Takeda partners with Neurocrine Biosciences to focus on psychiatric disorders

US based Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. and Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited have announced a...

June 18, 2020 | Thursday | News
Astellas develops science based exercise programs

Astellas Pharma Inc. has developed science-based exercise programs in cooperation with  the City of Yokohama, Kanag...

June 16, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Takeda to divest select APAC assets to Celltrion for $278M

Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced that it has entered into an agreement to divest a...

June 15, 2020 | Monday | News
AbbVie, Genmab enter $4B cancer immunotherapy partnership

US-based AbbVie and Genmab announced on 10 June 2020 that they had formed the partnership that will focus on b...

June 11, 2020 | Thursday | News
Fujifilm to invest 100B yen at Denmark site

Japanese multinational firm FUJIFILM Corporation will make a major capital investment of approximately 100 billion yen (...

June 12, 2020 | Friday | News
Eisai takes Counter-Measures to tackle COVID-19 spread in Africa

Eisai Co., Ltd. announced on 10 June 2020 that it has committed the equivalent of 1 million USD in aid towards various a...

June 10, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japan explores Nafamostat inhalation formulation for COVID-19 treatment

The University of Tokyo, RIKEN, Nichi-Iko Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited have reached a ba...

June 10, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Healthtech startup Ubie raises $18.7M in Series B financing

Ubie, a Tokyo based HealthTech startup who is the developer of AI-based healthcare products, has raised JPY2 billio...

June 9, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Healios establishes proprietary universal donor cell research line

Healios K.K., Japan's leading clinical-stage biotechnology company, has been creating Universal Donor Cells (U...

June 8, 2020 | Monday | News
Daiichi Sankyo inks clinical research collaboration with Merck

Japan based Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited announced that it has entered into a clinical trial collaboration agreement ...

June 4, 2020 | Thursday | News
Eisai unveils new insomnia drug DAYVIGO

Japan based Eisai Co., Ltd. has announced that its U.S. subsidiary Eisai Inc. has launched its in-house discovered orexi...

June 3, 2020 | Wednesday | News
NCC Japan joins Illuminox Alliance Institutes network

US based Rakuten Medical, Inc., a global biotechnology company developing precision, cell-targeting investigational ther...

June 2, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Astellas receives approval for prostate cancer drug

Japanese firm Astellas Pharma Inc. has announced that the Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approv...

June 1, 2020 | Monday | News
Shinshu University, Toshiba develop tumor-tropic liposome technology

Japan based Toshiba Corporation and a team led by Professor Yozo Nakazawa at the Department of Pediatrics, Shinshu Unive...

May 29, 2020 | Friday | News
Takeda focuses on potential new therapies for COVID-19

Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited is a key leader of a coalition who has announced that world-leading ...

May 28, 2020 | Thursday | News
Daiichi Sankyo launches novel oncology medicine in Japan

Japanese firm Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has announced the launch of ENHERTU® (trastuzumab deruxtecan), a HER2 ...

May 27, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Fujifilm to use AI-based technology for COVID-19 diagnosis

Japan based FUJIFILM Corporation is commencing a research study to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based technology...

May 26, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Cytiva, Takara Bio to scale up COVID-19 vaccine candidate

Cytiva (formerly part of GE Healthcare Life Sciences), a global provider of technologies and services that advance and a...

May 21, 2020 | Thursday | News