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Articles Tagged with ''Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.''

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Otsuka to acquire PTSD drugmaker Transcend in $1.2B deal

March 31, 2026
By Marian (YoonJee) Chu
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Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. is taking a neuroplastogen approach to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through its planned $1.22 billion acquisition of Transcend Therapeutics Inc. The deal gives Tokyo-headquartered Otsuka access to Transcend’s lead asset, TSND-201, an oral neuroplastogen that has begun patient recruitment for a phase III study in the U.S.
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Brain with handshake and cityscape

Otsuka to acquire PTSD drugmaker Transcend in $1.2B deal

March 30, 2026
By Marian (YoonJee) Chu
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Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. is taking a neuroplastogen approach to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through its planned $1.22 billion acquisition of Transcend Therapeutics Inc. The deal gives Tokyo-headquartered Otsuka access to Transcend’s lead asset, TSND-201, an oral neuroplastogen that has begun patient recruitment for a phase III study in the U.S.
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Otsuka’s repinatrabit shows phase II efficacy in PKU adolescents

March 17, 2026
By Marian (YoonJee) Chu
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Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. reaped positive results from an open-label phase II study of repinatrabit (JNT-517) in adolescents with phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare disease marked by the inability to break down the amino acid phenylalanine.
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Otsuka’s repinatrabit shows phase II efficacy in PKU adolescents

March 13, 2026
By Marian (YoonJee) Chu
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Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. reaped positive results from an open-label phase II study of repinatrabit (JNT-517) in adolescents with phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare disease marked by the inability to break down the amino acid phenylalanine.
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Drug capsules in petri dish

Latest benchmark shows 35% decline in antibiotics pipeline in past 5 years

March 10, 2026
By Nuala Moran
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Twelve years on from the World Health Organization formally raising the alarm, antimicrobial resistance continues to grow, and despite numerous public and private incentives and initiatives, the pipeline of antibiotics in development is thinner than ever.
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Kidneys

Vertex filing BLA for ‘best-in-class’ IgAN drug on Rainier win

March 10, 2026
By Karen Carey
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. is on track to complete a BLA by the end of March seeking potential U.S. accelerated approval for povetacicept, its dual inhibitor of the BAFF and APRIL cytokines, to treat immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN), following a successful phase III Rainier trial.
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Cancer

MSD and Otsuka Pharma report new TP53 Y220C mutant stabilizers

Feb. 12, 2026
Scientists from Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. have identified cellular tumor antigen p53 (TP53) Y220C mutant stabilizers reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
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Cancer

Biodexa licenses Otsuka’s molecular glue OPB-171775 for GIST

Feb. 5, 2026
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Biodexa Pharmaceuticals plc has closed an exclusive license agreement with Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. for OPB-171775 (now MTX-240), a phase I-ready molecular glue intended to be developed for the treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) and potentially additional indications.
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Kidneys

Otsuka’s IgAN therapy gets a thumbs-up from the FDA

Dec. 2, 2025
By Lee Landenberger
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The priority BLA from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., of Tokyo, and its U.S. subsidiary, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization Inc., for sibeprenlimab to treat immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) has received accelerated approved by the U.S. FDA.
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Kidneys

Otsuka’s IgAN therapy gets a thumbs-up from the FDA

Nov. 26, 2025
By Lee Landenberger
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The priority BLA from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., of Tokyo, and its U.S. subsidiary, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization Inc., for sibeprenlimab to treat immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) has received accelerated approved by the U.S. FDA.
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