9. TECHNICAL DIVISION

The Technical Division is an organization of technical staffs to support research activities in the Institute.

This organization is under the direction of the Director-General of Institute. It is organized in a management system with Head, Section Chief, Unit Chief, Assistant Unit Chief and Staff.

The Technical Division is composed of the technicians, who are covering a wide diversity of fields, such as electric circuitry, mechanical machine tooling, computing, gene engineering, biochemical analysis, cell culture, microscope, raising and reproduction of gene-implanted animals and so on.

The Technical Division is divided into two groups, i.e. one for Departments and another of Research Center or Laboratory. The personnel belonging to the Departments support mainly the researchers in the Departments. Those belonging to the Research Center or Laboratory are maintaining and controlling common research equipment for use in joint research projects by scientists of inside and outside of the Institute.

In addition to these technical supports, the Division is conducting common operations (maintenance and control of equipment, machinery and other installations at the Institute, and management of research meeting and supply shops).

Beside the Division conducts self-study activities by organizing technical research meeting and by publishing technical reports, in order to improve the technical abilities of individual members. A technical committee is organized to allow the Institute to obtain new technologies vital to the research and to dissolve technically challenging subjects.

Every year, "Operation Report Meeting" is held to promote the mutual understandings of technical operations and to exchange general information in the Division.

The Annual Meeting of Technical Research is held for the purpose of exchanging technological information among technicians working in all universities and research institutes in the country. In the Meeting, discussions are made through oral presentations, panel exhibitions and lectures with technical practice.

These study activities and technical research meetings conducted at the Technical Division are summarized and published in "Annual Report of Technical Division" and in "Annual Report of Technical Research Meeting."