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Company profile
 
Corporate name : AnGes MG, Inc.
Head office : 4F, Saito Bio-Incubator, 7-7-15, Saito-asagi, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0085 Japan
Established : December 17, 1999
President and CEO : Ei Yamada
Capitalization : 9,848 million yen(at the end of December 2012)
Issued and outstanding : 131,130 shares(at the end of December 2012)
Number of employees : 58 (to be consolidated at the end of December 2012)
Scope of business : Research & development of genetic medicine


Corporate chronology
 
December 1999 : Founded as MedGene Co., Ltd. in Izumi-city, Osaka for research and development of gene and nucleotide based drugs and reagents for use in functional analyses of genetic medication.
June 2000 : Changed corporate name to MedGene Bioscience Co., Ltd.
August 2000 : Formed partnership with Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd. on manufacturing and marketing of HVJ envelope vectors.
January 2001 : Established Ikeda Laboratory in Ikeda-city, Osaka.
January 2001 : Established Tokyo branch in Minato-ku, Tokyo.
January 2001 : Formed partnership with Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. (former Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.) on development of HGF gene based drug in Japan for PAD.
July 2001 : Moved head office to Toyonaka-city, Osaka.
October 2001 : Founded AnGes, Inc. in the state of Maryland for clinical development in the US.
October 2001 : Changed corporate name to AnGes MG, Inc.
April 2002 : Expanded partnership with Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. (former Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.) on development of HGF gene based drug to the US, Europe and Japan, in the fields of PAD and IHD.
June 2002 : Founded AnGes, Euro Ltd. (business development in Europe) in the county of Sussex, UK.
July 2002 : Founded GenomIdea Inc. in Toyonaka-city, Osaka for gene function analyses.
September 2002 : IPO : AnGes MG achieved listing on the Mothers markets of Tokyo Stock Exchange.
February 2003 : Moved head office of AnGes, Euro Ltd. to Surrey, UK.
September 2003 : Transferred HVJ envelope vectors business to GenomIdea, Inc.
September 2004 : Moved head office to Ibaraki-city, Osaka.
September 2004 : Moved head office of GenomIdea Inc. to Ibaraki-city, Osaka.
May 2006 : Formed partnership with Vical, Inc., investing into Vical’s Phase III program of a gene based drug, “Allovectin-7®”, for metastatic melanoma combined with an equity investment and grant of rights in Asia.
December 2006 : Formed partnership with BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc. on marketing and distribution of a product approved in the US, “Naglazyme®” (gulsulfase) for treatment of the genetic disease mucopolysaccharidosis VI in Japan.
April 2008 : Launched "NaglazymeŽ" for treatment of mucopolysaccharidosis VI in Japan.
November 2009 : Received FDA's agreement on SPA for phase III clinical trial for CollategeneŽ, a drug for ischemic disease treatment.
September 2010 : Obtained Fast Track status from FDA for phase III clinical trial for CollategeneŽ, a drug for ischemic disease treatment.
October 2012 : Formed partnership with Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation for exclusive marketing rights of CollategeneŽ in the United States.
January 2013 : Transferred the stock in GenomIdea, Inc. to Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd.


Office and affiliated subsidiaries
 
Offices  
Headquarters : 4F, Saito Bio-Incubator, 7-7-15, Saito-asagi, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0085 Japan
Saito Lab. : 4F, Saito Bio-Incubator, 7-7-15, Saito-asagi, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0085 Japan
Tokyo branch : 5F, Mita Suzuki Building, 5-20-14, Shiba, Minato-ku,
Tokyo, 108-0014 Japan
 
Affiliated subsidiaries  
AnGes, Inc. : 10411 Motor City Dr., Suite 430, Bethesda, Maryland 20817, USA
AnGes Euro Limited : Suite 402, Davis House Business Centre, 4th Floor Davis House, Robert Street,
Croydon, Surrey CR0 1QQ, UK
AnGes Healthcare Science Inc. : 5F, Mita Suzuki Building, 5-20-14, Shiba, Minato-ku,
Tokyo, 108-0014 Japan


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