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COMPANY OVERVIEW

Sanamedi, Inc.
(Former company name：Japanese Organization for Medical Device Development, Inc.)

Company Name
Sanamedi, Inc.
Address
#601 Nihonbashi Life Science Building, 2-3-11 Nihonbashi-Honcho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0023, JAPAN
Date of Foundation
September 12, 2012
Phone Number
+81-3-6262-3322
Fax Number
+81-3-6262-3022
Capital
3.6 billion yen (including capital reserve)
CEO
Takahiro Uchida, MD, PhD, MSc
Core Business
Research and development of medical devices, manufacturing and sales of medical devices
Research and development of care welfare devices and pharmaceutical products
Planning and design of clinical studies for pharmaceutical products, medical devices, and care welfare devices
Medical device incubator
Consulting services for regulatory affairs and quality assurance
Consulting services in accordance with these businesses
Certified type 1 medical device manufacturing and distribution (#13B1X10274)
Certified specially controlled medical device dealership and leasing (#5502155221)
Shareholders
USA local corporation　Sanamedi USA, Inc.
Our offices are located within the facilities of Triple Ring Technologies, Inc., a pioneer in medical device accelerator in the United States.
*Triple Ring Technologies is a medical device accelerator with a wealth of experience in commercialization, including the sale of SkyBox Imaging to Google for US$500 million.
Address
39655 Eureka Dr, Newark, CA 94560 U.S.A
(Inside of Triple Ring Technologies, INC)
MESSAGE & VISION・MISSION・VALUE

MEMBER

  • Takahiro Uchida

    Founder & Chief Executive OfficerTakahiro Uchida

    Takahiro Uchida

    Founder & Chief Executive OfficerTakahiro Uchida

    • – Board Certified physician in Internal medicine and Cardiology
    • – Founder of Necess Mediccal, LLC, a Silicon Valley-based consulting firm for start-up medical device companies
    • – Former Medical Director at Boston Scientific Corporation
    • – The first Japanese Medical Officer at the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, US FDA
    • – Fellow at Harvard Clinical Research Institute/Harvard Medical School in 2002
    • – Chief Operational Officer at the Center for Clinical Trials of Japanese Medical Association
    • – M.S. in Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health in 2002
    • – Certificate in General Management Program from Harvard Business School in 2010
    • – More than 10years’ experience in medical device development, including regulatory and clinical strategy
  • Tetsuya Watanabe

    DirectorTetsuya Watanabe

    Tetsuya Watanabe

    DirectorTetsuya Watanabe

    • – Former Director of Clinical Development at Boston Scientific Japan Co., Ltd.
    • – Clinical development experience in the company spanning 30 years, including at Baxter, Genzyme Japan
  • Hiroaki Kasukawa

    Chief Technology Officer Hiroaki Kasukawa, Ph.D.

    Hiroaki Kasukawa

    Chief Technology Officer Hiroaki Kasukawa, Ph.D.

    • – Former Senior Executive Advisor, Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Terumo Corporation
  • HIROYUKI MORITA

    Chief Financial OfficerHiroyuki Morita

    HIROYUKI MORITA

    Chief Financial OfficerHiroyuki Morita

    • –Managed new business development and sales planning at Ecolab G.K and Heineken Japan K.K.
    • –At Combi Corporation, as the head of marketing and business development, engaged in developing partnerships with overseas companies and new businesses. In addition, as an executive officer, managed finance, accounting and corporate planning, leading the group financing and profitability improvement.
  • HEITA UESHIMA

    U.S. COOHeita Ueshima

    HEITA UESHIMA

    U.S. COOHeita Ueshima

    • – Former Sales & Marketing Manager at JSR
    • – Area of expertise in Marketing, Channel Management, PMI, Business Development for IVD and Biologics products
  • Damon Lawson

    Director, AVNeo Business Damon Lawson

    Damon Lawson

    Director, AVNeo Business Damon Lawson

    • –Former Vice President, International Marketing, Hill-Rom,Co.,Inc.
    • –Former Director, Marketing, ASPJapan, Johnson and Johnson Medical
    • –Area of Specialization: Global Marketing of Medical Devices
  • MOURAD LYOUBI

    EMEA(Europe Middle East and Africa) Senior Manager Mourad LYOUBI

    MOURAD LYOUBI

    EMEA(Europe Middle East and Africa) Senior Manager Mourad LYOUBI

    • – Former Sales Division Manager Abbott/ Medtronic
    • – Medical Device Expert (25 years – cardiology, imaging, surgery, radiotherapy, and more.)
    • – Market Intelligence / Business Development (More than 10 years in Middle East / Africa Region)
    • – Biomedical Engineer U.T.C. (Compiegne FRANCE) 1995
  • TOORU AOKI

    Director, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance Tooru Aoki

    TOORU AOKI

    Director, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance Tooru Aoki

    • – Specializes in clinical development of medical devices, QMS, and regulatory affairs
    • – Manager of Quality Management System & Good Clinical Practice of Terumo Corporation
    • – He worked for many years at Terumo Corporation, a major Japanese medical device manufacturer. And he has a wide range of experience, including certification of approval for manufacture and sale for medical devices and regenerative medicine products, design management for catheters and artificial organ-related products, and compliance with ISO and other international standards.
  • YOSHIO WATANABE

    Director, Clinical Development Yoshio Watanabe

    YOSHIO WATANABE

    Director, Clinical Development Yoshio Watanabe

    • – Management experience in clinical planning, clinical development, project management and clinical operations at major pharmaceutical and medical device companies.
    • –- Most recently, responsible for medical device development/regulatory affairs as a senior corporate officer and head of the medical device development business at a major CRO (Contract Research Organization
    • – Expertise in creating and implementing development regulatory strategies, based on extensive clinical development experience
  • SATOSHI SHIMIZU

    Director, Product Development Satoshi Shimizu

    SATOSHI SHIMIZU

    Director, Product Development Satoshi Shimizu

    • – Former General Manager/Senior Project Manager of Medical Equipment Development Center of Canon Inc.
    • –– Specializes in management of product development of medical equipment.
    • – He has wide range of experience in development of new products in radiology and ophthalmology and joint project with international alliance. 7 years in overseas experience including management of R&D division of a subsidiary company in U.S.A..
  • TETSUYA TOKORO

    Senior Manager, Business DevelopmentTetsuya Tokoro

    TETSUYA TOKORO

    Senior Manager, Business Development Tetsuya Tokoro

    • – Former Sales Representative, Vigilance & Safety, Quality Assurance, and Market Development at J&J K.K.
    • – Specializes in business development based on broad experience in medical device industry
    • – University of Tsukuba, MBA in International Business

  • Manager,
    Business Development     Ayako

  • YUKO NODA

    Business DevelopmentYuko Noda

    YUKO NODA

    Business Development Yuko Noda

    • – Board Certified physician in Comprehensive Health Checkup System（Ningen Dock）
    • – Ph.D. in Medicine ( Kanazawa University, Department of Clinical Development )
    • –Certificate in Harvard Medical School Postgraduate Medical Education, Foundations of Clinical Research Program
    • – Experience in medical device development, including clinical research using digital devices

Adviser

  • Yoshitake Yokokura

    Executive AdviserYoshitake Yokokura, MD, PhD

    Yoshitake Yokokura

    Executive AdviserYoshitake Yokokura, MD, PhD

    • Dr. Yoshitake Yokokura graduated from the Kurume University School of Medicine in 1969, and worked for the surgery department at the University. After that he worked for the surgery department of the Detmold Hospital in West Germany from 1977 to 1979. Since 1990, he has been President of the Yokokura Hospital.Dr. Yokokura was elected as President of the Japan Medical Association in 2012, served Council Member of the World Medical Association (WMA) from 2010 to 2016, served as both President of the WMA and President of the Confederation of Medical Associations in Asia and Oceania during 2017-18.
    • – Former President, World Medical Association
    • – Former President, Confederation of Medical Associations in Asia and Oceania
    • – Former President, Japan Medical Association
Corporate AdviserMakoto Haruta
  • – Former Chairman at DeNA Co.,Ltd.
  • – Former club owner of the YOKOHAMA DeNA BAYSTARS
Senior AdviserMotonaga Tanaka
  • – Former President at Toray Medical, Co., Ltd.
  • – Former President at Toray Marketing & Sales
510K Technology GroupKachi Enyinna
  • – Former FDA medical device reviewer
  • – Former Biomedical Engineer
  • – Experience in Regulatory Affairs over 22 years in the medical device industry
  • – Area of specialization: Regulatory Affairs (U.S.)
Patent AttorneyTakayuki Hirose
  • – Abe Ikubo Katayama law firm( in charge of the litigation and application)
  • – President, Hirose International Patent Office
  • – Area of specialization: intellectual property
Non-clinical study designEnora Rogers
  • – President, Enora Rogers, Inc.
  • – Former Neurovascular and Corporate R&D Groups, Cordis Corporation, Johnson and Johnson
  • – Area of specialization: Medical Device R&D, Quality Assurance

The History of Sanamedi

Sep. 2012
Established Japanese Organization for Medical Device Development, Inc. (JOMDD).
Sep. 2013
Acquired Second class medical devices marketing license.
May. 2014
Started selling “AVNeo™ Sizer System set” in the United States and in Japan.
Jun. 2015
Commissioned The Japan Medical Association program to support medical device development and commercialization.
Jul. 2015
Relocated head office to Nihonbashi Honcho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo.
Jul. 2015
Started selling “AVNeo™ Sizer System set” in Europe.
Apr. 2016
Adopted as NEDO’s certified VC for Seed-stage Technology-based Startups “STS”.
Jan. 2017
Started selling Single-use products, “AVNeo™ Sizer System set”.
Apr. 2017
Established USA Local corporation.
Dec. 2017
Started selling needle guide for ultrasound-guided puncture “True Puncture®” in Japan.
May. 2018
Established 100% subsidiary “Save Medical Corp. “
Sep. 2018
Acquired First class medical devices marketing license.
Apr. 2019
Mynavi Corporation has acquired and made a subsidiary of exMedio Inc., one of the our portfolio companies.
Feb. 2020
Started selling “3D back scanner™” for scoliosis screening in Japan.
Jun. 2020
Adopted as the business promoter unit of JST’s Program for Creating Start-ups from Advanced Research and Technology “START”.
Nov. 2021
“3D Back Scanner®” won the Special Award in the Product Technology Category at the Tokyo Metropolis Government “Going-Global Innovations Competition”.
Apr. 2023
Change Company name to Sanamedi, Inc.

Access

Address
#601 Nihonbashi Life Science Building, 2-3-11 Nihonbashi-Honcho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0023, JAPAN
Traffic Route
Tokyo Metro Ginza Line “Mitsukoshimae Station” 3-minute walk from Exit-A6 Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line “Mitsukoshimae Station” 3-minute walk from Exit-A6 Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line “Kodenma-cho Station” 6-minute walk from Exit-3 JR Sobu Line(Rapid) “Shin-Nihonbashi Station” 3-minute walk from Exit-5 JR Chuo Line “Kanda Station” 10-minute walk from East Exit Free Shuttel “Metorolink Nihonbashi” every 10 minutes from JR Tokyo Station Yaesu Exit https://www.hinomaru-bus.co.jp/free-shuttle/nihonbashi/
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