Otsuka is sponsoring a competition to award up to two Golden Tickets at any BioLabs site located in the US. Each Golden Ticket provides one year of fully paid individual bench space and membership at a fully equipped laboratory designed to accelerate life science startup that is working on novel platform technologies for discovery of novel targets, improved drug discovery, tissue tropism, delivery of large molecules, or new pharmaceutical based therapeutic interventions. Therapeutics areas of strategic focus include Psychiatry, Neurology, Cardio-Renal and Immunology.
Additional eligibility requirements are listed below.
Application Process
The official application process can be found below. Please read and verify your availability before submitting your application.
Golden Ticket Benefits
Eligibility Snapshot
Otsuka is looking for biotech companies Be working on novel platform technologies for discovery of novel targets, improved drug discovery, tissue tropism, delivery of large molecules, or new pharmaceutical based therapeutic interventions. Focusing in the following therapeutic areas:
New disease-modifying therapies in neurodegenerative disorders such as ALS, PD or AD
New strategies to halt the progression and/or reverse fibrotic diseases in the kidney and other organs, genetic or autoimmune kidney diseases, and acute kidney injury
New immunological therapies to control cross-talk between tissues and immune cells for chronic inflammatory diseases, with particular interest in mechanisms for in vivo tolerance induction, restoration of immune homeostasis, or depletion of cells associated with auto-immunity​
Technology regarding molecular mechanism ID that causes brain signal network abnormality, especially in regulating sleep and EI balance.
The Application Process
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Submit the online application by August 19, 2025
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A subset of applications will be identified as finalist by the contest judges by
September 09, 2025
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Winning teams will present their company & scientific concept at an in-person event in Waltham MA on the last week of September, 2025
(exact date TBD)
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Up to 2 awards will be granted
Good luck!
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