Presentation judging held forKasumigaseki Campus Business Contest "TEIKYO Startup Award"

On Friday, March 7, 2025, the presentation judging for the business contest "TEIKYO Startup Award" was held at Teikyo University's Kasumigaseki Campus.
Teikyo University has been selected for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's "University-based Startup Creation Support Project" to be implemented in 2023, and is working on various measures to become a hub for creating startups with practical and innovative technology.
This contest is aimed at Graduate School and graduate students, faculty, staff, and alumni who are interested in starting their own businesses, and is the first campus-wide business contest held at our university. In the presentation judging, finalists, selected through a document screening, gave presentations on their business ideas that they had refined in order to commercialize the results of their research. In addition, on the day of the event, there was a talk session by faculty members of our university who have entrepreneurial experience, in which they shared their experiences of the difficulties they faced in starting their own businesses and how they overcame them, as well as sending words of encouragement to participants who aspire to start their own businesses in the future.
At the awards ceremony at the end of the competition, finalists who achieved outstanding results were presented with certificates of commendation by our university's Chairman, Yoshihito Okinaga, as well as financial support to be used for commercialization and social implementation.
Teikyo University will continue to support startups in order to commercialize and implement the research results and ideas of faculty, staff, and students.

program

• Presentations by finalists
• Talk session by venture entrepreneurs from Teikyo University
• Announcement of the results and awards

Finalists and project names (in order of presentation)

• Masakazu Hirota (Associate Professor Department Department of Orthoptics Faculty of Medical Technology)
  "A reading application that eliminates learning disabilities for children"
• Masato Kitazawa (Professor Department of Department of Judo Therapy, Faculty of Medical Technology)
  "Innovation in paper pants for the elderly: 'Paper pants with integrated protective pads' - A new standard in nursing care to support the 100-year lifespan era"
• Kazunori Nagasaka (Chief Professor, School of Medicine)
  "Development of a next-generation diagnostic system for HPV-infected cervical cancer using medical engineering technology"
• Yuji Oki (Professor, Department Department of Occupational Therapy Faculty of Fukuoka Medical Technology)
  "Vibrant VR"
• Rinji Maruyama (Senior Assistant Professor Department Department of Physical Therapy Faculty of Fukuoka Medical Technology)
  "Learn about true community medicine! Community participation type shared house "Teikyo Omuta Hills""
• Megumi Oda (2nd year Graduate School student, Graduate Graduate School of Public Health Division of Public Health)
  "Protect your health by optimizing your living environment! Developing next-generation apps to support the future of teleworking"
• Kohara Soichiro (Associate Professor, Graduate School Graduate School of Public Health)
  "Specialized education and literacy improvement project to improve the quality of sedation and analgesia for children"
  Safe & Sound Sedation for Children: The 3S for Kids Initiative”
• Koichi Makimura (Professor, Medical Mycology Research Center)
  "Club Fungi: Creating the future through social implementation of medical mycology research"
• Ryohei Ishizuka (2nd year Graduate School student, Graduate Graduate School of Public Health Division of Public Health)
  "Well-Co" Project: Japan's Social Prescription Digital Transformation Linking Medical Care and the Community

award recipient

Grand Prize (awarded a certificate and 1 million yen in business support funds)

Kazunori Nagasaka (Chief Professor, School of Medicine)
"Development of a next-generation diagnostic system for HPV-infected cervical cancer using medical engineering technology"

Excellence Award (awarded a certificate and a business development grant of 500,000 yen)

Masakazu Hirota (Associate Professor Department Department of Orthoptics Faculty of Medical Technology)
"A reading application that eliminates learning disabilities for children"

Rinji Maruyama (Senior Assistant Professor Department Department of Physical Therapy Faculty of Fukuoka Medical Technology)
"Learn about true community medicine! Community participation type shared house "Teikyo Omuta Hills""

Rookie Award ^* (awarded a certificate and a business development grant of 200,000 yen)

Megumi Oda (2nd year Graduate School student, Graduate Graduate School of Public Health Division of Public Health)
"Protect your health by optimizing your living environment! Developing next-generation apps to support the future of teleworking"

Ryohei Ishizuka (2nd year Graduate School student, Graduate Graduate School of Public Health Division of Public Health)
"Well-Co" Project: Japan's Social Prescription Digital Transformation Linking Medical Care and the Community

• * Selected from student finalists

Judges (titles omitted):

• Yoshihito Okinaga Chairman of Teikyo University
• Takeshi Ito, CEO, Beyond Next Ventures Inc.
• Michiko Sugihara, President and CEO of Forideal Japan Co., Ltd.
• Hideaki Iwano, General Manager of the Startup Strategy Department, Mitsubishi UFJ Bank Ltd.
• Hodaka Nakanishi, Director of Teikyo Technology Transfer Center Advanced Comprehensive Research Organization, Teikyo University

Speakers of the talk session by venture entrepreneurs from Teikyo University (titles omitted)

• Maki Sugimoto, CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Holoeyes Inc. (Okinaga Research Institute) *Facilitator
• Kazuo Maruyama, CTO of Wellcella Inc. (Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences)
• Masaaki Kawamura, Chief Technology Officer of BULL Inc. (Department of Department of Aerospace Engineering Faculty of Science and Engineering and Engineering)
• Sho Sasaki, CEO of Square Wheel Co., Ltd. (Department of Orthoptics, Faculty of Medical Technology)
• Yusuke Takayama, CEO of Clossries Inc. (Faculty of Medical Technology, Department of Sport and Medical Science Emergency Medical Technician Course)

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