Keio University will complete the "JSR-Keio University Medical and Chemical Innovation Center (JKiC)" on October 2017, 10 for the purpose of joint research with JSR Corporation. An opening ceremony will be held at Shinanomachi Campus.

 In March 2015, Keio University and JSR Corporation agreed to establish and jointly operate the joint research building "JSR / Keio University Medical Chemistry Innovation Center," which is positioned as a collaborative base for industry, academia, and medical care. However, we have been constructing a joint research building (3 floors above ground, 24 floor below ground, total floor area of ​​about 3 m1) on the Shinanomachi campus where Keio University School of Medicine and the university hospital are located, with a construction cost of about 3,900 billion yen. rice field.

 With researchers at Keio Medical School and hospitals, which are developing integrated medicine and medical care from basic to clinical, and JSR's chemical material researchers who are promoting the development of advanced materials and products by positioning the life science field as a strategic business. By working closely with each other, we will realize a wide range of needs and advanced ideas in the medical field, and conduct research and business creation that will lead to the establishment and dissemination of new diagnostic and therapeutic technologies and medical support technologies that support a healthy and long-lived society. I am aiming.This kind of collaboration between the university medical school and a chemical material manufacturer can be said to be a unique attempt in the world.

 In Japan, which is based in JKiC and is facing a super-aging society ahead of other countries in the world, we will work on advanced research and business creation to realize healthy longevity, and the ever-changing needs of medical practice. It is said that we will send out a system that responds to.

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