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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...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, USA, and TOKYO, Japan, February 28, 2022 – Affinivax, Inc. (“Affinivax”) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (“Astellas”) today announced that they have entered into an agreement whereby Affinivax has reacquired the exclusive worldwide rights...

TOKYO and BOTHELL, Wash. – February 28, 2022 -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and Seagen Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use...

TOKYO and BOTHELL, Wash. – February 14, 2022 -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and Seagen Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) today announced the initial results from Cohort H of the EV-103 trial investigating...

TOKYO, February 8, 2022 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced the following Top Management members effective from...

TOKYO, Feb. 7, 2022 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced positive interim safety data from FORTIS, the Phase I/II clinical trial evaluating AT845, an investigational adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene...

TOKYO, February 2, 2022 - 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 and BOTHELL, Wash., December 18, 2019 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and Seattle Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) today announced...

TOKYO and BOTHELL, Wash. – December 17, 2021 -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and Seagen Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use...

TOKYO, December 6 , 2021 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today applied for selection of the “Prime Market” segment of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (“TSE”) as its listing market as determined at the Board...

TOKYO and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 2, 2021 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and Dyno Therapeutics, Inc. (President and CEO: Eric Kelsic, Ph.D., “Dyno”) today announced an option and license agreement...

TOKYO, Dec. 1, 2021 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced the presentation of new investigational data in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and sickle cell disease at the 63rd American Society...

TOKYO and Hennigsdorf, Germany, November 15, 2021 - 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, October 20, 2021 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that the company has ranked first in the pharmaceuticals sector for the “2021 Award for Excellence in Corporate Disclosure”...

TOKYO and BOTHELL, Wash. – October 12, 2021 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and Seagen Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) today announced that patient enrollment was completed in Cohort K of the phase 1b/2 EV-103...

TOKYO, October 11, 2021 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) begin using biomass-based plastics made from plant-derived materials in blister packages as the primary packaging for pharmaceutical products...

TOKYO, October 1, 2021 - Juntendo University (President: Hajime Arai, M.D., Ph.D.) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that the parties have established, inside Juntendo University Graduate School...

TOKYO and BOTHELL, Wash. – Sept. 27, 2021 -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE:4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and Seagen Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) today announced that Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved PADCEV®...

TOKYO and Sendai, Miyagi, September 24, 2021 - Tohoku University (President; Hideo Ohno, “Tohoku University”) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas” ) have established the second phase of comprehensive industry-...

TOKYO, September 22, 2021 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) will present 12-week results (S-13) from the pivotal Phase 3 SKYLIGHT 2™ clinical trial of fezolinetant for the treatment of moderate to severe vasomotor...

TOKYO , September 21, 2021 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that it has begun the pilot sales of an exercise support service, Fit-eNce HomeTM, designed under the supervision of...

TOKYO and NEW YORK, September 17, 2021 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) announced today ahead of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2021 that XTANDI®...

TOKYO, September 14, 2021 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) reports that the ASPIRO clinical trial participant, who developed a serious adverse event as described on September 1, passed away on September 9...

TOKYO, OSAKA, and IWATE, September 2nd, 2021 - 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, September 1, 2021 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) announced that it has voluntarily paused screening and dosing of additional participants in its ASPIRO clinical trial evaluating AT132 in patients...

TOKYO, August 31, 2021 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO:
Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D.) today announced that the personnel changes as below...

TOKYO, August 20, 2021 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., "Astellas") and FibroGen, Inc. (Nasdaq: FGEN, CEO: Enrique Conterno, "FibroGen") today announced that the European Commission (EC) has approved EVRENZOTM...

TOKYO, August 6, 2021 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) will change its research organization as of October 1, 2021 as follows...

TOKYO, Japan, and Haifa, Israel, July 30, 2021 - Minovia Therapeutics, Ltd. (CEO; Natalie Yivgi-Ohana, Ph.D., “Minovia”) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas” ) today announced a worldwide strategic collaboration...

TOKYO and Iwate, July 16, 2021 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and M. Heart Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Iwate, President and CEO: Yoshimi Mizunuma, "M. Heart") launched "MYHOLTER II", a software for the holter...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, USA, and TOKYO, Japan, July 13, 2021 -- Affinivax, Inc. ("Affinivax") and Astellas Pharma Inc. (“Astellas”) announced results from the Phase 2 clinical trial of ASP3772, a novel vaccine candidate targeting Streptococcus pneumoniae...

TOKYO, July 13, 2021 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that it has been named to the FTSE4Good Index Series for 10 consecutive years, as a company that is performing excellent initiatives in the areas of ESG...

TOKYO and BOTHELL, Wash.– July 9, 2021 -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and Seagen Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted PADCEV® (enfortumab vedotin-ejfv)...

TOKYO, June 25, 2021 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., "Astellas") and FibroGen, Inc. (Nasdaq: FGEN, CEO: Enrique Conterno, "FibroGen") today announced the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP)...

TOKYO, June 17, 2021 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) announced today that it has decided to terminate the development of the DNA vaccine ASP0892, which is currently in Phase 1 study for peanut allergy...

TOKYO, June 16, 2021 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that Astellas and Cheplapharm Arzneimittel GmbH (“Cheplapharm”) have enterd into an Asset Purchase Agreement, under which Astellas will...

TOKYO, June 8, 2021 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced the presentation of new data in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) at the European Hematology Association (EHA) virtual congress...

TOKYO, June 3, 2021 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas” ) is constantly reviewing its management resource allocation in order to respond flexibly to rapid changes in the business environment and strengthen...

TOKYO, May 26, 2021 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced its new Corporate Strategic Plan 2021 (“CSP2021”) for fiscal years 2021 through 2025...

TOKYO & BOTHELL, Wash. – May 19, 2021 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and Seagen Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) today announced updated results from two clinical trials examining PADCEV® (enfortumab vedotin-ejfv)...

TOKYO, May 17, 2021 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) will share new data across its oncology portfolio during the 2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting from June 4-8, 2021...

TOKYO, May 14, 2021 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., "Astellas") today announced Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has granted priority review for the company’s New Drug Application (NDA)...

TOKYO and Kyoto, May 13, 2021 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas” ) and Kyoto University Innovation Capital Co., Ltd. (President and CEO; Ko Kusumi, “KYOTO-iCAP”) have established a strategic alliance...