Kunikatsu Shirahata

Id Pharma Co., Ltd. manufactures and sells vaccine and gene therapy. The company utilizes its own vector platforms such as sendai virus vector in its business development, resulting in merits that are not readily available to other bio-companies. It is a workshop where scientists and engineers work together to realize their dreams of improving people's health and conquering incurable diseases by exploiting front-edge bioscience and technologies to their full potential. The firm is also a stage or base where the valuable efforts of its collaborators and supporters will come to big fruition. It believes that the promotion of creative collaborations with worldwide partners using its unique gene transfer technologies are the driving force of rapid and sure creation of valuable products and services. The company was founded on September 5, 2003 by Mamoru Hasegawa and is headquartered in Tsukuba, Japan.

The Group's principal activity is to produce pharmaceuticals and chemicals. The operations are carried out through the following divisions: Pharmaceuticals; Bio chemical; Chemicals; Food and Other. Pharmaceuticals include ethical drugs, bulk pharmaceuticals and biological research. Bio chemicals deal with biochemical diagnostic reagents, animal health products, agrochemicals and fertilizers. Chemicals includes solvents, plasticizes and their raw materials, detergent raw materials and specialty chemicals. Food includes alcoholic beverages, alcohol, seasonings, confectionery, baking ingredients and processed foods. Others include wholesale, commodity distribution and installation of facilities.