TOKYO, March 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- bitBiome, Inc. (Head office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President: Yuji Suzuki; hereafter 'bitBiome') and Kaken Pharmaceuticals (Head office: Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo; President: Hiroyuki Horiuchi; hereafter 'Kaken') have signed a joint research agreement on the discovery of drugs for infectious diseases with high unmet medical needs.
CymaBay Therapeutics Announces Collaboration with Kaken Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. to Develop and Commercialize Seladelpar in Japan for Primary Biliary Cholangitis
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spruce Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPRB) and Kaken Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 4521) today announced that the companies have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement for the development and commercialization of Spruce’s product candidate, tildacerfont, for the treatment of congenial adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) in Japan.
BOULDER, Colo., June 24, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Brickell Biotech, Inc. (“Brickell” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: BBI), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative and differentiated prescription therapeutics for the treatment of debilitating skin diseases, today announced that its development partner, Kaken Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (“Kaken”), recently initiated a Phase 1 clinical study to assess the pharmacokinetics (PK) of sofpironium bromide gel in patients with primary palmoplantar hyperhidrosis (PPH) in Japan.
WAEDENSWIL, Switzerland – January 13, 2021 – Numab Therapeutics AG today announced the formation of a global co-development and regional licensing agreement with Kaken Pharmaceutical for the company’s novel multispecific anti-inflammatory drug candidate NM26- 2198, which blocks three key pathways in the pathophysiology of atopic dermatitis. The alliance builds on a collaboration and option agreement established in 2017
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Brickell Biotech, Inc. (BBI-OLD) (“Brickell”) (Nasdaq: BBI), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative and differentiated prescription therapeutics for the treatment of debilitating skin diseases, announced today that its Japanese development partner, Kaken Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (“Kaken”), received approval to manufacture and market sofpironium bromide gel, 5% under the brand name ECCLOCK® in Japan for the treatment of primary axillary (underarm) hyperhidrosis.
Brickell Biotech, Inc. (“Brickell”) (Nasdaq: BBI), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative and differentiated prescription therapeutics for the treatment of debilitating skin diseases, announced today that Brickell and its Japanese development partner, Kaken Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (“Kaken”), were granted by the Japanese Patent Office a composition of matter patent with claims directed to the novel polymorphic, or crystalline, forms of sofpironium bromide, a retrometabolically designed new chemical entity, currently under development in the United States and Japan as a potential best-in-class treatment for primary axillary hyperhidrosis. This patent is expected to provide additional protection in Japan through 2040 for these newly developed and distinct characterized crystalline forms of sofpironium bromide. Patent protection for these crystalline forms of sofpironium bromide currently is being pursued worldwide, including in the United States.
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Brickell Biotech, Inc. (“Brickell”) (Nasdaq: BBI), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative and differentiated prescription therapeutics for the treatment of debilitating skin diseases, today announced that its development partner, Kaken Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (“Kaken”) submitted a new drug application for approval of manufacturing and marketing for sofpironium bromide in Japan for primary axillary hyperhidrosis. The application for sofpironium bromide in Japan involves data from the Phase 3 study in Japan, targeting patients with primary axillary hyperhidrosis, in which positive results were obtained.
HitGen Inc., a rapidly growing biotech company, and Kaken Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., a specialty pharmaceutical company in Japan, have entered into a license agreement to develop a novel class of drugs. The licensed compounds were identified using HitGen’s leading technology platform, which involved screening large DNA encoded libraries, containing over 400 billion of small molecules with drug-like properties synthesized on chemically diverse scaffolds. A number of novel small molecule leads for an undisclosed target nominated by Kaken were the subject of this license agreement.