Outline of company

Pioneer of the chemically functionalized glucides
NeTech Inc.

NeTech Inc.

Establishment: July 27, 1995
Capital: 65,087,500 JPY (as October 31, 2008)
Headquarters: Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan　
Outstanding shares: 29,560
Shareholders: Hirohumi Yura (50.37％), Takeshi Yamamuro (32.58％), Business partners (3.88％), Others (13.17%)

Jul. 1995	Establishment of NeTech Inc. (Capital 22.5 Mil JPY)
May. 1999	Japan Science and Technology Agency, Grant-in-aid for Original seeds deployment, adoption
April, 2008	In 2008, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare was delivered to a clinical study using KytoGEL
Oct. 2009	An option agreement about KytoGEL was concluded with a pharmaceutical company. Formulation of KytoGEL was accomplished.
In 2010	The patents concerning KytoGEL, prenatal testing, and carcinostatic agent were issued warldwide.
2012	NeTech entrusted the production of proprietary materials and manufactures to Fujikura Kasei Co., Ltd. Fujikura Kasei
Feb. 2013	NeTech proved that fetal erythroblasts can be definitely isolated from maternal blood. Subsequently chromosomal abnormalities such as chromosome 13, 18, or 21 trisomy and Klinefelter's syndrome were detected from isolated erythroblasts.

Hirofumi Yura: president, CEO and CTO, PhD

Hirofumi Yura has been consistently engaged in R&D of biomedical materials and modulation of cellular functions. Yura worked on Terumo Corp. to research and develop the medical devices for the apheresis of blood components.
Yura served to develop artificial organs and DDS using chemically manipulated carbohydrates in Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology.
Subsequently, Yura established NeTech Inc. in 1995 in the role of financing, R&D, and arrangement of corporate partners.
Yura was serving as the researcher in the prenatal pathophysiological research division of National Center for Child Health and Development up to March 2013 concurrently.

Director

Auditor

Patent office

Customer and collaboration

Fujikura Kasei Co.Ltd. (overall production of NeTech’s materials including the mass production)Link
Matsunami Glass Ind.,Ltd.
Carl Zeiss Japan
National Defense Medical courage　
National Center for Child Health and Development
Showa University