Japan Bioindustry Association

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Japan Bioindustry Association
July 2008
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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 HaradaProfessor
Emeritus, University of Tsukuba
President Dr. Ichiro KitasatoChief Corporate
Advisor, Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd.
Executive Director Mr. Yoshiaki
TsukamotoFormer Director General, Shikoku Bureau
of Economy, Trade and Industry Former
Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
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Organization (2/2)
History
1987 JBA was established. 1942 The predecessor
organization, Japanese Association of Industrial
Fermentation was established.
Members
210 companies from many industrial sectors 88
public organizations about 1000 individuals
Staff
about 40
Budget (2008)
1.63 bil. yen about 15.5 mil. USD (105 yen
1 USD)
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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

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Activity 1Assistance 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
  safety regulation
• Law Concerning the Conservation and Sustainable
  Use of Biological Diversity through Regulations
  on the Use of Living Modified Organisms
• Law Concerning Prevention of Infection of
  Infectious Diseases and Patients 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 and harmonization 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.

The Comprehensive National Biotech Strategy
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Activity 2Strategic Utilization of Genetic
Resources

• History
• ODA project Conservation and Sustainable Use of
  Tropical Bioresources" with the total budget 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 the microorganism
  taxonomy of six countries (Indonesia, Vietnam,
  Myanmar, Thailand, China, and Mongolia)
• User-specific and friendly Guidelines on Access
  to Genetic Resources by the Ministry of Economy,
  Trade and Industry and JBA

) National Institute of Technology and Evaluation
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Activity 3Biosafety and Public Awareness

• Biosafety
• Support for discussions in OECD
• Support for discussions in Convention on
  Biological Diversity
• JBA established DataBiosafety for the Industrial
  Application of Microprobes that helps biotech
  companies to apply for approval to the
  government.
• Public Awareness
• Training of corporate employees who truly
  understands biotechnology and can communicate
  better with their customers and the public
• Practical Training of School teachers
• Researches on social and ethical issues in
  bioindustry since 2002
• A website bio-school to learn from basis to
  applications of bioindustry

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Activity 4Standardization and Intellectual
Property

• Standardization
• International standardization for sound
  development of industry
• International Standards produced by JBA and the
  other organizations
• ISO21571 Foodstuffs - Methods of analysis for
  the detection of the genetically modified
  organisms and derived products - Nucleic acid
  extraction
• ISO14855-2 Test Method of Biodegradable and
  Bio-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 Group (2006)
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Activity 5Support for Biotech Start-ups

• Statistics
• 586 companies in Japan in 2006 (575 private and
  11 public)
• Partnering events
• Bio-cluster Metropolitan Bio Network
• Since 2002
• About 400 companies
• Free business consultation

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Activity 6BioJapan The Longest-Established
Bioindustry Event

• Since 1986
• BioJapan 2008 World Business Forum will be held
  on Oct. 15th to 17th, 2008http//expo.nikkeibp.co
  .jp/biojapan/eng/index.html
• Contents
• Exhibition
• Partnering
• Seminar

BioJapan 2007
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Activity 7Promotion of Science and Technology

• Green 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

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Activity 8Research 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 3,175 researchers 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.

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Activity 9Others

• Human resource development
• Domestic
• InternationalJBA has received trainees from
  developing countries with JICAs fund since
  1988.(178 trainees of 30 countries in total)
• Research fund
• DomesticOne JBA award (prize one million yen)
  and grant (total 4.5 million yen) for 10
  researches in 2007
• Bioscience and Bioindustry, JBAs monthly
  journal
• The 65th anniversary in publication in 2007
• About 2500 subscribes
• Trends of research, industry and administration