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Corporate Infomation |
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| Perseus Proteomics Inc. [as of April 1, 2008] |
| Company name |
Perseus Proteomics Inc. |
| Corporate headquarters |
4-7-6, Komaba Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0041, JAPAN
Telephone : +81-3-5738-1705
FAX : +81-3-3481-5760
URL : http://ppmx.com/en/ |
| Established |
February 1, 2001 |
| Capital |
1,193,250,000 Yen |
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Board of Directors |
| President & CEO |
Akiyuki Furuya |
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Tetsuo Nakamura, Ph.D (Institute of Immunology Co.,Ltd., CEO ) |
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Takuro Wakabayashi (ASTEC, General Partner) |
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Takao Hamakubo, Professor, M.D., Ph.D. (The University of Tokyo) |
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Kazuo Nakamura (CMIC Co., Ltd., Chaiman & CEO) |
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Yuzo Toda (FUJIFILM Corporation, Corporate Vice President) |
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Statutory Auditors |
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Hiroshi Matsushita, Ph.D. |
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Hiroyuki Muroga (non-executive) |
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Tohachi Hashiura (non-executive) |
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Scientific advisory board |
| Research Institute |
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Research Area |
| The University of Tokyo |
Tatsuhiko Kodama, Professor, M.D., Ph.D. |
Vascular System Biology |
| The University of Tokyo |
Hiroyuki Abratani, Professor, M.D., Ph.D. |
Cancer genomics |
| The Istituto Clinico Humanitas (Italy) |
Albert Mantovani, Professor, M.D. |
Atherosclerosis |
| Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) |
Emilio H. Moriguchi, Professor, M.D., Ph.D. |
Atherosclerosis |
| Harvard Medical School |
Masanori Aikawa, Assistant Professor M.D., Ph.D. |
Atherosclerosis |
| The University of Tokyo |
Toshiya Tanaka, Asssociate Professor, Ph.D. |
Molecular endocrinology and metabolism |
| The University of Tokyo |
Takeshi Kawamura, Ph.D. |
Disease related proteome study |
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Corporate History |
| February, 2001 |
Founded as a biotech venture company using technology developed at the Laboratory for System Biology and Medicine (LSBM), a division of the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) at the University of Tokyo. |
| October, 2002 |
Established a research and development laboratory at Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo. |
| April, 2003 |
Participated in government sponsored national project entitled "Bionanochip for the Analysis of Protein Interactions" (project leader: Dr. Tatsuhiko Kodama), administered by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). |
| May, 2004 |
Establishment of a joint partnership with CMIC Co., Ltd (Tokyo, Japan) for the development and production of diagnostic kits targeting PTX3, a promising biomarker for arteriosclerosis. |
| August, 2004 |
Signed an agreement with R&D Systems Inc. (Minnesota, USA) for the sale and distribution of Perseus Proteomics nuclear receptor monoclonal antibodies |
| January, 2006 |
Raised $9.5m (1.1 billion yen) from Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., IRI Finance and Technology, Inc., a subsidiary of Internet Research Institute, Inc., and venture capital. |
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Corporate Overview
