SCREEN Biosciences

The SCREEN Group traces its history back to Ishida Kyokuzan Printing Works, a lithographic printing shop founded in Kyoto in 1868. In 1934, we succeeded in producing Japan's first photographic glass screens, beginning our journey as a research and development-focused enterprise. Our corporate name actually originated with these first screens. Through the years, the SCREEN Group has continued to meet the rapidly changing needs of the printing and electronics industries, particularly in the semiconductor and display fields. Our cutting-edge solutions have also enabled us to open up a range of innovative new areas. From our humble origins, we have grown steadily to become a global enterprise with numerous products that hold top shares in their respective markets. As the SCREEN Group has grown, we have continued to build our expertise in the areas of surface processing, direct imaging and image processing, developing them into our three core technologies. Working from this foundation, we have also merged and expanded applications in an effort to create further technologies that will lead to the discovery of new business opportunities. In life science field, our high-speed 3D cell culture scanner and cell morphology analysis system both use our unique proprietary image processing technologies. The devices are able to perform high-speed measurement and analysis of the multiplication and morphological changes in cells without using a test reagent. They are already accelerating research related to the the development of cancer drugs as well as regenerative medicine.