Japan attracting Korean biotech, healthcare companies
24-Nov-16, Business Korea
South Korean biotech and healthcare companies are rapidly expanding their business in Japan.
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For example:
- Macrogen recently established Macrogen Japan in Kyoto to provide a genome analysis service
- Medipost set up a joint venture in Japan to release its stem cell therapy product Cartistem
- MediTox is supplying anti-aging products in the Japanese market via MDT International
- Tego Science exhibited its anti-wrinkle cell therapy product TPX-105 in this year’s Bio Japan
Japan implemented a new law regarding regenerative medicine in 2015 so that cells used for regenerative medicine purposes can be authorized even without three-phase clinical trials once their safety is confirmed.