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Sep 19, 2025

Astellas Receives Conditional Approval for IZERVAY, making it the first and only approved treatment for the Suppression of Geographic Atrophy Growth in Japan

TOKYO, Sep 19, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has...

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Aug 12, 2025

PADCEV^TM Plus KEYTRUDA^TM Significantly Improves Survival for Certain Patients with Bladder Cancer When Given Before and After Surgery

PADCEV plus KEYTRUDA is the first and only regimen to improve survival when used before and after standard of care (surgical cystectomy) in cisplatin-ineligible patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer

NEW YORK AND TOKYO, August 12, 2025 – Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced positive topline results from...

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Jul 17, 2025

Astellas Announces a Partnership with the “Korea Institute of Startup and Entrepreneurship Development”, an Umbrella Organization of a Korean Government Agency, for the Operation of the“Partnership with Global Companies Program”

- Supporting Korean Startups’ Drug Discovery Research and Global Expansion - - First Pharmaceutical Company from Japan to Actively Support the Operation of the Program - TOKYO, July 17, 2025 –...

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Jul 10, 2025

Sales of IZERVAY^TM(Preliminary Figures)

TOKYO, July 10, 2025 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, “Astellas”) today announced that the sales in the U.S. of the IZERVAY™ (avacincaptad pegol...

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Jun 13, 2025

Mitsubishi Research Institute and Astellas Announce Collaboration to Support Pharma Startups in Japan

Accelerating the Growth of Globally Active Drug-Discovery Startups from Japan Tokyo, 13 June 2025—Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. (“MRI”) and Astellas Pharma Inc. (“Astellas”) today...

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