NIPS offers graduate programs for students enrolled in the Department of Physiological Sciences, Sokendai Graduate School of Life Science. Since inception, our Division accepted 31 graduate students (10 in the last 5 years), and 22 of them have earned doctorate degrees (four in the last 5 years). The NIPS accepts graduate students from other universities as collaborative researchers and provides them with mentorship. Thus far, 13 graduate students have been accepted from extramural institutions (two in the last 5 years).