Yohei Tanida

Id Pharma Co., Ltd. manufactures and sells vaccine and gene therapy. The company utilizes its own vector platforms such as sendai virus vector in its business development, resulting in merits that are not readily available to other bio-companies. It is a workshop where scientists and engineers work together to realize their dreams of improving people's health and conquering incurable diseases by exploiting front-edge bioscience and technologies to their full potential. The firm is also a stage or base where the valuable efforts of its collaborators and supporters will come to big fruition. It believes that the promotion of creative collaborations with worldwide partners using its unique gene transfer technologies are the driving force of rapid and sure creation of valuable products and services. The company was founded on September 5, 2003 by Mamoru Hasegawa and is headquartered in Tsukuba, Japan.

Nihonkaisui Co., Ltd. is a holding company that engages in salt business. It produces and supplies salt and its by-products. The firm’s products encompass classic, rock, iodized, functional, sun-dried, special grade, table, roasted, and brine salt. It also processes and supplies artificial seawater used for breeding salt-water fishes and plants. The company was founded in October 1995 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.