Japan's Shimadzu acquires majority stake in German startup Plasmion

Japan-based Shimadzu Corporation has acquired a 75% stake of the outstanding shares of German startup Plasmion GmbH (hea...

April 30, 2026 | Thursday | News
Japan, Taiwan strengthen collaboration in healthcare and drug discovery

Japan-based iPark Institute has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Res...

April 28, 2026 | Tuesday | News
IMG Pharma enters into definitive agreement to acquire Matsumoto Pharmaceutical in Japan

IMG Pharmaceutical Co, a majority-owned subsidiary of IMG Japan, the Group's holding company, has entered into a definit...

April 27, 2026 | Monday | News
Singapore and Japan deepen collaboration to enhance access to health products

Singapore's Health Sciences Authority (HSA) and Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) have signed ...

April 23, 2026 | Thursday | News
Japan's GHIT Fund announces investment of $8.5 M in five R&D projects

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund has announced a total investment of approximately JPY 1.37 billion (...

April 22, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Takeda terminates mRNA-targeted small-molecule drugs research pact with Veritas

Japan-based Veritas In Silico Inc. (VIS) has been conducting a collaborative drug discovery research on mRNA-targeted sm...

April 18, 2026 | Saturday | News
Shionogi makes investment in Japanese startup Restore Vision to develop visual restoration gene therapy

Shionogi & Co. has made an equity investment in Restore Vision Inc, a Tokyo-based startup company developing innovat...

April 16, 2026 | Thursday | News
4D Path partners with Daiichi Sankyo to advance AI-driven ADC programme

4D Path, a US-based company dedicated to personalising cancer care through a novel, physics-informed approach to predict...

April 15, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Nippon Shinyaku partners with xFOREST Therapeutics on drug discovery research targeting RNA structures

Japan-based Nippon Shinyaku has entered into a collaboration agreement with xFOREST Therapeutics with the aim to create ...

April 14, 2026 | Tuesday | News
NEXTBIOMEDICAL secures exclusive distribution agreement for Nexsphere-F™ in Japan

NEXTBIOMEDICAL, an innovative medical device company based in South Korea, has entered into an exclusive distribution ag...

April 10, 2026 | Friday | News
ATLATL announces agreement with Daiichi Sankyo to deepen APAC biotech innovation

China-based ATLATL Innovation Center, a global innovation platform for life science research and development, has announ...

April 9, 2026 | Thursday | News
Japan-based Toho’s VC Arm makes investment in American startup Metaphore Biotech

Japan-based TOHO HOLDINGS has invested in US-based Metaphore Biotechnologies, Inc. through the CVC Fund "TOHO Ventures"....

April 8, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Mochida grants LG Chem rights to develop & market Dinagest in South Korea and Thailand

Japan-based Mochida Pharmaceutical and LG Chem, based in South Korea, have entered into a partnership agreement for Dina...

April 7, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Transgene and NEC Bio to advance vaccine development for head and neck cancer

Transgene, a French biotech company that designs and develops virus-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer, a...

April 3, 2026 | Friday | News
NJ Bio collaborates with Ajinomoto Bio‑Pharma to strengthen support for ADC development

US-based NJ Bio, Inc., a leading provider of integrated drug discovery and development services and Japan's Ajinomoto Bi...

April 2, 2026 | Thursday | News
Japan's Otsuka Pharma buys Transcend Therapeutics for $1.2 B

Japan-based Otsuka Pharmaceutical and US-based startup Transcend Therapeutics have entered into an agreement, under whic...

March 31, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Meiji Seika Pharma invests in Centivax to develop next-gen universal vaccine platform

Japan-based Meiji Seika Pharma Co. has announced a strategic investment in Centivax, Inc., a US-based biotechnology comp...

March 30, 2026 | Monday | News
Cytiva and Yoshindo advance domestic biosimilar manufacturing in Japan

Cytiva, a Danaher company and a leader in the life sciences industry, has signed a FlexFactory™ contract with Yosh...

March 24, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Fujifilm invests in Valanx Biotech to strengthen ADC CDMO capabilities

Japan-based Fujifilm Corporation has announced its investment in Valanx Biotech, an Austrian biotechnology company with ...

March 18, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Fujitsu Japan to build mechanism for data analysis and referred-patient management

Fujitsu Japan Limited and Teikyo University Hospital announced the start of a joint proof of concept aimed at strengthen...

March 16, 2026 | Monday | News
Eli Lilly invests additional 20 B yen in Japan to enhance pharma supply capacity

Eli Lilly Japan K.K. has decided to invest 20 billion yen in its Seishin Plant (Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture), the only m...

March 17, 2026 | Tuesday | News
PsiQuantum partners with National Cancer Center Japan to accelerate drug discovery

PsiQuantum has signed a collaborative research agreement with the National Cancer Center Japan, a leading cancer treatme...

March 15, 2026 | Sunday | News
Merck signs MoU with Cyto-Facto to advance Cell & Gene Therapy manufacturing in APAC region

Merck, a leading science and technology company, has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Cyto-Fa...

March 11, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Curatis and Neupharma ink deal worth CHF 83.5 M for peritumoral brain edema treatment in Japan

Switzerland-based Curatis Holding AG and Neupharma, a Japanese pharmaceutical company specialising in oncology, immunolo...

March 11, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Precision for Medicine continues Asia Pacific expansion with new office in Japan

Precision for Medicine, a global leader in biomarker-driven clinical research and development, has announced the opening...

March 12, 2026 | Thursday | News