Japan struggles to recover its ever-expanding supply chain for generic drugs after several key players had their production stopped because of a series of GMP violations. As the share of generics grows under government policy, some in the industry argue the problems are deeply rooted in a decades-old pricing system.
The Japanese government and associations of domestic firms are trying to improve quality control and bring back stable distribution to the generics sector.
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Japanese incubator Ciconia has just started verifying its first drug candidate with a vision of building domestic startups with globally competitive assets.
Although pharmaceuticals are exempt from the US reciprocal tariff policy, for now, the escalating global trade war is already posing practical on-the-ground problems for some companies, Scrip hears.
AstraZeneca logs growth in Japan despite a big reimbursement price cut for one of its top sellers and expects 40 approvals in the country over the next six years.
The latest in a long line of restructuring measures will see Sumitomo Pharma making a stepped sale of its pharma operations in Asia to major Japanese trading house Marubeni.
Plus deals involving Elix/PRISM, Rege/Syros, Kaken/KalVista, Dr. Reddy’s/Aurigene/Edity, Nissan Chemical/Sanwa, Lupin/Renascience, Shionogi/Link Medicine, Abbisko/Merck & Co., Ono/Reborna and Apollomics/LaunXp.
Japanese incubator Ciconia has just started verifying its first drug candidate with a vision of building domestic startups with globally competitive assets.
While Henlius Biotech’s PD-L1-targeting antibody-drug conjugate HLX43 is struggling to catch up with Pfizer’s PF-08046054, the global frontrunner in the space, a key differentiation of the China-originated asset could lie in PD-L1-negative patients.
