Corporate Profile

Corporate Profile

Corporate Name A2 Healthcare Corporation
Locations

【Head Office】 20th Floor (Reception), Sumitomo Fudosan Korakuen Bldg., 1-4-1, Koishikawa, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-0002, Japan TEL: +81-3-3830-1122 (Switchboard) FAX: +81-3-3830-1155 MAP

【Osaka Office】 5th Floor, Honmachi Fuji Bldg., 1-4-12, Utsubohommachi, Nishi-ku, Osaka, 550-0004, Japan TEL: +81-6-6444-1000 (Switchboard) FAX: +81-6-4803-2815 MAP

A2 US Boston Branch CIC Cambridge – One Broadway 14th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02142  MAP
Established July 2003
Capital 100 million yen
Representative Hitoshi Kamiya
Number of Employees 1,234(as of April 1, 2024)
Description of Business line Clinical development, Post-marketing Surveillance and clinical research services for development of pharmaceutical, medical devices, cellular and tissue-based products and vaccines ・Monitoring ・Allocation and patient enrollment ・Data management and statistical analysis ・Regulatory and scientific services ・Clinical Pharmacology ・Medical experts ・Clinical IT solutions ・CDISC-related solutions ・Medical writing ・Pharmacovigilance ・Vendor management ・Project management ・GXP audits ・PMS support ・Global clinical development support
Shareholder Composition ITOCHU Corporation(100%) 
Bank References Mizuho Bank
Affiliate Organizations Groups Japan CRO Association Kansai Pharmaceutical Industries Association. (KPIA) Japan Society of Quality Assurance CDISC
Certification, etc. ISO9001:2015, Worker Dispatch Business (Number: Dispatch13-312150)
Affiliate A2 Healthcare Taiwan Corporation

7F., No. 172-1, Sec. 2, Keelung Rd., Da’an Dist., Taipei City 106339, Taiwan

TEL:+886-2-8773-6997  FAX:+886-2-8773-6990
Web Site:http://www.a2healthcare.com.tw/

Our history

A2 Healthcare was established by a spin-off from CRC Solutions Corporation (currently called ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation), an IT company,and has since developed clinical trial services centered on data analysis and data management.

1969 Started clinical trial services centered on statistical analysis
1990 Started data management business
1997 Entered monitoring business. Expanded business as a full-scale CRO
2001 Started clinical IT services (development of EDC)
July 2003 Spun off into a separate company as ACRONET Corporation
April 2005 Positioned as the core life-science business of the ITOCHU Group due to capital participation in ITOCHU Corporation
October 2008 Acquired a monitoring business from Iberica CRD affiliated with Iberica Holdings Co., Ltd.
November 2014 A2 Healthcare Corporation, a company set up by split clinical development business from ASKLEP Inc. and ACRONET Corporation merged. A2 Healthcare Corporation started its operations as the newly integrated company.
January 2017 Acquired the CRO business of former Bell Medical Solutions, Inc.(BI Medical, Inc.) by absorption-type company split. BELLSYSTEM24 Holdings, Inc. has also acquired a part of stake in the new entity.
July 2022

Acquired and wrote off shares held by BELLSYSTEM24 Holdings and became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITOCHU Corporation.

Directors

President & CEO Hitoshi Kamiya
Part-time Member of the Board Kimihiko Takabe
Part-time Member of the Board Hiroyuki Kodama
Part-time Corporate Auditor Masato Suganuma
Executive officer Kenji Narimatsu
Executive officer Sadatoshi Naito