Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has cleared Japan Tissue Engineering Co. Ltd.’s (J-Tec) autologous cultured cartilage, called Jacc, after a seven-year re-examination period. Headquartered in Gamagori, in Japan’s Aichi prefecture, J-Tec was the first company in Japan to receive conditional clearance of regenerative medicine therapies under the new regenerative medicine pathway.
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has cleared Japan Tissue Engineering Co. Ltd.’s (J-Tec) autologous cultured cartilage, called Jacc, after a seven-year re-examination period.
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has cleared Japan Tissue Engineering Co. Ltd.’s (J-Tec) autologous cultured cartilage, called Jacc, after a seven-year re-examination period. Headquartered in Gamagori, in Japan’s Aichi prefecture, J-Tec was the first company in Japan to receive conditional clearance of regenerative medicine therapies under the new regenerative medicine pathway.
Japan is establishing a centralized infectious disease crisis management agency that will be under direct control of the prime minister. One of the goals is to better clarify the chain of command and to bring together resources and COVID-19 task forces from the Cabinet Secretariat and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
Japan is establishing a centralized infectious disease crisis management agency that will be under direct control of the prime minister. One of the goals is to better clarify the chain of command and to bring together resources and COVID-19 task forces from the Cabinet Secretariat and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has given Otsuka Holdings Co. Ltd. subsidiary Taiho Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. the green light for its oral heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) inhibitor Jeselhy (pimitespib) to treat gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) that have progressed after chemotherapy. The company will soon commercialize the drug in Japan.
The U.S. FDA has placed a clinical hold on Astellas Pharma Inc.’s Fortis phase I/II trial evaluating AT-845 following a serious adverse event of peripheral sensory neuropathy in one of the trial participants. AT-845 is an adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene replacement therapy being studied in adults with late-onset Pompe disease.
The U.S. FDA has placed a clinical hold on Astellas Pharma Inc.’s Fortis phase I/II trial evaluating AT-845 following a serious adverse event of peripheral sensory neuropathy in one of the trial participants. AT-845 is an adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene replacement therapy being studied in adults with late-onset Pompe disease.
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has given Otsuka Holdings Co. Ltd. subsidiary Taiho Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. the green light for its oral heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) inhibitor Jeselhy (pimitespib) to treat gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) that have progressed after chemotherapy. The company will soon commercialize the drug in Japan.
Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd.’s quizartinib met the primary endpoint of overall survival in the pivotal phase III Quantum-First study, which tested the addition of quizartinib to chemotherapy vs. chemotherapy alone for adults with newly diagnosed FLT3-ITD-positive acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
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