Kimimasa Yamada

MBL International Corp. supplies scientific and diagnostic research products. It offers antibodies, kits and assays, proteins, tetramers and monomers, cell culture, and miscellaneous. Its products are used in academic research institutions, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, government agencies as well as hospital and reference laboratories. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

ReqMed Co., Ltd. engages in drug development and consulting services. Its projects include development of pentosan polysulfate which alleviate pain symptoms of osteoarthritis, and eltoprazine which are used in the diseases such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia and dyskinesia associated with Parkinson disease. The firm's clients include pharmaceutical and bio-pharmaceutical companies. The company was founded by Tadashi Matsumoto on May 12, 1998 and is headquartered in Machida, Japan.

ReqMed Venture Capital (RMVC) is the investment arm and a wholly-owned subsidiary of ReqMed Co. Ltd. ReqMed is an independent business consulting firm specializing in healthcare, established in 1998 by Kyowa Hakko Kogyo (TSE: 4151), a manufacturer of pharmaceuticals, chemicals and food products. ReqMed is headquartered in Tokyo with an office in San Francisco. The group provides services to innovative drug development businesses. ReqMed stands for Required Medicine. RMVC was established in 2003 and is located in Tokyo. The firm manages specialist venture capital funds. LSVF-I, their first Life Science Venture Fund, was established in 2000. They have entered strategic alliances with Japanese contract-research organizations including CMIC and Fuji Biomedix.

Glycoscience Laboratories, Inc. operates as a holding company that engages in the research and development of medical technologies. The firm also develops glycomedicines, with a focus on finding medical applications for glycosaminoglycans. It provides medical research on proteins, nucleic acids, and carbohydrates. The firm’s business activities include drug discovery, basic cosmetics development, and health food and supplements production. The company was founded by Akira Asari on April 15, 2005 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

MBL Venture Capital Co. Ltd. (MBL Venture Capital) is a venture capital arm of JSR Corp. and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The firm was founded in 2000 by Medical & Biological Laboratories Co.

Aphoenix, Inc. is a holding company that operates as a chemical genomics firm. It specializes in the affinity purification technology using special nano-scale beads and other supporting technologies, such as medicinal chemistry, mass spectroscopy, informatics and molecular, biology. The firm exploits drugs, which lack known mechanisms of action as probes for discovering druggable targets, and then develop such compounds against validated targets. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan .

Part of JSR Corp., Beijing B & m Biotech Co., Ltd. is a company that provides medical services and tools. The company is based in Beijing, China.

JSR Life Sciences Corp. engages in research, development, manufacturing and selling of life science products. The company was founded in February, 2012 and is headquartered in Tsukuba, Japan.

Part of JSR Corp., JSR (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. is a Chinese company that manufactures synthetic rubbers and semiconductor material & performance chemical. The company is based in Shanghai, China.