CanBas Co., Ltd. announced that it has received ¥7.15 million in funding from Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co., Ltd., Investment Arm.

CanBas Co Ltd is a Japan-based company mainly engaged in drug development and research. The company is mainly engaged in the basic anticancer drug discovery research (including development of drug discovery concepts, selection of drug candidate compounds using methods based on these concept developments, simple animal studies, and collection and analysis of basic data on anticancer drug candidates that have entered development) and early clinical development (including preclinical studies prior to submission of applications to start clinical trials and the first part of clinical trials).