Investors in the U.S. only watch Japanese giant Takeda Pharmaceutical because they see it as competition.
Along with Takeda's earlier decision to purchase all of Millennium Pharmaceuticals, the Cambridge, Mass.
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Takeda and Astellas have both moved their global research and development hub to America.
These companies all chose to merge with bigger companies like Sanofi, Idec, and Takeda, respectively.
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Actos, from Japanese pharmaceutical giant Takeda, is the only other drug in the same class as Avandia.
Takeda's pill, TAK-475, aimed to lower LDL cholesterol in a different way than either the statins or Zetia.
Outside the U.S., Fusilev is being marketed by Pfizer (PFE), Sanofi-Aventis (SNY), and Takeda Pharmaceutical (TKPHI) in Japan.
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Mutual, which is owned by Takeda Pharmaceutical, points to a 2011 Supreme Court ruling called Pliva v.
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Rival Actos, from Japanese drug maker Takeda, does not seem to cause heart attacks and may prevent them.
As a result, Takeda, Astellas and Daiichi Sankyo all expect a steep drop in operating profits this year.
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Keiji Takeda from Tokyo, for example, is an engineer knowledgeable about network integration.
Takeda is planning to market the drug to doctors with 1, 000 sales representatives.
Abbott Labs and Takeda had formed the Lake Forest, Illinois company in 1977.
Takeda is already marketing an entirely new category of AIDS and cancer drugs.
Abbott Labs and Takeda had formed the Lake Forest, Ill. company in 1977.
Hoping to give their drugs a market advantage, numerous drug companies, including Takeda, Sanofi-Aventis and AstraZeneca, jumped on the bandwagon.
Takeda 's Actos and GlaxoSmithKline 's (nyse: GSK - news - people ) Avandia have a big effect.
That company was one of the least transparent companies on our list, joined by another hall-of-shamer, Takeda Chemical Corp. of Japan.
All told, these trials involved 3, 725 patients who had received Pargluva, placebo, or Actos, another diabetes drug made by Takeda Pharmaceutical.
But Januvia isn't just a newer version of existing diabetes blockbusters like Avandia, from GlaxoSmithKline, and Actos, from Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical .
The president, Kunio Takeda, is the seventh generation of the Takeda family to run the company since it went public in 1925.
Returning to Takeda in 1969, Fujino concentrated on finding a better way of synthesizing the hormones being discovered by the two teams.
Takeda, another Japanese firm, also has a cholinesterase inhibitor on trial, as do Bayer, of Germany, and Forest Laboratories, an American firm.
"Our mechanism is rather like when you turn the computer off from Windows, " says Stephen Sainati , VP of clinical neuroscience at Takeda.
The study could open new avenues for treating heart disease, aside from being a marketing coup for Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical, which makes Actos.
In the past several months, studies of Actos and Avandia, from Takeda Pharmaceutical and GlaxoSmithKline, have failed to alleviate safety concerns with those drugs.
Along with Takeda's earlier decision to purchase all of Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ), the Cambridge, Mass.
But the similar study from Takeda adds one more piece of contradictory data for the FDA panel to weigh when it votes this afternoon.
Mr. Takeda offered his knowledge about IT networking to Tibiscus University.
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