1Partnership Agreement and ‘Collaborative Institutes’
To strengthen strategic collaboration between organizations, accelerate commercialization through open(cross) innovation, and find solutions to social issues, we have signed Partnership Agreement with a wide variety of companies and organizations. Besides that, various institutions have joined us as ‘Collaborative Institutes’ to promote research & development activities.

2Osaka University Healthcare X (Cross)-Innovation Forum, Seminars and Symposiums
Osaka University Healthcare X (Cross)-Innovation Forum
This forum is hosted to further deepen comprehensive collaboration with a wide range of cutting-edge companies and organizations, realize cross-innovation beyond company and organizational boundaries, and accelerate international commercialization of research results for healthcare innovation.
Osaka University Healthcare X (Cross)-Innovation Forum Subcommittees
Seminars and Symposiums
3X (Cross) Industry Discussion
These discussions are undertaken to promote interactions among companies, organizations and individual laboratories that have entered into comprehensive collaboration agreements, share the cutting-edge approaches and issues that each have, and promote industry-university collaboration.
We have held with;
- 2016
- Graduate School of Medicine Faculty of Medicine(1st), 23 classes and 13 partners participated in the discussions.
- 2017
- Faculty of Medicine, Division of Health Sciences(1st), 17 classes and 18 partners participated in the discussions.
- 2018
- Graduate School of Dentistry, 6 classes and 25 partners participated in the discussions.
- 2019
- Faculty of Medicine, Division of Health Sciences(2nd), 17 classes and 28 partners participated in the discussions.
- 2020
- Osaka Nursing Association, 3 classes and 17 partners participated in the discussions.
- 2022
- Graduate School of Medicine Faculty of Medicine(2nd), 14 classes and 23 partners participated in the discussions.
- 2023
- Graduate School of Medicine Faculty of Medicine(3rd), 14 classes and 16 partners participated in the discussions.
- 2023
- Graduate School of Medicine Faculty of Medicine(4th), 12 classes and 16 partners participated in the discussions.
- 2024
- Graduate School of Medicine Faculty of Medicine(5th), 7 classes and 13 partners participated in the discussions.
- 2024
- Graduate School of Medicine Faculty of Medicine(6th), 13 classes and 17 partners participated in the discussions.
- 2025
- Graduate School of Medicine Faculty of Medicine(7th), 9 classes and 13 partners participated in the discussions.
4Support for the Establishment of X (Cross)-Innovation Type Joint Research Chair*
We support the establishment of Joint Research Chair related to industry-university collaborative projects with companies.
*Joint Research Chair: A research organization created within Osaka University using funds provided by an outside company or other institution
*X(Cross)-Innovation Type: Joint Research Chair beyond the boundaries of research fields, companies and organizations