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Asia in the Spotlight: Japanese companies look to ASEAN, Lat Am for growth

March 9, 2015
By Catherine Makino

Eisai, Merck team up for pembrolizumab combo cancer trials

March 6, 2015
By Catherine Makino
TOKYO – Japan's Eisai Co. Ltd. will work with multinational Merck & Co. Inc. to jointly develop combination cancer regimens.
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GHIT's Grand Challenge funds new approaches to infectious diseases

Feb. 25, 2015
By Catherine Makino
TOKYO –Japan's Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund), which works with several Japanese ministries, pharmaceutical companies and other nonprofit organizations, such as the United Nations Development Program and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, launched a "Grand Challenge" that will see it invest up to $1 million per applicant "for the early stage development of radically new and improved drugs, vaccines or diagnostics to prevent and treat infectious diseases that are prevalent in developing countries."
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GHIT's Grand Challenge funds new approaches to infectious diseases

Feb. 17, 2015
By Catherine Makino
TOKYO –Japan's Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund), which works with several Japanese ministries, pharmaceutical companies and other nonprofit organizations, such as the United Nations Development Program and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, launched a "Grand Challenge" that will see it invest up to $1 million per applicant "for the early stage development of radically new and improved drugs, vaccines or diagnostics to prevent and treat infectious diseases that are prevalent in developing countries."
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PMDA reaping rewards of policy changes with rising approval rates

Feb. 5, 2015
By Catherine Makino
TOKYO – Thanks to a series of policy initiatives, Japan's Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Agency (PMDA) has morphed into a much more nimble regulator, one that processes approvals as fast as the FDA or the EMA.
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PMDA reaping rewards of policy changes with rising approval rates

Feb. 4, 2015
By Catherine Makino
TOKYO – Thanks to a series of policy initiatives, Japan's Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Agency (PMDA) has morphed into a much more nimble regulator, one that processes approvals as fast as the FDA or the EMA.
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Asia in the Spotlight: Robots filling anti-cancer prescriptions in Japan

Feb. 2, 2015
By Catherine Makino

Asia in the spotlight: Medigus receives patent for miniature high res ScoutCam

Jan. 22, 2015
By Catherine Makino

Lilly, Boehringer win first Japanese nod for insulin biosimilar

Jan. 21, 2015
By Catherine Makino
TOKYO – Biosimilar insulin products have received regulatory approval in Japan for the first time ever.
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Lilly, Boehringer win first Japanese nod for insulin biosimilar

Jan. 21, 2015
By Catherine Makino
TOKYO – Biosimilar insulin products have received regulatory approval in Japan for the first time ever.
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