What is Grants4Apps TokyoBayer's open innovation program that supports innovative digital health technologies. It started in 2013 as a global project of Bayer AG of Germany, and started in Japan in 2016. Bayer Yakuhin sequentially presents "challenges related to life sciences" and solicits and subsidizes solutions to each challenge from innovative digital health startups. About "Grants4Apps Tokyo": https://www.grants4apps.com/tokyo/ [Overview] Name: "isee! innovation connections" ("isee! 'Working Awards'" and "4th Grants4Apps Tokyo" ) Date and time: Sunday, January 21, 2018 12:30-16:30 Location: Kobe Eye Center 2nd floor (Chuo-ku, Kobe) Organizers: NEXT VISION, Bayer Yakuhin, Ltd. Awarded companies: Grand Prize OTON GLASS Co., Ltd. Excellence Prize QD Laser Co., Ltd., Keio University School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology, Photobiology Laboratory Special Prize Locomoco Inc., CMIC Healthcare Co., Ltd. A global company with core businesses in the care and agriculture-related life sciences. Through its products and services, Bayer aims to improve people's quality of life (QOL) while also creating corporate value through innovation, growth and higher profitability. Bayer will also continue to strive for sustainable development and to fulfill its social and ethical responsibilities as a good corporate citizen. Group sales of EUR 34.9 billion and 99,600 employees (2016). Capital expenditure is EUR 2.2 billion and R&D expenditure is EUR 4.4 billion. For more information, please visit http://www.bayer.com. About Bayer Yakuhin, Ltd.Bayer Yakuhin, Ltd., headquartered in Osaka, is a healthcare company with ethical pharmaceuticals, consumer health, and animal health businesses. In the ethical drugs division, we are focusing on the cardiovascular, oncology/hematology, women's healthcare, ophthalmology, and diagnostic imaging fields. In the Consumer Health Division, we are focusing on the antipyretic analgesic Bayer Aspirin, anti-allergic agents, and dermatology. The Animal Health Division contributes to the health care of companion animals and livestock animals by providing veterinary drugs. Under the mission of "Science For A Better Life", the company aims to be an advanced pharmaceutical company that responds to the "unsatisfied wishes" of Japanese patients through technological innovation and innovative products. Please refer to http://www.byl.bayer.co.jp/ for details. About NEXT VISION, a public interest incorporated associationSince its establishment in 2014, NEXT VISION, a public interest incorporated association, has provided various support for social participation activities such as daily life and employment for visually impaired people, and improved and restored visual function. We aim to contribute to the improvement of the welfare of all visually impaired people and the development of science and technology by conducting rehabilitation, necessary technology development and support, and surveys, research, and examinations in the field of ophthalmology. . Please refer to https://nextvision.or.jp/ for details. Bayer Yakuhin, Ltd. January 24, 2018, Osaka Forward-Looking StatementsThis news release contains forward-looking statements based on current estimates and forecasts by Bayer management. Includes forward-looking statements. Various known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors may cause material differences between future results, financial condition, corporate trends or performance and the projections in this document. These factors include those described in our reports published on our website (http://www.bayer.com). We undertake no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to adapt them to future events or circumstances.
The 4th Grants4Apps Tokyo Winner/Representative
| Grand Prize: OTON GLASS Co., Ltd. | Mr. Keisuke Shimakage | OTON GLASS—IoT smart glasses that extend perception—Blindness A pair of glasses that reads out letters for someone else. It has a built-in camera, and if you operate it while wearing it, the characters in front of you will be recorded as image data. Text data is extracted from recorded data, converted into voice data, and provided to the user by voice. It becomes possible to read characters easily without the help of others and to act autonomously. |
| Excellence Award: QD Laser Inc. | Mr. Mitsuru Sugawara | New low vision care laser using retinal projection technology A head-mounted display that uses retinal scanning technology. An ultra-compact projector is installed inside the eyewear, and an extremely weak laser beam is used to project images directly onto the retina of the wearer. The wearer can see images without relying on their own eyesight or focusing ability. Improving the QOL of people with low vision that was difficult to improve with existing visual aids. |
| Excellence Award: Photobiology Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine | Mr. Yusaku Katata | Multiplexing by artificial intelligence Development of a medical device program for estimating retinal circulatory dynamics AI is used to detect abnormal findings pixel by pixel from fundus photographs, and to predict retinal circulatory dynamics by learning the results of fluorescent fundus angiography, which have been accumulated in Japan, as training data. develop a program; Since it is possible to grasp the ocular circulatory dynamics from fundus photographs non-invasively, inexpensively, and easily, examinations for children and the elderly, which were difficult to examine in the past, can be performed, and examinations can be easily and repeatedly performed at family clinics or in remote locations. Since it can be done, it will lead to early detection and treatment. |
| Special Award: CMIC Healthcare Co., Ltd. | Mr. Shinichi Keino | Eye disease check that can be done at random glaucoma and diabetic macular degeneration "Eye disease check (provisional)" application for the purpose of early detection and disease awareness for patients. Enter basic information into the app, check for possible eye disease using the noise field check method, and add our own data to provide a step-by-step grading result. Propose countermeasures for each result. |
| Special Award: Locomoco Inc. | Mr. Tomoshin Endo | Information care with monoca project glass-type wearable device and smartphone app solution. Parties and guides introduced the app. When a problem occurs on the side of the person concerned, the video input from the device is sent to the guide by live streaming, and the person concerned can request remote movement support by the guide without making a reservation or meeting. Help improve the quality of life of visually impaired people by reducing the danger of walking while commuting to school or work. |
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■Selection Theme: "Innovative Solutions to Support Eye Disease Patients" ■Examination Criteria
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