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
Chugai extends R&D collaboration in Singapore earmarking S$282M over next 5 years

The Japanese company Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., which owns and operates a fully-owned research center "Chugai Phar...

November 16, 2022 | Wednesday | Company results
Ono Pharma inks neuro drug discovery collaboration with Captor Therapeutics

Japan-based Ono Pharmaceutical has entered a worldwide drug discovery collaboration agreement with Poland's Captor The...

November 15, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Otsuka ends gene therapy collaboraton with Takara Bio

Japanese firm Otsuka Pharmaceutical has decided jointly with Takara Bio Inc, to terminate agreements on co-development a...

November 14, 2022 | Monday | News
GHIT Fund in Japan invests ¥ 790 M for product development of Neglected Tropical Diseases

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund in Japan has announced a total of approximately 790 million yen...

November 14, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan explores use of robotic technology to help people with disabilities

The Global Innovation Challenge (GIC) Executive Committee, based in Tokyo, has announced that the "Global Inno...

November 10, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japan-based Shionogi invests ¥100 M in stroke recovery technology

Japan-based Shionogi & Co. has concluded a capital alliance with Lifescapes Inc., a startup arising from Keio U...

November 9, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Kyowa Kirin announce changes in leadership positions

Kyowa Kirin, a Japan-based Global Specialty Pharmaceutical company, has announced the appointment of Abdul Mullick...

November 9, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Canon launches first domestic X-ray CT system with photon-counting detector

Canon Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Medical), a group company of Canon Inc., has developed the first domestically...

November 7, 2022 | Monday | News
Ono Pharmaceutical inks immuno-oncology partnership with Memo Therapeutics

Japan's Ono Pharmaceutical has entered a drug discovery agreement to discover and develop antibody drugs in the immuno...

November 4, 2022 | Friday | News
I Peace partners with the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Founded in 2015 by Koji Tanabe, a graduate of Professor Shinya Yamanaka's laboratory at Kyoto Univer...

November 3, 2022 | Thursday | News
Terumo invests ¥15 B to expand CDMO services outside Japan

Terumo Pharmaceutical Solutions (TPS), a leading manufacturer of injection, primary container, and infusion therapy devi...

November 1, 2022 | Tuesday | News
The BEES-HAUS Cell Therapy, Tested With Cell Engraftment by Urologists at the Edogawa Hospital in Japan, Has The Potential to Stop Recurrence of Urethral Stricture

The vital tube carries urine from the bladder and out through the urethral meatus during urination, and from the sperm s...

October 28, 2022 | Friday | News
Novo Nordisk to commercialise Mallya smart sensors in Japan

French company BioCorp has announced a partnership agreement with Danish pharmaceutical firm Novo Nordisk for the commer...

October 28, 2022 | Friday | News
Japan-based Sumitovant Biopharma to acquire Myovant Sciences for $1.7 B

Sumitovant Biopharma, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japanese firm Sumitomo Pharma Co., and Switzerland & US-base...

October 27, 2022 | Thursday | News
Philips expands ClarifEye AR surgical navigation solution rollout in Japan

Royal Philips has announced expanded rollout of its augmented reality (AR) surgical navigation solution - Clari...

October 17, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan's Astellas Pharma invests $50 M to support gene therapy programmes of Taysha

Japan-based Astellas Pharma Inc. and Taysha Gene Therapies, Inc. have announced a strategic investment to support t...

October 25, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Olympus announces leadership succession plan

Japan-based Olympus Corporation has announced that Stefan Kaufmann, the current Director, Executive Officer and Chief Ad...

October 22, 2022 | Saturday | News
Takeda enters new collaboration to develop first-in-class celiac disease therapy

Japanese pharmaceutical firm Takeda, and Germany-based Zedira and Dr. Falk Pharma GmbH have announced a collaborati...

October 22, 2022 | Saturday | News
Takara Bio, BioExcel Diagnostics to develop wide-coverage infectious disease detection panels

Takara Bio USA, Inc., a pioneering life science reagent and instrument company and wholly owned subsidiary of Japan-base...

October 19, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japanese firm introduces new RNA editing technology

EditForce,  headquartered in Fukuoka, Japan, has realized the world's first RNA-editing technology that enables RNA...

October 18, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Biocon out-licenses two biosimilar assets for commercialization in Japan

Indian firm Biocon Biologics has entered into a strategic out-licensing agreement with Japanese pharmaceuticals com...

October 17, 2022 | Monday | News
Sanofi sells manufacturing site in Japan to CDMO Adragos Pharma

Adragos Pharma, a rapidly growing pharmaceutical Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) base...

October 14, 2022 | Friday | News
Fujifilm to establish first Bio-CDMO site in Japan

Fujifilm Corporation has announced that it will establish the company’s first Japanese Bio-CDMO (contract developm...

October 10, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan approves CathWorks device for coronary artery disease patients

Israel-based medtech company CathWorks has announced the approval of the fourth generation CathWorks FFRangio Syste...

October 10, 2022 | Monday | News
Olympus introduces new endoscopic ultrasound processor

Olympus Corporation, a Japan-based medtech company, has announced the launch of EU-ME3, a new Endoscopic Ultrasound Proc...

October 7, 2022 | Friday | News
Eisai strengthens R&D function for injectable drug formulations in Japan

Eisai has announced that as a part of the strategic investment towards the realization of its medium-term business plan ...

October 6, 2022 | Thursday | News
DentalMonitoring expands into Japan

DentalMonitoring, the leading global provider of smart dentistry solutions, is setting foot in Japan to serve the Asian ...

October 4, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Hyperthermia system made in Japan helping cancer patients in Vietnam

Treatment of cancer using one’s own immune cells, natural killer (NK) cells and T-cells, called autologous immune ...

October 3, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan approves AstraZeneca's Tezspire for severe asthma treatment

AstraZeneca’s Tezspire (tezepelumab) has been approved in Japan for the treatment of bronchial asthma in pati...

September 30, 2022 | Friday | News
Takeda strengthens healthcare systems to meet patients’ need for plasma-derived therapies

As part of their well-established partnership, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and Japan...

September 30, 2022 | Friday | News
Japan approves CAR-T therapy for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma

US-based Legend Biotech Corporation has announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) ...

September 28, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japanese firm Olympus launches THUNDERBEAT energy device for open surgery

Olympus Corporation has announced the release of the THUNDERBEAT Open Fine Jaw Type X surgical energy devices for open s...

September 28, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Fujifilm receives regulatory approval for latest generation Endoscopic Ultrasound

Japan-based FUJIFILM Corporation has developed a convex ultrasonic endoscope, the EG-740UT, for the upper gastrointestin...

September 29, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japan approves subcutaneous injection formulation for rheumatoid arthritis

Eisai and nippon medac Co. have obtained manufacturing and marketing approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labo...

September 28, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Fujitsu, Tohoku University embark on strategic alliance for preventive healthcare

Japan-based Fujitsu and Tohoku University have announced the start of a strategic alliance to accelerate the shift towar...

September 27, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Shionogi to launch business involving brain activation through sound stimulation

Japan-based Shionogi & Co., Shionogi Healthcare & Co. and Pixie Dust Technologies, Inc. (PxDT) have entered ...

September 26, 2022 | Monday | News
Advanced peripheral mechanical thrombectomy technology to enter Japan

US-based Penumbra, Inc., a global healthcare company focused on innovative therapies, and Asahi Intecc Co., a ...

September 23, 2022 | Friday | News
Peli BioThermal opens new service centre in Japan

Peli BioThermal, the life science industry’s partner from discovery to distribution, has announced the opening of ...

September 22, 2022 | Thursday | News
Indian firm Excelra expands scientific products footprint in Japanese market

India-based Excelra has announced a partnership with Patcore, Inc., providing greater access to Excelra's scientific dat...

September 21, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Smith+Nephew launches hip replacement surgery tool in Japan

UK-based Smith+Nephew has launched its OR3O Dual Mobility System for use in primary and revision hip arthroplasty (...

September 20, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Japanese firm Olympus unveils new surgical visualisation platform for endoscopy

Olympus Corporation, based in Japan, has announced the launch of VISERA ELITE III, its newest surgical visualization pla...

September 15, 2022 | Thursday | News
Life science tech firm MGI unveils state-of-the-art demo lab in Japan

China-based MGI Tech Co., Ltd. (MGI), a global life science leader and innovator, has announced the grand opening of a n...

September 9, 2022 | Friday | News
Prospection partners with Japanese firm Medical Data Vision to improve patient care

Health analytics pioneer Prospection, based in Australia, has announced a unique global data access agreement with leadi...

September 6, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Fujitsu, Tsuda University launch joint research on healthcare services in Japan

Fujitsu and Tsuda University have announced the launch of a social design joint research project to realize sustainable ...

August 30, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Shimadzu unveils near-infrared light imaging system to enhance drug discovery research

Japan-based Shimadzu has announced the release of the LuminousQuester NI near-infrared imaging system. This system consi...

August 29, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan gives nod to breast cancer drug by AstraZeneca and Merck

AstraZeneca and Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, have announced that LYNPARZA has been appro...

August 26, 2022 | Friday | News
Lupin and I’rom partner to make denosumab biosimilar available in Japan

Indian firm Lupin has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with I’rom Group, a leading pharmaceutica...

August 25, 2022 | Thursday | News
Eisai builds real-world evidence for blood-based assays for cognitive impairment

Japanese firm Eisai has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with US-based C2N Diagnostics that will seek to build...

August 24, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Ubie secures $26.2 M to fuel business growth in Japan & US

Japan-based startup Ubie, Inc. has raised $26.2 million in the 1st round of Series C funding. New investors in...

August 22, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan's CureApp, Sawai Group partner for DTx solution in NASH field

Japanese startup CureApp has entered into a license agreement with Sawai Group Holdings for the development and marketin...

August 19, 2022 | Friday | News
Carlyle acquires significant minority stake in Japanese startup CureApp

Global investment firm Carlyle has announced a strategic partnership with CureApp, Inc., a leading Japanese medical tech...

August 18, 2022 | Thursday | News
Vuzix tests smart glasses for emergency medical care in Japan

US-based Vuzix, a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, ahas nnounced th...

August 17, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japan approves Chugai Pharma's osteoporosis drug

Japanese firms Chugai Pharmaceutical and Towa Pharmaceutical have announced that Chugai has obtained regulatory approval...

August 16, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Verizon Business to transform Astellas Pharma’s global network infra

Verizon Business has been selected to manage Astellas Pharma's (Astellas) global network infrastructure. The network tra...

August 10, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Eisai, LIFENET to build ecosystem for reducing medical care burden in Japan

Eisai and LIFENET Insurance company have entered into a capital and business alliance agreement to collaborate in dement...

August 9, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Astellas Pharma puts forth new management structure

Astellas Pharma has announced the appintment of a new Chief Medical Officer (CMO)- Dr Tadaaki Taniguchi, as of...

August 8, 2022 | Monday | News
Grünenthal licenses-out osteoarthritis pain treatment to Shionogi in Japan

German firm Grünenthal and Japan-based Shionogi have entered into a licensing agreement for Grünenthal's inves...

August 4, 2022 | Thursday | News
Sosei Heptares and AbbVie enter new multi-target collaboration worth $1.2 B

Japanese firm Sosei Group Corporation and US-based AbbVie, a research-based global biopharmaceutical company, have enter...

August 3, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japan approves Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents

US-based Novavax has announced that Nuvaxovid (NVX-CoV2373) COVID-19 vaccine received expanded manufacturing and marketi...

July 28, 2022 | Thursday | News
Shimadzu lays focus on diagnostic aid technology for depression using blood tests

Japan-based Shimadzu Corporation is participating in the project “Creating a System for Maintaining the Mental Hea...

July 26, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Shimadzu releases high-performance LCMS-2050

Japan-based Shimadzu Corporation has announced the release of the LCMS-2050 high-performance liquid chromatograph mass s...

June 11, 2022 | Saturday | News
Japan-based Astellas Pharma to open new biotech campus in US

Japan headquartered Astellas Pharma Inc. has announced plans to create an integrated biotechnology campus in S...

July 22, 2022 | Friday | News
Japanese startup Elix introduces 'all-in-one' platform for AI drug discovery

Japan-based startup Elix, Inc., an artificial intelligenet (AI) drug discovery company with the mission of “Rethin...

July 15, 2022 | Friday | News
Heidelberg Pharma inks deal worth € 105 M with Japan's Chiome Bioscience

Heidelberg Pharma AG and Japan-based Chiome Bioscience have announced the signing of an exclusive, target-specific resea...

July 18, 2022 | Monday | News
Aculys Pharma, SUSMED to conduct world's first clinical trial using blockchain

Japan-based Aculys Pharma has entered into a contract with SUSMED, Inc., a company that promotes digital medicine, to co...

July 13, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japan-based 3D-printed prosthetic legs maker Instalimb raises ¥ 445 M

Japan-based world’s first 3D-printed prosthetic legs maker Instalimb raised 445 million yen (Rs 26 crore) in Serie...

July 13, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Fujitsu develops new technology for accurately estimating postures of human body

Japan-based Fujitsu has successfully developed a new technology to accurately estimate postures of the human body from c...

July 11, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan's Shionogi seeks China approval for COVID-19 treatment

Shionogi & Co., has announced that a joint venture between Shionogi and Ping An Life Insurance Company of China, , P...

July 8, 2022 | Friday | News
Eli Lilly Japan inks deal with Mitsubishi Tanabe for diabetes treatment

Eli Lilly Japan K.K. and Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation (MTPC) have signed a sales collaboration agreement in Japa...

July 7, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japan's Astellas Pharma partners with Mogrify to address sensorineural hearing loss

UK-based Mogrify Limited, a biopharmaceutical company transforming the lives of patients through a novel class of i...

July 6, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japan's EditForce & Mitsubishi ink gene therapy deal for ¥20 B

Japan-based EditForce has entered into a license agreement with Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation (MTPC) to research,...

July 5, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Fujifilm invests $1.6 B to expand global offering of cell culture manufacturing services

Japan-based Fujifilm Corporation has announced the investment of $1.6 billion to enhance and expand the cell culture man...

July 4, 2022 | Monday | News
Novel AI-driven automation platform enables optimization of laboratory protocols

In collaboration with a Japanese firm SBX Corporation, a Swiss-based firm Philip Morris International has deve...

July 1, 2022 | Friday | News
Catalent expands primary packaging capabilities in Japan

Catalent has announced the expansion of its primary packaging capabilities at its clinical supply facility in Shiga...

July 1, 2022 | Friday | News
Labcorp plans expansion in Japan through BML collaboration

Labcorp, a leading global life sciences company, has announced that it is enhancing its central laboratory presence and ...

June 29, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Sanofi partners with Health2Sync for diabetes management in Japan

Sanofi Japan and Taiwan-based startup Health2Sync have entered into a partnering agreement to support healthcare profess...

June 28, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Japan discovers new type of bone repairing material

Ceramics and metals have been used for a while as structural materials to repair bones and joints. In the past, scientis...

June 27, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan-based Fujirebio acquires ADx Neurosciences for €40 M

Japan's H.U. Group Holdings Inc., and its wholly-owned subsidiary Fujirebio Holdings, Inc., and Belgium-based ADx NeuroS...

June 24, 2022 | Friday | News
Fujitsu, Salesforce start collaboration on healthcare solutions for Japan market

Fujitsu and Salesforce Japan have announced the start of a collaboration to create new digital solutions for the healthc...

June 23, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japan's Nippon Express launches new service for vaccine transport

Nippon Express Co., Ltd., a group company of Nippon Express Holdings, Inc., (NX Group) has become the first Japanese log...

June 21, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Saint-Gobain Life Sciences expands manufacturing capacity in Japan

French firm Saint-Gobain Life Sciences has announced the expansion of its manufacturing facility in Suwa, Japan to ...

June 17, 2022 | Friday | News
Takeda's dengue vaccine proves protection through 4.5 yrs of clinical trials

Japanese pharmaceutical firm Takeda has announced that its dengue vaccine candidate, TAK-003, prevented 8...

June 15, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Shionogi expands access to Cefiderocol in 135 countries to treat bacterial infections

Japan-based Shionogi & Co. and the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) have announced the...

June 15, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Nippon Express launches ultra-low temp-controlled pharma logistics service

Japan's Nippon Express, a group company of Nippon Express Holdings, Inc., launched a logistics service capable of handli...

June 13, 2022 | Monday | News
Major milestone for secondary fracture prevention announced in Japan

An estimated 13 million people are living with osteoporosis in Japan. The bone disorder results in painful and disabling...

June 10, 2022 | Friday | News
Japanese startup LUCA Science raises $30.3 M in Series B funding

Japan-based startup LUCA Science, a global innovator in the development of a novel class of mitochondria biopharmaceutic...

June 6, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan's Daiichi Sankyo to commercialise mRNA vaccine against COVID-19 in 2022

Daiichi Sankyo has announced the current progress of development of DS-5670, an mRNA vaccine, being evaluated in Japan a...

June 3, 2022 | Friday | News