2025 TSP Top 10 News

2025.12.26

2025 TSP Top 10 News

From the news related to Tsuruoka Science Park in 2025, we have selected 10 topics that attracted particular attention.

2025 TSP Top 10 News

(In no particular order)

• TGI: Launch of the Tsuruoka Gastronomic Innovation Initiative and Food Culture Creation Center — Corporate consortium formed with 20 major food companies —

• Spiber: T-shirts and sweatshirts made with Brewed Protein™ fiber by five Wakayama-based manufacturers to be showcased at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan

• TSP Companies Shine at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai

  • Spiber: Spiber to participate in “Voyage to the Future—The Journey of SMEs Toward 20XX” at Osaka-Kansai Expo

  • Metagen Therapeutics: Metagen Therapeutics CSO Terauchi to Speak at Seminar “Food as the Next Frontier in Health Innovation” at the Netherlands Pavilion, Expo 2025 Osaka

  • Fermecutes: [Activity Report] Fermecutes Exhibits at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai “TEAM EXPO Pavilion”

• Metagen Therapeutics: Japan’s First Fecal Donation Facility “Tsuruoka Stool Donation Room” Opens in Tsuruoka City

• HMT: Notice of Market Reclassification to the Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard Market

• SalivaTech: SalivaTech Wins “XTC JAPAN 2025,” the Japanese Round of the Global Deep Tech Startup Competition Extreme Tech Challenge

• Spiber: Spiber recognized as one of the World’s Top GreenTech Companies of 2025 by TIME Magazine

• SHONAI: NEWGREEN and ISEKI Win Grand Prize at Xtrepreneur AWARD for “Aigamo Robot,” Accelerating Expansion Across Asia

• IAB: Key Aroma Thiols Identified for the First Time in “Tsuruoka Koshu 2023,” Winner of Top Honors at IWC 2025 — Analysis Conducted by Keio IAB

• IAB: 16th International Symposium on Tardigrada Held in Tsuruoka — First Time in Asia, Researchers from 17 Countries Gather

• Fermecutes: World’s First Natto Bacteria Financier Launched

  • World’s First Sale of kin-pun Financiers

  • “Kin-pun Financiers” to Be Available for Limited Sale in Tsuruoka Starting February 14

Other Major News

(In no particular order)

• IAB: How “Foul-Smelling” Flowers Evolved Their Odor — Convergent Evolution Reveals Mechanism for Attracting Insects

• INCEMS Technologies: INCEMS Technologies Receives Excellence Award at the 37th SME Excellent New Technology and Product Awards

• IAB: IAB Signs Comprehensive Collaboration Agreement with Takara Bio — Aiming to Build a Leading Omics Research Framework and Develop Dual-Skilled Talent

• MOLCURE: MOLCURE Achieves Milestone in joint AI Drug Discovery Research with Pharma Foods

• Metcela: Metcela Resumes Clinical Trial of Regenerative Medicine Product JRM-001 to Advance Phase III Study for Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease

• IAB: Keio IAB, HMT, JAMSTEC, and Tokyo Institute of Science Expand Collaboration on “BioGeoMetabolome” Research Toward Understanding the Origin of Life

• Spiber: Spiber’s first official product—Spiber Tee 001 now available

• SHONAI: SHONAI Introduces Free Admission Policy for Children at “KIDS DOME SORAI” — Up to Three Children per Adult Free for Tsuruoka Residents

• IAB: IAB Director Kazuharu Arakawa Appointed as JNTO MICE Ambassador

• Fermecutes: Fermecutes and Best Co., Ltd. Jointly Develop New Care Food Product

• Metagen: Intake of Partially Hydrolyzed Guar Gum Suppresses Mortality in an Animal Model of SARS-CoV-2 Infection — Suggesting the Involvement of Gut Microbiota-Derived Metabolites

• Gut Microbiome and Metabolite Profiles Remain Stable and Individualized Regardless of Dietary Differences

  • IAB: Does the Gut Microbiome Really Change with Everyday Diet? A Study Reveals Remarkable Individuality and Stability in the Human Gut Environment

  • Metagen: Gut Microbiome Remains Stable and Individualized Despite Daily Diet Variations, Study Finds — Dietary intervention study in Japanese participants shows resilience of gut microbiome and metabolite profiles —