Asahi Kasei collaborates with Woolsey Pharma

US based Woolsey Pharmaceuticals has announced that it has completed a license agreement with Japanese pharmaceutical co...

November 27, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Eisai Launches First Amazon Alexa Skill Designed for Epileptic Children

 Eisai Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Eisai Co., Ltd., has announced the launch of Ella the Jellyfish, the first Amaz...

November 26, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Shionogi receives FDA approval for cUTI drug

Japan based Shionogi & Co., Ltd. has announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved FETROJA®...

November 26, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Eisai launches Parkinson's drug in Japan

Tokyo headquartered Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that it has launched the Equfina® 50mg TABLETS (safinamide mesila...

November 25, 2019 | Monday | News
Astellas and Welldoc collaborate for digital therapeutics

Japan headquartered Astellas Pharma Inc. and US based Welldoc, Inc. have entered into a collaboration and license agreem...

November 22, 2019 | Friday | News
Japan grants ODD to Merck's investigational therapy Tepotinib

Merck, a leading science and technology company, has announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare ...

November 21, 2019 | Thursday | News
Toray signs pact with JICA to support infection control capacity

Japan headquartered Toray Industries, Inc., has made an agreement with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)...

November 20, 2019 | Wednesday | News
Novartis to buy Aspen’s Japanese operations

Sandoz has announced that it has entered into a binding agreement for the planned acquisition of the Japanese business o...

November 18, 2019 | Monday | News
Lupin bids goodbye to Japan

Indian pharma major Lupin Limited (including its subsidiaries, together referred to as  ‘Lupin’) a...

November 18, 2019 | Monday | News
Clinical Trial of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy commences in Japan

Cancer Intelligence Care Systems, Inc. (CICS) and STELLA PHARMA CORPORATION will commence a Phase I clinical trial of Bo...

November 18, 2019 | Monday | News
Takeda announces 12 new molecular entities

Japan headquartered Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited recentky hosted an R&D meeting in New York City to ou...

November 15, 2019 | Friday | News
NEC, VAXIMM to advance personalized neoantigen cancer vaccines

Japan based NEC Corporation, a leader in IT and network technologies, and VAXIMM AG, a Swiss/German biotech company focu...

November 15, 2019 | Friday | News
Yokogawa acquires nanopipette technology for life science applications

Japan headquartered Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has acquired a nanopipette technology that was devel...

November 14, 2019 | Thursday | News
Novo Nordisk obtains worldwide licence to potential NASH candidate

Novo Nordisk A/S and Japanese chemical company UBE Industries Ltd. recently announced that Novo Nordisk has obtained an ...

November 8, 2019 | Friday | News
Takeda, Anderson Cancer Center accelerate cell therapy

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center) and Takeda P...

November 12, 2019 | Tuesday | News
Kayentis opens Japanese subsidiary

Kayentis, a global provider of eCOA (electronic Clinical Outcome Assessment) solutions for clinical trials, has announce...

November 11, 2019 | Monday | News
Fujitsu improves efficiency in Cancer Genomic Medicine in joint AI research

Fujitsu, on 7 Nov 2019, announced the results of a joint research project it has been conducting with the Institute of M...

November 8, 2019 | Friday | News
Takeda’s Dengue vaccine candidate reveals protection in children

Japan based Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced that results from the primary endpoint analysis of ...

November 8, 2019 | Friday | News