Japan's HOYA Group to distribute AI-assisted lesion detection device in US

HOYA Group Company, PENTAX of America, Inc. (PENTAX Medical,  a division of HOYA Group) and MAGENTIQ-EYE , an artif...

May 18, 2024 | Saturday | News
AC Immune and Takeda Pharma ink $2.1 B deal for immunotherapy to delay Alzheimer's progression

Japan-headquartered pharmaceutical firm Takeda and Swiss firm AC Immune SA have announced an exclusive, worldwide o...

May 15, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Shionogi announces $150 M deal to develop first oral therapy for Pompe Disease

Japan-based Shionogi & Co. and Maze Therapeutics, Inc., in the US, have completed an exclusive worldwide license agr...

May 13, 2024 | Monday | News
Japan's GHIT invests $10.8 M to develop new drugs for malaria & NTDs

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund has announced a total investment of approximately JPY 1.64 bill...

May 9, 2024 | Thursday | News
Japan Kidney Association and Renalys Pharma form collaborative agreement to overcome kidney disease

The Japan Kidney Association, a nonprofit organisation, and Renalys Pharma, Inc., have entered into a collaborat...

May 10, 2024 | Friday | News
Takara Bio launches first commercial dissolvable microfluidic lentiviral transduction enhancer

Takara Bio USA, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan-headquartered Takara Bio Inc., has announced the launch of the ...

May 7, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Japan approves AI-powered surgical visualisation tool Eureka α

Anaut Inc., a pioneering developer in surgical support software led by Dr Nao Kobayashi, has announced the regulato...

May 3, 2024 | Friday | News
Japan-based PeptiDream inks $2.71 B deal with Novartis

Japan-based PeptiDream Inc has announced an expansion of its peptide discovery collaboration with Swiss-based firm&...

May 2, 2024 | Thursday | News
US based Câ‚‚N Diagnostics expands Alzheimer's diagnostics into Japan

Câ‚‚N Diagnostics, a specialty diagnostics company with a vision to bring Clarity Through Innovation, has announced...

April 30, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Yokogawa helps to revolutionise Single-Cell Lipidomics

Japanese multinational company Yokogawa Electric Corporation’s latest single-cell analysis solution, the Single Ce...

April 29, 2024 | Monday | News
Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research collaborates with Takeda Pharma

Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research (JFCR) and Takeda Pharmaceutical have signed a partnership agreement with the go...

April 24, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Takeda, Astellas and Sumitomo to establish JV for drug discovery programmes in Japan

Takeda Pharmaceutical, Astellas Pharma and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), in Japan, have signed a master ag...

April 23, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Shimadzu establishes Supersulfides Life Science Co-Creation Research Centre in partnership with Tohoku University

Japan-headquartered Shimadzu Corporation and Tohoku University have opened the Shimadzu × Tohoku University Supers...

April 22, 2024 | Monday | News
Eisai's antiepileptic drug Fycompa injection formulation launches in Japan

Eisai Co. has announced that the injection formulation of its in-house discovered antiepileptic drug (AED) Fycompa (pera...

April 18, 2024 | Thursday | News
Taiwan approves Japan-based Shionogi's influenza drug for paediatric use

Japanese pharma behemoth Shionogi & Co. has announced that its group company Taiwan Shionogi has received approv...

April 17, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Nanoform partners with CBC to bring best-in-class nanomedicine technology to Japan

Nanoform Finland Plc has announced a strategic partnership whereby CBC Co. will utilise its extensive experience in the ...

April 15, 2024 | Monday | News
World Orphan Drug Alliance expands to Japan & South Korea

The World Orphan Drug Alliance (WODA), a global alliance of commercial distributors dedicated to providing access to tre...

April 12, 2024 | Friday | News
Canon starts clinical research with Hiroshima University in Japan on photon-counting computed tomography

Japan-headquartered Canon Medical Systems Corporation and Hiroshima University have begun clinical research, using a Can...

April 10, 2024 | Wednesday | News
French sales subsidiary of Japanese pharma firm Eisai divests rights of neurology drugs for € 56.5 M

Japan headquartered pharma company Eisai Co. has announced that its French sales subsidiary Eisai S.A.S. has entered int...

April 9, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Japanese firms Mitsui & Rohto Pharma buy Singapore-based consumer healthcare brand for ¥88 B

Japan-based Mitsui & Co., has decided to acquire shares in Eu Yan Sang International (EYS) jointly with Rohto Pharma...

April 8, 2024 | Monday | News
Japan-based Shimadzu acquires California X-ray Imaging Services

Japan headquartered Shimadzu Corporation has acquired all shares of California X-ray Imaging Services, Inc. (CIS) throug...

April 5, 2024 | Friday | News
Japan's NS Pharma & UK-based MiNA Therapeutics lay focus on rare diseases of Central Nervous System

NS Pharma, Inc. has announced that its parent company, Nippon Shinyaku Co., headquartered in Kyoto, Japan, has ente...

April 4, 2024 | Thursday | News
Asahi Kasei Medical and AW Technologies enter exclusive distribution agreement for TrachFlush in Japan

AW Technologies and Asahi Kasei Medical, a core operating company of the Japanese technology company Asahi Kasei, have e...

April 3, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Eisai to divest rights for Merislon and Myonal in Japan to Kaken Pharma for ¥ 3.8 B

Eisai Co. has entered into an agreement to divest its rights for vertigo and equilibrium disturbance treatment Merislon ...

March 29, 2024 | Friday | News
Japanese pharma firms Eli Lilly, Nippon Shinyaku join hands to strengthen haematologic oncology field

Nippon Shinyaku and Eli Lilly Japan K.K have entered into an alliance agreement in Japan for pirtobrutinib, which ...

March 28, 2024 | Thursday | News