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- Data reflect new insights and precision oncology advancements in portfolio and pipeline - - Cohort results from Phase 2 ILUSTRO study evaluating a zolbetuximab triplet combination regimen in...
- Presentations include pooled post-hoc analysis of the Phase 3 ADMIRAL and COMMODORE data on post-transplant gilteritinib resumption in relapsed or refractory FLT3m+ AML - - Findings from the...
TOKYO, November 28, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) validated for review a Type...
- PADCEV plus Keytruda is the first and only approved perioperative treatment regimen that can significantly improve survival over current standard of care (surgery alone) in cisplatin-ineligible...
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TOKYO, October 30, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced revisions to its consolidated financial forecast for the fiscal year...
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Extensive and growing evidence continues to reinforce fezolinetant as an effective treatment for moderate to severe VMS associated with menopause Preliminary analysis from OPTION-VMS observational...
Results from the pivotal EV-303 trial demonstrated that, when used before and after surgery, the combination reduced the risk of recurrence, progression or death by 60% and the risk of death by...
In GATHER2 open-label extension study, IZERVAY reduced GA growth 37-40.5% vs. projected sham, with earlier intervention resulting in greater protection of retinal tissue area Study results found...
First and only combination regimen to improve survival when used before and after surgical cystectomy in cisplatin-ineligible patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer Unprecedented survival...
Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, "Astellas") today announced that VEOZAH™ (fezolinetant), its first-in-class, targeted, non-hormonal treatment for moderate to...
TOKYO, October 14, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the Phase 2 GLEAM trial investigating zolbetuximab in combination...
Presentations include long-term GATHER2 open-label extension data, real-world treatment patterns on safety, and biomarker insights on geographic atrophy disease progression TOKYO, Oct. 8, 2025...
- New clinical data across ten accepted abstracts demonstrate significant progress across Astellas' innovative oncology programs - - Results from the EV-303 trial (also known as KEYNOTE-905) in...
Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, "Astellas") today announced the following changes to its Top Management structure, effective October 1, 2025. Nick Eshkenazi,...
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TOKYO, Sep 19, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has...
NEW YORK AND TOKYO, August 12, 2025 – Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced positive topline results from...
- Supporting Korean Startups’ Drug Discovery Research and Global Expansion - - First Pharmaceutical Company from Japan to Actively Support the Operation of the Program - TOKYO, July 17, 2025 –...
TOKYO, July 10, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the sales in the U.S. of the IZERVAY™ (avacincaptad pegol...
Accelerating the Growth of Globally Active Drug-Discovery Startups from Japan Tokyo, 13 June 2025—Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. (“MRI”) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (“Astellas”) today...
- Agreement grants Astellas exclusive worldwide rights (excluding China’s mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan region) to develop and commercialize XNW27011 - - XNW27011 has demonstrated...
Five-year follow-up data from the Phase 3 ARCHES trial shows XTANDI (enzalutamide) plus androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) reduces risk of death by 30% After a median follow-up of 61.4 months,...
16 abstracts, including two oral presentations, feature new clinical data from Astellas’ oncology portfolio TOKYO, May 19, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki...
TOKYO, May 15, 2025– Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “the Company”) today announced that at the meeting of the Board of Directors held today, a resolution...
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TOKYO, May 15, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “the Company”) announced that at the meeting of the Board of Directors held today, a resolution was...
TOKYO, May 7, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that during a meeting of its Board of Directors held today, it decided a...
ARVO and RWC abstracts feature analyses on biomarkers, mechanism of disease, patient experience and other data from IZERVAYTM (avacincaptad pegol intravitreal solution) pivotal studies TOKYO, May...
TOKYO, April 25, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that it booked Change in fair value of contingent consideration as...
TOKYO, April 2, 2025 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research (Chairman: Toshio Asano, Ph.D., “JFCR”)...
TOKYO, March 6, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and YASKAWA Electric Corporation (TSE: 6506, President and CEO; Masahiro Ogawa, “YASKAWA”)...
TOKYO, February 13, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved expanded U.S. Prescribing information for IZERVAY™...
TOKYO and NEW YORK, February 12, 2025 – Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced additional follow-up results from the Phase 3 EV-302 clinical trial (also known as KEYNOTE-A39)...
TOKYO, February 5, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that it recorded extraordinary losses in the non-consolidated financial results as below....
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TOKYO, February 5, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the submission of a New Drug Application (NDA) to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW)...
TOKYO, February 4, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the following changes to its management structure effective April 1, 2025....
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TOKYO, January 24, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the financial forecast for fiscal year 2024 announced on October 30, 2024...
TOKYO, January 9, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted the revised supplemental New Drug Application...
TOKYO, January 8, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved...
TOKYO, Jan. 06, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved VYLOY™ (zolbetuximab)...
TOKYO and RICHMOND, California, December 19, 2024 Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGMO), a genomic medicine company...
TOKYO, Nov. 19, 2024 – 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 (CRL) on November 15...
TOKYO, October 30, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that it has booked a foreign exchange gain of ¥1.9 billion as other income for the first quarter ...
TOKYO, Oct 28, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the company's decision to withdraw its marketing authorization application from the European Medicines...
TOKYO, Oct. 18, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved VYLOY™ (zolbetuximab-clzb) in...
TOKYO, October 10, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) announced that VEOZA™ (fezolinetant)*, its first-in-class treatment for moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms...
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LONDON, and TOKYO, - Oct 8, 2024 – AviadoBio Ltd. (“AviadoBio”) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced an exclusive option and license agreement for AVB-101...
TOKYO, 20 September, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the European Commission (EC) has approved VYLOYTM (zolbetuximab) in combination with fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of adult patients...
TOKYO, September 24, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved PADCEVTM (enfortumab vedotin [genetical recombination]) with...
TOKYO, September 18, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that DIGITIVA™, a non-invasive digital health solution for heart failure management, has been listed with...
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TOKYO, September 11, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) will highlight new data from across its approved and investigational cancer therapies during the 2024 European Society...
TOKYO, September 4, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) announced that VEOZAH™ (fezolinetant), its first-in-class treatment for moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms...
TOKYO, September 3, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) successfully priced a dual-tranche of series 5th and 6th JPY denominated unsecured bonds (”the Bonds”) as below. The issuance of the Bonds is intended...
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TOKYO, August 28, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the European Commission has granted Marketing Authorization for PADCEV™ (enfortumab vedotin, an antibody-drug conjugate [ADC])...
TOKYO, August 27, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced dosing of the first patient in the HIGHLIGHT 1™ Phase 3 pivotal study for fezolinetant, an investigational...
TOKYO, August 20, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has...
TOKYO, August 1, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that it booked ¥5.5 billion in the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 for change in the fair value of contingent...
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TOKYO, July 26, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency...
TOKYO, July 26, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that on July 26, 2024, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European...
TOKYO and Osaka, July 22, 2024 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Graduate School of Medicine / Faculty of Medicine, Osaka University (President: Shojiro Nishio “Osaka University”) today announced...
TOKYO, July 2, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved...
TOKYO, May 30, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has acknowledged the company’s resubmission of the Biologics License Application (BLA) for zolbetuximab...
TOKYO, May 21, 2024 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that it signed a memorandum of understanding with YASKAWA Electric Corporation (YASKAWA) to begin...
TOKYO, May 15, 2024– Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “the Company”) today announced that at the meeting of the Board of Directors held today, a resolution...
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TOKYO, May 15, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “the Company”) announced that at the meeting of the Board of Directors...
held today, a resolution was passed to continue the Performance-linked Stock
Compensation Scheme for the Corporate Executives
TOKYO, May 13, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki
Okamura, “Astellas”) will share new research from across its innovative portfolio of approved and investigational cancer therapies during the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology...
TOKYO and SAN DIEGO, May 1, 2024 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Poseida Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PSTX, President and CEO: Kristin Yarema, “Poseida”) today announced that Xyphos Biosciences, Inc., (a wholly...
TOKYO, April 25, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that at a meeting of its Board of Directors held today, it decided a change in Directors as stated below. This change is subject to approval at the 19th Term Annual Shareholders Meeting and a decision at the Board of Directors meeting...
TOKYO, April 25, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that at the meeting of the Board of Directors held today, it decided to change the definition of core basis in consolidated financial statements...
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TOKYO, April 23, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the European Commission (EC) has approved a label extension for XTANDITM (enzalutamide) as monotherapy or in combination with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for the treatment of...
TOKYO, April 22, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) confirms the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware has filed a Report and Recommendation that recommends denying Astellas’ motion for a preliminary injunction that sought to enjoin Lupin and Zydus from launching...
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE: 4502/NYSE: TAK, President and CEO; Christophe Weber, “Takeda”), Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”), and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (President & CEO: Akihiro Fukutome, “SMBC”) today announced...
TOKYO, April12, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that it expects to book approximately ¥70.0 billion in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2023 for an impairment loss for intangible assets and change in fair value of contingent consideration...
TOKYO, April 1, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced it received notification from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of acceptance of the company’s supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) to include positive...
TOKYO, March 28, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that on March 27, 2024 the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has accepted the supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for...
TOKYO, March 26, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that on March 26, 2024, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) approved VYLOY™ (zolbetuximab), an anti-claudin 18.2 (CLDN18.2) monoclonal antibody for patients...
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TOKYO, March 22, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive opinion recommending approval of XTANDITM (enzalutamide) as monotherapy...
TOKYO, March 4, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced dosing of the first patient in the STARLIGHT™ 2 Phase 3 pivotal study for fezolinetant, an investigational oral, nonhormonal compound being studied for the treatment of vasomotor symptoms...
TOKYO and BOSTON, Mass., February 15, 2024 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Kelonia Therapeutics (CEO, Founder: Kevin Friedman, Ph.D., “Kelonia”) today announced that Xyphos Biosciences, Inc., (a wholly...
TOKYO, Feb. 15, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has granted priority review for the company’s Supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for PADCEV™ (enfortumab vedotin...
TOKYO, February 7, 2024 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the following changes to its management structure effective April 1, 2024...
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TOKYO, January 31, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) announced today that it has entered into a strategic collaboration with Mass General Brigham (President and CEO: Anne Klibanski, MD) that is focused on translational medicine and early development to establish...
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TOKYO – January 31, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the submission of a Supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) on January 31 to Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) for PADCEV™ (enfortumab vedotin...
TOKYO and NEW YORK.– Jan. 26, 2024 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503,President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced that on Jan. 26, 2024 the European Medicines Agency (EMA) validated for review a Type II variation application for PADCEVTM (enfortumab vedotin)...
TOKYO, January 8, 2024 – 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...
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Shanghai and Suzhou, TOKYO, December 28, 2023 - Elpiscience Biopharma, Ltd. (Chairman and CEO: Darren Ji, MD, Ph.D., “Elpiscience”) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced a research collaboration and license agreement for novel bispecific...
TOKYO, December 22, 2023 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Propella Therapeutics, Inc. (President and CEO: William Moore, “Propella”), and has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Astellas...
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TOKYO, December 18, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) contributed to the development of a pediatric formulation to treat schistosomiasis as a member of the Pediatric Praziquantel Consortium (Consortium). The Consortium announced that the Committee...
TOKYO and NEW YORK – December 15, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, "Astellas") and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced that on December 15, 2023 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved PADCEV® (enfortumab vedotin-ejfv, an antibody-drug conjugate...
TOKYO, December 11, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the European Commission (EC) on December 7 approved VEOZATM (fezolinetant) 45 mg once daily for the treatment of moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms (VMS) associated with menopause...
TOKYO, November 30, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) will present 24-week results from the Phase 3b DAYLIGHT clinical trial examining the efficacy and safety of fezolinetant, an investigational oral, nonhormonal compound being studied for the treatment of...
TOKYO and BOTHELL, Wash.– November 30, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Seagen Inc. (Nasdaq: SGEN) today announced that on November 30, 2023 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted for priority review a supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for PADCEV® (enfortumab vedotin-ejfv) with KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) as a combination therapy for the treatment...
TOKYO and IBARAKI, November 16, 2023 - University of Tsukuba (President: Kyosuke Nagata) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that they have signed a letter of confirmation regarding a strategic partnership to accelerate the digitalization of the drug...
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TOKYO and NEW YORK, November 16, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced that the companies received an approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of a supplemental New Drug Application for XTANDI®...
TOKYO and PITTSBORO, N.C., November 15, 2023 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Propella Therapeutics, Inc. (President and CEO: William Moore, “Propella”) today announced that Astellas, through a US subsidiary, and Propella have entered into a merger agreement...
TOKYO, November 15, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, "Astellas") today announced that The Lancet Neurology published a preliminary data analysis from the ASPIRO trial, evaluating the safety and efficacy of investigational AT132 (resamirigene bilparvovec), an adeno-associated...
TOKYO, November 4, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced results from the GATHER2 Phase 3 clinical trial, demonstrating IZERVAY™ (avacincaptad pegol intravitreal solution) continued to reduce the rate of geographic atrophy (GA) lesion growth for both...
TOKYO, October 25, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the company has ranked first in the pharmaceuticals sector for the “2023 Award for Excellence in Corporate Disclosure” granted by the Securities Analysts Association of Japan (SAAJ) to...
TOKYO and BOTHELL, Wash. – October 22, 2023 -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Seagen Inc. (Nasdaq: SGEN) today announced results from the Phase 3 EV-302 clinical trial (also known as KEYNOTE-A39) for PADCEV® (enfortumab vedotin-ejfv) in combination...
TOKYO, Oct 15, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) will share new research results during the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2023 from October 20-24, showcasing the company’s focus on making a meaningful difference for people living with...
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TOKYO, October 13, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on October 12 adopted a positive opinion relating to the use of VEOZA™ (fezolinetant) 45 mg...
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