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Japan Bioindustry Association1

Japan Bioindustry Association

July 2008




Organization (1/2)

JBA is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of bioscience,

biotechnology and bioindustry.

Board of Directors Representatives from both industry and academia

Chairman:Dr. Hiroshi Harada

Professor Emeritus,

University of Tsukuba

President :Dr. Ichiro Kitasato

Chief Corporate Advisor,

Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd.

Executive Director :Mr. Yoshiaki Tsukamoto

Former Director General,

Shikoku Bureau of Economy,

Trade and Industry

Former Professor,

Tokyo Institute of Technology




Organization (2/2)

1987 JBA was established.

1942 The predecessor organization, Japanese Association of Industrial

Fermentation was established.

History

Members

210 companies from many industrial sectors

88 public organizations

about 1000 individuals

Budget (2008)

Staff about 40

1.63 bil. yen = about 15.5 mil. USD (105 yen = 1 USD)




Main Activities

Act. 1: Assistance for Government Policymaking

Act. 2: Strategic Utilization of Genetic Resources

Act. 3: Biosafety and Public Awareness

Act. 4: Standardization and Intellectual Property

Act. 5: Support for Biotech Start-ups

Act. 6: BioJapan ± The Longest-Established Bioindustry Event

Act. 7: Promotion of Science and Technology

Act. 8: Research and Development Projects

Act. 9: Others




Activity 1:

Assistance for Government Policymaking

Proposal for government policymaking Public-Private Joint Committee for Strategic Promotion of

Biotechnology (2008)- under planning new strategy -

New 5 Yearly Clinical Trial Activation Plan (2007) The Comprehensive National Biotech Strategy (2002)

Contribution to construction of appropriate safetyregulation Law Concerning the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological

Diversity through Regulations on the Use of Living ModifiedOrganisms

Law Concerning Prevention of Infection of Infectious Diseases andPatients with Infectious Diseases

Guidelines for Protection of Personal Genetic Information Ethical Guideline for Human Genome Analysis Certification and indication for biotech food

International contribution to promotion of bioindustry andharmonization of regulation JBA has sent its staff to OECD since 1991 JBA staff participate in the meetings of Convention on Biological

Diversity, Biological Weapons Convention, etc.

OECD

The Comprehensive

National Biotech Strategy




Activity 2:

Strategic Utilization of Genetic Resources

History ODA project ³Conservation and Sustainable

Use of Tropical Bioresources" with the totalbudget of about one billion yen between 1993 and 1998

Support for infrastructures NITE*) Biological Resource Center (N-BRC)

established in 2002

Joint Research Agreement on themicroorganism taxonomy of six countries(Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand,

China, and Mongolia) User-specific and friendly ³Guidelines on

Access to Genetic Resources´ by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and JBA

Guidelines on Access toGenetic Resources for

Japanese Users

NITE Biological Resource Center

*) National Institute of Technology and Evaluation




Activity 3:

Biosafety and Public Awareness

Biosafety Support for discussions in OECD

Support for discussions in Convention onBiological Diversity

JBA established ³DataBiosafety for the Industrial

Application of Microprobes´ that helps biotechcompanies to apply for approval to thegovernment.

Public Awareness

Training of corporate employees who trulyunderstands biotechnology and can communicatebetter with their customers and the public

Practical Training of School teachers Researches on social and ethical issues in

bioindustry since 2002

A website ³bio-school´ to learn from basis toapplications of bioindustry

DataBiosafety for theIndustrial Application of Microprobes

http://diam-jba.jp

Training of teachers (2007)




Activity 4:

Standardization and Intellectual Property

Standardization

International standardization for sounddevelopment of industry

International Standards produced by JBA and theother organizations

ISO21571: Foodstuffs - Methods of analysis for the detection of the genetically modifiedorganisms and derived products - Nucleic acidextraction

ISO14855-2: Test Method of Biodegradable andBio-based Polymer

Intellectual property

Proposal to the government New function of a gene

Research tool patent: protection and utilization

Medical procedures

Functional foods

Report meeting by JBA

Intellectual Property

Working Group2006




Activity 5:

Support for Biotech Start-ups

Statistics

586 companies in Japan in 2006

(575 private and 11 public) Partnering events

Bio-cluster ³Metropolitan Bio Network´

Since 2002

About 400 companies Free business consultation

Partnering events

102 116132 150 167

212

254

304

333

387

464

531

586

Statistics




Activity 6:

BioJapan ± The Longest-Established Bioindustry Event

BioJapan 2007

Since 1986

BioJapan 2008 WorldBusiness Forum will beheld on Oct. 15th to

17th, 2008http://expo.nikkeibp.co.jp/biojapan/eng/index.html

Contents

Exhibition

Partnering Seminar




Activity 7:

Promotion of Science and Technology

³Green Biotechnology Strategy Forum´

Sustainable development of industry

through biotechnology

35 major companies International Workshop (2005, 2007)

Traditional study groups

Fermentation & Metabolism

Bioengineering Bioconversion of new resources

Alcohol & Biomass

Symposium on Amino Acid Fermentation2007

International Workshop

2007




Activity 8:

Research and Development Projects

Advanced national projects Production of new antibodies

Bioprocess using microbial functions

Cell array for analysis of gene function

Microbial genetic resource library

The four projects above: budjet in 2007: 1.13 bil. yen in total (= about 10.8 mil. USD ) 43 companies, 33 universities ,11 national institutes and 352

researchers in total

Achievement - example 14 projects between 1997-2007

94 companies, 84 universities, 31 national institutes and 3,175researchers in total

From the project on protein analysis from 1999 to 2005 Anti-glypican 3 antibody : prepared for clinical test by Chugai Anti-Pentraxin 3 antibody : prepared for clinical test as diagnosis for

arterial sclerosis and cardiac infarction Antibodies against all types of Nuclear receptor : launched as

research use agents

From the project on biomass plastics Verification test of biomass plastics in the site of the Aichi Expo in

2005 Supermarkets and a food chain introduced biomass plastics to their

shops in whole Japan, and the new industry of 300 tons per year was created.

Anti-glypican 3 antibodymAb1, mAb2 for serodiagnosismAb3 for pathological use

mAb4 for medicinal use

Biomass Plastics in the

Aichi Expo2005

(A) ³One-way´: disposable with garbage(B) ³Returnable

(C) garbage bag




Activity 9:

Others

Human resource development Domestic

International:JBA has received trainees from developingcountries with JICA¶s fund since 1988.

(178 trainees of 30 countries in total)

Research fund Domestic:

One JBA award (prize: one million yen) andgrant (total 4.5 million yen) for 10 researchesin 2007

³Bioscience and Bioindustry´, JBA¶s

monthly journal The 65th anniversary in publication in 2007

About 2500 subscribes

Trends of research, industry andadministration

International humanresource development

(2007)

³Bioscience

and Industry´

Awards ceremony (2007)

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