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NEC Joins EU-Funded PREPAIR VAC Project on AI-Driven Vaccine Design
ResearchOctober 26, 2026, 09:00

NEC Joins EU-Funded PREPAIR VAC Project on AI-Driven Vaccine Design

NEC Corporation has announced its participation in PREPAIR VAC, a Horizon Europe-funded research project that applies artificial intelligence to vaccine design for…

NEC Builds VLM-Based AI That Scores Camera Footage to Spot Disaster Signs
ResearchOctober 23, 2026, 07:00

NEC Builds VLM-Based AI That Scores Camera Footage to Spot Disaster Signs

NEC Corporation has developed an AI technology that uses a vision-language model (VLM) to turn live camera footage of roads and rivers into numerical scores, with the…

NEC Bio reports 5 of 8 TNBC patients with complete response on oral neoantigen therapy
ResearchOctober 22, 2026, 09:00

NEC Bio reports 5 of 8 TNBC patients with complete response on oral neoantigen therapy

NEC Bio says five of eight patients with triple-negative breast cancer reached pathological complete response when its oral, AI-designed neoantigen therapy NECVAX-NEO1…

Products and tools
Products and toolsOctober 14, 2026, 03:00

NEC to show physical AI traffic control for expressways at ITS World Congress

NEC will present a solution for next-generation expressway traffic control built on physical AI at the 32nd ITS World Congress in Gangneung, Korea, from October 19 to…

Research
ResearchOctober 14, 2026, 03:00

NEC Builds VLM Tech to Spot Small Disaster Damage and Learn New Damage Types

NEC has developed two Vision-Language Model technologies that identify small-scale damage in disaster site images and let users add new damage types without losing…

Research
ResearchOctober 2, 2026, 03:00

NEC and Partners Win NEDO Funding for Quantum Cancer Immunotherapy Project

A joint project by NEC, Taiho Pharmaceutical, the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, AIST and Waseda University has been selected for a NEDO demonstration program.…