About Us


Company Profile – Business Motivation

I have lost my father and many relatives by cancer. For solid cancers, tumors are eliminated by a surgery and successively treated by anti-cancer drugs. For floating cancers, the treatment is generally performed by anti-cancer drugs selection by maker analysis. However, we cannot perfectly predict the efficacy. Furthermore, the long term dosage of the same drug causes drug resistance to our body and loses efficacy. From these reasons, we many times encounter the situation “The present drug is not so effective, let’s change the drug. “ This causes cancer refugees. Our first business motivation is to solve cancer refugee problem from therapy, drug discovery and drug screening. At present, anti-cancer drug selection scientifically depends on chemosensitivity test by cell culture and gene analysis. However, these methods are slow and imprecise to give dose concentration for patients. Consequently, we solve these problems with our rapid and precise technology and realize their popularization.

Furthermore, since our system does not require cell culture, our system is especially effective for new drug discovery using stem cells such as iPS cell disease models which are extremely difficult to keep the healthy condition for long term cell culture. From these, our second business motivation is to help the drug discover for incurable diseases from drug screening and therapy using our system.

Moreover, much attention is paid to utilize stem cells such as iPS cells for regenerative therapy in organ diseases, which will replace organ and artificial organ transplantation. To achieve this, the produced mature functional cells should possess high in purity, safety, and therapeutic effect. Our third business motivation is to solve this problem. We realize the popularization of our technology which evaluates and screens safety and high activity cells without containing cancerous cells. From these, we contribute to realize effective and safety regenerative medicine together with stem cells quality control and method development of organs by stem cells.

On the other hand, it is important to eat healthy foods to prevent diseases such as cancer. Especially, foods with long dietary habits should contain high functionality. We can draw out this functionality maximally and elucidate the efficacy. Our fourth business motivation is to develop food products with high function. We contribute to merchandize both by us and by farmers with our help. We also seek to develop medicine from the results and develop cosmetics for mental care.

 

Our Mission

1. Save cancer patients including cancer refugees by screening device technology combined with drug screening.
2. Save incurable diseases patients by screening device technology combined with drug discovery.
3. Save patients by regenerative medicine by screening device technology combined with screening safety and high activity cells.
4. Save people from diseases and diseases recurrence including mentality by healthy and esthetic food and medicine development.

For these, we perform 1) sales of devices, 2) chemosensitivity test on commission, 3) sales of (high functional) food, medicine and cosmetics, 4) consulting etc.

 

Representatives

 

Chairman, CEO   Management, R&D, Engineering, Sales & Marketing

Toshihiro ONA

 

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy, Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, 1996.

Master of Science, Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, 1987.

Bachelor of Science, Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, 1985.

 

ACADEMIC/TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, Kyushu University, Department of Forest & Forest Products Science, Graduate School of Bioresource & Bioenvironmental Sciences, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan

January 2002 – 2010.

Associate Professor, Kyushu University, Department of Agro-Environmental Sciences, Graduate School of Bioresource & Bioenvironmental Sciences, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan

January 2010 – present.

  • Teach undergraduate and graduate students.
  • Supervise and guide master’s and doctoral students’ thesis work.

 

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

Engineer, Oji Paper Co., Ltd, Tomakomai Mill, Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan, 1987 – 1992.

Researcher, Oji Paper Co., Ltd, Forestry Research Institute, Kameyama, Mie, Japan, 1992 – 1998.

Research Group Manager, Oji Paper Co., Ltd, Forestry Research Institute, Kameyama, Mie, Japan, 1998 – 2001.

Technical Advisor, Neat Co., Ltd., Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, 2007 – 2008.

Executive Director and CTO, Precision Bio-Engineering Co., Ltd., Sue-Machi, Fukuoka, Japan, 2012.

Technical Advisor, PMT Corporation, Sue-Machi, Fukuoka, Japan, 2012.

Technical Advisor, OK Lab. Inc., Cell BET Div., Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan, 2013 – 2014.

Chairman and CEO, O’Atari Inc., Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, 2015 – present.

 

ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Japan Pulp and Paper Award, Japan Technical Association of Pulp and Paper, 1996.
  • Japan Printing Award, Ministry of Finance, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 1996.
  • Best Poster (presentation) Award, The 16th Symposium on Polymer Analysis and Characterization, Division of Polymer Analysis and Characterization, The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry, 2004.
  • Kyushu University Award for Activity in Research and Promotion of Industry-Academic-Government Cooperation, 2007; 2008; 2009 .
  • Hot Article Award, Analytical Sciences, The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry, 2010.
  • Best Poster (presentation) Award, The 26th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Alternatives to Animal Experiments, The Japan Society for Alternatives to Animal Experiments, 2013.
  • Lush Prize 2014 Science Award, Finalist, Lush Prize Organization, 2014.

 

President, CEO  Management, R&D, Engineering

Junko JOHZUKA

 

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Engineering, Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, 1991.

 

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

Researcher, Marutosangyo Co., Ltd, Production Department, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, 1991.

Engineer, Plus Seisan Gijyutsu Kogyo Corporation, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, 1992.

Engineer, Kokusai Kogyo Co., Ltd., Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, 1996 – 1998.

Researcher, Kyushu University, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, 2002 – 2003.

Engineer, Yamaya Communications, Inc., Quality Control Goup, Fukuoka, Fukoka, Japan, 2004 – 2006.

Researcher, System Instruments, Co., Ltd., R&D Group, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, 2006 – 2011.

Researcher, PMT, Corporation, R&D Group, Sue-Machi, Fukuoka, Japan, 2006 – 2011.

Executive, Precision Bio-Engineering Co., Ltd., Sue-Machi, Fukuoka, Japan, 2012.

General Manager, OK Lab. Inc., Cell BET Div., Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan, 2013 – 2014.

President and CEO, O’Atari Inc., Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, 2015 – present.

 

ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Hot Article Award, Analytical Sciences, The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry, 2010.
  • Best Poster (presentation) Award, The 26th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Alternatives to Animal Experiments, The Japan Society for Alternatives to Animal Experiments, 2013.