Sumio Iwanami

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 .

Novartis Pharma KK develops, imports, produces and sells pharmaceutical products. The company was founded on April 1, 1997 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. manufactures and markets drugs, quasi-drugs and medical devices. It used to promote collaboration with other pharmaceutical companies as well as bioventure companies and academia to raise the quality and speed of its R&D activities. It was founded in 1923. The company was headquartered in Tokyo, JP