ZEISS and RIKEN Innovation have entered into a strategic collaboration agreement to explore opportunities where the combination of Riken’s expertise in bioengineering and image data manipulation and ZEISS’ leadership in optical solutions can accelerate bioengineering innovations.

RIKEN Innovation was founded on Sept. 5, 2019, to serve as an external entity to support RIKEN in promoting and facilitating industry-academia collaboration and to support collaboration with industry partners, RIKEN Innovation President Yoshihiro Aburatani said.

“The success of leading-edge research requires not only groundbreaking ideas but also access and management of advanced scientific equipment. Highest level of instrument availability and advanced image data management are key to efficient R&D,” said Dr. Stefan Sacré, head of ZEISS in Japan.