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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...
Read more about Astellas and Kate Therapeutics Announce Exclusive License Agreement for KT430
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...
Read more about Astellas Announces Commitments to 3rd Phase of GHIT Fund Replenishment
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...
Read more about Notice Regarding Continuation of the Performance-linked Stock Compensation Scheme
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...
Read more about Astellas Enters into Definitive Agreement to Acquire Iveric Bio
TOKYO and NEW YORK, April 29, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) announced today that XTANDI® (enzalutamide) plus leuprolide significantly reduced the risk of metastasis...
TOKYO, April 27, 2023 – 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 changes of...
Read more about Changes of Representative Director and Directors
TOKYO, April 14, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that The Lancet published detailed data from the Phase 3 SPOTLIGHT trial evaluating first-line treatment with zolbetuximab, an investigational first-in-class Claudin...
Kyoto and Tokyo, April 12, 2023 - The Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University (Director: Dr. Jun Takahashi; “CiRA”) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) entered into the second phase...
TOKYO, April 11, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that it expects to book an impairment loss of approximately ¥58.0 billion as other expenses in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2022...
Read more about Notice Regarding Impairment Loss and Revision of Financial Forecasts for FY2022
TOKYO and BOTHELL, Wash. – April 3, 2023 -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Seagen Inc. (Nasdaq: SGEN) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted PADCEV®...
TOKYO and Columbia, Maryland, March 29, 2023 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that it has entered into an agreement ("the Agreement") with Roche Diabetes Care Japan Co., Ltd...
TOKYO, March 28, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO:
Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D.) today announced the following personnel change...