TOKYO, Jan. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a complete response letter on January 4, 2024, regarding the Biologics License Application (BLA) for zolbetuximab, an investigational agent for the treatment of patients with locally advanced unresectable … Read more
TOKYO and SAN DIEGO, June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Cullgen Inc. (President and CEO: Ying Luo, Ph.D., “Cullgen”) today announced a research collaboration and exclusive option agreement to discover multiple innovative protein degraders. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies aim to develop multiple … Read more
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to evaluate zolbetuximab as treatment option for patients with advanced gastric and gastroesophageal cancers TOKYO, June 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the submission of a New Drug Application (NDA) on June 9, 2023 to Japan’s Ministry of … Read more
KT430 is a preclinical, next-generation investigational gene therapy to treat X-linked myotubular myopathy (XLMTM) TOKYO and SAN DIEGO, June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”), and Kate Therapeutics (“KateTx”) today announced an exclusive license agreement to develop and commercialize KT430. KT430 is a preclinical next-generation investigational … Read more
TOKYO, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that it has committed to supporting the 3rd phase of the Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund), together with a cross-sector group of funding partners. The cross-sector group has committed over US$200 million to the GHIT Fund. … Read more
– Conduct collaborative research on Sony’s unique polymeric materials to achieve high-DAR ADC – TOKYO, May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Sony Corporation (President and CEO: Kimio Maki, “Sony”) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that they have entered into a collaborative research agreement to discover a novel Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC)*1 … Read more