Integrated health industry city site that will be a world model for self-sustained growth of human resources and technology (COI-NEXT)

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Acknowledgement

2024.12.05: We held a joint symposium with the Tsukuba Digital-Bio International Center.
2024.12.05: As part of our support for startup creation /growth promotion, we held the 3rd Startup Seminar.
2024.12.02: The brochure for our base has been completed.
2024.11.25: As part of our support for startup creation/ growth promotion, we held the 4th Startup Seminar
2024.10.23: The 13^th Steering Committee meeting was held, and progress was shared with all members.
2024.10.11: A panel discussion was held at BioJapan (co-hosted with the Life Science Incubation Council).
2024.10.09 - 11: We exhibited at BioJapan.
2024.10.04: The 3rd Progress Report Meeting of the PI Development Program was held.
2024.09.27: We participated in the “Pre-EXPO Medical care in the Future.”
2024.09.19-09.21: Participated in the 83^rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cancer Association to promote the KENTO Imaging Support Center.

We exhibited at the Osaka Kansai EXPO Pre-Event "Connecting You to the Future, Science Exhibition" (Tokyo Innovation Base), held from February 13^th to 16^th. At our base, we exhibited Danionella cerebrum handled by the Kento Imaging Support Center and the National Cardiovascular Center Department of Cardiac Regeneration Biology, entitled "The New World of Microscopic Imaging: Danionella cerebrum".
Many people, including families and base personnel, stopped by to see the exhibit.
The actual event will be held from August 14th to 19th at the EXPO Messe (Yumeshima) in the Osaka Kansai EXPO site.

If you are visiting the Expo, please stop by!

On Tuesday, January 14^th, the nine PI Development Program recipients, organizers, and recommenders gathered on-site to hold a progress report meeting (general meeting).The organizers gave advice to each recipient‘s presentation, and lively discussions were held.
This time, there was also advice from two recipients of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Japan Advanced Research and Development Agency (AMED-PRIME) programs, and the discussion was held to deepen strategies for obtaining competitive funding in the future.

We will continue to actively support recipients in the future.

The 4^th Startup Seminar was held on Monday, November 25^th.
This time, the seminar was titled “Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Academia Roundtable,” and participants discussed how research professors and startups should interact with pharmaceutical manufacturers from the perspectives of pharmaceutical manufacturers and academia. It was a very meaningful seminar, as we were able to hear specific and frank opinions about challenges and ideal situations regarding collaboration with pharmaceutical manufacturers.

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who participated. Please join us for future startup seminars!

◆ JST COI-NEXT Program × Life Science Incubation Council
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Academia Roundtable
· Date snd time : November 25^th (Mon), 2024 18:00-19:30 JST
· The venue : LINK-J WEST

· Speakers :: (Moderator)
Cabinet Office Bioeconomy Strategy Expert/LSIC
Organizer, Lawyer Yoshizawa Nao
(Panelists)
Shiono Soichi, Shionogi & Co., Ltd.
Maeda Tomoko, Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim Co., Ltd.
Suzuki Shinobu, Kyoto University

The 3^rd Startup Seminar was held on Tuesday, November 5th.
This time, we held a VC capitalist roundtable discussion, with Mikio Kawahara of Utokyo Innovation Platform Co., Ltd., Hiroyuki Hasegawa of Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co., Ltd., and Hajime Oshita of Medventure partners,Inc.. They discussed what kind of healthcare startups VCs are looking for and what points to consider when evaluating them.

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who participated. Please join us for future startup seminars!

◆ JST COI-NEXT Program × Life Science Incubation Council
VC capitalist roundtable
· Date snd time : November 5^th (Tue), 2024 18:00-19:30 JST
· The venue : LINK-J WEST

· Speakers :: Utokyo Innovation Platform Co., Ltd. Mikio Kawahara
Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co.,Ltd. Hiroyuki Hasegawa
Medventure partners, Inc. Hajime Oshita

Upcoming Startup Seminars

When research related to this program or research using the equipment installed in the "Kento Imaging Support Center" is published in a paper, it will be introduced on the website of the Place for Co-Creation and reported to JST as an achievement.

[ Research related to this program ]
Please indicate your grant number below.
Grant number of the Co-Creation Field: JPMJPF2018
When your paper is accepted, please inform the Co-Creation Field Support Office.
We will publish your paper as a result on the website of Place for Co-Creation.

( For inquiries, please contact )
National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center
Open Innovation Center, Industry-Academia Collaboration Division
6-1 Kishibe Shinmachi, Suita City, Osaka, Japan
E-mail: coi-next-so@ml.ncvc.go.jp
TEL: 06-6170-1070