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Profile of BioAcademia |
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Company Name |
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BioAcademia Inc. |
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Established |
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July ,2005 |
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Capital |
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¡ï62,000,000 |
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Headguaters |
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7-7-18 Saito-Asagi, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0085, Japan
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TEL / FAX |
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81-72-643-4660 / 81-72-643-4701 |
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Inquiry |
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info@bioacademia.co.jp |
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Order |
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order@bioacademia.co.jp |
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Management |
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President¡§Hideo Shinagawa,Ph.D.
Managing Director¡§Komo Okuyama
Managing Director¡§Yoshiko Okuyama
Managing Director¡§Haruhiko Ushio
Auditor¡§syotetsu shinohara
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Policy |
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Establishing a network of researchers in academia (Japanese and world-wide), to develop biomedical reagents (recombinant proteins, DNA enzymes, antibodies, assay kits)
for research use and drug discovery.
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Message from the president |
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The idea of establishing a company which is based on the network of Japanese academicians serving for the advancement of biomedical research had been conceived for several years, and the dream came true as BioAcademia, Inc. in July,2006.
Most of the reagents used in Japan for biomedical research are imported from abroad even in these days when Japanese biomedical sciences become highly recognized.
Products of BioAcademia are based on research in academia, mostly universities in Japan. Many prominent professors have contributed their useful research products and seeds of reagents to be shared with colleagues in the world.
The academic community which support BioAcademia is expanding to USA, Korea, Europe and China. And I expect further expansion of BioAcademia to become a core of world-wide academia network.
The initial products reflect the research history of the President who has been working for many years on DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair(3R).They include enzymes which resolve recombination intermediate, Holiday junction, RuvA,
RuvB and RuvC proteins which were discovered and studied by us. RecA and its homologs in eukaryotes, Rad51 and their antibodies were also our favorite reagents and the quality should be unsurpassed.
I spent 40 years in the research of 3R field and accumulated expertise on DNA related enzymes and enjoyed friendship of many experts in this field.
The development of enzymes systems for gene manipulation including third generation of PCR enzymes is in progress with the help of the friends in academia.
I also participated in a joint research program on AIDS several years ago supported by Japanese Govement and succeeded in overexpressing recombinant HIV-1 proteins in E.coli and highly purified them. They have been served for the
research community in Japan and abroad. The polyclonal antibodies produced by using the recombinant proteins as antigens are highly specific and possess high avidity. The antibodies are being used to construct p24 based ELISA kit under the guidance of Prof.Eiji Ishikawa, a
world pioneer of ELISA system. Because we produced high quality polyclonal antibodies using full-size p24 as the antigen, the kit can detect any subtypes of HIV-1 virus so far examined.With the help of calleagues of
Research Institute of Microbial Diseese, Osaka University, we produced many bacterial protein toxins, many of which should be useful for unraveling cellular mechanisms at molecular level.
Most of the monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies sold by BioAcademia are the products produced and used by academicians and should have high quality.
We will help people in academia and we need help from academia!
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President and Founder ¡§Hideo Shinagawa,Ph.D.
B.A.;International Christian University
M.A.;Princeton University
Ph.D.; Osaka University
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Faculty member of Osaka University
Research Institute for Microbial Diseases
(Assistant Prof,Associate Prof,and Prof) |
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Kihara Prize from Genetic Society of Japan. |
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Professor Emeritus of Osaka University |
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President of Genetics Society of Japan |
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Editor or Editorial Board : Journal of Bacteriology, DNA Repair, Research in Microbiology, Genes & Genetic Systems.
Original articles : ¡Á180 publications in Scince, Cell, Mol.cell., Gene Dev, EMBO J, Mol.Cell.Biol., J.Biol.Chem., J-Bacteriol., etc.
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