SHIMADZU TODAY

In January 2023, Shimadzu Corporation established a new global research hub, Shimadzu Tokyo Innovation Plaza in Kawasaki City, Japan. It is located near Tokyo International Airport (Haneda Airport). Shimadzu Tokyo Innovation Plaza is responsible for driving technological development for analytical and measuring instrument applications, providing technical support to customers, and strengthening open innovation capabilities.

On 25th February, UK-based Shimadzu Group Companies, Kratos Analytical Ltd. (hereafter Kratos) and Shimadzu Research Laboratory (Europe) Ltd. (hereafter SRL), jointly held a science school at Manchester Japanese School. The school provides support courses for Japanese students who usually take a class in English at a local school. 28 students aged 10 to 15 participated in the event and enjoyed learning science and technology.

In this article, we introduce our most advanced quadrupole TOF (Q-TOF) mass spectrometer, which has the highest levels of mass accuracy stability available, and describe how Q-TOF mass spectrometers are used in the pharmaceutical industry.

Shimadzu Corporation has been providing technical support to Ise Kadoya Brewery (Niken Jaya Mochi Kadoya Honten) and Far Yeast Brewing Company, both of which brew unique craft beers that have won numerous international awards.

Shimadzu is working with scientists at the University of Montpellier to measure protein levels in the blood as predictors of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other age-related diseases of the brain years before patients show symptoms.

In 2022, Shimadzu released the LCMS-2050 high-performance liquid chromatograph mass spectrometer. The product was designed to satisfy the growing demand from liquid chromatograph (LC) users who want to use a liquid chromatograph mass spectrometer (LC-MS) to acquire reliable data with high sensitivity. Because LC users typically believe that additional knowledge is required to fully utilize an MS (mass spectrometer) or have limited space for what is typically a large system, overcoming such objections was the main mission of the LCMS-2050 development team. The engineers who continuously fought those battles during the approximately four years of development spoke passionately about their memories.

Based on our management principle of “Realizing Our Wishes for the Well-being of Mankind and the Earth”, Shimadzu Corporation supports athletes who dream big and inspire people. Our video, “Supporting Athletes with Science and Technology”, is now available, so by all means, take a look!