PharmaMar seeks Japan PMDA approval for tissue sarcoma drug

The Japanese Pharmaceutical Affairs and Food Sanitation Council (PAFSC) has recommended an approval for Madrid-based Pha...

September 2, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Treatment for rare metabolic disorder approved in Japan

NASDAQ-listed Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. has announced that Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) appr...

July 7, 2015 | Tuesday | News
ILS strengthens Bachem's peptide business in Japan

Tokyo: Switzerland's Bachem and Initiative for Life Sciences (ILS) have decided to strengthen their co-marketing efforts...

September 9, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Japan to provide medical assistance to Kyrgyzstan

Singapore: In a bid to improve medical services and healthcare scenario in Kyrgyzstan, Japan has inked a pact with five ...

March 9, 2015 | Monday | News
Astellas sells Kiyosu Plant business to MicroBiopharm Japan

Tokyo: Pharma giant Astellas Pharma Inc. has announced that the company and MicroBiopharm Japan Co. Ltd. (MBJ) have conc...

November 2, 2015 | Monday | News
“Engineered 3D human tissue will bring efficiencies in drug screening and drug safety testing”

First, could you give the readers a short bio of your company?Cyfuse is a regenerative medicine startup founded in 2010 ...

June 30, 2015 | Tuesday | Opinion
OxOnc, Pfizer drug trial to be held in Asia

Singapore: OxOnc Development, an oncology development company founded by pharmaceutical development executives and oncol...

February 11, 2013 | Monday | News
Invivoscribe, Astellas sign agreement for companion diagnostics

Invivoscribe Technologies Inc., a US-based company with international experience in commercializing in-vitro diagnostic ...

April 29, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Japan Pharma Manufacturers Association partners with Medidata

Singapore: Medidata, a provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research, has collaborated with Japan Pharmaceutic...

September 1, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Takeda partners with WIPO to accelerate R&D

Singapore: Japan based Takeda Pharmaceutical has participated in WIPO Re:Search, a consortium to accelerate research and...

April 24, 2016 | Sunday | News
CPhI Japan set to begin tomorrow

Singapore: CPhI Japan, organized by UBM EMEA, is set to begin at the Big Sight Exhibition Center, Tokyo, Japan, from Apr...

April 21, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Astella, Potenza partner to enhance immune-oncology programs

Singapore: Japan's Astellas Pharma and Potenza Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing a portfolio of immuno-on...

April 23, 2015 | Thursday | News
Tosoh buys an Indian invitro diagnostics company

Singapore: As part of expanding and strengthening its bioscience operations, Japan-based Tosoh Corporation has acquired ...

April 21, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Naviscan gets Japan approval for PET

Singapore: Naviscan, the global leader in organ-specific molecular imaging, received Shonin approval from the Japanese M...

August 1, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo Korea, Daewoong Pharma to co-promote oral anti-coagulant in Korea

Tokyo: Japanese pharmaceutical giant, Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary in ...

December 28, 2015 | Monday | News
Chugai-Athersys collaborate to develop MultiStem Cell Therapy

Singapore: Chugai Pharmaceutical and US-based Athersys have entered into a partnership and license agreement to exclusiv...

March 5, 2015 | Thursday | News
Sanford Consortium, Takeda Pharmaceutical partner in $10-million innovation alliance

The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine in La Jolla, California, and the Japanese major Takeda Pharmaceutical C...

June 10, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Roche to develop companion diagnostic test for Acute Coronary Syndrome

Roche has announced that the company has entered into an agreement to develop a companion diagnostic (CDx) test for dalc...

June 10, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Carna Biosciences collaborates with Johnson & Johnson Innovation

Carna Biosciences has signed a worldwide licensing agreement with Janssen Biotech Inc., one of the Janssen Pharmaceutica...

June 12, 2015 | Friday | News
Transcatheter heart devices to see surge in Japan

Singapore: Millennium Research Group (MRG) estimates that transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) devices will be ...

May 31, 2013 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo initiates Hokusai-VTE cancer study

Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited has initiated its Hokusai-VTE Cancer, a multinational study which will investigate the ef...

June 19, 2015 | Friday | News
Mesoblast files for approval of stem cell product in Japan

Tokyo: Australia's regenerative medicine company, Mesoblast Limited has announced that its allogeneic mesenchymal stem c...

September 7, 2015 | Monday | News
Syros to replicate Japanese clinical trials of cancer drug in US and Europe

Tokyo: Cambridge-based Syros Pharmaceuticals has entered into an exclusive license agreement with the Japanese oncology...

September 28, 2015 | Monday | News
Cellmid to supply diagnostic antibodies to Fujikura

Singapore: Cellmid has signed an important option agreement with listed Japanese company Fujikura Kasei, a major suppli...

February 11, 2013 | Monday | News
Daiichi Sankyo's Subsidiary Ranbaxy merged with Sun Pharma

Japanese pharma major Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited has announced the completion of the merger process of its subsidiar...

March 26, 2015 | Thursday | News
Progenics initiates Fuji's Phase 2 Trial for prostate cancer drug in Japan

New York-based Progenics Pharmaceuticals' partner Fujifilm RI Pharma Co. Ltd. (Fuji) has dosed the first patient in its ...

April 8, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo Espha's TB drugs approved in Japan

Japan' Daiichi Sankyo's domestic subsidiary, Daiichi Sankyo Espha Co Ltd. has obtained approval for partial changes conc...

August 25, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Kotaro Yoshida: China, Japan are the new M&A hot spots

Compared to 2011, global pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors suffered a setback in the number of mergers and acquis...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Opinion
CHA Health Systems partners with Otsubo-Kai

Singapore: South Korea-based global healthcare enterprise, CHA Health Systems has inked a pact with Japanese medical cor...

May 12, 2015 | Tuesday | News
BMS, Japan firm collaborate to develop new immunotherapies

Singapore: Japan's Kyowa Hakko Kirin and Bristol-Myers Squibb have entered into a clinical trial collaboration agreement...

July 30, 2015 | Thursday | News
Takeda, Kyoto University to co-develop stem cell therapies

Singapore: Japanese drugmaker Takeda has inked a 10-year pact with Japan's Kyoto University to co-develop stem cell ther...

April 20, 2015 | Monday | News
WaVe Life Sciences raises $18 mn to develop nucleic acid therapeutics

Japan-US joint venture company WaVe Life Sciences announced that it has closed an $18 million Series A financing led by ...

February 4, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Takeda, Immunogen in a cancer drug deal

Singapore: Immunogen has inked a pact with Japanese drugmaker Takeda pharmaceuticals that gives Takeda exclusive rights ...

March 25, 2015 | Wednesday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: Asian CROs optimistic in a gloomy pharma market

Over the past four years, BioSpectrum Asia in association with CyberMedia Research (CMR) has been capturing the key br...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
DIA executive director calls it quits

Singapore: Executive director of DIA, Mr Paul Pomerantz is quitting his position effective March 3, 2013, to assume the ...

December 6, 2012 | Thursday | News
Dotmatics appoints Takashi Fukuyama to spearhead new Japanese business

Dotmatics, a UK-based provider of scientific informatics solutions and services, announced its extension of operations t...

April 29, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Germany, Japan researchers reveal neuron behavior

Singapore: An international team of researchers at German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and Tokyo Institu...

April 17, 2015 | Friday | Opinion
Additional indication for Otsuka's Samsca in Japan

Singapore: Japan-based drugmaker Otsuka Pharmaceutical's vasopressin V2 receptor antagonist Samsca 7.5mg tablets has bee...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Phosphagenics licenses TPM/Oxycodone Patch to an undisclosed Japanese company

Australian biotechnology company, Phosphagenics Limited has expanded its existing license option agreement, with one of ...

May 18, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Takeda has innovative plan to invest in Israel through TVI

Singapore: Japan-based Pharma Takeda has increased its efforts for strategic investments in Israel through its Silicon V...

May 17, 2015 | Sunday | News
Japan's JCR adopts Medidata's Clinical Cloud solution

US-based provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research in life sciences, Medidata has announced that its cloud...

June 26, 2015 | Friday | News
Eisai gets direct presence in China

Singapore: Japan's pharmaceutical company, Eisai, has established its presence in China by setting up a holding firm, Ei...

December 3, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Astellas, KEK sign deal for neglected diseases research

Singapore: The High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and Japan-based Astellas Pharma have concluded an agr...

September 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Transcu appoints banking veteran as group CEO

Singapore: Transcu Group, a life sciences company engaged in the research, development and commercialization of cutting-...

October 8, 2012 | Monday | News
Takeda expands Singapore operation

Singapore: Japan headquartered Takeda Pharmaceutical has expanded its operations in Singapore in order to focus on emerg...

February 26, 2015 | Thursday | News
GSK seeks Japanese approval for NDA

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline has submitted a regulatory application to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare...

May 29, 2014 | Thursday | Regulatory
IBA, Toshiba partner to advance particle therapy worldwide

Belgium-based Ion Beam Applications S.A. (IBA) and Japanese major Toshiba Corporation have signed a global collaboration...

April 10, 2015 | Friday | News
Astella's Xtandi variation receives EU nod

Singapore: The European Commission has amended the marketing authorization for Xtandi, manufactured by the Japanese drug...

December 4, 2014 | Thursday | News
Takeda appoints James Kehoe as CFO

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced the appointment of James Kehoe as Takeda's new Chief Financial Offic...

May 16, 2016 | Monday | News
Dr Freidman receives the Japanese award for gene therapy

Singapore: Dr Theodore Friedmann, MD, professor in the department of pediatrics at University of California, San Diego S...

January 31, 2015 | Saturday | News
Japan's NEC to exploit Prima BioMed's cancer immunotherapeutic technology

The press release indicated that Immutep is a French company and is a 100 percent subsidiary of Prima BioMed. Immutep de...

May 12, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Shionogi, Egalet sign deal for opioid products

Singapore: US-based Egalet has entered into a definitive collaboration and license agreement with Japan-based Shionogi f...

December 2, 2013 | Monday | News
NUS, Thermo Fisher Scientific strike alliance

Singapore: National University of Singapore (NUS) and Life Sciences Group of Thermo Fisher Scientific have struck a stra...

September 9, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Merck, Pfizer to co-market potential cancer drug

Singapore: Merck and Pfizer have decided to co-promote Pfizer's anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitor Xalkori (criz...

April 8, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Sannova gets approval for vitamin K2 syrup

Singapore: The pharmaceutical manufacturing and sales subsidiary of Eisai, Sannova, has received approval for an additio...

May 25, 2012 | Friday | News
TAKE's attempt to bring talented workforce to the market

Singapore: On 18 February, TAKE Solutions, a global business technology solutions provider, launched TAKE Academy of Lif...

February 19, 2015 | Thursday | News
Medicago, Mitsubishi to co-cultivate plants

Singapore: Medicago is collaborating with Mitsubishi Chemical to evaluate the latter's closed cultivation Plant Factory ...

January 31, 2013 | Thursday | News
Takeda, ImmunoGen, sign technology licensing agreement

Japanese pharma major Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited and ImmunoGen Inc., a biotechnology company that develops ta...

March 24, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Japanese firm establishes Singapore subsidiary

Singapore: Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma (DSP), a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Osaka, Japan, has established a wh...

February 8, 2013 | Friday | News
Japan to temporarily suspend Novartis business

Singapore: According to sources, the Tokyo-based pharma major Novartis, is likely to suffer temporary suspension by the ...

February 4, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Recent 6 'Big Pharma' frauds

Each year big pharma giants end up spending billions of dollars in paying for fraud, misrepresentation of data and other...

August 6, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Astellas boosts neglected diseases research

Singapore: Furthering its aim to develop new drugs in segments with high unmet need, Japanese company Astellas entered i...

November 27, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Hong Kong to host international TCM exhibition, conference

Singapore: Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and Modernized Chinese Medicine International Association (MCMIA ...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
Riken launches iPS cell therapy pilot study

Singapore: Riken has launched a pilot study to assess the safety and feasibility of the transplantation of autologous in...

August 1, 2013 | Thursday | News
BioAsia 2014: Innovation, collaboration identified as success keys

Hyderabad: With emphasis on cutting-edge innovations this year, BioAsia 2014 under the theme 'Innovate. Evolve.' kick-st...

March 5, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
Japan to gather nanotechnology experts in 2014

Singapore: Japan is all set to host the 13th International Nanotechnology Exhibition and Conference, for three days from...

December 18, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi's thrombosis drug meets primary endpoint

Singapore: Global phase III clinical trial of once-daily edoxaban for the treatment of acute symptomatic deep vein throm...

September 2, 2013 | Monday | News
Japan approves Crimzia for arthritis patients

Singapore: UCB Japan received marketing approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) for Cim...

December 28, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
URMC launches new heart device trial in Asia

Singapore: Cardiologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center, US, are launching a new study in an effort to im...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Honeycomb lung treatment Pirespa in South Korea

Bangalore: Seoul-based Ildong has received a marketing and manufacturing approval for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF...

August 15, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Iran, Japan to collaborate on health projects

Singapore: Iranian health Minister, Dr Hassan Hashemi has signed an MoU with Japan's Minister for Health Labor and Welfa...

February 27, 2015 | Friday | News
Prima BioMed's immunotherapeutic drug secures Japanese patent

May 3, 2016: Australia-based Prima BioMed Ltd has announced that the company has been granted patent number 5908210 enti...

May 3, 2016 | Tuesday | News
MSD Japan head: Regulatory bodies are purposely delaying approvals

The entire world is worried about drying up of research pipelines and continued decline in research productivity. This m...

July 17, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
PPD forms joint venture in Japan

Singapore: Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) and Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories have formed a joint venture ...

December 26, 2014 | Friday | News
MD Anderson, Astellas collaborate to develop new drug for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Japanese pharma giant Astellas Pharma Inc. and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has signed an option ag...

April 8, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Elsevier collaborates with Kanazawa Univ, Japan

Singapore: Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, h...

February 1, 2013 | Friday | News
Fujifilm to acquire US-based vaccine maker

Singapore: Japan's Fujifilm has inked a deal to acquire US-based Kalon Bio therapeutics, which has expertise in manufact...

October 31, 2014 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo launches Methylene Blue Injection in Japan

Japanese pharma major Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited has launched Methylene Blue Injection 50mg for the treatment of met...

March 23, 2015 | Monday | News
HUYA Bioscience completes cancer drug's first cohort study in Japan

HUYA Bioscience International (HUYA) has completed the first cohort in a Phase 1 clinical trial in Japan of its cancer d...

March 23, 2015 | Monday | News
Amgen seeks approval for anti-cholesterol drug in Japan

US-based Amgen has announced that an application seeking marketing approval of Repatha (evolocumab) for the treatment of...

March 23, 2015 | Monday | News
MNCs on medtech growth trail

Industry forecasts by market analysts state that 80 percent of the multinational companies expect to gain a good share i...

November 5, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Biochips market to be worth $11.4 bn by 2018

Singapore: A recent report released by RnRMarketResearch.com has analyzed the Global Biochips Industry and forecasted th...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Japan's GHIT fund pumps $637,000 to support antimalarial drug discovery

The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund) - a unique public health partnership that brings Japanese know-...

February 6, 2015 | Friday | News
Lawyer files suit to shut Ranbaxy plants in India

New Delhi: An Indian lawyer has filed a lawsuit asking the country's Supreme Court to probe the pharmaceutical giant, it...

June 10, 2013 | Monday | News
Millennium and Takeda get EU approval for cancer drug

Singapore: Millennium, The Takeda Oncology Company and Takeda Pharmaceutical announced that the European Commission (EC...

November 1, 2012 | Thursday | News
NovoTTF Therapy treats first recurrent glioblastoma patient in Japan

Singapore: US-based Novocure announced that Dr Tatsunori Okamaura, MD, PhD, of the Kashiwaba Neurosurgical Hospital in S...

August 2, 2013 | Friday | News
Kane Biotech issued new patent in Japan

Singapore: Kane Biotech, a biotechnology company engaged in the development and commercialization of products that preve...

October 10, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Eisai website to help its staff manage obesity

Singapore: Eisai launched a new website to provide employees with an educational resource for information about obesity ...

August 16, 2013 | Friday | News
Japan's Taisho forays into Vietnam market

Singapore: In line with its expansion strategy, Japan's Taisho Pharmaceutical has acquired a 24.5 percent stake in Vietn...

July 7, 2016 | Thursday | News
Apollo Pharmacy cautions against Ranbaxy drugs' use

New Delhi: Spelling further problems for India's pharma giant Ranbaxy and its Japanese owners Daiichi Sankyo, Apollo Pha...

June 10, 2013 | Monday | News
Japan's MHLW approves Gilead's Hep C drug

Tokyo: Gilead Sciences Inc. has announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved H...

July 6, 2015 | Monday | News
American Cryostem forays into Japanese biotechnology market

Singapore: American CryoStem Corporation (CRYO) a New Jersey-based developer, marketer and global licensor of patented a...

July 24, 2015 | Friday | News
Nikon joins hands with Lonza group for cell and gene therapies

Singapore: Japan-based Nikon has inked a deal with Lonza group to establish a new wholly owned cell and gene therapy con...

May 8, 2015 | Friday | News
Takeda partners with Japan's National Cancer Center

Singapore: Japanese drug giant Takeda has joined hands with the National Cancer Center (NCC), Japan, to discover and dev...

May 11, 2015 | Monday | News
Exlites launches e-commerce website with core products

Singapore: Exlites Holdings launched its new online e-commerce website. The new website will be a convenient way for pat...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Japan approves Avastin for brain cancer treatment

Singapore: Roche announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved Avastin (bevaciz...

June 18, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Takeda appoints new chief medical and scientific officer

Singapore: Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical has appointed Dr Andrew Plump as corporate officer and chief medical and scient...

December 23, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Tobacco prevalence in Asia raising death toll

Singapore: According to a study in PLOS Medicine, by Prof Wei Zheng, professor of Medicine and director of the Vanderbil...

June 17, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi forms new firm to treat muscular dystrophy

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo is going to establish a new company named Orphan Disease Treatment Institute, along with Innov...

February 18, 2013 | Monday | News
Aussie man contracts dengue in Japan

Singapore: As per a recent news report, an Australian traveler to Japan has been diagnosed with dengue fever. As per the...

September 15, 2014 | Monday | News

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