Japan sets COVID-19 drug trials up for success

As scientists continue to search high and low for effective COVID-19 treatments, a new modeling study by Japanese resear...

July 9, 2021 | Friday | News
SE Asia's Austrianova secures significant investment from Japan's Real Tech Fund

Austrianova (the SG Austria group, Austrianova Singapore and Austrianova Thailand) announced that Real Tech Fund (m...

July 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan harness potential of self-assembling peptides (SAPs) in intracellular spaces

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have set out to harness the potential of self-assembling pept...

July 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
PHC Corp launches next-generation sequencer DNBSEQ series in Japan

PHC Corporation has announced that China-based MGI Tech Co., Ltd. develops and manufactures next-generation sequenc...

July 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Sosei Heptares partners InveniAI to launch multi-target AI-powered drug discovery platform

Japan headquartered Sosei Group Corporation, the world leader in GPCR-focused structure-based drug design...

July 6, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Fujifilm invests ¥90 B to increase capacity for biologics

FUJIFILM Corporation, based in Japan, has announced a ¥90 Billion Yen (~$850 Million) investment package to accelera...

July 6, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Scientists propose repurposing anti-malarial drug Mefloquine to fight COVID-19

Japanese scientists are scanning the possibility of using an anti-malarial drug called mefloquine....

July 2, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan's Sysmex Corp teams up with QIAGEN for global cancer companion diagnostics

QIAGEN has announced a global strategic alliance with Japan’s Sysmex Corporation for the development and commercia...

July 2, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan plans data scientist training program for pharma industry

Japanese firms Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and ALBERT Inc, have jointly developed a data scientist training program ...

June 29, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japanese startup B dot Medical promotes spread of proton therapy

B dot Medical Inc., a startup based in Japan, has confirmed the superconductivity of a superconducting bending magnet de...

June 28, 2021 | Monday | News
Takara Bio grants BioNTech a commercial patents license of CAR T-cell Therapy drug

Takara Bio Inc. world leader in biotechnology R&D, announces that it has entered into a License and Supply Agre...

June 25, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan aims to prevent CVDs using AI and home measurement data

OMRON Healthcare and Kyoto University have announced a new Collaborative Research Program called "Healthc...

June 25, 2021 | Friday | News
Japanese healthcare firms to find potential startup partners at virtual convention

The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) has announced that 12 major Japanese corporate venture capital g...

June 24, 2021 | Thursday | News
Fujitsu Japan deploys world's fastest supercomputer for COVID-19 therapies

Fujitsu Japan has announced that it will initiate a new research project with a research team led by Japan's Resear...

June 22, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Rakuten Medical, Shimadzu to develop photoimmunotherapy-based medical device

Rakuten Medical, Inc. and Shimadzu Corporation, with operations in both Japan & US, have announced a joint...

June 18, 2021 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo discontinues development of Nafamostat in Japan for COVID-19 treatment

Japanese pharma firm Daiichi Sankyo Company has announced that it has decided to discontinue development of nafamostat i...

June 16, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan demonstrates ability of chlorine dioxide aqueous solution to combat SARS-CoV-2

Taiko Pharmaceutical based in Osaka, Japan, has announced that long-lasting chlorine dioxide (ClO2) aqueous solutio...

June 11, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan's Eisai helps Alzheimer’s patients access ADUHELM post-FDA approval

Following U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) accelerated approval of ADUHELMTM (aducanumab-avwa) as th...

June 8, 2021 | Tuesday | News