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   History
 

 

[1941]

Established as a non-profit organization for health research and dissemination of public health information as approved by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture based on the donation of Prof. emeritus Kanji Tsuji.

[1957] Extended its activities to include the supply of blood for transfusion.
[1964]

Established a blood bank.

[1972] According to the administrative advice of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, refocused its efforts on clinical laboratory examinations.
[1987]

Committed its laboratory examination operations to the Blood Research Laboratory Co.Ltd.

[1988]

Established the International Institute of Technological Analysis (Director: Prof.H.Hatano).

Opened a new research and administration office at the 5th floor of the Institut Pasteur de Kyoto.

[1991]

Celebrated fiftieth anniversary.

[1996]

Celebrated fifty-fifth anniversary.

[1999]

Abolished the International Institute of Technological Analysis.

[2001] Commemorated its sixtieth anniversary with the International Symposium on Radiation and Homeostasisi: From cellular response to whole body response in July, 2001, in Kyoto.