Providing Global End-to-End Solutions for the Entire Pharmaceutical Value Chain

CMIC Group was founded in 1992 as the first contract research organization (CRO) in Japan. To enable pharmaceutical and biotech companies to develop better medicine sooner, we expanded our solutions to contract development and manufacturing (CDMO), site management (SMO), and market solutions. We also support global drug development companies to bring highly desired treatments to the Japanese market.

CMIC also contributes to the broader healthcare market. Leveraging our vast experiences and expertise in the medical industry, we offer solutions using a new ecosystem of healthcare to support individuals and local governments.

We strive to be a Personal Health Value Creator (PHVC) to meet our global customers’ needs in the U.S., Japan, and broader Asia.

CMIC’s Mission

CMIC is an innovative and unique provider of high-quality solutions for the healthcare industry. We create value by accelerating the access to therapies that improve patients’ lives.

CMIC’s Vision

To advance the innovation of products and solutions that will empower people worldwide to achieve greater health and well-being.

W & 3C

  • WELLBEING: Fully Live Every Moment
  • Challenge: Liberate opportunity by changing our vantage point
  • Change: Transform without seeking refuge in conventional wisdom
  • Communication: Proactively reach out to people and society

CMIC Group started business as a company supporting drug development, and it has since developed a broad range of businesses in addition to CRO services, thus developing a unique business model that we call “Personal Health Value Creator (PHVC).”  Through offering a variety of services, CMIC Group can obtain an extensive amount of valuable information promptly. Therefore, we don’t just seek to expand the scope of our business, but also aim to provide added value for our clients in the pharmaceutical industry. We also offer services to medical device manufacturers, academia, bio-ventures, and medical institutions. We also provide prophylaxis and health enhancing services to the public. Our focus is on pharmaceuticals, aiming through our various services to swiftly deliver safe and effective drugs to patients. We will continue to establish business models that create further value and contribute to greater advances in the pharmaceutical industry.

Our Services:

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CMIC’s Creed

CMIC’S CREED is based on the ideas of our founder, Kazuo Nakamura. Right from the start of our business as the first CRO in Japan, the CREED has been the core policy of the company. We must change flexibly without fear of innovation to respond to the diverse needs of the pharmaceutical industry. At the same time, we maintain continual devotion to our creed. Thus, we change ourselves while maintaining a steady core belief.

Our Creed

CMIC Group will bring innovation to healthcare so that all people, regardless of age, gender or race, can live their one and only lives according to their own will.

Whether in youth, when potential has yet the blossom, or in later years, when the fruits of one’s life are maturing, every individual has an equally earnest desire to live every moment to its fullest. We wish to genuinely answer each and every one of these wills to live.

To achieve this, we aspire to always challenge ourselves for a better future. By evolving and gaining new perspectives, we will create value out of our unwavering determination, and continue to contribute to society and humanity.

About CMIC’s Creed

Is a written expression of our founding spirit and founding beliefs which is, in a manner of speaking, CMIC’s DNA.

It embodies a philosophy formed as CMIC has carried itself forward, ever growing & developing from its birth to the present, and which is based on the thoughts of founder Kazuo Nakamura in his younger years as he many times pondered life.

Our Creed is a clear expression of the CMIC Group’s corporate calling & raison d’etre.

“Bringing about innovation in healthcare fields” is our very mission.

What is more, the reason we wish to bring about innovation to healthcare fields lies in our “every desire to live fully in the moment is equally precious” ideal.

This also shows us how to follow through with our mission, and the virtues we hold dear to that end: “those who dare” (Challenge), “new perspectives” (Change), and “turning passion into value paid forward to people and the public” (Communication).

Our Creed is the CMIC Group’s very corporate philosophy itself, the criteria each and every employee makes value judgements by, and the cornerstone of our actions.

CMIC Group was the first company to provide CRO (contract research organization) services in Japan. Relevant laws and rules had not been established when the group was first established. The CRO Study Group (which later became the Japan CRO Association) was formed by Mr. Kazuo Nakamura, the current CEO of CMIC Group, and others to conduct promotion and public relations activities and to negotiate with the authorities for the establishment of CROs in Japan.

Later, when the new Good Clinical Practice (GCP) regulations came into force in 1997, CROs gained legal ground for the first time, and since then demands for CRO services have rapidly increased. We believe that CMIC’s history directly reflects the history of CROs in Japan.

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