Japan's Terumo boosts global plasma collection and delivery platform with CSL

Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies and CSL Plasma announced a collaboration to deliver a new plasma collection platform ...

April 20, 2021 | Tuesday | News
ITOCHU to launch biomass power generation business in Japan

ITOCHU Corporation announced on April 15, 2021, that it has made a decision to establish Hyuga Biomass Power G...

April 19, 2021 | Monday | News
Japanese–European research team discovers novel genetic mitochondrial disorder

Japanese-European team of scientists, including researchers from Fujita Health University, describe mutations in the&n...

April 19, 2021 | Monday | News
Japan boosts native life science biz via virtual access for global audience

Japan's pioneering life science organizations seeking to navigate Japanese market entry gained a new pathway. Shonan Hea...

April 16, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan invents novel cell therapy for type I diabetes mellitus

Researchers from The University of Tokyo have developed a novel device for the safe and effective long-term transplant...

April 16, 2021 | Friday | News
Japanese NHI price listing triggers $15 M milestone payment to BioCryst

US based BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has announced that the Japanese National Health Insurance System (NHI) has appro...

April 15, 2021 | Thursday | News
Thermo Fisher Amplitude Solution receives EUA from FDA

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has announced on April 12, 2021 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has grant...

April 15, 2021 | Thursday | News
L Catterton announces JPY 20 B investment in healthcare firm PHC Holdings

L Catterton, US based consumer-focused private equity firm, has announced an investment of JPY 20 billion into PHC ...

April 14, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Remiges Ventures launches new life science incubator

Remiges Ventures, a US-based cross-border venture capital firm with offices in Seattle, WA and Tokyo, Jap...

April 9, 2021 | Friday | News
Hitachi uses digital technology for creation of next-generation biopharmaceuticals

Hitachi, Ltd. and Axcelead, Inc. have announced that they have agreed on a comprehensive collaborative partnership to de...

April 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo starts Ph 1 Trial for Nafamostat Inhalation Formulation to treat COVID-19

Daiichi Sankyo, based in Japan, has announced that it has initiated in Japan a first-in-human phase 1 trial for nafamost...

April 5, 2021 | Monday | News
Japanese medical VR company Jolly Good to develop digital therapeutics

Leading Japanese medical VR company Jolly Good Inc. has recently established a specialized DTx Division to develop digit...

April 5, 2021 | Monday | News
Fujifilm launches mutation detection kits for SARS-CoV-2

Japan based firm FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Corporation has announced the launch of the “N501Y mutation detection...

April 2, 2021 | Friday | News
Daiichi Sankyo incurs 15 B yen loss after terminating vaccine biz with Sanofi

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Ltd. has announced that it will terminate its marketing alliance agreement for the Squarekids&re...

April 1, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan holds AI-based nursing record support system demo

Social  Welfare Organization Saiseikai Branch Tochigi Prefecture Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital in Utsunom...

April 1, 2021 | Thursday | News
KYORIN, Eisai to develop & market drug for overactive bladder treatment in 4 ASEAN countries

Japanese firms KYORIN Pharmaceutical, a subsidiary of KYORIN Holdings, Inc., and Eisai Co., Ltd. have entered into a lic...

March 31, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Toyoda Gosei invests in medical device development startup

Toyoda Gosei, a Japanese manufacturer of rubber and plastic automotive components and LEDs, has invested in Genial ...

March 30, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Eisai's Anti Cancer agent Lenvatinib-Pembrolizumab combo receives EMA in Japan

Eisai Co., Ltd. announced on March 30, 2021 that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has confirmed it has acce...

March 30, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Japan studies Parkinson's disease with face-recognition software

Researchers at Okayama University in Japan report that artificial-intelligence technology can detect facial charact...

March 29, 2021 | Monday | News
Hitachi enters collaboration for data driven precision medicine

Japanese firm Hitachi and American Swiss biotech company Sophia Genetics have  announced that they have entere...

March 26, 2021 | Friday | News
Bright Peak Therapeutics and Ajinomoto to create novel immunocytokines

Bright Peak Therapeutics Inc., a biotechnology company developing next-generation immunotherapies for cancer and autoimm...

March 26, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan enables access to electronic medical records via mobile phones

Japan Hospital Cooperative, Inc., Japan Hospital Cooperative, Inc. Ward, Representative Director Tsuneo Sakai,...

March 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
Novel DNA sensor can rapidly detect antibiotic-resistant pathogens

The persistent overuse of antibiotics has led to the evolution of antibiotic-resistant pathogens, or “superbugs,&r...

March 23, 2021 | Tuesday | News
CPhI Japan opens two-month long virtual event

The Japanese pharmaceutical market is preparing for renewed international growth and partnering. In response, CPhI Japan...

March 24, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo starts Ph 1/2 trial for mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in Japan

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited has announced that it has started the first vaccinations in a phase 1/2 clinical trial i...

March 23, 2021 | Tuesday | News