INITIATIVES FOR DEVELOPING NEW MEDICINES FOR NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES AND MALARIA
Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, CEO: Haruo Naito, “Eisai”) has announced that it will grant a total of 500 million yen to the Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (“GHIT Fund”) to fund the second phase of its activities, which will take place in the five-year period from FY 2018 to FY 2022. The GHIT Fund is a public-private partnership, co-established in April 2013 by multiple Japanese pharmaceutical companies (including Eisai), the Japanese government, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for the purpose of accelerating development of new medicines to cure infectious diseases in developing and emerging countries by facilitating collaboration between research organizations in Japan and overseas.