- Source: Ono Pharmaceutical
Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (小野薬品工業株式会社, Ono Yakuhin Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in Japan. It is headquartered in Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan, with its major plants in Higashinari-ku, Osaka, and Fujinomiya, Shizuoka., and its central research institute at Minase, Shimamoto-cho, Mishima District, Osaka.
Ono Pharmaceutical's roots go back to 1717 when Ichibei Ono (Japanese: 小野市兵衛) started his dealer business of pharmaceuticals in Osaka. His business expanded and changed its name a few times, and became Ono Pharmaceutical Industrial Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 小野薬品工業株式会社) in 1948.
Ono has been listed in Tokyo Stock Exchange since 1963. Its consolidated earnings in the half year ending in March 2018 were 16 billion Japanese yen.
Nivolumab, the cancer drug based on the research of Prof. Dr. Tasuku Honjo of Kyoto University, who received the Nobel Prize later in 2018, is marketed by both Ono Pharmaceutical and Bristol-Myers Squibb.
In 2024, Harvard University and Ono Pharmaceutical (ONO) entered into a joint research and drug development agreement. Under it, promising projects to test therapeutic targets will be selected over 5 years under the guidance of Harvard's Office of Technology Development, and ONO will fund the work.
See also
Opdivo
Bristol-Myers Squibb
References
External links
Official site (in English)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Daftar perusahaan di Jepang
- Amlodipin
- Faktor pertumbuhan hepatosit
- Influenza
- Jamur tiram coklat
- Mako Ishino
- Ono Pharmaceutical
- Chūō-ku, Osaka
- Tirabrutinib
- Etelcalcetide
- Yoko Kanno
- Biotechnology industry in Boston
- Shimamoto, Osaka
- List of companies of Japan
- Camostat
- List of pharmaceutical companies