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TOKYO, August 5, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”), today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved IZERVAY™ (avacincaptad pegol intravitreal solution) for the treatment of geographic atrophy (GA) secondary...
TOKYO, August 1, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) constantly reviews its allocation of managerial resources, in order to adapt flexibly to the rapidly changing business environment and to reinforce its medium...
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TOKYO, July 31, 2023 – 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 accepted the Biologics License...
TOKYO and KANAGAWA, July 25, 2023 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and PeptiDream Inc. (TSE: 4587, President and CEO: Patrick C. Reid, “PeptiDream”) today announced a research collaboration and license agreement...
TOKYO, Emeryville, California and Columbia, Maryland, July 18, 2023 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Eko Health Inc. (Co-Founder and CEO: Connor Landgraf, “Eko”) announced today that they have entered into a License & Supply Agreement...
TOKYO, July 13, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted for regulatory review the company’s marketing authorization application (MAA) for...
Tokyo and Parsippany, New Jersey, July 11, 2023 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that it has successfully completed the acquisition of IVERIC bio, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISEE, CEO: Glenn P. Sblendorio, “Iveric...
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TOKYO and EMERYVILLE, Calif., July 10, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and 4D Molecular Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FDMT, CEO: David Kirn, MD, “4DMT”) today announced a license agreement under which...
TOKYO, July 6, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted and granted Priority Review for the company’s Biologics License Application (BLA) for zolbetuximab, a first-in-class...
TOKYO, June 29, 2023 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. (TSE: 8801, President and CEO: Takashi Ueda, “Mitsui Fudosan”) announced today that Astellas will establish...
TOKYO, June 27, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced positive topline results from the Phase 3b DAYLIGHT clinical trial for fezolinetant, an investigational oral, nonhormonal...
TOKYO and SAN DIEGO, June 14, 2023 - 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...
TOKYO, June 12, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) confirmed the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware issued a decision on June 9 finding U.S. Patent No. 10,842,780...
TOKYO, June 9, 2023 – 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 Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) for zolbetuximab...
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TOKYO and ROCKVILLE, Md., June 9, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and the Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network (BMT CTN) today presented data from the Phase 3 MORPHO clinical trial which demonstrated favorable results in subgroups...
TOKYO and SAN DIEGO, June 8, 2023 – 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...
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TOKYO, May 25, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that Astellas B.V. and Astellas Pharma Europe B.V., Astellas’ subsidiaries in Netherlands, have made an intended decision...
TOKYO, May 25, 2023 – 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...
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TOKYO, May 25, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki
Okamura, “Astellas”) will share new research from across its expanding portfolio of approved
and investigational cancer therapies during the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology...
TOKYO, May 17, 2023– 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...
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TOKYO, May 17, 2023 – 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...
TOKYO, May 16, 2023 – 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...
TOKYO, May 13 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved VEOZAHTM (fezolinetant) 45 mg once daily for the treatment...
TOKYO, May 11, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today confirmed that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a Mandate that officially ends the CAFC appeal on patent infringement...
Tokyo and Parsippany, New Jersey, April 30, 2023 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Iveric bio, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISEE, CEO: Glenn P. Sblendorio, “Iveric Bio”) today announced that on April 29, 2023...
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