Japan nods Pfizer arthritis drug Xeljanz

Singapore: Pfizer's Xeljanz (tofacitinib citrate) has received approval for the treatment of adults with rheumatoid arth...

March 28, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
R-Tech Ueno, Hokkaido University to co-develop diabetic intervention

Singapore: JASDAQ-listed R-Tech Ueno has decided to conduct collaborative research with a group led by professor Susumu ...

May 19, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Taiho establishes Taiho Ventures to foster oncology biotech start-ups

Taiho Pharmaceutical Co Ltd (TPC), a full-fledged oncology pharmaceutical company headquartered in Tokyo, has establishe...

May 11, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Amgen,Astellas announce the launch of Repatha in Japan

Singapore: Japanese pharma giant Amgen Astellas BioPharma and Astellas Pharma recently announced the launch of their pro...

April 28, 2016 | Thursday | News
Japan driving innovation in drug delivery devices

Within the Asia-Pacific region, Japan has maintained its leadership role as the largest pharmaceutical market, second on...

July 2, 2012 | Monday | Opinion
Cubist gets right to Astellas' ceftolozane

Singapore: Cubist Pharmaceuticals and Astellas Pharma entered into an agreement under which Cubist will obtain the right...

March 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Takeda partners with Nanotherapeutics to expand influenza vaccine program

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical has recieved expanded commercialization and technology access rights related to Nanothe...

August 28, 2015 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo's tumor treatment gets Breakthrough Therapy Designation

Tokyo: Daiichi Sankyo Inc and Plexxikon Inc, a member of the Daiichi Sankyo Group, has announced that the US Food and Dr...

November 2, 2015 | Monday | News
Future of Healthcare in Asia

Healthcare industry is in a period of evolution accelerated by changing demographics and market forces propelled by insu...

May 5, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
MIT, Kyoto researchers invent RNA-based gene circuits

Tokyo: A joint collaboration between the researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Center for ...

August 4, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Japan creates sperm bank for endangered species

Singapore: Researchers at the Institute of Laboratory Animals, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan, hav...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Takeda close to releasing Norovirus vaccine

Singapore: Japan's drug major Takeda Pharmaceutical has said that they are set to finish the early stage human studies o...

July 8, 2013 | Monday | News
Challenges in mHealth integration'

Singapore: Medidata Solutions is a provider of cloud computing-based solutions for clinical development process to impro...

January 19, 2016 | Tuesday | Opinion
TriReme catheter gets approval in Japan

Singapore: TriReme Medical's Japanese partner Century Medical has received Shonin approval, the approval to market in Ja...

November 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
Medtronic's CoreValve system approved in Japan

Medical device manufacturer Medtronic has announced Japanese regulatory approval for the self-expanding transcatheter Co...

April 1, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Takeda, DND to accelerate drug discovery for parasite infection

Singapore: Geneva based Drugs for Neglected Diseases and Japan's Takeda have collaborated for a Lead Optimization Progra...

July 29, 2015 | Wednesday | News
ReproCELL to launch human iPS-derived neurons

Singapore: ReproCELL, which commercializes human pluripotent stem cells as an effective tool for drug discovery and deve...

June 8, 2012 | Friday | News
Abbott marks success with naturally dissolving stent in Japan

Global life sciences company Abbott has announced that the company has observed positive clinical results from ABSORB Ja...

September 2, 2015 | Wednesday | News