Olympus

A leading manufacturer of professional opto-digital products, Olympus pioneers key technologies in the fields of imaging and voice products, endoscopy, microscopy, bioanalytics and diagnostics.

The Olympus brand stands for

    * Innovative opti-digital technologies, outstanding desing an top quality
    * Intense customer orientation and fast implementation of customer’s wishes and market requirements
    * Creativity and originality when developing new products and efficient systems solutions.

„Your Vision, Our Future” slogen means:

    * Olympus is a vision realiser.
    * Olympus is customer oriented.
    * Olympus is innovative and original

As an importan facet of its corporate outlook, Olympus takes time to promote social objectives. These include such initiatives as providing childcare on-site for employees in Hamburg, campaigns against AIDS and cancer which involve not only people in the medical fields but also the mass media and the broader public, and the Olympus Europa Foundation „Science for Life”

Olympus Europa Foundation

Founded as a non-profit organisation in October 1988, the Olympus Europa foundation promotes science and research, preferably in the fields of scientific photography, endoscopic diagnosis and therapy, microscopy and clinical chemistry. The founding capital was 1 millionEuro and Olympus has so far donated 1.28 Million Euro through the programme.

Major Projects

    * University of Hamburg Germany: „Bone tumour register and osteopathology image database”
    * Wilhelminenspital, Vienna: „Biochemistry and Morphocytology of acute bacterial infections and documentation”,
    * University of Udine, Italy: „Telepathological use of digitalised microscope images”,
    * University Clinic, Vienna: „Motion and image analysis of patients with facial paralysation”,
    * Hospital Saint-Louis, Paris: „Development of an artificial replacement for the urinary tract”
    * Olympus IT prize.

Olympus, as a producer of Japan’s first microscope (Asahi). is very proud to support the European Pancretic Club Kongress in 2009.