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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: Masayuki Mitsuka; "Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma" ) and Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (TSE: 4568, President : Sunao Manabe, "Daiichi Sankyo") today announced that the three companies will commence the second...

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 for their collaborative skeletal muscle program, including clinical trial updates for reldesemtiv in neuromuscular and non-neuromuscular conditions. In addition to reldesemtiv, the companies are advancing another...

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, “FibroGen”) today announced that Astellas submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) for marketing approval in Japan of roxadustat (generic name, development code: ASP1517/FG-4592) for the treatment of anemia...

Results from the PROSPER trial show a median metastasis-free survival (MFS) of 36.6 months for enzalutamide plus androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) vs 14.7 months for men who received placebo plus ADT1 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 Human...