FUJIFILM and Novavax to manufacture COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

Japan's FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, world-leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) for ...

August 18, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Chugai's Enspryng receives FDA approval for NMOSD

Tokyo based Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has appr...

August 18, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Isofol inks oncology deal with Solasia for $100M

Isofol Medical AB, Sweden has announced that it entered into a license agreement with Solasia Pharma K.K, a specialized ...

August 18, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Japan picks Daiichi Sankyo for COVID-19 vaccine supply

Daiichi Sankyo Company has announced that it was selected by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan to be a...

August 17, 2020 | Monday | News
PHC Holdings Corp infuses $50M into Senseonics

Japan headquartered PHC Holdings Corporation and Ascensia Diabetes Care, a PHC Group company, have announced a strategic...

August 13, 2020 | Thursday | News
OssDsign AB inks agreement with Muranaka Medical in Japan

Swedish firm OssDsign AB has announced that the company has signed a business partner agreement with Muranaka Medical In...

August 14, 2020 | Friday | News
Regeneus, Kyocera ink $19M deal for knee osteoarthritis treatment

Regeneus Ltd, an Australian clinical-stage regenerative medicine company, has announced that Japanese manufacturing gian...

August 12, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Jeol releases new scanning electron microscope

JEOL Ltd., based in Japan, has announced the release in August 2020 of a new Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), th...

August 11, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Novavax, Takeda to develop COVID-19 vaccine candidate in Japan

Novavax Inc. (NVAX), a late-stage biotechnology company headquartered in the US developing next-generation vaccines for ...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | News
Regulations and geopolitics themes for Japanese companies to reduce dependence on China

Regulations, China Impact and Geopolitics were the top themes in 2020 for Japanese companies to reduce dependency on Chi...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | Analysis
Japan uses quantum technology for genomic medicine

Tokyo based Toshiba Corporation, Tohoku University Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo) and Tohoku University Ho...

August 10, 2020 | Monday | News
Japan's Olympus acquires Arc Medical Design to expand therapeutic device offerings

Japan's Olympus Corporation on 7 August 2020 announced signing a definitive agreement to acquire Arc Medical D...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | News
Asahi Kasei to commercialize HA nanogel as pharmaceutical excipient

Tokyo based Asahi Kasei has established industrial manufacturing technology for hyaluronic acid (HA) nanogel as a new ph...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | News
Takeda announces results for first quarter of fiscal 2020

Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Takeda) recently announced financial results for the first quarter of...

August 3, 2020 | Monday | News
Takeda receives U.S. FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Pevonedistat

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited on 30 July 2020 announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FD...

July 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
Pfizer, BioNTech to supply 120M doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Japan

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE have announced an agreement with the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan ...

August 3, 2020 | Monday | News
Novavax, Fujifilm to manufacture COVID-19 vaccine at large scale

US based Novavax, Inc., a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious di...

July 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
Japanese Beta Glucan recommended for clinical trial in COVID-19 patients

A unique Beta 1,3-1,6 Glucan produced by the AFO-202 strain of a black yeast Aureobasidium pullulans is worth considerin...

July 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News