Some three and a half years after its formation, Japan’s Agency for Medical R&D (AMED) is continuing its efforts to “de-Balkanize” academic research in the country, and to foster closer health research cooperation between government, academia and industry. While progress has been made, particularly in the genomics area, challenges still linger, its president concedes.
When Japan’s Agency for Medical R&D (AMED) was established in March 2015, its over-arching aim was to better coordinate and more efficiently allocate budgets for health-related research spread between the three founding ministries.
Some three and a half years later, there has been progress – particularly in the area of rare disease-related genomic...
Country recommends eights new drugs for approval, including six for rare diseases, and also announces macroeconomic policy the pharma industry says would enable some reimbursement prices to be raised.
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While the adoption of most favored nation drug pricing in the US stands to affect Japanese biopharma firms now heavily reliant on this market, it might also present an opportunity for pricing and policy reforms at home.
Japan is cutting more drug reimbursement prices following cost effectiveness analysis and is applying the methodology to a new group of products including Wegovy and Leqembi.
FDA regulation was painted as an obstacle to US dominance in the cell and gene therapy space even as panelists at an agency event praised the Office of Therapeutic Products' track record under Nicole Verdun.
As South Korea's new president immediately gets to work on setting initial policies, essential drug supplies, R&D incentives and AI-driven digital healthcare are among the key topics in focus.
Australia is reviewing its human tissue laws for the first time in almost 50 years, and is hoping to reduce barriers to access for scientific researchers, for instance by addressing issues with access to cell lines for developing drugs.
