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TOKYO, April 2, 2025 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research (Chairman: Toshio Asano, Ph.D., “JFCR”) today announced they have entered into a strategic collaboration to accelerate translational and clinical oncology research. The collaboration leverages Astellas’ unique scientific, translational and clinical...

TOKYO, March 6, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) and YASKAWA Electric Corporation (TSE: 6506, President and CEO; Masahiro Ogawa, “YASKAWA”) signed a definitive agreement to establish a joint venture for the development of a cell therapy product manufacturing platform utilizing the dual-arm robot "Maholo." In addition, the joint venture will...

TOKYO, February 13, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved expanded U.S. Prescribing information for IZERVAY™ (avacincaptad pegol intravitreal solution) for the treatment of geographic atrophy (GA) secondary to age-related macular degeneration (AMD). As a result, IZERVAY is now...

Enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab continues to demonstrate superior efficacy versus chemotherapy in a broad population, reinforcing the combination as standard of care in first-line treatment of la/muC At nearly 30 months of follow-up in the Phase 3 EV-302 trial, the combination doubled median overall survival and progression-free survival compared to chemotherapy, with no new safety signals...

TOKYO, February 5, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced the submission of a New Drug Application (NDA) to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) for Conditional Approval of avacincaptad pegol intravitreal solution (ACP), a synthetic aptamer that inhibits the complement C5 protein, for the treatment of GA secondary to...