Hitachi Chemical inks pact with Ori Biotech

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 22 Jan, 2020

Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions, LLC,  a US subsidiary of Japanese firm Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. that engages in contract manufacturing and manufacturing development...Read more

PhoreMost, Otsuka collaborate for multi drug discovery projects

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 22 Jan, 2020

PhoreMost Limited, the UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to drugging ‘undruggable’ disease targets, has entered into a multi-project collaboration with Japan's Otsuka...Read more

ViiV Healthcare wins Japanese approval for Dovato to treat HIV-1

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Jan, 2020

ViiV Healthcare, the global specialist HIV company majority owned by GSK, with Pfizer Inc. and Shionogi Limited as shareholders, announced that it has obtained approval of Dovato (dolutegra...Read more

Astellas completes acquisition of Audentes Therapeutics

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Jan, 2020

Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc. has successfully completed the previously announced acquisition of Audentes Therapeutics, Inc. (“Audentes”), through a tender offer by its indir...Read more

Astellas invests ¥10B to build new manufacturing facility

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 21 Jan, 2020

Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc. has announced that the Third Fermentation Building (provisional name) will be constructed as a new manufacturing facility for active pharmaceutical ingredie...Read more

Charles River inks scientific collaboration with Takeda

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 16 Jan, 2020

US based company Charles River has announced a multi-year drug discovery collaboration with Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited. Together, Charles River and Takeda will laun...Read more

Astellas, Adaptimmune to develop CAR-T & TCR T-cell therapies

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 17 Jan, 2020

Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary Universal Cells, Inc. and Adaptimmune Therapeutics plc, a leader in cell therapy to treat cancer, have announced that t...Read more

ASKA, KinoPharma unite to treat cervical dysplasia

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 16 Jan, 2020

ASKA Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and KinoPharma, Inc., both based in Tokyo, announced that they have entered into an option agreement for an exclusive license for the development and...Read more

Hitachi starts commercial manufacturing of Zynteglo

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 15 Jan, 2020

apceth Biopharma GmbH, a subsidiary of Japan headquartered Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. and a leading company for the manufacturing of cell and gene therapeutics, starts the commercial manufa...Read more

ERS Genomics licenses CRISPR gene editing technology to Daiichi Sankyo

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 14 Jan, 2020

ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property co-owned by Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier, has announced the signing of a l...Read more

FDA approves sNDA for Astellas’s antifungal drug

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 13 Jan, 2020

Japan based Astellas Pharma Inc. has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for MYCAMINE® (micafungin ...Read more

Chugai signs licensing deal with Verastem for cancer drug

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 10 Jan, 2020

Japanses firm Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. has announced that the Company entered into a global licensing agreement with Verastem Oncology  regarding CKI27 (CH5126766), an inve...Read more

Huya Bioscience ropes in Meiji as distributor for Asian region

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 10 Jan, 2020

US based HUYA Bioscience International CEO & Executive Chair, Dr. Mireille Gillings announced the appointment of Japanese firm Meiji Seika Pharma (Meiji) as an exclusive distr...Read more

Alma receives excellence award in Japan

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 09 Jan, 2020

Alma, a global innovator of Laser, Light-based, Radiofrequency, Plasma and Ultrasound solutions for the aesthetic and surgical markets, has been recognized with an Excellence Award for...Read more

Transgene, NEC initiate trials with AI-Powered Cancer Vaccine

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 07 Jan, 2020

French firm Transgene, a biotech company that designs and develops virus-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer, and Japan based NEC Corporation, a leader in IT and network techn...Read more

aTyr Pharma, Kyorin to work on interstitial lung diseases

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 07 Jan, 2020

US based aTyr Pharma, Inc., a biotherapeutics company engaged in the discovery and development of innovative medicines based on novel immunological pathways, has announced that it has enter...Read more

Urovant inks $300M loan agreement with Sumitomo Pharma

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 02 Jan, 2020

Urovant Sciences, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma has announced that it has entered into a $300 million term loan facility with Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma, a leading global Japanes...Read more

Japan develops new tumour-on-a-chip device

Japan |  News | 0 Comment | 01 Jan, 2020

Kyoto University researchers have developed a new 'tumor-on-a-chip' device that can better mimic the environment inside the body, paving the way for improved screening of potential cancer f...Read more