Hiroshi Shirafuji

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. engages in the manufacturing, distributing, exporting, and importing of pharmaceuticals, clinical testing equipment, medical device and equipment, food products, cosmetics, and other related products. Its operations are carried out through the following business divisions: Pharmaceutical Business and Nutraceutical Business. The Pharmaceutical Business division engages in the manufacture and sale of pharmaceutical products for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. The Nutraceutical Business division provides nutritional products, cosmetics and medicines that support day-to-day health maintenance and improvement. The company was founded on August 10, 1964 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

JIMRO Co., Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sales of medical devices. It markets Adacolumn, a company developed therapeutic device that selective absorbs granulocytes and monocytes/ macrophages from the blood, and Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) Baloon Catheter. The company was founded on November 8, 1977 and is headquartered in Takasaki, Japan.

Otsuka Medical Devices Co., Ltd. engages in medical equipment business focusing on therapeutic devices. Its devices include ultrasound-based renal denervation, drug device combinations, and novel solutions for drug-refractory patients and intractable diseases. The company was founded on February 15, 2011 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Shanghai Microport Medical (Group) Co. Ltd. develops, manufactures, and markets medical products for interventional cardiology and peripheral vascular diseases. The company’s products include cardiovascular, endovascular, neurovascular, peripheral vascular, coronary stent systems, balloon catheters, peripheral and cardiac retractors. The company’s products are used in cardiac catheter laboratories. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Shanghai, China.