Awarded Award of Excellence at Fukushima Venture Award 2021

Handred Corporation (Headquarters: Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture, CEO: Naoyuki Katsumoto) has developed a device that balances animal welfare, workplace safety, and experimental efficiency in animal testing. This invention has won the Tohoku University Regional Innovation Research Center Award, LEAP OVER Award, Fukushima-BASE Award, and NEC Solution Innovator Award at the Fukushima Venture Awards 2021.

1. About the Fukushima Venture Awards 2021 Fukushima Prefecture is hosting the "Fukushima Venture Awards 2021" to widely solicit business plans that challenge new businesses and address regional issues within the prefecture. Targeting those who have started or plan to start a business in Fukushima Prefecture, the awards include the recognition of the Governor's Award, along with mentoring and matching support for the development and expansion of businesses. Organizer: Fukushima Prefecture Fukushima Venture Awards 2021 Administration Office (within HTS Corporation) 1-4-9 Kokubuncho, Aoba-ku, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture 980-0803, enspace ▶︎ Fukushima Venture Awards 2021 https://venture-award.com/archives/781

2. About the award-winning research and development at the Fukushima Venture Awards 2021 CEO Katsumoto, inventor Murakami, and their team challenged themselves to commercialize a device for animal experimentation that would serve as the foundation for this business during their previous job. Amid the growing global importance of animal welfare, they successfully simplified the blood collection from mice, a procedure considered highly difficult in the field of animal experimentation, without causing any burden to the animals. They also conducted research and development on intravenous administration, another procedure regarded as highly challenging.