Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited - TKPYY

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited engages in the research and development, manufacture, marketing, and sale of pharmaceutical products worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Prescription Drug, Consumer Healthcare, and Other. It offers prescription, OTC, and quasi-drugs; and reagents in various therapeutic areas, including oncology, gastroenterology, central nervous system (CNS), vaccines, and others. The company is also involved in clinical diagnostics, chemical products, and other businesses. Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has a research collaboration with Shattuck Labs, Inc. to explore and develop checkpoint fusion proteins that have the potential to become immunotherapies; and a collaboration alliance with Stanford University. It also has collaboration agreements with Samsung Bioepis Co., Ltd. to jointly fund and co-develop various novel biologic therapies in unmet disease areas; AstraZeneca PLC to develop and commercialize MEDI1341, an alpha synuclein antibody for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease; Noile-Immune Biotech Inc. for the research and development of cancer immunotherapy; HitGen Ltd for the DNA-encoded library based drug discovery research; Montreal Neurological Institute to discover and develop treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Denali Therapeutics to develop and commercialize therapeutic product candidates for neurodegenerative diseases; Fujifilm to develop regenerative medicine product for heart patients; and Wave Life Sciences Ltd. to discover, develop, and commercialize nucleic acid therapies for disorders of CNS, as well as Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative. In addition, the company has a licensing agreement with Fimecs, Inc. for the development of novel immuno-oncology therapies; and a clinical collaboration with Nektar Therapeutics to evaluate the combination of NKTR-214 and TAK-659. Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited was founded in 1781 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.