August 3, 2018
National University Corporation, Osaka University
Mandom Corporation

Osaka University and Mandom Corporation
Concluded an agreement on the first Cross-Appointment System in theGraduate School and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences- Aiming to increase opportunities for excellent researchers to perform and toaccelerate the development of research -National University Corporation, Osaka University (Headquarters, Suita, Osaka; President, Shojiro Nishio;
hereinafter referred to as “Osaka University”) and Mandom Corporation (Headquarters, Osaka City; President
Executive Officer & Director, Motonobu Nishimura; hereinafter referred to as “Mandom”) concluded anagreement on the Cross-Appointment System(*) as of August 1, 2018 with the aim of further promoting
continued and multiple cooperation focusing on co-creation between the university and the company.

Under this agreement, a woman who is an employee of the Life Science section, the Fundamental ResearchInstitute, Mandom Corporation will engage in operations related to “Establishment of an Assessment Methodfor Active Ingredient Search for Cosmetics by Using Medical Regeneration Technology and Other Advanced
Technologies,” while at the same time she will belong to the Osaka University Graduate School and School of
Pharmaceutical Sciences as a Specially Appointed Assistant Professor (full time) and engage in “InternationalJoint Research with Overseas Faculties and Instructing Student Research Through This Joint Research,” in theLaboratory of Advanced Cosmetic Science.

Osaka University has formed a rotation-based training system for women researchers (Circular Development
Program), which is the largest in Japan by industry-government-academia co-creation outside the frameworkof universities, companies, and research institutions under the subsidies for developing human resources inscience and technology (2016 - 2021) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology,“Initiative for Realizing Diversity in the Research Environment (organization type)”(**), and it continues
further support for fostering women researchers.

At the same time, Mandom promotes diversity as a company where different types of human resources cantake active roles with satisfaction in their work so that Mandom can achieve VISION2027 by setting the ideal1conditions for Mandom on its 100th anniversary in 2027 as “A cosmetics company possessing uniquestrengths in specialized areas (not an “all-rounder”).”

These activities will increase motivation and widen perspectives of said woman researchers because she canengage in research from an academic standpoint in addition to an industrial perspective, and thereby these
activities can be expected to accelerate the development of current research by promoting active exchanges
with researchers in different fields.

(*) What is the Cross-Appointment System? (Source: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry website)
Under the cross-appointment system, a researcher or expert can be employed by two or moreorganizations while engaging in R&D and educational efforts in accordance with his/her role in eachorganization.

(**) Osaka University was selected for the Initiative for Realizing Diversity in the Research Environment(organization type) in 2016 with joint institutions of the National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation,
Health and Nutrition, which is under supervision of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, andDaikin Industries, Ltd. Mandom is joining the program as a cooperating company and developing
activities for the rotation-based training system for women researchers (Circular Development Program).

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