T8The Kobe Biomedical Innovation Cluster occupies the southern half of Port Island, a man-made island in the port of Kobe. With plenty of space for neighbors, more medical-related companies are anticipated to be located here in the future. Dr. Hiroo Imura, M.D., Ph.D. is honorary president of the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation at Kobe, and former President of Kyoto University. He served as the director of Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, which lies at one of the core institutions of the developing biomedical cluster.FEATURE A Society with Health and Longevityhe Kobe Biomedical Cluster—Innovation containing about 350 research institutions, hospitals, universities, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, and other corporations as of 2018—is the greatest concentration of biomedical research and development in Japan. Leading-edge treatments are being developed here through partnerships between industry, government, academia, and the medical community. The impetus for starting the cluster was the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of January 1995, Working toward longer, healthier lives for its people, Japan is boosting its medical sector. A cluster of medical industries emerges out of Kobe as a new model for society.which devastated Japan’s Kinki region. Especially hardhit by the disaster, Kobe decided to respond to the unprecedented destruction by reconstructing itself creatively as a city with a strong biomedical sector. Dr. Hiroo Imura, the honorary president of the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation at Kobe (FBRI), remembers it this way: “We were aiming not just at recovering from the earthquake, but at starting something new. With the on-going transformation of Japan into a nation with fewer young people and more seniors, we knew A Biomedical Cluster Taking Medicine to a New Stage
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