Business
Peptides Business
We have been running a peptide CMO business with over 20 years of experience and our motto “high quality and relationship of trust” at our subsidiary American Peptide Company, Inc. (APC). APC, which started manufacturing of peptide APIs in 1994, has been supplying endothelin and β-amyloid for a long time, that are used for the study of cardiovascular and Alzheimer diseases, respectively. In recent years, GLP-1 derivatives for Diabetes and cancer vaccine have been drawing attention in the medical field as potential new drugs.
In order to meet customer demands, we will provide supports and services from the small-scale synthesis of bio-active peptides, their derivatives, enzyme inhibitors and substrates, and antigens for basic and pharmaceutical research to the bulk production of cGMP peptides for clinical and pre-clinical tests and commercialized APIs.
Pharmaceutial
We have been engaged in the development of APIs with peptide synthesis technology as well as extraction and purification of biogenic substances and also in the development and manufacturing of drug products with these APIs.
So far, an anticoagulant, a human endometriosis drug, a pre-treatment drug for an endoscopy, and a bovine follicular cyst drug, have been launched on the market. These drug products are manufactured by using API either produced at ILS or imported from foreign manufactures. The API production system is kept under strict control, and information about its quality and origin is directly obtained and confirmed to carry out thorough quality control to assure that our products are safe for use by the patients.
By focusing on peptide-based pharmaceuticals, we will work on development and stable supply of APIs and drug products with more safety and higher quality.
Functional Foods
In this day and age of the coming aging society and increasing lifestyle diseases, people are becoming more conscious about self-medication, saying “Keep your health by yourself.” In our functional food business, with a concept of “Creating health from the field of food,” we have been searching for a bioactive component in natural source that is effective for maintaining or improving the human health. With such know-how gained through the R&D activities, L-Carnitine, Heme-Iron, and Liver Extract (Liver Peptide) were developed and commercialized. These products are manufactured under a strict quality control system for guaranteeing their safety by monitoring all the production levels from raw materials to final products.
We will provide a continuous support, through our functional food business, to implement the self-medication by offering a new way to get healthy from the field of functional food ingredients.
