French firm Depixus collaborates with Japan's Daiichi Sankyo to accelerate RNA-targeted drug discovery

Interactomics pioneer Depixus, based in Paris, has entered a collaboration with Daiichi Sankyo to use their novel MAGNA ...

December 12, 2023 | Tuesday | News
GMP cell CDMO I Peace obtains accreditation as ISO 17025: 2017 compliant

Leading GMP cell CDMO I Peace, Inc., specialising in induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and iPSC-derived cell therap...

December 11, 2023 | Monday | News
India's Meril Life Sciences inks pact with Japan Lifeline for global expansion

Indian firm Meril Life Sciences has signed an agreement with Japan’s leading cardiovascular medtech company, Japan...

December 2, 2023 | Saturday | News
Fujifilm invests $200 M into cell therapy development and manufacturing capabilities in US

Japan-headquartered Fujifilm Corporation has announced the investment of $200 million in two subsidiaries to significant...

December 8, 2023 | Friday | News
India's Dr. Bhatia Medical Coaching Institute partners with Japan-based M3, Inc

Dr. Bhatia Medical Coaching Institute (DBMCI) has announced a ground breaking joint venture with M3, Inc., a prominent J...

December 7, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japanese pharma firm Eisai partners with Thailand Health Ministry for dementia treatment

Japanese pharma major Eisai Co. has made an agreement to collaborate with the Department of Medical Services (DMS), Mini...

December 4, 2023 | Monday | News
Japanese firm PRISM BioLab inks $660 M drug discovery pact with Eli Lilly

Japan-based PRISM BioLab, a leading discovery and development biotechnology company designing small molecule inhibitors ...

November 30, 2023 | Thursday | News
Daiichi Sankyo to supply omicron XBB.1.5-adapted COVID-19 vaccine in Japan

Daiichi Sankyo has reached an agreement with Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) to supply the o...

November 22, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Fujitsu delivers advanced technology to US-based startup for treating delirium

Japan-based Fujitsu Limited and Delight Health, a Bay Area startup, have announced that Fujitsu will license its Topolog...

November 20, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan's Astellas Pharma buys US-based startup Propella Therapeutics for $175 M

Japan-based Astellas Pharma and US-based startup Propella Therapeutics have entered into a merger agreement pursuant to ...

November 20, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan's Astellas Pharma & University of Tsukuba partner to create new drug discovery startups

Japan-based University of Tsukuba and Astellas Pharma have signed a letter of confirmation regarding a strateg...

November 17, 2023 | Friday | News
Japan-Korea partnership to propel growth of advanced biotechnology sector

Japan-based iPark Institute has announced the signing of a groundbreaking business agreement with South Korea's Small an...

November 16, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japan's Fujitsu inks agreement with Spain to advance regional healthcare cybersecurity ecosystem

Japanese firm Fujitsu has signed a General Action Protocol with the Regional Government of Andalusia, Spain to establish...

November 15, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Masahiro Kato steps in as Managing Director of Daiichi Sankyo Europe

Daiichi Sankyo Europe GmbH, the European headquarter organisation of the Japanese pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo ...

November 7, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan-Singapore partnership to accelerate innovation in drug discovery

Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) in Singapore and IPGaia, Inc. (IPG) in Japan have signed an agreement to jointly adva...

November 7, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan's GHIT Fund and Medicines Patent Pool strengthen ties to improve access to medicines

Japan-headquartered Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund) and Switzerland-based Medicines Patent Pool (MP...

November 6, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan's Shionogi establishes JV with US-based Apnimed to treat sleep disorders

Japan based Shionogi and US based Apnimed, Inc. have agreed to establish a joint venture (JV) company, Shionogi-Apnimed ...

November 3, 2023 | Friday | News
Japan takes major step forward in advancing autologous cardiac regenerative medicine

I Peace, Inc., specialising in induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and iPSC-derived cell therapies based in Palo Alto...

November 2, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japan's pharmaceutical firm Daiichi Sankyo to merge 2 wholly-owned subsidiaries

Japan-headquartered pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo's Board has passed a resolution on the basic policy for ...

November 2, 2023 | Thursday | News
AnHeart Therapeutics signs $40 M deal with Nippon Kayaku for cancer treatment in Japan

US-based startup AnHeart Therapeutics has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Nippon Kayaku to market ...

October 31, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Sumitomo grants AlphaNavi rights to neuropathic pain therapy

Japan-based companies Sumitomo Pharma and AlphaNavi Pharma have announced that AlphaNavi has exercised its option rights...

October 30, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan's Yakult transfers marketing authorisation of cancer drug Elplat to Takata

Debiopharm International SA, Yakult Honsha and Takata Pharmaceutical have agreed that Yakult Honsha will transfer ...

October 27, 2023 | Friday | News
Mithra to receive € 2.5 M from Fuji Pharma for dysmenorrhea treatment in Japan

Mithra Biotech, a company dedicated to women’s health, has announced that its licence holder Fuji Pharma has submi...

October 25, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japan-based Shimadzu unveils integrated system for urine volume measurement

Japan-headquartered firm Shimadzu Corporation has launched the “Urina” integrated management type urine volu...

October 23, 2023 | Monday | News
Daiichi Sankyo and Merck announce global deal worth billion dollars to develop antibody drug conjugates

Japanese pharmaceutical firm Daiichi Sankyo and US-based life sciences company Merck (known as MSD outside of the United...

October 20, 2023 | Friday | News
Japanese firms Fujitsu and TOPPAN Holdings collaborate to expand medical big data business

Japan-based companies Fujitsu and TOPPAN Holdings Inc. have concluded a business alliance agreement to jointly promote t...

October 19, 2023 | Thursday | News
Smith+Nephew introduces REGENETEN Bioinductive Implant in Japan

British medtech company Smith+Nephew has announce the launch of its REGENETEN Bioinductive Implant allowing access to th...

October 20, 2023 | Friday | News
Japan's GHIT joins hands with Institut Pasteur de Dakar in Africa to develop new diagnostics & vaccines

The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund), headquartered in Japan, and the Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD...

October 16, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan accelerates open innovation and enhance life science ecosystem

Astellas Pharma, BioLabs Global and Mitsui Fudosan have agreed on a tri-party Memorandum of Understanding to e...

October 17, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Singapore and Japan join forces in pioneering telesurgery trial

Singapore's National University Hospital (NUH) and the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Sin...

October 13, 2023 | Friday | News
Japan-based Fujitsu and RIKEN develop AI drug discovery technology utilising generative AI

Fujitsu Limited and the High Performance Computing (HPC)- and AI-driven Drug Development Platform Division of the RIKEN ...

October 10, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japanese firm Mitsui invests $8 M in US-based clinical intelligence startup Lokavant

US-based Lokavant, the clinical trial intelligence platform company, has announced an $8 million strategic investment fr...

October 10, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Kyushu University signs strategic partnership agreement with GSK

GlaxoSmithKline K.K. and National University Corporation Kyushu University have signed a strategic partnership agreement...

October 9, 2023 | Monday | News
Japanese firm Kyowa Kirin to acquire UK-based startup Orchard Therapeutics for $477 M

Kyowa Kirin, a Japan-based global specialty pharmaceutical company and UK-based startup Orchard Therapeutics plc, a glob...

October 6, 2023 | Friday | News
WHO recommends Japanese firm Takeda's dengue vaccine for children aged 6 to 16 yrs

Japan-based pharmaceutical company Takeda has announced that the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Strategic Advis...

October 4, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Olympus names Dr John de Csepel as Chief Medical Officer

Olympus Corporation, a Japan-headquartered medtech company, has named Dr John de Csepel to the role of Chief Medical Off...

October 3, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Singapore-based Vela Diagnostics collaborates with SRL for product distribution in Japan

Singapore-based company Vela Diagnostics has announced a research collaboration with SRL Inc, a Japanese healthcare...

October 3, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan approves GSK's Arexvy, country’s first RSV vaccine for adults

British pharma firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (...

September 27, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Fujitsu and iSurgery launch bone health promotion project in Japan

Japanese firms Fujitsu and iSurgery will conduct a field trial as part of their 'bone health promotion project' from Oct...

September 29, 2023 | Friday | News
Japan's PeptiDream inks $40 M deal with Genentech for novel peptide-radioisotope drug conjugates

PeptiDream Inc., a Japan-based biopharmaceutical company, has announced a new multi-target collaboration and license agr...

September 20, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japanese medtech startup Medmain to expand to US

Medmain Inc, a Japanese medtech startup that offers PidPort, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cloud system t...

September 19, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japanese pharma firm Astellas to invest more than €330 M in Ireland facility

Japan headquartered Astellas Pharma has announced its intention to submit a planning application to build a new state-of...

September 18, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan to develop brain bio-digital twin technology

NTT Corporation and the National Center for Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP), in Japan, have entered into ...

September 15, 2023 | Friday | News
Buzzreach and Oncoshot spearhead clinical trial advancements in Japan

Buzzreach and Oncoshot, two prominent entities in the clinical trials domain, have announced an impactful collaboration ...

September 14, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japan's Takeda Pharma commits $30+ M in five new global CSR partnerships

Japanese pharmaceutical firm Takeda has announced five new partnerships to its Global Corporate Social Respons...

September 13, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Eisai establishes new digital business company to build dementia ecosystem

Japan-based pharmaceutical company Eisai has established a digital business company Theoria technologies Co. which will ...

September 12, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Otsuka Pharma inks $1.5 B deal to develop novel AAV gene therapies for ocular diseases

Japanese firm Otsuka Pharmaceutical and US-based ShapeTX have announced a multi-target collaboration to develop intravit...

September 11, 2023 | Monday | News
Shimadzu announces release of Japan’s first infectious disease management support system

Japan-headquartered Shimadzu Corporation has developed a prototype for an Infectious Disease Management Support System f...

September 9, 2023 | Saturday | News
Partnership in Japan to develop novel imaging device for human brain

Mitsubishi Electric, Okayama University and Osaka University’s Graduate School of Engineering, in Japan, have deve...

September 7, 2023 | Thursday | News
Bristol Myers Squibb inks $50 M deal to treat immune-mediated diseases in Asia

US-based startup Zenas BioPharma has entered into a license and collaboration agreement with Bristol Myers Squibb Compan...

September 6, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japan's RaQalia introduces GERD drug Tegoprazan in Singapore

Japan's RaQualia Pharma has announced that one of its sublicensees, United Italian Trading Corporation (UITC) has ...

September 5, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japanese pharma firm Otsuka buys Mindset Pharma for CAD 80 M to strengthen pipeline in neurological disorders

Japan-based Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. and Canadian firm Mindset Pharma, Inc. have entered into a definitive arrangement ...

September 4, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan's Ono Pharma partners with Twist Bioscience to discover novel antibodies for autoimmune diseases

US-based Twist Bioscience Corporation has announced a drug discovery agreement with Japan headquartered O...

August 31, 2023 | Thursday | News
Israel's Cybellum to help improve medical device cybersecurity for Japan

Israel headquartered Cybellum, the leading provider of the Product Security Platform has joined Japan's M...

August 29, 2023 | Tuesday | News
“Policies that help to add value to the R&D ecosystem are essential to empower Indian medical device sector”

What are the key global highlights at OMRON Healthcare for FY 2023-24?  OMRON Healthcare, worldwide, strives to wo...

September 1, 2023 | Friday | Opinion
ImmunoGen & Takeda ink oncology deal worth $34 M in Japan

US-based ImmunoGen, Inc., a leader in the expanding field of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) for the treatment of c...

August 28, 2023 | Monday | News
BostonGene, NEC and JIP form Joint Venture in Japan to advance personalised medicine

BostonGene, a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-based molecular and immune profiling solutions, NEC&...

August 25, 2023 | Friday | News
Japan to design universal vaccines targeting tropical infectious diseases

Japan-based Nagasaki University and NEC OncoImmunity (NOI), a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company,  will c...

August 21, 2023 | Monday | News
Japanese govt injects $115 M to enhance mRNA manufacturing

US-based Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc., has announced that ARCALIS Co., its manufacturing joint venture in Japan t...

August 16, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Astellas Pharma invests $50 M for redefining cancer cell therapy

Japanese firm Astellas Pharma Inc. and US-based startup Poseida Therapeutics, Inc. have announced a strategic investment...

August 8, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Shimadzu releases mass spectrometers for R&D of pharmaceuticals

Japan-headquartered Shimadzu Corporation has announced the release of the ICPMS-2040 Series and ICPMS-2050 Series (as se...

August 9, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Pharmanovia appoints new GM for Korea & Japan

Pharmanovia, a UK-based pharmaceutical company that commercialises novel medicines and revitalises, extends and expands ...

August 9, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Toyo Ink Group invests in US-based VLP Therapeutics to accelerate vaccine development

Toyo Ink SC Holdings, the parent company of Japan-based specialty chemicals manufacturer Toyo Ink Group, has concluded...

August 3, 2023 | Thursday | News
Israel's MediWound announces launch of biologic drug NexoBrid in Japan

Israel-based biopharma firm MediWound has announced that its strategic partner, Kaken Pharmaceutical has launched NexoBr...

August 2, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japanese pharma firm Mitsubishi launches Dyskinesia drug in Thailand

Japanese firm Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation (MTPC) has launched REMLEAS (Generic name: valbenazine, the ves...

August 1, 2023 | Tuesday | News
French firm Roquette buys Japan-based Qualicaps to reinforce global position in pharma industry

Roquette, a global leader in plant-based ingredients and pharmaceutical excipients, has announced an agreement to a...

July 31, 2023 | Monday | News
Japanese startup AI Medical Service teams up with Stanford Medicine

Japan-based startup AI Medical Service Inc. (AIM), specialising in the development of diagnostic endoscopic artific...

July 27, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japanese firms ink ¥20.6 B deal to discover novel targeted protein degraders

Japan-based firms Astellas Pharma and PeptiDream have announced a research collaboration and license agreement to discov...

July 27, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japan produces world's first report on brain activation by Plasmacluster Technology

Japanese firm Sharp Corporation conducted collaborative research on its Plasmacluster technology, with Dr Goichi Ha...

July 26, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Omron Healthcare breaks ground on new manufacturing plant in India

Post signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin in the month of May 2023, O...

July 25, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Sosei Heptares buys Idorsia’s pharma business in Japan and Korea for JPY65 B

Japan-headquartered Sosei Group Corporation is acquiring from Swiss firm Idorsia Ltd and Idorsia Pharmaceutical Ltd...

July 24, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan's Olympus announces project in Kenya for diagnosis of gastrointestinal diseases

Japanese medtech firm Olympus Corporation has announced the launch of the "Kenya Endoscopy Human Resource Development Su...

July 21, 2023 | Friday | News
Thailand gives nod to Meiji Pharma's REMITCH for hemodialysis patients

Japan-based companies Toray Industries, Inc., and Meiji Seika Pharma Co., have obtained regulatory approval in Thailand ...

July 20, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japan unveils wearable sensor for measuring sweat lactate levels during exercise

Wearable microfluidic sensors can be used to monitor lactate concentration in sweat, a good indicator of exercise intens...

July 20, 2023 | Thursday | News
Fujifilm to reorganise Medical Systems Group Companies in Japan

Fujifilm Corporation has announced that it will reorganise its Medical Systems group companies in Japan to strengthen it...

July 19, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japan-based Fujirebio partners with Beckman Coulter to bolster access to blood-based Alzheimer’s Disease test

US-based Beckman Coulter Diagnostics and Fujirebio, a leader in neurological markers and In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) manuf...

July 18, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan-based Chugai Pharma and Omron focus on automation for drug discovery research

Japanese firms Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., and Omron Corporation are working together on the automation of research proce...

July 17, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan's RaQualia Pharma initiates sale of GERD drug in Indonesia

Japan-based RaQualia Pharma has announced that one of its sublicensees, PT Kalbe Pharma has started the product sa...

July 14, 2023 | Friday | News
Japanese research increases effectiveness of cancer detection tests using urine

A group led by researchers at Nagoya University in Japan has developed a technology to capture and release cell-free DNA...

July 12, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japan designs world’s first immuno-chromatography kit for extracellular vesicles

Japan-based Shimadzu Corporation has collaborated in developing Exorapid-qIC, an immuno-chromatography kit for extracell...

July 11, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Pentax Medical establishes manufacturing, R&D centre in China

Pentax Medical, a division of Hoya Group in Japan, has announced an establishment of endoscope manufacturing, R&...

July 10, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan strengthens global pandemic preparedness and response

The Strategic Center of Biomedical Advanced Vaccine Research and Development for Preparedness and Response (SCARDA)...

July 7, 2023 | Friday | News
US FDA approves Japanese pharma firm Eisai's treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease

Japan-headquartered Eisai Co. and US-based Biogen Inc. have announced that the US Food and Drug Administration...

July 10, 2023 | Monday | News
Hitachi collaborates with Mass General Brigham for R&D in regenerative medicine and GCT

Hitachi, Ltd. has entered a strategic framework collaboration agreement with the world-renowned medical research institu...

July 4, 2023 | Tuesday | News
“The interest of companies in biobanks has significantly increased but investments have not yet been realised”

Since its inception in 2003, BioBank Japan has achieved many milestones. Could you please elaborate on those? I would l...

July 3, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan-UK collaboration to develop digital solutions for dementia

Japanese pharmaceutical firm Eisai, Gates Ventures, Health Data Research UK (HDR UK), LifeArc, and The University of Edi...

July 6, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japan approves updated indication for GSK's Shingrix vaccine

British firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHL...

June 28, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Australian startup Psylo advances depression treatment with Japanese pharma firm Daiichi Sankyo

Australia-based biotech startup Psylo has entered into a Sponsored Research Agreement with global Japanese pharmaceutica...

June 23, 2023 | Friday | News
US-based Biolinq to commercialise new-gen glucose monitoring products in Japan

Biolinq Incorporated, a US-based medtech company that is developing novel biosensing technologies, has signed an exclusi...

June 21, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Pistoia Alliance partners with Matador to enable pharma R&D in Japan

The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&...

June 20, 2023 | Tuesday | News
US-based startup Cullgen inks billion-dollar deal with Japanese pharma firm Astellas

Japan-headquartered Astellas Pharma and US-based startup Cullgen have entered into a research collaboration and exclusiv...

June 19, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan's PHC Holdings Corp fully acquires SciMed (Asia) in Singapore

Japan-headquartered PHC Holdings Corporation (PHCHD) has acquired Its subsidiary SciMed (Asia) by ob...

June 16, 2023 | Friday | News
India's Wellthy Therapeutics adds Beyond Next Ventures as investor, expands into Japan

Indian startup Wellthy Therapeutics has secured additional financing, led by Beyond Next Ventures, a venture capital fir...

June 15, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japan's Shimadzu acquires French software company Biomaneo to expand sales of mass spectrometers

Japan-headquartered Shimadzu Corporation has made French startup Biomaneo a wholly-owned subsidiary. Biomaneo is a softw...

June 14, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Fujifilm to enhance presence in Asia for biologics and advanced therapies contract services

Fujifilm Corporation will launch a commercial office in Tokyo to provide enhanced sales support and customer servic...

June 12, 2023 | Monday | News
Japanese firm Shimadzu invests in ChromaCode for developing scalable PCR technology

Japan-based Shimadzu Corporation has invested in ChromaCode Inc., a US-based startup with technology to expand genetic t...

June 8, 2023 | Thursday | News
Medtech firm Olympus to establish digital excellence centres in Hamburg, Boston and Tokyo

Japan-headquartered Olympus, a global medtech company,  has announced the plan to establish a series of Digital Exc...

June 6, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan approves first gene panel testing system for Inherited Retinal Dystrophy

Sysmex Corporation has obtained manufacturing and marketing approval in Japan for its PrismGuide IRD Panel System that...

June 7, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japan-based Fujifilm introduces first-of-its-kind human iPSC-derived blood-brain barrier isogenic kit

Fujifilm Cellular Dynamics, a leading global developer and manufacturer of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS...

June 5, 2023 | Monday | News
InDex Pharma inks $50 M deal with Viatris Japan treatment of ulcerative colitis

Swedish firm InDex Pharmaceuticals Holding AB has announced that a license agreement has been signed with Viatris Pharma...

June 1, 2023 | Thursday | News