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Hitachi Research & Development

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Medical, Health & Bio Systems

A safe and healthy lifestyle is a common desire of the human race. In order to achieve advanced medical treatment, Hitachi is developing information systems to provide new knowledge and services based on the huge amount of information available from image-guided diagnostic systems, treatment systems, DNA & protein analysis systems, medical, bio- and healthcare systems. R&D on environmental measurement systems to protect a safe society is also being conducted.

Recent Topics & Themes:

  • Image-guided diagnostic systems
  • Treatment support systems
  • Bio measurement systems
  • DNA & protein analysis systems
  • Bioinformatics
  • Environmental measurement

Main Laboratories:


 Protein-protein interaction data for drug development released to the public[CRL]


Development of an automatic device to measure bacteria within 90 minutes for improved food safety & hygiene[MERL]


Development of a highly accurate high-speed imaging technique of lactate concentration in the brain using MRI[CRL]


Ultrasound contrast imaging agent for direct imaging of tumor tissue[CRL]


New mass spectrometry technique to enhance protein identification accuracy[CRL]


High-throughput capillary array DNA sequencer[CRL]


Semiconductor bio-chip for measurement of trace proteins[CRL]


Development of a wristband-type sensor node for wireless monitoring of human movement and pulse[CRL]


Basic experiment in the application of Optical Topography as a brain-machine interface to operate equipment[ARL]

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