe

Israel's Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. has announced that Japan's Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) has cl...

August 13, 2015 | Thursday | News
US-based ERT expands in Japan

Singapore: ERT, a US-based service provider to biopharmaceutical organizations, medical device companies and contract re...

January 16, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Japan's MHLW lifts prescription period limitation for Daiichi Sankyo's antiplatelet agent

Based on a notification received from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Daiichi Sankyo Company Limite...

June 1, 2015 | Monday | News
Otsuka launches joint venture in Vietnam

Singapore: Otsuka Pharmaceutical reached an agreement to establish a joint venture (JV) in the functional food and bever...

August 1, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Samantha Su, Simranjit Singh: Finding skilled professionals is a challenge in Singapore

In the biomedical sector, the combination of latest technology and a strong business model is considered to be ideal. Th...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Opinion
Allergan Japan implements new software to meet regulatory requirements

In a step to upgrade its pharmacovigilance services, Allergan Japan has announced that the company has implemented US-he...

September 7, 2015 | Monday | News
Teva announces partnership with Takeda

Singapore: Teva Pharmaceutical and Takeda Pharmaceutical has announced that the two companies have entered into a defini...

December 1, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Aortic stent grafts market to grow at slow pace'

Singapore: The global aortic stent grafts market will increase in value from an estimated $1.2 billion in 2013 to just o...

October 17, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
Japanese medical firms enter into the Philippines

Singapore: With a view to expand into the lucrative Asian markets, two major medical companies in Japan have planned to ...

January 2, 2015 | Friday | News
Nihon University to host 8K Imaging Technology Symposium

For the first time, Nihon University will organize an international symposium on Medical-Engineering Collaboration with ...

July 7, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Novocure launches Optune in 23 brain cancer centers in Japan

Physicians at 23 brain cancer centers in Japan are now certified to provide Optune to recurrent glioblastoma patients on...

June 1, 2015 | Monday | News
Serendex signs $11.5 million-worth deal with an undisclosed Japanese company

Norway-based Serendex Pharmaceuticals A/S has entered into a non-binding term sheet with a pharma company regarding Sere...

December 21, 2015 | Monday | News
Plasticell appoints Veritas as the exclusive distributor

Singapore: Plasticell, the biotechnology company specialising in high throughput technologies for directed stem cell di...

June 18, 2012 | Monday | News
OphthaliX secures patent from Japan for intraocular pressure therapeutic

OphthaliX Inc., a clinical-stage company focused on developing therapeutic products for the treatment of ophthalmic diso...

December 21, 2015 | Monday | News
Sigma-Aldrich, Tokyo university develop microRNA

Singapore: Sigma-Aldrich's innovative biological products and services business Sigma Life Science signed an exclusive c...

February 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
Sun Pharma enters Japanese prescription market

Singapore: Sun Pharma has announced the acquisition of 14 established prescription brands from Novartis AG and Novartis ...

March 30, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Japan Okays Sanofi's Basal Insulin Drug

French pharma giant Sanofi has announced that the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan has granted mark...

July 6, 2015 | Monday | News
NextDocs expands customer list by more than 10%

Singapore: NextDocs, the global leader in compliance solutions for regulated industries, announced that it has expanded ...

June 4, 2013 | Tuesday | News
ReSearch, Asklep JV to offer CRO services in Japan

‎Singapore: ReSearch Pharmaceutical Services (RPS) and Japan-based Asklep have formed a joint venture company (JVC...

March 28, 2013 | Thursday | News
Nipro strengthens US business with Infraredx acquisition

Tokyo: Nipro Corporation, headquartered in Osaka, Japan, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire US headquartered ...

September 14, 2015 | Monday | News
Eisai, Purdue to co-develop insomnia drug

Singapore: The US arm of Japan's Eisai has entered into a worldwide collaboration with Purdue Pharma to develop and comm...

September 4, 2015 | Friday | News
Investment arm of Dentsu invests in Cue's at-home health tracker

Tokyo-headquartered Dentsu Inc announced that the company's corporate venture capital arm Dentsu Ventures Global Fund ha...

December 30, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Eisai seeks simultaneous approval for anticancer agent in Japan, US and Europe

Japanese pharmaceutical major Eisai Co. Ltd. has submitted applications to regulatory authorities in Japan, United State...

July 31, 2015 | Friday | News
Astellas, ClearPath to enter strategic partnership

Singapore: Astellas Pharma and ClearPath Development Company have announced a strategic partnership to form a portfolio ...

January 6, 2014 | Monday | News
Eisai publishes phase III results of anti-seizure drug

Singapore: Eisai published the results of its 'adjunctive perampanel for refractory partial-onset seizures: randomized p...

July 26, 2012 | Thursday | News
FDA approves Eisai's gastro reflux drug

Singapore: US FDA approved Eisai's Aciphex Sprinkle delayed-release capsules 5mg and 10mg for the treatment of gastroeso...

March 27, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Asia an emerging hotspot in medical tourism

Singapore: BioSpectrum feels the pulse of Asia's top destinations and major players in medical tourism.  Medical tour...

March 9, 2015 | Monday | Analysis
GSK receives marketing authorization for Nucala in Japan

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has grant...

March 30, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Taiho licenses oral anticancer drug to France's Servier

Japan's Taiho Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and France's Servier have entered into an exclusive license agreement on June 12, ...

June 16, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi, UCB seek marketing authorization for epilepsy drug in Japan

Japanese pharmaceutical firms, Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited and UCB Japan Co. Ltd have announced that UCB Japan has ap...

June 26, 2015 | Friday | News
PeptiDream, Teijin to co-discover peptide-based therapeutics

Tokyo: PeptiDream Inc., a Tokyo-based biopharmaceutical company, has signed a multi-target discovery and optimization co...

September 30, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Denka group to acquire German biopharma business

Singapore: Japan's Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Denka Group) recently inked a pact to acquire Germany's Icon Gen...

August 12, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Ono, Bristol-Myers launch Orencia Auto-injector for treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Osaka-headquartered Ono Pharmaceutical Co Ltd and Bristol-Myers Squibb K K have launched Orencia Subcutaneous Injection ...

May 25, 2016 | Wednesday | News
WuXi's subsidiary gets manufacturing nod in Japan

Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech's small-molecule process development and manufacturing subsidiary Shanghai SynTheAll Pharmace...

August 28, 2015 | Friday | News
Mednet, Biovisiq deal helps in zero-delay of trials

Singapore: AG Mednet signed a master services agreement with Biovisiq, a Japanese imaging core laboratory (ICL), to redu...

April 3, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Singulex's cardiovascular biomarker granted Japanese patent

Singulex Inc., California-based developer and provider of Single Molecule Counting technology for clinical diagnostics a...

April 29, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Chugai Pharma to set up sales unit in China

Singapore: With a capital of $30 million, Tokyo based Chugai Pharmaceutical has announced to establish a wholly owned dr...

December 26, 2013 | Thursday | News
Astellas, FibroGen start CKD anemia trial in Japan

Singapore: Japan-based Astellas Pharma and US-based FibroGen initiated a phase II clinical study in Japan of ASP1517/FG-...

July 31, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Cancer-specific killer T cells created from iPS cells

Singapore: Researchers from the RIKEN Research Centre for Allergy and Immunology in Japan have succeeded, for the first ...

January 7, 2013 | Monday | News
Will Japan be able to reduce its generic drug prices?

The Japanese pharmaceutical market is the second largest pharma market in the world following on the close heels of the ...

May 21, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Life Tech signs agreement with iPS Academia Japan

Singapore: Life Technologies has signed a non-exclusive agreement with iPS Academia Japan for its induced pluripotent st...

June 18, 2012 | Monday | News
Nagoya scientists discover new molecules that change circadian rhythm

A team of chemists and biologists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University, Japan, hav...

June 10, 2015 | Wednesday | News
BioDiem protozoan drug to get Japanese patent

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company, BioDiem, has received allowance of Jap...

May 27, 2013 | Monday | News
Eisai, Nihon Medi-Physics to work on dementia intervention

Japanese pharmaceutical giant Eisai Co. Ltd. and Nihon Medi-Physics Co. Ltd. have entered into a collaboration agreement...

April 28, 2015 | Tuesday | News
R-Tech Ueno acquires right to develop Santen Pharma's ophthalmic solution

R-Tech Ueno Ltd, headquartered in Tokyo, has acquired the right to develop and commercialize DE-105 from Santen Pharmace...

April 28, 2015 | Tuesday | News
French firm successfully completes Ph I trial of diabetes drug in Japan

Singapore: French biopharmaceutical company, Poxel, an innovative drug developer for type 2 diabetes, has succesfully co...

May 28, 2015 | Thursday | News
Tarceva tablets with Nexavar show no improvement

Singapore: A phase III trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of the addition of Tarceva (erlotinib) tablets to Nexava...

July 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Mylan signs a settlement agreement with OSI Pharma

Singapore: US generics major Mylan has entered into a settlement agreement with OSI Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Jap...

July 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
Sale of wound care devices spurs in Asia-Pacific: Frost & Sullivan analysis report

Singapore: Advanced wound care and modern wound closure products are gaining an edge over traditional wound dressings in...

September 4, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Biogen inks autoimmune deal with Mitsubhishi Tanabe pharma

Singapore: US-based Biogen, a leading developer of therapies for neurodegenerative diseases has inked a pact with Japan'...

September 11, 2015 | Friday | News
Japan approves Daiichi Sankyo's Cravit Injections

Tokyo: Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has obtained approval for partial changes concerning a supplementary indication ...

September 28, 2015 | Monday | News
Synageva BioPharma seeks approval for Kanuma in Japan

NASDAQ-listed Synageva BioPharma Corp. has submitted the New Drug Application (NDA) for Kanuma (sebelipase alfa) to the ...

June 1, 2015 | Monday | News
Bayer's thrombosis drug approved in Japan

Tokyo: Bayer HealthCare has announced that the company has received approval in Japan for its oral Factor Xa inhibitor X...

September 28, 2015 | Monday | News
Matt Kerr: Tough task ahead for APAC HR managers

With rapid growth of life sciences industry in Asia, we have seen many success stories over the last decade. However, an...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Opinion
Takeda transfers HPV vaccine license to Japanese firm

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical has transferred its license agreement with the Japan Health Sciences Foundation (HS Fou...

March 12, 2015 | Thursday | News
Medtech Partnering Forum 2015 to be held in Tokyo

Singapore: EBD Group, organizer of leading international life science partnering conferences, has announced Medtech Part...

April 24, 2015 | Friday | News
Hyperion to succeed Santen's anti-rheumatic business

Singapore: Japanese pharmaceutical major Santen Pharmaceutical has decided to sign an agreement with Showa Yakuhin Kakou...

May 13, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Intercept-Sumitomo completes liver cirrhosis drug's phase II trials

Tokyo: Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc has announced the results of a 72-week phase II dose ranging trial of obeticholic a...

November 2, 2015 | Monday | News
Mitsubhisi Tanabe gains commercial rights to Regeneron's antibody drug

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. has collaborated with Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation (MTPC), where Regeneron will p...

October 5, 2015 | Monday | News
Belgium's genae incorporates office in Tokyo

Tokyo: Belgium-based Contract Research Organization (CRO) and services provider genae has incorporated 'genae Japan' in ...

October 7, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Brickell Biotech-Kaken Pharma to co-develop dermatology drug

Brickell Biotech Inc., a US-based clinical-stage pharmaceutical company has signed an exclusive license and development ...

April 5, 2015 | Sunday | News
Milestone drug approvals on a single day pave way for new therapies in Japan

September 28th witnessed the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) granting approvals to many drugs aim...

September 30, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Photonics commercializes tissue surgery laser

Singapore: Photonics, which recently received investments from Maxwell Biotech Venture Fund and RVC Seed Fund, has made ...

February 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Chugai, Gilead get Japanese approval for additional indication of antiviral drug Copegus

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has obtained approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) for...

March 30, 2015 | Monday | News
Japan approves BioSpecifics' Dupuytren's Contracture treatment

Tokyo: BioSpecifics Technologies Corp., a US-based biopharmaceutical company developing collagenase-based products, has ...

July 21, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Astellas-Cyclenium ink drug discovery collaboration

Singapore: Quebec's Cyclenium Pharma has signed a drug discovery collaboration agreement with Astellas Pharma in Tokyo....

May 13, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Takeda acquires US biologics manufacturing facility

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical announced the acquisition of a biologics manufacturing facility located in Brooklyn Par...

January 7, 2016 | Thursday | News
INTERPHEX JAPAN / in-PHARMA JAPAN 2015 to be held at Tokyo Big Sight, Japan

Tokyo: The 28th INTERPHEX JAPAN and 9th in-PHARMA JAPAN will be held at Tokyo Big Sight from July 1st to 3rd, 2015 at th...

June 19, 2015 | Friday | News
Japan pharma market worth $80 billion by 2020: Global Data

Singapore: According to research and consulting firm Global Data, the Japanese pharmaceutical market is poised to grow a...

March 1, 2015 | Sunday | News
How will Asia tackle total drug resistant TB?

The latest concern to have plagued the field of tuberculosis (TB) is the emergence of total drug resistant TB (TDR-TB). ...

March 23, 2012 | Friday | News
BioSpectrum announces the hits and misses of 2013

Asia attracted a lot of interest from foreign multinational giants in the year 2013. This not only led to the increase i...

January 2, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
“Many foreign CROs are often hesitant to make big investments in Japan”

Founded in 1983, BBK Worldwide is a marketing consultancy firm specializing in patient recruitment for clinical R&D ...

August 14, 2015 | Friday | Opinion
Takeda collaborates with Keio University

Singapore: Japanese pharma major, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company has signed an agreement to undertake collaborative resea...

April 23, 2015 | Thursday | News
FDA approves additional indication of Eisai's anticancer agent Lenvima

Japan's Eisai Co Ltd has announced that its US subsidiary Eisai Inc. has received approval from the US Food and Drug Adm...

May 17, 2016 | Tuesday | News

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