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February 22, 2023 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (Headquarters: Tokyo; President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa), The Mitsubishi Chemical Group, and CKD Corporation (Headquarters: Komaki, Aichi; President: Katsuhito Okuoka) won the Minister of Environment Award...
TOKYO, February 22, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., "Astellas") today announced an update on preliminary safety and efficacy data from its ongoing FORTIS Phase1/2 clinical trial evaluating the safety...
TOKYO, February 20, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notified the company that it is extending the original priority...
TOKYO, February 13, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) would like to express its deepest sympathy to victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria...
TOKYO, February 9, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced its commitment to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050...
TOKYO, February 6, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that at a meeting of its Board of Directors, held today, approved changes of its Representative...
TOKYO, February 6, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that at the meeting of the Board of Directors held today, a resolution was adopted to acquire its own shares pursuant...
TOKYO, January 24, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that Astellas and Sandoz AG (“Sandoz”) have entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement, under which Astellas will transfer the...
TOKYO, January 20, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has lifted the clinical hold on January 19th for the FORTIS Ph1/2 clinical trial evaluating the safety...
TOKYO, January 19, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)*1 has validated and approved its greenhouse gas...
TOKYO, Jan. 19, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today will present detailed results from the Phase 3 SPOTLIGHT trial evaluating first-line treatment with zolbetuximab, an investigational first-in-class Claudin...
WATERTOWN, Mass. and TOKYO, Japan, January 9, 2023 – Selecta Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: SELB, President and CEO: Carsten Brunn, Ph.D., “Selecta”), and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas” or “Astellas Gene Therapies”) today announced...
TOKYO, January 4, 2023 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) confirmed the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed the earlier decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware that all asserted...
TOKYO and Osaka, December 22, 2022 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, “Astellas”), Eisai Co., Ltd. (TSE: 4523, CEO: Haruo Naito, “Eisai”), Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (TSE: 4568, President : Sunao Manabe, "Daiichi Sankyo") and Takeda...
TOKYO, BOTHELL, Wash. and RAHWAY, N.J. – December 20, 2022 -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”), Seagen Inc. (Nasdaq: SGEN) and Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, today...
TOKYO, December 16, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced positive topline results from the Phase 3 GLOW clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of zolbetuximab in...
TOKYO, November 29, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today successfully priced its inaugural offering of dual-tranche JPY unsecured...
TOKYO, November 17, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced positive topline results from the Phase 3 SPOTLIGHT clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of zolbetuximab in...
TOKYO and DALLAS, TEXAS, October 24, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and Taysha Gene Therapies, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSHA, CEO: RA Session II, “Taysha”) today announced a strategic investment to support...
TOKYO, October 12, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) will present 52-week results from the Phase 3 SKYLIGHT 4™ clinical study evaluating the safety and tolerability of fezolinetant, an investigational oral...
TOKYO and Hennigsdorf, Germany, October 4, 2022 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and Pantherna Therapeutics GmbH (CEO:Klaus Giese, Ph.D., “Pantherna”) today announced that the companies...
TOKYO, September 30, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted for regulatory review the company’s marketing authorization application...
TOKYO, September 26, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) confirms the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware’s order granting an interim injunction enjoining Hospira from launching its generic version of...
TOKYO, BOTHELL, Wash. and RAHWAY, N.J. -- September 12, 2022 -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”), Seagen Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) and Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, today...
TOKYO, September 5, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced topline results from the Phase 3 MOONLIGHT 3™ clinical trial in women in mainland China evaluating the long-term safety...
TOKYO, August 18, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the company’s New Drug Application (NDA) for fezolinetant, an investigational oral...
TOKYO, August 2, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced the following changes to its management structure effective...
TOKYO and BOTHELL, Wash.--July 26, 2022—Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and Seagen Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) today announced positive topline results from the phase 1b/2 EV-103 clinical trial...
TOKYO and SAN FRANCISCO - July 22, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced plans to create an integrated biotechnology campus in South San Francisco as its West Coast innovation and research...
Cambridge, UK, and Tokyo, Japan, 05 July 2022: Mogrify Limited (CEO: Darrin M. Disley, Ph.D., “Mogrify®”), a biopharmaceutical company transforming the lives of patients through a novel class of in vivo reprogramming therapies, and Astellas Pharma Inc...
TOKYO, OSAKA, and IWATE, June 30, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas” ), Nitto Denko Corporation (TSE: 6988, President: Hideo Takasaki, “Nitto”), and M. Heart Co., Ltd. (President and CEO: Yoshimi...
TOKYO and SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 28, 2022 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and Sutro Biopharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: STRO, CEO: William J. Newell, JD, “Sutro”) today announced a worldwide, strategic...
TOKYO, June 27, 2022 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has placed a clinical hold...
TOKYO, June 24, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced a New Drug Application (NDA) for fezolinetant has been submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
TOKYO and Cambridge, Mass., June 1, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and GO Therapeutics, Inc. (Co-Founder and CEO: Constantine Theodoropulos, “GO”) today announced that Xyphos Biosciences...
TOKYO, May 20, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today confirmed the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware ruling that all asserted claims of the 8,106,183; 8, 524,883; and RE47301 patents for LEXISCAN®...
TOKYO, May 19, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced results from a pooled analysis of patients with symptomatic anemia associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who are non-dialysis...
TOKYO, May 16, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) announced the presentation of new roxadustat data at the 59th European Renal Association (ERA) Congress, taking place May 19–22, 2022...
TOKYO, May 12, 2022– Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “the Company”) today announced that at the meeting of the Board of Directors held today...
TOKYO, May 12, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “the Company”) announced that at the meeting of the Board of Directors held today...
TOKYO, May 12, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) will share new research during the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting from June 3-7 and the European Hematology Association...
TOKYO, May 6, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) will present 12-week results from the pivotal Phase 3 SKYLIGHT 1™ clinical trial examining the efficacy and safety of fezolinetant, an investigational oral...
TOKYO, April 27, 2022 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that at a meeting of its Board of Directors held today...
TOKYO, April 25, 2022 – The University of Tokyo (President: Teruo Fujii, Ph.D.) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D.; hereafter “Astellas”) entered the second phase of their collaboration for co-creating innovative...
TOKYO, April 22, 2022 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that it will book an impairment loss in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022 (April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022)...
TOKYO and BOTHELL, Wash. – April 13, 2022 -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and Seagen Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) today announced that the European Commission (EC) has approved PADCEV™ (enfortumab vedotin)...
TOKYO, March 15, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced topline results from the ongoing Phase 3 MOONLIGHT 1™ clinical trial investigating the efficacy and safety of fezolinetant, an...
TOKYO, March 10, 2022 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced the status and the completion of acquisition of its own shares based on the resolution of the Board of Directors' meeting held on February 2...
TOKYO, March 7, 2022 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced topline results from the Phase 3 SKYLIGHT 4™ clinical trial investigating the long-term safety of fezolinetant, an...
TOKYO, March 1, 2022 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D. “the Company”) announced the status of acquisition of its own shares as stated below. The acquisition was implemented pursuant to the provision of its Articles of Incorporation in accordance with Article 459...
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