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| From the end of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st, the entire genome sequences of various organism species were decoded. In Japan － which is becoming unique as a country with a low birthrate and large elderly population － post-genome research stemming from the decoded genome information and a better understanding of phenomena such as molecular structures, together with the development of the technology to control them, are expected to lower the cost burden on society as well as contribute to a higher quality of life through materialization of a healthy elderly society devoid of diseases and in which revolutionary therapies and medicines are developed and the burden on the environment is reduced. The 21st century is becoming a century of life science. Now that academic fields and social and industrial structures are changing, it is necessary to promote practical research in fusing the interdisciplinary fields related to complex disease research with leading-edge life science, and to foster human resources who have the managerial ability to realize innovations based on life science analysis and the ability to resolve practical problems. The aim of this PhD program is to nurture such people. |
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| The Biomedical Science PhD Program has two courses: Bioinformatics and Functional Biology. A summary of each can be found below. |
| 1.Bioinformatics |
| The course in bioinformatics processes diverse information of diseases, genome, proteome, three-dimensional structures, the phenotypes of genetically engineered animals and genetic diseases. It teaches methods and technologies to link in organic manner diverse pieces of information, and has classes and conducts experiments and exercises in genome informatics, molecular structure informatics, proteome informatics, cell informatics and life system informatics. |
| 2.Functional Biology |
| This course educates students in the understanding of the mechanisms of life system controls - from cells to the highly developed functions of individual living creatures - and recognizes diseases as a partial aberration of such controls. It offers classes and conducts experiments and exercises in the science of nerve function control, biological response control, cell tissue control, and biological system engineering. |
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