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What is KING SKYFRONT

Source: Kawasaki City, Japan, Coastal Area International Strategy Office

For immediate release: 5 August 2014

Subject line: Kawasaki City, Japan: KING SKYFRONT Innovation Hub for 21st Century Life Science

(Kawasaki, Japan, 5 August 2014) Kawasaki City, Japan, publishes the inaugural issue of Kawasaki SkyFront i-Newsletter highlighting developments at the Kawasaki INnovation Gateway at SKYFRONT (KING SKYFRONT)—the City’s flagship science and technology innovation hub focused on the life sciences and environment.

Kawasaki SkyFront i-Newsletter: https://tonomachi-ksf.kawasaki-net.ne.jp/i-newsletter/

The KING SKYFRONT was launched by Kawasaki City in 2013 as a base for scholars, industrialists and government administrators to work together to devise real life solutions to global issues in the life sciences and environment.

KING SKYFRONT is a 40 hectare area located in the Tonomachi area of the Keihin Industrial Region that spans Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture and Tokyo International Airport (Haneda Airport) and an important initiative in establishing the Tonomachi area of Kawasaki City as Asia’s Silicon Valley.

Contents of the inaugural issue of Kawasaki SkyFront i-Newsletter

News and Events

Daiwa House Signs Land Transfer Agreement with Urban Renaissance Agency and Memorandum with Kawasaki Municipal Government

Professor Kazunori Kataoka of the University of Tokyo and Center of Open Innovation Network for Smart Health (COINS) is selected by Thompson Reuters as a ‘highly cited researcher for 2014’.

Comprehensive Agreement signed by Kawasaki Municipal Government and CYBERDYNE

Keio Team to Start World’s First Clinical Trail of New Spinal Injury Treatment

Central Institute for Experimental Animals Signed Memorandum of Understanding with United Graduate School of Veterinary Sciences, Gifu University

Research Highlights

Light-induced nanocarriers switch on improved gene therapy
https://tonomachi-ksf.kawasaki-net.ne.jp/i-newsletter/en/research_highlights/vol_1/research04/

Transgenics – gene manipulation enters the next generation Transgene expression was observed
in founder marmosets and their offsprings
https://tonomachi-ksf.kawasaki-net.ne.jp/i-newsletter/en/research_highlights/vol_1/research03/

Novel non-invasive mapping of marmoset brain development
https://tonomachi-ksf.kawasaki-net.ne.jp/i-newsletter/en/research_highlights/vol_1/research02/

Safer cells progress spinal treatment research A stem cell treatment is developed that helps spinal injury recovery without use of ethically controversial fetal cells.
https://tonomachi-ksf.kawasaki-net.ne.jp/i-newsletter/en/research_highlights/vol_1/research01/

Further information:

Kawasaki City, Japan, Coastal Area International Strategy Office General Planning Bureau, City of Kawasaki,1 Miyamoto-cho, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki-city, Kanagawa 210-8577, Japan

EMAIL:20rinkai@city.kawasaki.jp

Figure 1

Aerial view of the TONOMACHI region of Kawasaki City, where the KING SKYFRONT is located. Tokyo International Airport (also often referred to as Haneda Airport) is located adjacent to KING SKYFRONT.

Figure 2

Research highlight of a publication by from Professor Hideyuki Okano: New, non-invasive in utero MRI scanning has allowed researchers connected with the Central Institute for Experimental Animals in Kawasaki to construct the first 3D atlas of primate brain development. The above image shows the development of a marmoset fetus in the womb, from gestational week 8 to 19.

What is KING SKYFRONT

The Kawasaki INnovation Gateway (KING) SKYFRONT is the flagship science and technology innovation hub of Kawasaki City. KING SKYFRONT is a 40 hectare area located in the Tonomachi area of the Keihin Industrial Region that spans Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture and Tokyo International Airport (also often referred to as Haneda Airport).

KING SKYFRONT was launched in 2013 as a base for scholars, industrialists and government administrators to work together to devise real life solutions to global issues in the life sciences and environment.

Further information

KING SKYFRONT, International Strategic Zone
http://www.city.kawasaki.jp/en/category/132-5-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html

Related publications

AAAS Science Magazine, August 2013
“Kawasaki City: The KING SKYFRONT Innovation Hub for 21st Century Life Science”
http://www.sciencemag.org/site/products/advertorials/Kawasaki_English_FINAL_5aug13.pdf

NPG Nature , September 2012
“Spotlight on Kawasaki”
http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj0383