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The Laboratory of Synthetic Organic Chemistry and the Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry were merged to form the Laboratory of Chemistry.
Dr. Takao Shimizu was elected as Director of IMC. And the Section of Information Management was newly established in the Department of Intellectual Property and Information.
The organization was reorganized and became the Laboratory of Molecular Structure Analysis and the Department of Intellectual Property and Public Information.
In the Nature Index Japan, it ranked first in Japan’s reserch Institutes that published high-quality scientific articles among natural science papers at a high rate in the six years from 2012 to 2017.
We reorganized Laboratory of Structural Chemistry and Biology into Laboratory of Structural Biology and Laboratory of Molecular Structure Analysis. We reorganized Department of Intellectual Property and Public Relations into Section of Intellectual Property and Public Relations. Resource management Section consolidated into Laboratory of Microbiology, and Research Cooperation Section consolidated into the Secretariat. And System management Section consolidated into the Secretariat, too.
A new research building incorporating IMC Hiyoshi was completed.The organization was reorganized, and research got underway at the new location in May.
ZUPREVO (tildipirosin) was marketed as an animal drug in U.S.A.Research Cooperation Section was established.
On April 1, 2011, MCRF was reincorporated as a public interest foundation.The Laboratory of Virology was reorganized as the Laboratory of Basic Biology.Resources Management Section was established.ZUPREVO (tildipirosin) was marketed as an animal drug in Europe.
MCRC, the Hiyoshi Medicinal Chemistry Research Institute, and the Numazu Bio-Medical Research Institute changed their names to IMC, IMC Hiyoshi, and IMC Numazu, respectively. Dr. Akio Nomoto was elected as MCRF Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director of IMC (Biology).Dr. Masakatsu Shibasaki was elected as MCRF Representative Director and Director of IMC (Chemistry).The research organization in IMC was reorganized as follows: Laboratory of Disease Biology, Laboratory of Virology, IMC Numazu, Section of Animal Resources, Laboratory of Synthetic Organic Chemisty, IMC Hiyoshi, Laboratory of Molecular Structure, and Department of Intellectual Property and Public Relations.
The MCRF 50th anniversary symposium was held.
