Japan's Eisai inks $2 B oncology deal with China-based startup Bliss Biopharma

Japanese pharmaceutical firm Eisai Co. has entered into a joint development agreement with China-based startup Bliss Bio...

May 8, 2023 | Monday | News
Japanese startup Ubie expands rare diseases partnership with Takeda

Ubie Inc., a Japan-based startup, has signed a comprehensive collaboration agreement with Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. to p...

May 5, 2023 | Friday | News
Precision oncology is redefining cancer care at all stages of the disease

How is comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) enhancing the quality of cancer management? Comprehensive genomic prof...

May 4, 2023 | Thursday | Opinion
Japan's Astellas Pharma acquires US-based Iveric Bio for $5.9 B

Japan headquartered Astellas Pharma Inc. and US-based Iveric Bio have entered into a definitive agreement under which As...

May 1, 2023 | Monday | News
US firm Healint announces AI-based study of migraine diagnosis in Japan

Saitama Medical University Hospital in Japan and US-based IT firm Healint have launched one of the world's first clinica...

April 28, 2023 | Friday | News
Medtech firm Murata Vios plans to expand to Middle East, Europe & Japan

Murata Vios, one of leading manufacturers of Remote Monitoring Devices, is planning to expand its operations to the Midd...

April 26, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan approves Japan-based Chugai Pharma's drug for COVID-19 treatment

Chugai Pharma Taiwan Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan's Chugai Pharmaceutical, has obtained an import drug licen...

April 26, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Qiagen launches QIAstat-Dx in Japan with respiratory panel for syndromic testing

Qiagen has announced that its QIAstat-Dx syndromic testing solution is expected to be available soon for use in Japan wi...

April 25, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Nippon Express opens pharma logistics centre in US

MD Logistics, LLC, a group company of Japan-based Nippon Express Holdings, has opened Garner 2000 Pharmaceutical Lo...

April 21, 2023 | Friday | News
Eli Lilly and Mitsubishi Tanabe launch new diabetes treatment in Japan

Eli Lilly Japan and Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation (MTPC) have announced the launch of Mounjaro subcutaneous...

April 21, 2023 | Friday | News
Japan's Shin Nippon Biomedical Labs buys American firm Satsuma Pharma

US-based Satsuma Pharmaceuticals has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Japanese firm Shin Nippon Bio...

April 20, 2023 | Thursday | News
Shimadzu unveils tool to evaluate thermal stability of nucleic acid pharmaceuticals

Japanese firm Shimadzu has released the Tm analysis system both in Japan and internationally. This analyses the thermal ...

April 18, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan further promotes medical applications of induced pluripotent stem cells

The Centre for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University and Astellas Pharma, in Japan, have entered in...

April 14, 2023 | Friday | News
US-based Establishment Labs launches breast aesthetics technology in Japan

US-based Establishment Labs Holdings Inc., a global medical technology company dedicated to improving women’s heal...

April 13, 2023 | Thursday | News
Don't Let Clinical Supply Risks Derail Your Success: Join Our Webinar

Title: Proactive Strategies to Evaluate and Mitigate Clinical Supply Risk Date: May 24, 2023 Synopsis ...

April 12, 2023 | Wednesday | News
UK-based medtech firm Smith+Nephew brings new technology into Japan

Smith+Nephew, the global medical technology company, has announced an agreement with NAVBIT to exclusively distribute th...

April 12, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japan-based EIZO Corporation launches new subsidiary in India to meet healthcare needs

EIZO Corporation, a global leader in visual technology, has announced the launch of its new subsidiary, EIZO Private Lim...

April 10, 2023 | Monday | News
Shimadzu launches corporate venture capital to invest in startups

Shimadzu Corporation, a Japanese company manufacturing precision instruments, measuring instruments and medical equ...

April 10, 2023 | Monday | News
CEPI appoints Dr Yasuhiro Suzuki to the Board

Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) has announced a new board member- Dr Yasuhiro S...

April 8, 2023 | Saturday | News
Japan's Shimadzu to develop integrated platform for lipid analysis

Shimadzu Corporation, Kyushu University, and Kazusa DNA Research Institute, have recently opened the Auto Biomolecular a...

April 8, 2023 | Saturday | News
Eisai invests ¥ 8.5 B to revamp Tsukuba Research Laboratories in Japan

Japanese pharmaceutical firm Eisai Co. has announced the completion of a major renovation of its Tsukuba Research Labora...

April 8, 2023 | Saturday | News
Japan's PHC Corporation to work on non-melanoma skin cancer detection

Japanese firm PHC Corporation and US-based NovaScan have announced the launch of a collaboration through which they...

April 5, 2023 | Wednesday | News
AGC Biologics inks exosome agreement with Jikei University in Japan for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis project

AGC Biologics, a US-headquartered biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), has sign...

April 4, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japanese firm Takeda Pharma inks $415 M deal for celiac disease research

French firm Innate Pharma has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda un...

April 3, 2023 | Monday | News
Eppendorf adds digital documentation to connected electronic pipette system

With this innovative system, scientists can easily adjust connected pipette modes, settings, and volumes via a large tou...

March 31, 2023 | Friday | News
Fujifilm transfers EMR related business to PHC Holdings’ subsidiary in Japan

Japan-headquartered Fujifilm Corporation has announced the transfer of the electronic medical record (EMR) and medical-r...

April 3, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan's NEC establishes European subsidiaries for strengthening global AI drug development biz

Japan-based NEC Corporation announced in 2019 that it would expand the application of its cutting-edge artificial inte...

March 31, 2023 | Friday | News
GHIT fund in Japan invests $2.9 M for treatment of neglected tropical diseases

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund, in Japan, has announced an investment totaling approximately 400 mi...

March 30, 2023 | Thursday | News
International dementia research collaboration to address key health challenge in Australia and Japan

Three expert teams in Australia will share $1.5 million to undertake research into causes of dementia through projects f...

March 30, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japan's Kaken Pharma inks drug discovery collaboration with bitBiome for infectious diseases

Japanese startup bitBiome, Inc. and Kaken Pharmaceuticals have signed a joint research agreement on the discovery o...

March 30, 2023 | Thursday | News
Astellas and Roche to develop integrated diabetes self-management solution in Japan

Astellas Pharma has entered into an agreement with Roche Diabetes Care Japan for the development and commercia...

March 29, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Taiwanese startup Health2Sync adds more data points to Japan's personal health record initiative

Taiwan's Health2Sync has announced that its latest version of the Health2Sync App integrates insulin data from Mallya Ca...

March 28, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Fujitsu launches new cloud-based platform for healthcare sector in Japan

Fujitsu has announced the launch of a new cloud-based platform that allows users to securely collect and leverage health...

March 28, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Takeda to invest ¥100 B in new facility for plasma-derived therapies in Japan

Takeda Pharmaceutical will invest approximately 100 billion yen (¥) to build a new manufacturing facility for plasma...

March 27, 2023 | Monday | News
Japanese startup Jolly Good and Harvard University collaborate on medical VR content

Japan-based startup Jolly Good in collaboration with Brigham and Women's Hospital, a hospital affiliated with Harva...

March 24, 2023 | Friday | News
Japan to provide comprehensive end-to-end linen management services to hospitals in India

Toyota Tsusho, a renowned global trading company within the Toyota Group in Japan, has teamed up with Tokai Corp, a spec...

March 21, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Takeda’s dengue vaccine receives first approval in Latin America

Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda's dengue vaccine, QDENGA  (Dengue Tetravalent Vaccine [Live, Attenuated...

March 15, 2023 | Wednesday | News
GHIT Fund invests ¥ 260 M for new malaria drug development by Japanese firms

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund, in Japan, has announced an investment totaling approximately 2...

March 13, 2023 | Monday | News
AriBio & Fujirebio to advance biomarker development for Alzheimer’s Disease

Fujirebio Diagnostics, Inc., (a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan-based H.U. Group Holdings, Inc. and Fujirebio Holdings,...

March 10, 2023 | Friday | News
Japanese firm Sumitomo invests in radiopharmaceutical startup Alpha Fusion

Japan-based Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) has announced the decision to invest in Alpha Fusion Inc. (AF), a developer ...

March 9, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japan's Teijin Pharma inks $230 M deal with Novartis for kidney diseases treatment

Teijin Pharma, based in Japan, has entered into an exclusive global license agreement with Swiss firm Novartis t...

March 8, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japan discovers potential treatment of autoimmune diseases

Scientists in Japan have revealed a chemical compound that could be used for the treatment of various autoimmune disease...

March 7, 2023 | Tuesday | News
C2i Genomics, Riken Genesis expand AI-powered cancer detection technology across Japan

US-headquartered startup C2i Genomics has announced a collaboration with Riken Genesis (RG) Co. to b...

March 3, 2023 | Friday | News
Biogen terminates multiple sclerosis (MS) pact with Eisai in Japan

Biogen Japan and Eisai have announced the termination of the co-promotion agreement that has been in place since January...

March 3, 2023 | Friday | News
Medical Technology Association of India recommends Japan as “China+1 alternative in MedTech Imports”

Medical Technology Association of India (MTaI), which represents leading research-based medical technology companies wit...

March 3, 2023 | Friday | News
Japan's GHIT strengthens ties with Unitaid to improve access to critical health tools

The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund) and global health agency Unitaid have signed a cooper...

March 2, 2023 | Thursday | News
Deprecated Yen attracts renewed international interest in Japanese pharma

CPHI Japan 2023 opens in April (19-21) as the country undergoes a huge resurgence in international trade, with West...

March 1, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japanese firm Mitsui & Co. invests in American health tech company Koios Medical

Japanese firm Mitsui & Co. has participated as a lead investor in a Series B round financing of Koios Medical, a US-...

February 28, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan bags new opportunity to improve healthcare system

Omi Medical Center, a part of the Seikoukai Social Medical Corporation and one of Japan's leading institu...

February 27, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan's Olympus buys Korean gastrointestinal stent firm Taewoong Medical for $370 M

Olympus Corporation, a global medtech company headquartered in Japan, has agreed to acquire Taewoong Medical Co.,&n...

February 24, 2023 | Friday | News
Taiwan approves Ono Pharma's non-small cell lung cancer drug with chemotherapy

Japanese firm Ono Pharmaceutical has received the approval of Opdivo (nivolumab) Intravenous Infusion, a human anti-hu...

February 24, 2023 | Friday | News
Japanese firms Teijin and Axcelead establish joint venture for drug discovery research

Japan-based pharmaceutical companies Teijin Limited and Axcelead, Inc. have jointly announced their basic agreemen...

February 23, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japanese pharma firm Eisai dissolves joint venture with Italy's Bracco Imaging

Bracco Imaging S.p.A. (Headquartered in Milan, Italy) and Japan based pharmaceutical firm Eisai Co. have announced that ...

February 21, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Capricor Therapeutics inks $100 M deal with Nippon Shinyaku for DMD treatment in Japan

US-based biotech firm Capricor Therapeutics has entered into a partnership with Nippon Shinyaku Co., a Japanese pharmace...

February 20, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan develops method to design new peptide therapeutics for combating antibiotic resistance

Applications of new molecules as drugs are expected to be effective in treating diseases that are difficult to cure with...

February 13, 2023 | Monday | News
Japan develops world's first optical computing AI algorithm inspired by human brain

NTT Corporation and the University of Tokyo in Japan have devised a new learning algorithm inspired by the informat...

February 9, 2023 | Thursday | News
Astellas Pharma announces change of President and CEO

Astellas Pharma Inc. has approved changes to its Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) an...

February 8, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japan & Kenya develop biometric-based vaccination management system for newborns

Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), NEC Corporation (NEC) and Nagasaki University, Japan, have developed a digital...

February 8, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japanese firm Mitsubishi Tanabe stops commercialisation of COVID-19 vaccine

Japan-based Mitsubishi Chemical Group has decided to cease all of its operations at Medicago Inc., a Canadian subs...

February 6, 2023 | Monday | News
Invivoscribe appoints Masato Sasaki as General Manager of LabPMM, GK (Japan)

US-based firm Invivoscribe has announced the appointment of Masato Sasaki as General Manager of LabPMM GK, its refe...

February 2, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japanese pharma firm Shionogi launches anti-bacterial drug in Denmark

Japan headquartered pharmaceutical company Shionogi & Co. and its European subsidiary, Shionogi B.V. have announced ...

February 2, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japan-based Daiichi Sankyo announces new President and COO

Daiichi Sankyo Company has announced the appointment of a new President & Chief Operating Officer (COO) effect...

February 1, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Ono Pharma acquires multiple oncology programmes from US-based KSQ Therapeutics

Japan-headquartered Ono Pharmaceutical has entered an agreement with US-based KSQ Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotech...

January 30, 2023 | Monday | News
Shimadzu opens door to biomolecular imaging with new compact MALDI-TOF solution

Japan-headquartered Shimadzu Corporation has announced the release of the world’s smallest MALDI-TOF imaging solut...

January 26, 2023 | Thursday | News
Aculys Pharma and Four H initiate research collaboration using wearable devices to study sleep disorders in Japan

Aculys Pharma, Inc., a company focused on the development and commercialisation of new innovative drugs in the fields of...

January 25, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Sandoz to acquire rights of antifungal agent Mycamine from Japanese firm Astellas

Japan-headquartered Astellas Pharma has entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement, under which Astellas will transfer the...

January 24, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Takeda inks oncology deal worth $730 M with Hutchmed to improve cancer treatment outside China

Japanese pharmaceutical firm Takeda has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Hutchmed (China) for the furt...

January 23, 2023 | Monday | News
Eisai launches subsidiary operations to boost business activities in Israel

Japan headquartered firm Eisai has launched its pharmaceutical sales subsidiary, a fully-fledged operations and bus...

January 19, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japan's Kaneka expands GMP manufacturing capacity for mRNA to Europe

Tokyo Headquarterd Kaneka Corporation is set to increase its GMP manufacturing capacity for mRNA in ...

January 19, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japanese firm Fuji Pharma expands partnership with Alvotech for new biosimilar candidate

European biotech firm Alvotech and Japanese pharmaceutical company Fuji Pharma have decided to expand their existing exc...

January 19, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japan's Astellas Pharma inks $340 M worth deal to advance gene therapy portfolio

US-based Selecta Biosciences, and Japanese firm Astellas Pharma have announced an exclusive licensing and development ag...

January 16, 2023 | Monday | News
Otsuka and Schrödinger announce single-target, drug discovery partnership in neurology

Japanese firm Otsuka Pharmaceutical has announced that the company and its UK-based subsidiary Astex Pharmaceuticals are...

January 13, 2023 | Friday | News
Ajinomoto and Exelixis partner to develop novel antibody-drug conjugates for cancer treatment

Japan-based Ajinomoto has announced a license agreement with US-based firm Exelixis to incorporate AJICAP, Ajinomoto Co....

January 11, 2023 | Wednesday | News
"Crovalimab could potentially become the first global drug originating from Singapore"

Japanese headquartered Chugai Pharmaceutical  has already developed world-class technologies for antibody engineeri...

January 6, 2023 | Friday | Opinion
Moderna buys Japanese startup OriCiro for $85M

Moderna, a US-based biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, and OriCiro Genomic...

January 9, 2023 | Monday | News
Kitakyushu General Hospital in Japan advances use of digital laparoscopic platform

Asensus Surgical, a US-based medical device company that is digitising the interface between the surgeon and the patient...

January 5, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japanese startup Veritas In Silico inks new partnership for mRNA-targeted small molecule drug discovery

Japan-based startup Veritas In Silico has entered into a joint drug discovery research agreement with RaQualia Pharma to...

December 30, 2022 | Friday | News
Fujifilm to acquire Inspirata's digital pathology business

Japanese behemoth Fujifilm Corporation has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire the global digital p...

December 28, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japanese pharma firm PeptiDream inks $3 B worth deals for novel peptide drug conjugates

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

December 28, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japan approves manufacturing and marketing of Adtralza for atopic dermatitis treatment

Denmark-based LEO Pharma A/S, a global leader in medical dermatology, has announced that the Japan Ministry of Health, L...

December 26, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan approves Sysmex's assay kit for detection of Alzheimer's

Sysmex Corporation has received manufacturing and marketing approval in Japan for the HISCL β-Amyloid 1-42 Assay ...

December 23, 2022 | Friday | News
Japanese pharma sector takes steps to reduce environmental burden in packaging

Astellas Pharma Inc., Eisai Co., Daiichi Sankyo Company and Takeda Pharmaceutical have agreed on collaboration to reduce...

December 23, 2022 | Friday | News
Takeda, IIF, and Mitsubishi further develop Shonan iPark in Japan to enhance life sciences ecosystem

Renewing its commitment to innovation in Japan and to Shonan Health Innovation Park (Shonan iPark), Japan-based Takeda P...

December 22, 2022 | Thursday | News
Tanaka makes equity contribution for establishing medical venture ecosystem in Japan

Tokyo based TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. has made an equity contribution to the medical venture capital fund 'Diamond Med...

December 20, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Sosei Heptares & Eli Lilly ink $730 M deal for treatment of diabetes and metabolic diseases

Japan-based Sosei Group Corporation has entered a drug discovery collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company, to discover, ...

December 20, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Japanese firm Eisai partners with Washington University for treatment of neuro diseases

Eisai and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have entered into a comprehensive research collaboration...

December 19, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan-based Ono Pharma inks multi target R&D deal with UK's PrecisionLife

UK-based PrecisionLife has entered into a multi-target discovery and validation partnership with Japan's Ono Pharmaceuti...

December 16, 2022 | Friday | News
Fujifilm invests in PhenoVista Biosciences to develop stem cells-based assay services

Japan-based Fujifilm Corporation has announced its investment in PhenoVista Biosciences, a contract research organisatio...

December 15, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japanese healthcare startup Ubie raises $45 M in series C round

Ubie, Inc., a Tokyo-based healthcare startup, has closed its Series C round at $45 million by raising $19 million i...

December 13, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Takeda inks deal worth $6 B with US-based Nimbus Therapeutics

US-based Nimbus Therapeutics, LLC has signed a definitive agreement under which Japanese pharmaceutical firm Takeda...

December 14, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japanese government buys additional quantity of COVID-19 drug Xocova from Shionogi

Shionogi & Co. has entered into an additional purchasing contract of Xocova (Generic name: ensitrelvir fuma...

December 13, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Chugai and Towa launch edirol tablet for osteoporosis treatment in Japan

Japanese firms Chugai Pharmaceutical and Towa Pharmaceutical have announced that Towa launched Edirol Tablets ...

December 12, 2022 | Monday | News
Olympus backs Japan govt's project for dissemination of endoscopic AI diagnosis in Vietnam

Olympus Corporation has announced their part in a project in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Commu...

December 6, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Global Health Innovative Technology Fund secures $20 M pledge from Wellcome

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund has secured a pledge from global charitable foundation Wellcome...

December 6, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Olympus Asia Pacific Innovation Programme to identify medtech innovators

Japan-based Olympus Corporation has partnered with MedTech Innovator Asia Pacific, the industry's largest healthcare acc...

December 5, 2022 | Monday | News
Japanese pharma firm Kyowa Kirin announces joint venture with Germany's Grünenthal

Kyowa Kirin, a Japan-based global specialty pharmaceutical company, and Germany's Grünenthal GmbH have signed a Joi...

November 29, 2022 | Tuesday | News
GARDP and Sumitomo Pharma announce partnership in search for new antibiotics

The Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) and Japanese firm Sumitomo Pharma Co. have signed an ...

November 24, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japan to develop first blood biomarker-based diagnostic workflow for dementia

Shimadzu Corporation, Eisai Co., Oita University, and Usuki City Medical Association have announced the commencement of ...

November 22, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Japan starts joint trials for millimeter-wave sensor to detect falls of elderly patients

Fujitsu and Wakayama Medical University in Japan have announced the start of joint trials of a technology to support nur...

November 21, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan commercialises world's first test for early-stage pancreatic cancer

Hirotsu Bio Science Inc. has announced the commercialisation of "N-NOSE plus Pancreas," the first next-generation "cance...

November 17, 2022 | Thursday | News

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