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
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

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