Olympus Asia Pacific Innovation Programme to identify medtech innovators

Japan-based Olympus Corporation has partnered with MedTech Innovator Asia Pacific, the industry's largest healthcare acc...

December 5, 2022 | Monday | News
Japanese pharma firm Kyowa Kirin announces joint venture with Germany's Grünenthal

Kyowa Kirin, a Japan-based global specialty pharmaceutical company, and Germany's Grünenthal GmbH have signed a Joi...

November 29, 2022 | Tuesday | News
GARDP and Sumitomo Pharma announce partnership in search for new antibiotics

The Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) and Japanese firm Sumitomo Pharma Co. have signed an ...

November 24, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japan to develop first blood biomarker-based diagnostic workflow for dementia

Shimadzu Corporation, Eisai Co., Oita University, and Usuki City Medical Association have announced the commencement of ...

November 22, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Japan starts joint trials for millimeter-wave sensor to detect falls of elderly patients

Fujitsu and Wakayama Medical University in Japan have announced the start of joint trials of a technology to support nur...

November 21, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan commercialises world's first test for early-stage pancreatic cancer

Hirotsu Bio Science Inc. has announced the commercialisation of "N-NOSE plus Pancreas," the first next-generation "cance...

November 17, 2022 | Thursday | News
Chugai extends R&D collaboration in Singapore earmarking S$282M over next 5 years

The Japanese company Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., which owns and operates a fully-owned research center "Chugai Phar...

November 16, 2022 | Wednesday | Company results
Ono Pharma inks neuro drug discovery collaboration with Captor Therapeutics

Japan-based Ono Pharmaceutical has entered a worldwide drug discovery collaboration agreement with Poland's Captor The...

November 15, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Otsuka ends gene therapy collaboraton with Takara Bio

Japanese firm Otsuka Pharmaceutical has decided jointly with Takara Bio Inc, to terminate agreements on co-development a...

November 14, 2022 | Monday | News
GHIT Fund in Japan invests ¥ 790 M for product development of Neglected Tropical Diseases

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund in Japan has announced a total of approximately 790 million yen...

November 14, 2022 | Monday | News
Japan explores use of robotic technology to help people with disabilities

The Global Innovation Challenge (GIC) Executive Committee, based in Tokyo, has announced that the "Global Inno...

November 10, 2022 | Thursday | News
Japan-based Shionogi invests ¥100 M in stroke recovery technology

Japan-based Shionogi & Co. has concluded a capital alliance with Lifescapes Inc., a startup arising from Keio U...

November 9, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Kyowa Kirin announce changes in leadership positions

Kyowa Kirin, a Japan-based Global Specialty Pharmaceutical company, has announced the appointment of Abdul Mullick...

November 9, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Canon launches first domestic X-ray CT system with photon-counting detector

Canon Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Medical), a group company of Canon Inc., has developed the first domestically...

November 7, 2022 | Monday | News
Ono Pharmaceutical inks immuno-oncology partnership with Memo Therapeutics

Japan's Ono Pharmaceutical has entered a drug discovery agreement to discover and develop antibody drugs in the immuno...

November 4, 2022 | Friday | News
I Peace partners with the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Founded in 2015 by Koji Tanabe, a graduate of Professor Shinya Yamanaka's laboratory at Kyoto Univer...

November 3, 2022 | Thursday | News
Terumo invests ¥15 B to expand CDMO services outside Japan

Terumo Pharmaceutical Solutions (TPS), a leading manufacturer of injection, primary container, and infusion therapy devi...

November 1, 2022 | Tuesday | News
The BEES-HAUS Cell Therapy, Tested With Cell Engraftment by Urologists at the Edogawa Hospital in Japan, Has The Potential to Stop Recurrence of Urethral Stricture

The vital tube carries urine from the bladder and out through the urethral meatus during urination, and from the sperm s...

October 28, 2022 | Friday | News