We aim to return the "knowledge" that is the property of the university to society.
The Teikyo Teikyo Technology Transfer Center supports faculty and staff at the university in creating intellectual property and utilizing it effectively in industry and the local community.
Exhibiting at University Fair 2026 - Innovation Japan
Our center participates in external exhibitions such as Bio Japan and SusHi Tech Tokyo with the aim of returning research and technological seeds and research results from within the university to society and promoting technology transfer. As part of this initiative, we will be exhibiting at University Fair 2026 - Innovation Japan, which will be held at Tokyo Big Sight on August 27th (Thu) and 28th (Fri), 2026. This time, Associate Professor Hideshi Tabata of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at our university will be presenting on the theme of "Development of Axial Chiral Elastase Inhibitors." Neutrophil elastase, a proteolytic enzyme, can cause acute lung injuries such as severe pneumonia and sepsis when excessively secreted due to infections, myocardial infarction, or trauma. Associate Professor Tabata focused on the fact that asymmetry resulting from the restriction of rotation of bonding axes connecting planes within a molecule plays a crucial role in biological activity, and developed a new axially chiral compound. This novel compound showed approximately 10 times stronger neutrophil elastase inhibitory activity compared to existing drugs. Axial chirality is attracting attention as a next-generation drug discovery modality, and the compound developed in this study is expected to have applications in new therapeutic drugs for various diseases.
Teikyo University Startup Portal Site "TEIKYO INNOVATION"
This center provides various forms of support to faculty, staff, students, and alumni who aspire to start their own businesses. To disseminate information as a hub for creating practical and innovative startups, we have launched the Teikyo University Startup Portal Site, "TEIKYO INNOVATION." This site features information on events and seminars, as well as an introduction to our incubation facility, "Teikyo Innovation Gate."
This center is engaged in activities to return the "knowledge" of Teikyo University (created from intellectual activities within the university, including intellectual property such as patents) to society.
Chairman and President Yoshihito Okinaga
One of the major roles expected of universities in modern times is to return the "knowledge" that is the university's asset to society. In order to fulfill this social responsibility, our university aims to properly manage the various intellectual property cultivated through research on campus at the Teikyo Technology Transfer Center and to return and utilize this property to society. Our university's Educational Guidelines are "Practical learning," "International perspectives," and "Open mindedness" and utilizing the university's intellectual property widely in society will make these Educational Guidelines concrete. In the process of utilizing the university's intellectual property in a wide range of fields, we hope to foster know-how and a culture regarding intellectual property within the university, and develop these into distinctive social contribution activities.
Professor Hodaka Nakanishi, Head of Center
Teikyo Technology Transfer Center is working to connect the "knowledge" of Teikyo University with society. Taking advantage of the characteristics of being a comprehensive university, the center is engaged in various forms of collaboration in a wide range of fields, including Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration, collaboration with financial institutions, and collaboration with local communities and residents. Specifically, its activities are diverse, including support for the creation of intellectual property, licensing activities to ensure the effective use of the intellectual property created, support for joint research and contract research between the university and industry, medical-engineering collaboration that connects the university's medical needs with industry, and support for the creation of university-based ventures. Because industry-academia collaboration activities involve many stakeholders and cover a wide range of activities, we often hear people say they don't know where to turn within the university for advice. Teikyo Technology Transfer Center, which serves as the university's portal site for industry-academia collaboration, promotes these activities while fostering organic collaboration with organizations both inside and outside the university. Please feel free to contact us for any inquiries.
Organization / system diagram
Head of Center Specially Appointed Professor Hotaka Nakanishi
Senior Assistant Professor Yuko Toda (and Industry-Academia Collaboration Coordinator) Assistant Professor Takada Takeshi Takako Aizawa, Researcher and Industry-Academia Collaboration Coordinator
Collection of research seeds and collection of medical needs
We will introduce the Teikyo University and Teikyo University Junior College research seeds collection and the Teikyo University medical needs collection.
The center is located on Itabashi Campus, where Headquarters is located and where all university information is gathered, and operates in close collaboration with each faculty.
Teikyo Technology Transfer Center 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8605 Teikyo University Advanced Comprehensive Research Organization Building, 2nd floor
