SEEDSUPPLY - Key Persons


Masaharu Nakayama

Job Titles:
  • Head of Screening Science

Naoki Tarui - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
Dr. Tarui has been involved in drug discovery research especially hit finding for 20 years at Takeda Pharmaceutical Company. A typical hit compound is the seed compound of vonoprazan (the world's first potassium competitive acid blocker). Dr. Tarui has established SEEDSUPPLY as spin-out from Takeda in 2017 to improve the early drug discovery process for small molecule drugs by using binder selection technology. Dr. Tarui has advocated a groundbreaking drug discovery that leverages the binder collection.

Takashi Motoyaji - CTO

Job Titles:
  • CTO