Kyoto and Bayer collaborate on health

Kyoto University’s Office of Society – Academia Collaboration for Innovation and Bayer HealthCare are entering a two year collaboration agreement. The partnership will identify research for collaborative projects in the areas of cardiology, oncology, hematology, gynaecology and ophtalmology.

The two have also set out three wider goals to achieve within the next two years. These include the promotion of collaborative research among academia, industries and the government, the management and utilisation of Kyoto’s intellectual properties, and the support of spin-outs.

Bayer has been signing a series of such agreements recently, including with Oxford University, which focuses on gynaecology.

Kyoto’s partnership with Bayer is also set to benefit from the latter’s recently established Open Innovation Centre Japan in Osaka. It was set up in June 2014 and aims to conduct collaborative research on diseases with unmet medical needs.