"Uniqlo" Mr. Yanai donated 10 billion yen "To fight cancer and corona" June 24, 18:39
Tadashi Yanai, Chairman and President of UNIQLO Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., announced that it will donate a total of 10 billion yen from personal assets to the research of Professor Noriyuki Honjo and Professor Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University, which has won the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology. Did. It is said to fight cancer and the new coronavirus.
President Yanai, Professor Honjo, and Professor Yamanaka attended the conference held at Kyoto University in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto on the 24th.
Among them, President Yanai said, "The biggest problems in the world of medicine are cancer and viruses," and announced that he will donate a total of 10 billion yen from personal assets.
Specifically, we will donate 500 million yen each year for the next 10 years as research expenses and personnel expenses for the Cancer Immunology Research Center, which is headed by Professor Honjo.
Also, for Professor Yamanaka, 500 million yen for research on infection control of new coronaviruses and research on therapeutic drugs, and construction of a facility for low-cost production of iPS cells for the next 9 years, It means donating yen.
Mr. Honjo said, “I am really grateful that the private fund has the advantage of being able to spend money with a new and free idea.”
In addition, Professor Yamanaka said, "I feel a very heavy responsibility for donations. There is no 100% successful research, but I would like to use it as effectively as possible".