12.The Graduate University for Advanced Studies School of Life Science

In recent years, it has become necessary to train scientists, who are highly skilled and creative, to support the promotion of creative research and pioneer in leading scientific areas, which is a strong demand in our country.

According to the increasing internationalization of academic research, it is also necessary to take enormous effort to train international-minded researchers with broad outlook, particularly for interdisciplinary research in multiple fields.

The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) was established in 1988 to develop creative international researchers with wide-ranging vision capable of leading the latest streams of research under close cooperation with the inter-university research institutes. It has accepted graduate students since 1989.

School of Life Science is constituted three departments; Department of Genetics (based on NIG (National Institute of Genetics)), Department of Molecular Biomechanics (based on NIBB (National Institute of Basic Biology)), and Department of Physiological Sciences (based on NIPS (National Institute for Physiological Sciences)).

The outline of Department of Physiological Sciences.

The aim of this department is to promote researchers who mainly investigate underlying mechanisms the function of human body in a comprehensive manner.

Physiological Science plays a central role to combine various fields in basic medicine, as sharing the base with bioscience and maintains close connections with clinical medicine.

The policy is to promote educated researchers who have a broad knowledge of medicine and physiological science, and is to be able to find the function from the molecular, which is the basic organization of living bodies, to individual body from an original physiological scientific points of view.