Takeda opens new R&D cell therapy manufacturing facility

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited in Japan has announced the expansion of its cell therapy manufacturing c...

September 16, 2020 | Wednesday | News
TransEnterix opens surgical training centre in Japan

TransEnterix, Inc., a US based medical device company that is digitizing the interface between the surgeon and the patie...

September 15, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Nippon Express to supply pharmaceuticals worldwide

Nippon Express Co., Ltd. is in the process of developing pharmaceutical supply chain networks that meet both hardware an...

September 10, 2020 | Thursday | News
Takeda divests select non-core assets for $562 M

Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical has announced that it has entered into an agreement to divest a portfolio of se...

September 9, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japan develops novel test to tackle hospital acquired infections

Proteins developed at Kyushu University in Japan may soon make tests for identifying the presence of particular endotoxi...

September 8, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Japan uses virtual reality to improve physical, cognitive functions

Researchers at the Smart-Aging Research Center (IDAC) at Tohoku University have developed an innovative training protoco...

September 7, 2020 | Monday | News
Fujitsu, TSH embark on AI R&D for COVID-19 diagnosis

Fujitsu and Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital (TSH) have announced the launch of a joint R&D project for AI technology to sup...

September 3, 2020 | Thursday | News
bitBiome raises 700M JPY to accelerate growth

Japanese startup bitBiome, Inc., an emerging leader in microbiome analytics, has raised 700 million JPY (appro...

September 4, 2020 | Friday | News
INSIGHTEC receives reimbursement from Japan for treatment of parkinson's disease

Israel based INSIGHTEC®, a global medical technology innovator of incisionless surgery, recently announced that it h...

September 2, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Hitachi builds management platform for regenerative medicines

Japanese firm Hitachi, Ltd. has constructed a platform for the integrated management of cell and tracing information thr...

September 2, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Propeller Health enters Japan for asthma medications

Propeller Health has announced it will begin distributing in Japan, via a collaboration with Novartis to connect the Pro...

September 1, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Asia’s first therapeutic app gets approval in Japan

Headquartered in Japan, CureApp, Inc. received regulatory authorization for the manufacturing and sale of Asia’s f...

August 28, 2020 | Friday | News
Graft versus host disease market to grow at 8.2% CAGR across 5 APAC markets in 10 years

The market for graft versus host disease (GvHD) prophylaxis and treatment in the five growth markets (5GM*) in the Asia-...

August 27, 2020 | Thursday | News
Eisai launches skin care products

Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that it has launched Sahne Medical Spray and Sahne Medical Cream (both are category-2 OTC drug...

August 27, 2020 | Thursday | News
Takeda divests consumer healthcare biz for JPY 242 B

Japan based Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced that it has entered into an agreement to divest Tak...

August 24, 2020 | Monday | News
AI accelerates drug repurposing to find potential COVID-19 therapies, says GlobalData

Out of all the different approaches available to find new therapies to treat COVID-19, drug repurposing is one of the fa...

August 19, 2020 | Wednesday | Analysis
Japan studies inhibitory effect of hydroxy radicals on coronavirus

Panasonic Corporation has announced that it, in partnership with Mayo Yasugi, Associate Professor, Department of Ve...

August 20, 2020 | Thursday | News
Japan develops novel method to create several building blocks of pharmaceutical drugs

Japan-based Waseda University scientists have recently demonstrated a new method of producing a specific class of organi...

August 19, 2020 | Wednesday | News