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TOKYO, November 5, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas” ) today announced that the company’s mid-to-long term greenhouse gas (GHG)...
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TOKYO, October 31, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that construction and renovation of new facilities for the...
TOKYO and San Francisco, October 30, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and FibroGen, Inc. (Nasdaq: FGEN, CEO: Thomas B. Neff,...
TOKYO, October 29, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) announced today that the European Commission (EC) has approved a new indication...
TOKYO , October 23, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc. (President and CEO: Satoshi Oshita,...
TOKYO and OSAKA, October 9, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”), Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation (TSE: 4508, President and CEO:...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., and TOKYO, Oct. 5, 2018 – Cytokinetics, Incorporated (Nasdaq: CYTK, “Cytokinetics”) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, “Astellas”) today provided an update...
TOKYO and San Francisco, October 1, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and FibroGen, Inc. (Nasdaq: FGEN, CEO: Thomas B. Neff,...
Amgen Astellas BioPharma K.K. (Headquarters, Tokyo; President and Representative Director: Steve Sugino, “Amgen Astellas”) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (Headquarters, Tokyo; President and CEO:...
TOKYO and CHERTSEY, September 24, 2018 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) announced today that The Committee for Medicinal Products for...
TOKYO, September 21, 2018 -Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas” ) today announced that XOSPATA® Tablets 40 mg (generic name: gilteritinib), a...
TOKYO, September 20, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that roxadustat, an inhibitor of hypoxia ¬inducible factor...
TOKYO, September 18, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas” ) today announced that it has launched Dafclir® Tablets 200 mg (generic name:...
TOKYO, September 14, 2018 –Gene Therapy Research Institution Co., Ltd. (head office: Kawasaki, Kanagawa; President: Katsuhito Asai, “GTRI”) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, head office:...
NEW YORK and TOKYO, August 22, 2018 –Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced amendments to the...
TOKYO and CAMBRIDGE, Mass August 21, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas” ) and Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: IRWD ,...
TOKYO, CAMBRIDGE (UK), August 10, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa,Ph.D., “Astellas”) and Quethera Limited (CEO: Peter Widdowson, Ph.D.,...
Amgen Astellas BioPharma K.K. (Headquarters, Tokyo; President and Representative Director: Steve Sugino, “Amgen Astellas”) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (Headquarters, Tokyo; President and CEO:...
TOKYO and NEW YORK, July 13, 2018 –Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug...
BOTHELL, Wash., and TOKYO, July 9, 2018 – Seattle Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced...
TOKYO, July 2, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas” ) today announced that it has received an approval for the marketing application of...
TOKYO, June 29, 2018 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that results from the pivotal Phase 3 PROSPER trial, which...
Tokyo, June 28, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that it has been selected for the seventh consecutive year to be included in...
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Astellas Announces Personnel Change
TOKYO, June 11, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas” ) today announced that it launched 40 mg XTANDI® (generic name enzalutamide) Tablets and 80...
TOKYO and BOTHELL, Wash. – June 3, 2018 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and Seattle Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGEN) today announced...
Astellas Announces Personnel Change
Tokyo, May 31, 2018- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D.) today announced that at the meeting of the Board of Directors held today, a resolution was adopted...
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TOKYO, May 31, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas” ) today announced that it has submitted an application for marketing approval of peficitinib...
TOKYO and San Francisco, May 31, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) and FibroGen, Inc. (Nasdaq: FGEN, CEO: Thomas B. Neff, “FibroGen”
TOKYO – May 31, 2018 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced the launch of the third annual Astellas Oncology C3 Prize...
TOKYO – May 29, 2018 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D. “Astellas”) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted,...
TOKYO – May 24, 2018 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that the post-marketing MATCH study exploring use of mirabegron versus...
Tokyo,May 22,2018 -MSD K.K. (head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Jannie Oosthuizen; “MSD”) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (head office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO; Kenji Yasukawa;...
TOKYO, May 22, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas” ) today announced restructuring of operations in Japan and introduction of the early...
TOKYO – May 16, 2018 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) announced today that a wide selection of abstracts highlighting the...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 9, 2018 and TOKYO, Japan, May 10, 2018 – Aquinox Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:AQXP, “Aquinox”), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company discovering and...
TOKYO, May 7, 2018 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a...
TOKYO, April 24, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas” ) today announced that it submitted on March 23, 2018, a new drug application...
TOKYO, April 18, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, “Astellas” ) and Kite, a Gilead Company (Nasdaq: GILD, President and CEO: John Milligan, “Kite”)...
Tokyo, March 29, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (President and CEO: Yoshihiko Hatanaka, “Astellas”) today announced an agreement for collaborative research with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases...