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Evaluation and research in a common laboratory with Kyoto University.
Our headquarters and research laboratory are located in Kyoto-University Katsura Venture Plaza*, where Kyoto University nurtures the creation of new businesses utilizing new ideas/technologies and intellectual properties.
OUR MISSION
To contribute to the health of people throughout the world through provision of special blood cells produced using regenerative medicine technology.
We produce and provide homogeneous and high precision human blood cells to drastically streamline the evaluation of efficacy and safety of drugs and functional materials, as well as the research of infectious diseases. We also sell evaluation kits and offer various contract evaluation services.
COMPANY PROFILE
Name of company :
MiCAN Technologies, Inc.
Address :
Kyoto-University Katsura Venture
Plaza, 1-36, Goryo-ohara, Kyoto
Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8245, Japan
TEL: +81-75-381-3008
Representative :
Kazuo Miyazaki, Chief Executive Office
Established :
July 2016
Capital :
¥80,095,003
Business lineup :
Provision (sales) of blood cell-like
cells for research using
regenerative medicine technologies
Evaluation service for pharmaceutical
development
(contract service) using the
above-stated blood cell-like cells
Contract service of various tests
using the above-stated
blood cell-like cells based on
alternative methods to animal testing
HISTORY
COMMITMENT
When I was working in India in my previous career, a number of coworkers succumbed to infectious diseases such as malaria and dengue. Vivax malaria, for which rapid development of new drugs is desired. Dengue fever, for which people are waiting for the development of a vaccine. All research and development of drugs for infectious diseases mediated by blood require a huge number of specific blood cells, and the difficulty in procuring them was the largest cause of the delay in the development of drugs and vaccines.
Thus, I made up my mind to produce and provide the specific blood cells required in large quantity at low price using regenerative medicine technology, a cutting-edge technology of Japan.
After I returned to Japan, my business plan was accepted in the Support System for Venture Companies Solving Unmet Medical Needs of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in 2015. Then, my business went into full-scale operation and I established my company in 2016. After that, I have received various business support from local governments, associations, and investment institutions and won awards from multiple organizations, and I have been energetically developing blood cell-like cells and providing them to the world with like-minded colleagues and employees.
In 2020, the world is in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this situation, I sincerely hope that MiCAN’s blood cells can help accelerate the development of new drugs and vaccines.