JCNN News Summaries - Japan Corporate News Network back issues from January 2008:
Mochida, Wyeth Enter License Agreement for Novel Pain Treatment
Jan 11, 2008; ... Tokyo, Jan 11, 2008 - (JCN) - Mochida Pharmaceutical announcedthat it has licensed a portfolio of transient receptor potentialvanilloid sub type 1 (TRPV1) receptor antagonists - a potentialnovel treatment for pain - to Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. Under the terms of the Agreement, Wyeth ...
Novartis Pharma, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Revise Cooperation HMG- GoA Reductase Inhibitor Lochol(R)
Jan 15, 2008; ... Tokyo, Jan 15, 2008 - (JCN) - Novartis Pharma K.K. and MitsubishiTanabe Pharma announced plans to rework threir cooperation on HMG-GoA reductase inhibitor Lochol(R) (generic name: fluvastatinsodium). Lochol is a hypercholesteremia treatment originallydeveloped by Novartis Pharma AG ....
Kissei Enters Development and Sales Agreement with Pneuma Partners LLC on Calfactant
Jan 15, 2008; ... Tokyo, Jan 15, 2008 - (JCN) - Kissei Pharmaceutical todayannounced that it entered an agreement with New York-based PneumaPartners LLC concerning research, development and marketing forCalfactant in Japan. Calfactant is now under development by Pneumain the US. Kissei will ...
Konica Minolta, Dutch Partner Oce in R&D, Marketing Agreement
Jan 15, 2008; ... Tokyo, Jan 15, 2008 - (JCN) - Konica Minolta Holdings announcedan agreement on January 14 with Oce, a company headquartered inVenlo, The Netherlands to cooperate in development and marketing foroffice and production printing systems. Konica Minolta brings proprietary image ...
Renault-Nissan, Project Better Place Announce First Electric Vehicle Mass Market
Jan 21, 2008; ... Tokyo, Jan 21, 2008 - (JCN) - Renault-Nissan Alliance and ProjectBetter Place have announced a significant move towards reducing CO2car emissions as well as particles pollution with an MOU signedtoday in Jerusalem for first application on Israeli market. For the first time in ...
Komatsu to Deliver Autonomous Haulage System, Flagship 930E-4 to Rio Tinto
Jan 21, 2008; ... Tokyo, Jan 21, 2008 - (JCN) - Komatsu announced today that itwill deliver its FrontRunner Autonomous Haulage System for use atRio Tinto's Pilbara iron ore operations in Western Australia. This is the second FrontRunner autonomous installation usingKomatsu's flagship 930E-4 electric ...