Kawasaki Skyfront i-Newsletter

2018.03.06 OLD

Keio University sets up consultation desk for entrepreneurs at Tonomachi Wellbeing Research Campus

2018.02.15 OLD

PeptiDream Announces Initiation of a Molecular Imaging Study in Discovery Alliance with Bristol-Myers Squibb

2018.02.07 OLD

The KingSkyFront Networking Council is established

2017.12.19 OLD

CYBERDYNE obtained marketing clearance from U.S. FDA for Medical HAL as a medical device.

2017.11.24 OLD

Kawasaki City and Munich Biocluster Management Organizations (BioM) sign memorandum of understanding on promoting business exchanges centered on health, medicine, and welfare.

2017.11.02 OLD

9 Doctors in Southeast Acquired Minimally Invasive Surgery. Doctors learned VATS and Small-Thoractomy Techniques at Johnson & Johnson.

2017.08.04 OLD

Medtronic Innovation Center Japan to be opened at Kawasaki KINGSKYFRONT on 1 September 2017

2017.08.03 OLD

Tokyo Institute of Technology and Kawasaki City are Combining Forces in R&D on Computational Drug Discovery for Middle Molecules at Kawasaki KING SKYFRONT

2017.08.01 OLD

Notice of Orphan Drug Designation of NC-6004 (biliary tract cancer) by the U.S. FDA

2017.02.21 OLD

CYBERDYNE won the Prime Minister’s Award in the third Nippon Venture Awards

2017.02.08 OLD

Kazunori Kataoka is elected a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering (USA), “For pioneering contributions to the design of supramolecular nanostructures and their application to drug and gene delivery systems.”

2017.01.26 OLD

Kawasaki's life science research district sale completed: JSR Corporation and Kawasumi Laboratories Inc., succeed in winning the bid

2016.12.15 OLD

3rd COINS International Symposium "Towards Smart Health Society - Challenge of Kawasaki based Medical Innovation -"

2016.10.11 OLD

Results of a Phase Ib Clinical Study of NC-6004 in the US

2016.09.30 OLD

Commencement of investigator-initiated clinical trial of stroke patients using HAL® for Medical Use (Single-Leg Model) ~Step towards the medical device approval and expansion of Cybernic treatment~

2016.09.29 OLD

KINGSKYFRONT region is selected as Wellbeing Research Campus

2016.06.29 OLD

"PeptiDream Announces Start of Preclinical Testing of Anti-Influenza Candidate PD-001"

2016.06.23 OLD

Under the supervision of medical professionals, the manual for proper usage of HAL® for Medical Use (Lower Limb Type) has now been published ~ Commencement of the world’s first insured robotic treatment covered under general public health insurance ~

2016.06.20 OLD

Ceremony to commemorate the completion of the Create Medic Research and Development Center

2015.12.24 OLD

NanoCarrier Co., Ltd. announces start of phase one clinical trials in Taiwan of drug delivery product for treatment of head and neck cancer.

2015.12.03 OLD

Application for national health insurance coverage for HAL for Medical Use (Lower Limb Type) submitted to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

2015.11.26 OLD

KINGSKYFRONT area is selected as a ‘feasibility hub’ by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

2015.11.25 OLD

HAL for Medical Use (Lower Limb Type) received approval to be manufactured and sold as a medical device by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

2015.10.13 OLD

KINGSKYFRONT concept images updated

2015.09.29 OLD

Fujifilm establishes “Cellular Dynamics International Japan” to launch iPSC business for drug discovery support in Tonomachi (Kawasaki, Japan)

2015.09.29 OLD

Next Generation Robots Introduced to Haneda Airport Domestic Passenger Terminal! ~HAL® for Labor Support (Lumbar type), Transport Robot, and Cleaning Robot Commence Operations~

2015.09.29 OLD

Novel Norovirus Strain Identified by Kawasaki City Institute for Public Health

2015.09.03 OLD

Johnson & Johnson K.K.
First Anniversary of Tokyo Science Center, a Training Center for Healthcare Professionals
- The number of visitors from home and abroad exceeds 22,000 -

2015.07.13 OLD

Opening Ceremony of Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM)

2015.06.22 OLD

PeptiDream Inc., announces the opening of facilities at KAWASAKI KING SKYFRONT.

2015.06.10 OLD

Kazunori Kataoka and colleagues publish paper on ‘chemical surgery’ for cancer treatment.

2015.05.25 OLD

Solvay opens research and innovation laboratory at LiSE, KING SKYFRONT.

2015.05.18 OLD

Bridge across Tamagawa River to link Haneda Airport to KING SKYFRONT

2015.05.04 OLD

Professor Kazunori Kataoka, Tokyo University and the Director, Innovation Center of NanoMedicine(iCONM) received 2015 Gutenberg Research Award.

2015.04.30 OLD

Professor Kataoka and colleagues at the COINS（Center of Open Innovation Network for Smart Health） describe their latest findings in the following paper:

2015.03.26 OLD

Launch of the Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM) led by Professor Kazunori Kataoka, at KING SKYFRONT.

2015.03.26 OLD

Toshiba Ltd and Kawasaki City develop a rapid and efficient DNA chip technology for simultaneously testing 14 major types of food borne pathogens in less than 90 minutes.

2014.11.15 OLD

CYBERDYNE Inc. submitted final application for market clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) ~ the first DeNovo submission by a Japanese company for a “novel” medical device

2014.11.12 OLD

HAL received the world-first certificates of an international safety standard as wearable robots for workers and caregivers

2014.11.10 OLD

Herbert Lauterbach Award 2014 to Bergmannsheil Bochum for HAL- exoskeleton research

2014.11.04 OLD

Fujifilm enters the PET (positron emission tomography) radiopharmaceutical market

2014.10.08 OLD

Central Institute for Experimental Animals featured in Nature article

2014.09.30 OLD

CYBERDYNE Inc. launched HAL® for Task Support to enter fields of heavy work assistance devices

2014.09.22 OLD

Article regarding efficacy of HAL For Medical Use was published in US medical magazine “Neurology”

2014.08.08 OLD

FUJIFILM RI Pharma Co., Ltd. and CYBERDYNE Inc announce that they will open facilities at KAWASAKI KING SKYFRONT.

2014.07.01 OLD

Johnson & Johnson Opens Tokyo Science Center

2014.06.30 OLD

Daiwa House Signs Land Transfer Agreement with Urban Renaissance Agency and Memorandum with Kawasaki Municipal Government

2014.06.23 OLD

Professor Kazunori Kataoka of the University of Tokyo and Center of Open Innovation Network for Smart Health (COINS) is selected by Thompson Reuters as a ‘highly cited researcher for 2014’.

2014.06.18 OLD

Comprehensive Agreement signed by Kawasaki Municipal Government and CYBERDYNE

2014.06.16 OLD

Keio Team to Start World’s First Clinical Trail of New Spinal Injury Treatment

2014.05.27 OLD

Central Institute for Experimental Animals Signed Memorandum of Understanding with United Graduate School of Veterinary Sciences, Gifu University

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