Japan’s Z- Works raises funding

Tokyo-based Z-Works, the Japanese startup developing IoT (Internet of Things) healthcare monitoring solutions especially...

June 28, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Takeda, Biological E ink pact to develop and commercialize vaccines

Singapore: Japan’s Takeda pharmaceuticals have inked two licensing pacts with Biological E for development and del...

June 27, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Canopy Biosciences Announces Distribution Agreement with Cosmo Bio

Canopy Biosciences, an emerging provider of gene editing and personalized medicine technologies, announced a distributor...

June 23, 2017 | Friday | News
Plant based medicine to treat Alzheimer’s

Japanese scientists at the University of Toyama have developed a method to isolate and identify active compounds in plan...

June 21, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Nanosonics expands into Japan

Nanosonics Limited has announced it has entered into Japan, through a strategic relationship with infection prevention c...

June 19, 2017 | Monday | News
Nanosonics partners with Sakura Seiki

Nanosonics has entered into a strategic relationship with Sakura Seiki Co. Ltd, one of Japan’s leading organisatio...

June 19, 2017 | Monday | News
Shimadzu launches new analytical balances

Shimadzu announced the addition of three high-sensitivity semi-micro analytical balances to its AP-W series lineup. The ...

June 5, 2017 | Monday | News
Shimadzu in agreement with Phytronix

Shimadzu, one of the world's fastest growing mass spectrometry companies, and Phytronix, world leader in high throughput...

June 5, 2017 | Monday | News
Japan's Maz World opens lab in Hong Kong

Seeing a big opportunity in China for bird-flu masks and skin care products, Japanese biotech startup Maz World has open...

May 29, 2017 | Monday | News
Japan ratifies Nagoya Protocol on use of genetic resources

Japan completed the process of ratifying the Nagoya Protocol on access to genetic resources and the sharing of benefits ...

May 24, 2017 | Wednesday | News
A palm sized medical gamma-ray camera invented

A team of scientists has invented a medical gamma-ray camera which weighs only 580 gm and fits in the palm of a hand, ma...

May 23, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Janssen inks deal with Japan's PeptiDream

Singapore: Tokyo based PeptiDream recently announced that it has eneterd into a business collaboration with US-based Jan...

April 18, 2017 | Tuesday | News
India and Japan intensify cooperation in medical device regulations

India and Japan will intensify their joint cooperation for the development of a world-class medical device regulatory ec...

May 5, 2017 | Friday | News
A $21 million Series A funding closed by LensGen

LensGen, Inc., a private company developing Juvene™, the world's first modular, fluid-optic accommodating intraocu...

May 2, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Takeda announces FDA Accelerated approval of ALUNBRIG (brigatin)

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited announced that ALUNBRIG (brigatinib) has received Accelerated Approval from the U....

May 2, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Astellas pharma to acquire Belgium firm Ogeda

Singapore: If reports are to be believed, Japan's Astellas pharma is all set to acquire Belgium's clinical-stage drug di...

April 7, 2017 | Friday | News
Takeda off-loads some drug development to JV

Singapore: In a bid to concentrate resources on the core focus areas, Japanese drug giant Takeda Pharmaceutical has form...

March 15, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Lupin inks pact to distribute antidepressant drug in Japan

Singapore: India based drug giant Lupin pharmaceuticals Japanese subsidiary Kyowa recently inked a pact with Japan's Ast...

February 27, 2017 | Monday | News