日本iPS Academia Japan 
      

iPS Academia Japan, Inc. (AJ) is an affiliate of Kyoto University, and its main role is, among other activities, to manage and utilize the patents and other intellectual properties held/controlled by Kyoto University and other universities in the field of iPS cell technologies so that the research results might contribute to health and welfare worldwide. AJ was established at Kyoto on June 2008. AJ’s patents portfolio consists of approximately twenty patent families in the iPS cell technology as of April 2010.