{"entity":{"id":"toray-industries","kind":"company","name":"Toray Industries","aka":["Toray","東レ","TSE:3402"],"tldr":"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.","asOf":"2026-09-17","links":[{"label":"Official website","url":"https://www.toray.com/"}],"tags":["drug-maker"],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":["trk-950"],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"provenance":{"editedBy":"OnCo drug-maker linking round (corporate websites and regulatory records)","editedOn":"2026-09-17"},"hq":"Tokyo","country":"JP","companyType":"pharma","website":"https://www.toray.com/","ticker":"TSE:3402","founded":1926,"stage":"public","investors":[],"funding":[]},"route":"/companies/toray-industries/","neighbours":{"drug":[{"id":"trk-950","kind":"drug","name":"TRK-950","route":"/drugs/trk-950/"}]}}