Shimadzu inks new collaborative agreement with Kyoto University in Japan

July 31, 2025 | Thursday | News

To strengthen collaborative research integrating the arts and sciences

Japan-headquartered Shimadzu Corporation and Kyoto University have signed a comprehensive collaborative agreement with the objective of creating new business activities and innovation to contribute to solving social problems, and training global high-level human resources. The aim is to expand research objectives in the four so-called social value creation domains Shimadzu Corporation is targeting (healthcare, green, material, and industry), and at the same time, to strengthen collaborative research integrating the arts and sciences. This agreement is for a five-year period.

Additionally, in the project to create active human resources, in addition to REACH Project Career, a previous initiative to dispatch Shimadzu employees to Kyoto University, REACH Project Straight will be starting. In this initiative, university students are hired by Shimadzu at the completion of a Master’s programme, and are dispatched as employees to Doctoral programmes. Further, both parties will utilise their respective international sites to train human resources capable of acting internationally and to deploy active support globally.

In 2022, both parties signed a three-year comprehensive collaborative agreement with the objective of creating new business activities by acquiring innovative technologies to contribute to solving social problems, and training human resources in the social implementation of these new business activities.