Press Releases

Tokyo, Japan, December 15, 2011 -- Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President & CEO: Haruo Naito, "Eisai") announced today that its Canadian pharmaceutical sales subsidiary Eisai Limited...

Morphotek, a subsidiary of Eisai Inc., has decided to terminate FAR122, a study of its investigational agent farletuzumab (MORAb-003), in platinum-resistant ovarian cancer. This decision was based...

Tokyo, Japan, December 2, 2011 -- Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President & CEO: Haruo Naito, ("Eisai") announced today that the company's U.S. research subsidiary H3 Biomedicine...

Tokyo, Japan, December 1, 2011 -- Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President & CEO: Haruo Naito, "Eisai") announced today that its Canadian pharmaceutical sales subsidiary Eisai Limited...

WOODCLIFF LAKE, NJ, November 8, 2011 - Eisai Inc. and the Alzheimer's Association announce today that Max C. Brown, RPh is the recipient of the 2011 C.A.R.E. Pharmacy Award. Mr. Brown has been...

October 26, 2011, Tokyo, Japan -- Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President & CEO: Haruo Naito, ("Eisai") announced today that it has joined WIPO Re:Search, a new global consortium...

Woodcliff Lake, NJ, October 25, 2011 - The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) announced today that it has awarded a research grant to Daniel F. Hayes, MD, Director of the Breast Oncology...

Tokyo, Japan, October 17, 2011 -- Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President & CEO: Haruo Naito, "Eisai") announced today that it has entered into a neurological drug discovery research...

SAN DIEGO, CA, and WOODCLIFF LAKE, NJ, September [26], 2011 - Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARNA) and Eisai Inc. announced today that new data analyses from the lorcaserin Phase 3 clinical...

Lugano, Switzerland and Woodcliff Lake, NJ, USA Sept. 23, 2011 - Helsinn Group and Eisai Inc. announced today that Helsinn has commenced a multi-centered Phase III clinical study program...

Tokyo, Japan, September 7, 2011 -- Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President & CEO: Haruo Naito, "Eisai") announced today that it has entered into a collaborative development agreement with...

Woodcliff Lake, NJ , September 2, 2011 -- Eisai Inc. announced today that the company has decided to discontinue global development of rabeprazole sodium extended-release capsules, 50 mg. On...

Woodcliff Lake, NJ, August 30, 2011 - Results presented today of a Phase III pivotal study for the investigational compound perampanel for partial-onset seizures showed that perampanel, 8 mg and...

Woodcliff Lake, NJ, August 16, 2011 - Eisai Inc. and its parent company Eisai Co., Ltd. today announce the establishment of a subsidiary company in Mexico, which will be named Eisai Laboratorios,...

SAN DIEGO, CA, and WOODCLIFF LAKE, NJ, August 9, 2011 - Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARNA) and Eisai Inc. announced today results from a Pathology Working Group's (PWG) re-adjudication...

SAN DIEGO and WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., Aug. 2, 2011 -- Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARNA) and Eisai Inc. announced today the completion of a clinical study that measured lorcaserin...

Woodcliff Lake, NJ, July 29, 2011 - Eisai Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Refusal to File letter in response to the company's New Drug...

Tokyo, Japan, July 19, 2011 -- Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President & CEO: Haruo Naito, "Eisai") today announced the launch of its novel anticancer agent Halaven in Japan for the...

Woodcliff Lake, NJ, July 13, 2011 - Eisai Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review its supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) seeking...

Eisai Inc. today announced that it has submitted simultaneous regulatory applications for approval of eribulin mesylate (also known as E7389) for the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic...

Eisai Inc. announced today that the Phase III ACCESS (A Controlled Comparison of Eritoran and Placebo in Patients with Severe Sepsis) trial of the investigational compound eritoran (E5564) will...

Eisai Inc. (Headquarters: Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, Chairman and CEO: Hajime Shimizu, "Eisai") today announces that it has entered into a licensing agreement with the Johns Hopkins University's...

Eisai Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a five-day dosing regimen for Dacogen® (decitabine) for Injection to treat patients with myelodysplastic...

The North American Thrombosis Forum (NATF), in coordination with Eisai Inc., announced today that three hospitals have been selected as recipients of the 2009 DVTeamCare Hospital Award. This new...

Eisai Inc. (Headquarters: Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, Chairman and CEO: Hajime Shimizu, "Eisai") today announces the successful completion of its acquisition of the biopharmaceutical company,...

Eisai Inc. and Pfizer Inc announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review Eisai's New Drug Application (NDA) for once daily 23 mg Aricept® (donepezil HCl...

Eisai Inc. today announced that LUSEDRA™ (fospropofol disodium) Injection is now available for use by persons trained in the administration of general anesthesia. LUSEDRA, an aqueous solution,...

Eisai Inc. today announced that it has donated more than 80 pieces of artwork, created by its employees, to hospitals across the United States. The multi-panel murals were created by more than...

Eisai Inc. today announced preliminary results from a recently completed Phase III study with eribulin mesylate (E7389), discovered and developed by the company, in patients with locally advanced...

Eisai Inc. and the Alzheimer's Association announce today that Heather Greene, PharmD is the recipient of the 2009 C.A.R.E. Pharmacy Award. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091029/NY00986

Morphotek®, Inc., a subsidiary of Eisai Inc., announced today that it has entered into a license agreement with Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc. for development and commercialization of an antibody...

Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President and CEO: Haruo Naito, "Eisai") announced that it has reached a comprehensive agreement with Pfizer Inc. (Headquarters: New York, CEO and Chairman of...

Morphotek , Inc., a subsidiary of Eisai Corporation of North America, today announced preliminary data from a Phase II trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of farletuzumab in...

Morphotek , Inc., a subsidiary of Eisai Corporation of North America, announced today that it was awarded $843,289 in funding from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases...

Morphotek , Inc., a subsidiary of Eisai Corporation of North America, and Cancer Innovations, Inc. (CII), a privately held biotechnology company specializing in the development of oncology...

Eisai Corporation of North America today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the company's supplemental new drug application (sNDA) for an...

Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President & CEO: Haruo Naito, "Eisai") and Eisai Corporation of North America (Headquarters: Woodcliff Lake, NJ, Chairman and CEO Hajime Shimizu) are...

Morphotek®, Inc., a subsidiary of Eisai Corporation of North America, announced a research collaboration agreement with Synageva BioPharma Corporation to express and develop therapeutic...

Morphotek®, Inc., a subsidiary of Eisai Corporation of North America, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared its investigational new drug (IND) application to study...

Eisai Inc., in coordination with the Alzheimer's Association, calls on individuals with Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers across America to nominate local pharmacists for the 2009 C.A.R.E....

Eisai Inc., in coordination with the North American Thrombosis Forum (NATF), introduced today the DVTeamCare Hospital Award. This new award provides national recognition to hospitals that have...

Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President and CEO: Haruo Naito) and Eisai Inc. (Headquarters: New Jersey, Chairman and CEO: Hajime Shimizu) (collectively "Eisai") filed a lawsuit in August...

Eisai Corporation of North America and Eisai Inc. today hosted a dedication ceremony to commemorate the opening of its newly constructed U.S. corporate headquarters in Woodcliff Lake, NJ. Eisai...

Eisai Inc., a U.S. pharmaceutical subsidiary of Tokyo-based Eisai Co., Ltd., today announced the signing of a U.S. copromotion agreement with Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. in which Eisai receives...