Japan-based Hitachi advances molecular diagnostics and precision medicine

Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, has entered into a strategic partnership with In...

May 10, 2022 | Tuesday | News
ExoCoBio receives Japanese patent for alleviating dermatitis with exosome-based medicines

ExoCoBio Inc. has received from Japanese Patent Office the patent which claims that stem cell-derived exosome is proved ...

May 9, 2022 | Monday | News
CureApp receives world-first approval of digital therapeutic app for hypertension

Japan's CureApp has received the medical device regulatory approval of an digital therapeutic (DTx) app for hypertension...

May 6, 2022 | Friday | News
Aurion Biotech raises $120 million

Aurion Biotech, whose mission is to restore vision to millions of patients with its life-changing regenerative therapies...

May 5, 2022 | Thursday | News
Jazz Pharma and Sumitomo Pharma to develop therapies for sleep disorders

Ireland-based Jazz Pharmaceuticals and Sumitomo Pharma Co. in Japan, have entered into an exclusive licensing agree...

May 5, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japanese population projected to live longer without dementia: Study

A new detailed microsimulation, using a database of 40 million people, has examined the future of Japan’s aging po...

May 4, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Incyte and Maruho lay focus on inflammatory dermatologic diseases in Japan

Incyte and Maruho Co., Ltd. have announced that the companies have entered into a Strategic Alliance Agreement for the d...

May 3, 2022 | Tuesday | News
ViGeneron, Daiichi Sankyo to develop novel gene therapy for prevalent eye diseases

ViGeneron GmbH, a next-generation gene therapy company, has announced a follow-on collaboration with Daiichi Sankyo Comp...

April 29, 2022 | Friday | News
Healion Bio, FUJIFILM Toyama co-explore promising COVID-19 oral antiviral drug

Healion Bio, a closely held biotechnology company, has announced a collaborative agreement to research a combination ant...

April 29, 2022 | Friday | News
Japan deploys AI technology for detecting pancreatic cancer

Fujitsu and the Southern Tohoku General Hospital have announced the launch of a joint research project with Fujitsu Japa...

April 29, 2022 | Friday | News
Shionogi’s COVID-19 antiviral drug shows rapid virus clearance

Japan-based Shionogi & Co., Ltd. announced new results from two late-breaking presentations of S-217622 at the 32nd ...

April 28, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japan's Sumitomo Pharma takes license to CRISPR/Cas9 patent portfolio from ERS Genomics

ERS Genomics Limited has confirmed the finalization of a license agreement with Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd. ("Sumitomo Pha...

April 28, 2022 | Thursday | News
Softbank invests in Japanese startup AI Medical Service Inc

Japan-based startup AI Medical Service Inc. (AIM) has announced 8 billion JPY (US$70 million) of financing led by SoftBa...

April 27, 2022 | Wednesday | News
University of Tokyo, Astellas further advance development of innovative medicines

The University of Tokyo and Astellas Pharma Inc., in Japan, have entered the second phase of their collaboration for co-...

April 27, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Ubie, Japanese HealthTech Startup, launches AI-powered symptom checker in the US

Ubie, Inc., a healthcare AI startup with the mission "To develop a healthcare guide for everyone," has launched in the U...

April 26, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Asahi Kasei Medical to acquire US-based CDMO Bionova Scientific

Japan-based Asahi Kasei Medical has concluded an agreement through a US subsidiary to wholly acquire Bionova S...

April 25, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan offers early detection of dementia using AI vocal biomarkers

US-based Canary Speech has announced a collaboration with SMK and Japan's National Cerebral and Cardiovascular...

April 21, 2022 | Thursday | News
Pangaea Data joins AstraZeneca Japan’s Healthcare Innovation Network

Pangaea Data, headquartered in London with offices in San Francisco and Hong Kong, is now a member of Innovati...

April 20, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japan approves Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine for primary and booster immunisation

Takeda Pharma has received manufacturing and marketing approval from the Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (M...

April 19, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Kaneka releases new PCR detection kits for Omicron and Occult Omicron variants

Japan-based Kaneka Corporation has released a product that can simultaneously detect COVID-19 - Real-time PCR detection ...

April 18, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan's PHC receives first EU-MDR certification

The In Vitro Diagnostics Division of PHC Corporation, a provider of medical devices and diagnostics, has received Europe...

April 18, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan develops photocatalyst for antiviral coating against COVID-19

The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), responsible for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, has affected millions of people world...

April 15, 2022 | Friday | News
Japan's Fujifilm announces positive results of AI-based study on Alzheimer's detection

Japan-based FUJIFILM Corporation and National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry have announced positive study results o...

April 14, 2022 | Thursday | News
Takeda partners with Engitix to to develop new anti-fibrotic therapies

UK's Engitix, a biotechnology company developing a portfolio of programmes in fibrosis and solid tumours using its propr...

April 14, 2022 | Thursday | News
Mitsui partners with TriNetX to expand global research network in Japan

Mitsui, the global network of healthcare organizations driving real-world research to accelerate the development of new ...

April 13, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Osaka University, Shimadzu, SIGMAXYZ collaborate for 3D bioprinting in Japan

Japan-based National University Corporation Osaka University, Shimadzu Corporation, and SIGMAXYZ Inc. have signed an agr...

April 13, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Ardelyx and Kyowa Kirin amend license agreement for Tenapanor

US' Ardelyx, has reached an agreement with its Japanese collaboration partner, Kyowa Kirin Co. Ltd., to amend the licens...

April 12, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Takeda teams up with Evozyne to develop next-gen gene therapies

US-based Evozyne, Inc., an adaptive biology company pioneering evolution-based design of proteins, founded by Paragon Bi...

April 11, 2022 | Monday | News
PENTAX Medical appoints Dr Klaus Mergener as Chief Medical Officer

Japan's PENTAX Medical, a division of HOYA Group, has announced the appointment of Dr Klaus Mergener to the po...

April 11, 2022 | Monday | News
AGC to expand synthetic pharmaceutical production base in Spain

AGC Inc., a Tokyo-based world-leading manufacturer of glass, chemicals, high-tech materials, has decided to expand ...

April 8, 2022 | Friday | News
CEPI partners with Japan’s NEC Group for AI-designed betacoronavirus vaccine

Norway-based CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and NEC Corporation in Japan have announced the ...

April 8, 2022 | Friday | News
Japan's Shionogi accelerates R&D for data-driven innovation in pharmaceuticals

Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi & Co., Ltd., has selected Cloudera to boost its data analytics ca...

April 7, 2022 | Thursday | News
Iktos, Teijin Pharma to co-develop new technology for small molecule drug discovery

French firm Iktos, a company specialized in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for new drug design, and Japan's Teij...

April 6, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Chugai, Halozyme Therapeutics partner for ENHANZE Technology

US' Halozyme Therapeutics has announced a global collaboration and license agreement with Japan's Chugai Pharmaceutical ...

April 4, 2022 | Monday | News
Otsuka and Akebia seek USFDA approval for renal anemia drug

Otsuka Pharmaceutical has announced that its collaborator Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. (Akebia) has submitted a New Drug Ap...

April 1, 2022 | Friday | News
HOYA Group appoints Rainer Burkard as global president of PENTAX Medical

PENTAX Medical, a division of HOYA Group, has announced the appointment of Rainer Burkard to the position of Global Pres...

April 1, 2022 | Friday | News
Terumo and Glooko collaborate on new solution for diabetes data sharing

Japan's Terumo Corporation and US-based Glooko have announced a technology integration to deliver new diabetes...

March 31, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japan grants marketing authorisation to Sanofi's rare disease drug

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW) has granted marketing authorisation for Xenpozyme (olipu...

March 30, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japan approves Tarlige tablets for treatment of patients with neuropathic pain

Daiichi Sankyo Company has obtained approval in Japan to change the indication of the analgesic 'Tarlige Tablets' (mirog...

March 29, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Takeda’s TAKHZYRO (lanadelumab) approved in Japan

Takeda has received approval from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) for TAKHZYRO (lanadelumab) subc...

March 29, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan's Health2Sync partners with Novo Nordisk Pharma

Health2Sync and Novo Nordisk Pharma Ltd. are partnering in Japan to support digital diabetes management and facilitate c...

March 28, 2022 | Monday | News
Hyperflex balloon catheter by Endovastec receives marketing approval in Japan

Shanghai MicroPort Endovascular MedTech has received registration approval from Japan Pharmaceuticals and Medical Device...

March 28, 2022 | Monday | News
TANAKA develops gold shell nanoparticles using high dispersion stability

TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo KK which operates the TANAKA precious metals manufacturing business announced that TANAKA has dev...

March 26, 2022 | Saturday | News
Japan verifies use of AI for retrosynthetic analysis in pharma applications

Japan-based Elix, Inc., an AI drug discovery company, has commenced joint research on the retrosynthetic analysis module...

March 25, 2022 | Friday | News
Fujifilm buys Shenandoah Biotechnology to strengthen life sciences biz

Japan-based FUJIFILM Corporation has announced that FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific, Inc., a world leader in the development ...

March 23, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japan identifies tissue-specific exosome marker candidates from blood

The National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition (NIBIOHN), based in Japan, has successfully&...

March 22, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Biogen and Eisai amend collaboration agreements on Alzheimer’s disease treatments

Biogen Inc. and Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that the companies have amended their existing collaboration agreement on aduc...

March 21, 2022 | Monday | News
Singapore-based NDR Medical expands APAC presence

Singapore's NDR Medical (NDR), the leading interventional robotics company, extended its Asia-Pacific presence with the ...

March 17, 2022 | Thursday | News
Astellas’ menopause drug fails in Asia trial

Japan-based Astellas Pharma Inc. has announced topline results from the ongoing Phase 3 MOONLIGHT 1 clinical trial inves...

March 16, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Fujifilm terminates ph III enrolment for Avigan drug trial in Japan due to omicron variant

Fujifilm Toyama Chemical Co. has announced a pause in enrollment, as of the end of March, in the currently ongoing phase...

March 15, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Innovations in APAC have become cornerstone of future development of IVD

PerkinElmer has made a number of acquisitions in life sciences and diagnostics as well as R&D investments with accel...

March 15, 2022 | Tuesday | Opinion
Japan approves Guardant Health's liquid biopsy test for tumour mutation profiling

The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan has granted regulatory approval of Guardant360 CDx, a liquid ...

March 14, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan develops artificial retinal device that mimics human optical illusions

A team at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA) in Japan has developed the first-ever art...

March 11, 2022 | Friday | News
Japanese startup launches english version of hands-on medical VR

Japan-based startup Jolly Good Inc., known for developing and providing medical VR solutions and digital therapeutics VR...

March 10, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japan unveils Well-BeingX to shape future of wellness

Scrum Studio Inc. has announced the launch of Well-BeingX, a new open innovation programme dedicated to helpin...

March 9, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Shionogi files for approval of COVID-19 drug in Japan

Japanese firm Shionogi has completed the analysis of primary endpoints in the Phase 2b part of a Phase 2/3 clinical...

March 8, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Japan uses supercomputer and AI to shed light on drug resistance in cancer treatment

Japan-based Fujitsu and the Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) have announced a new technology that uses artific...

March 7, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan pledges $300 M to CEPI’s pandemic preparedness plan

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), based in Norway, has announced that the Government of Japan ...

February 28, 2022 | Monday | News
Alvotech, Fuji Pharma expand partnership for additional biosimilar candidate in Japan

Alvotech Holdings S.A., a global biopharmaceutical company focused solely on the development and manufacture of biosimil...

February 24, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japan proposes framework for conducting ethical research on brain organoids

Researchers from Kobe University and Kyoto University’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (WPI-ASH...

February 23, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japan uses network models to help understand spread of new COVID-19 variants

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University in Japan have performed numerical simulations based on network theory whi...

February 22, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Japan fabricates polymer-DNA gel that could be used in tissue regeneration and robotics

Scientists at Hokkaido University in Japan have made a tuneable, elastic and temperature-sensitive g...

February 17, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japan discovers host immune-dependent novel anti-coronavirus antibody

The National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition (NIBIOHN), in partnership with Shionogi & Co....

February 16, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japan-based Fujifilm introduces life sciences strategic investment fund

FUJIFILM Corporation has announced the launch of its life sciences strategic investment fund managed by the Life Science...

February 14, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan's Sharp Naturizer sanitizer solution proves effectiveness against COVID-19

SHARP Business Systems (India), a wholly owned Indian subsidiary of SHARP Corporation Japan, has announced a significant...

February 10, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japanese firms ink new business partnership worth ¥5 B for mental healthcare

With the aim of building a regional cooperative mental health platform, Jolly Good Inc. and Otsuka Pharmaceutical h...

February 2, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japan grants patent to Anixa Biosciences for ovarian cancer vaccine

US-based Anixa Biosciences, Inc. has announced that the Japanese Patent Office has issued a Decision to Grant ...

February 1, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo starts trial for mRNA vaccine as booster dose in Japan

Daiichi Sankyo has initiated a trial in Japan to investigate a booster dose of DS-5670, an mRNA vaccine against COVID-19...

January 31, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan's Fujifilm buys Atara’s T-cell manufacturing facility for $100 M

Atara Biotherapeutics, Inc. has entered into a long term strategic agreement with FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies...

January 27, 2022 | Thursday | News
Illumina collaborates with National Cancer Center Japan

Illumina, Inc. and the National Cancer Center Japan have announced an international joint research project that wil...

January 25, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Japan approves VYVGART for treatment of generalised Myasthenia Gravis

Netherlands-based argenx SE has announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved ...

January 20, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo divests certain cardiovascular products, shifting focus to oncology

Japan-based pharmaceutical firm Daiichi Sankyo has entered into an agreement with Cosette Pharmaceuticals, Inc. whereby ...

January 19, 2022 | Wednesday | News
IQVIA releases emerging biotech/biopharma trends to watch for in 2022

IQVIA has come up with the key trends that emerging biotech and emerging biopharma companies should look out for in 2022...

January 19, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japan approves MicroPort CRM's Alizea Bluetooth Pacemaker

MicroPort CRM, a pioneering company in the field of Cardiac Rhythm Management, headquartered in France, has recentl...

January 17, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan’s Takeda buys Adaptate Biotherapeutics to strengthen immuno-oncology portfolio

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company has announced the exercise of its option to acquire Adaptate Biotherapeutics, a UK-based c...

January 11, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Japan develops cancer therapy using on-site synthesis of anti-cancer drugs

An international research group at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) in Japan has successfully treated can...

January 10, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan’s Otsuka Pharma invests in development of psychedelic medicines

The McQuade Center for Strategic Research and Development, LLC (MSRD), established in the US by Japan-based Otsuka Pharm...

January 7, 2022 | Friday | News
Japan's Shimadzu enters into 'smart cells' field with new investment

Japan-based Shimadzu Corporation has invested in Bacchus Bio innovation, a startup company spun off from Kobe University...

January 6, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japan's PRISM BioLab partners with Roche and Genentech for drug discovery research

PRISM BioLab, a Japan based biotechnology company with a proprietary peptide mimetic small molecule drug discovery ...

January 5, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Japan opts for drug repurposing to stop dementia

Via drug repositioning, a team of scientists at the Osaka City University in Japan has created a combination of rifampic...

January 1, 2022 | Saturday | News
Japan-funded study explores antibodies to neutralise omicron

An international team of scientists have identified antibodies that neutralize omicron and other SARS-CoV-2 variants. Th...

December 28, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Merck and Ridgeback’s COVID-19 pill receives ‘special approval’ in Japan

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics have announced that Japan’...

December 27, 2021 | Monday | News
Eisai to market Gilead’s rheumatoid arthritis drug in Asia

Japanese firm Eisai has entered into an agreement with Gilead Sciences, Inc. for the commercialisation and distribution ...

December 23, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan approves booster shot for Moderna COVID-19 vaccine

US-based Brand Institute has announced its successful partnership with Moderna in naming their mRNA COVID-19 vaccine: SP...

December 20, 2021 | Monday | News
Japan’s NEC teams up with BostonGene to improve cancer care

US-based BostonGene Corporation and Japanese firm NEC Corporation have announced a strategic global partnershi...

December 16, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan launches R&D of VR therapy for chronic pain

Jolly Good Inc. in collaboration with Aichi Medical University Hospital's Pain Center, the first interdisciplinary treat...

December 15, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan-based Shimadzu releases six new models of analytical balances

Shimadzu Corporation has released six new models in its AP-AD series of analytical balances simultaneously in Japan and ...

December 14, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Eurofins enhances clinical and COVID-19 testing offering in Japan

Eurofins Scientific has announced a share purchase agreement with Japan-based Transgenic Inc. to acquire Genetic Lab (G ...

December 10, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan uses atomic force microscopy to study SARS-CoV-2 entry mechanism

In a recent study, researchers from Kanazawa University in Japan have visualized structural changes on the surface of SA...

December 9, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan’s Shionogi to develop COVID-19 recombinant protein-based vaccine

Japan-based Shionogi & Co. has recently announced the results from the Japanese Phase 1/2 clinical trial of S-268019...

December 8, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Olympus strenghtens its medical business polices targeting chronic diseases

Olympus Corporation, on 7th Dec 2021, unraveled its projection for the medical business by elevating the standard of car...

December 7, 2021 | Tuesday | Company results
Daiichi Sankyo establishes new subsidiaries in Australia, Canada, and Singapore

Japan-based pharma firm Daiichi Sankyo Company has established wholly-owned subsidiaries in Australia (Daiichi Sankyo Au...

December 3, 2021 | Friday | News
GenScript, BioComo accelerate novel intranasal SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development in Japan

GenScript Biotech Corporation, a leading global biotechnology company, and BioComo Incorporation, a drug discovery ventu...

December 2, 2021 | Thursday | News
Q-Sera takes rapid serum blood collection tube technology to Japan

Q-Sera, an Australian venture-backed company, has announced a partnership with Terumo Corporation, the leading Japanese ...

December 1, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan’s OriCiro Genomics launches new enzymatic DNA synthesis tool

OriCiro Genomics Inc., based in Japan, has announced the launch of OriCiro Cell-Free Switching system. In the biologica...

November 30, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan’s Canon introduces deep-learning reconstruction for cardiac CT scans

Japan-based Canon Medical is breaking ground once again with the introduction of Precise IQ Engine (PIQE) DLR and Silver...

November 29, 2021 | Monday | News
Japan connects hepatitis C treatment with reduction in liver cancer progression

In a new cohort study of patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a disease with a ...

November 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
Amgen, Bushu Pharma expand supply chain partnership across JAPAC

Bushu Pharmaceuticals has agreed on an expanded partnership with Amgen Inc. and Amgen K.K. to provide its "Gateway to As...

November 24, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan finds risk factors associated with waning immunity of Pfizer vaccine

New research from Japan, led by Jichi Medical University, has found several risk factors associated with greater wa...

November 22, 2021 | Monday | News
Japan-based Terumo Corp to expand diabetes care offerings

Terumo Corporation, based in Japan, and the French company Diabeloop, have signed an agreement for a comprehensive strat...

November 18, 2021 | Thursday | News

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