# Toray Industries

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## TL;DR

Toray Industries is the Japanese materials group, known for carbon fibre and synthetic fibres, whose pharmaceutical division created the antibody TRK-950 against CAPRIN-1, a protein found on many solid tumours.

## Summary

Toray Industries is a Tokyo-based chemicals and materials company whose pharmaceutical business makes the pruritus drug nalfurafine and interferon-beta. TRK-950 is a humanised antibody against CAPRIN-1 (cytoplasmic activation/proliferation-associated protein 1), a cytoplasmic protein that Toray found on the surface of breast, ovarian, gastric and other cancer cells; it is in phase 1/2 trials alone and with chemotherapy and checkpoint inhibitors in solid tumours.

## Fields

- Kind: Company
- Last checked: 2026-09-17
- Also known as: Toray; 東レ; TSE:3402
- Tags: drug-maker
- HQ: Tokyo
- Type: pharma
- Website: https://www.toray.com/
- Ticker: TSE:3402

## Sources

- Official website: https://www.toray.com/

## Connected records

- drugs: [TRK-950](https://onco.cc/drugs/trk-950/)

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