Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Academic Policies
Outline of the Biomedical Science and
Technology (BST) Track of the Disease Prevention Global
Leader Program (DP-GLP)
List of Supervisors
3. Graduate Admission
Master’s Program
- Admission Requirements
- Application Filing Period
- Acceptance of Admission
4. Application Documents
5. Japanese Government (MEXT)
Scholarship
6. Features of DP-GLP
7. Selection
8. Enrollment Term
9. Contacting the Application
Processing Service
1. Introduction
Dear Applicant:
Thank you for considering Tokyo Medical and Dental
University for your graduate study. Our master’s and
doctoral programs are highly ranked and are comprised of a
full spectrum of biomedical study for both academic and
professional carriers. In 2007 Tokyo Medical and Dental
University has started a new International Graduate Program
for Biomedical Science to offer more opportunities for
international students to study in this area. From 2014,
this program is reformed to be Biomedical Science and
Technology (BST) Track of the Disease Prevention Global
Leadership Program (DP-GLP). In the Program all courses are
lectured in English. Tokyo Medical and Dental University
gratefully accepts motivated applicants and promotes the
diversity of the graduate school.
We offer you our best wishes for your successful application
to the Program.
Caution:
The International Graduate Program for Biomedical Science is
supported by a Japanese Educational Government subsidy.
Tokyo Medical and Dental University ensures to provide
scholarship for international students who will start their
study from the master’s program and continue to complete the
doctor’s program in totally up to 5 years. In other words,
the International Graduate Program Scholarship is not
allowed to those who will start the study from the doctor’s
program in Tokyo Medical and Dental University.
2. Academic policies
Outline of the Biomedical Science
and Technology (BST) Track of the Disease Prevention
Global Leadership Program (DP-GLP)
There are worldwide high demands to strengthen
countermeasures and preventive measures against emerging and
re-emerging infectious disease and non-communicable
diseases. Recent development in bioscience, bioinformatics
and biotechnology made important advancements in preventive
medicine by allowing us to examine genomic information on
disease susceptibility, molecular mechanisms on disease
development and host-pathogen interactions etc. Effective
management of health issues urgently requires nurturing
professionals and leaders who have research capability and
practical knowledge and skills on disease prevention
science.
The DP-GLP is a rigorous and flexible program. Japan has the highest level of bioscience and medicine in the world, with the quality of advancement in bioscience and biotechnology, and Tokyo Medical and Dental University has been consistently ranked by Citation Index as one of the top five medical schools in Japan. The students will be exposed to an environment with high standards of research. At the same time, the students will be given opportunities to study across disciplines from bioscience and biotechnology to public health while developing their own specialty.
Furthermore, students are able to have advisors from other disciplines such as chemistry, pharmaceutical science and nutrition, and to participate in various educational programs outside the classroom. For example, there is an internship program at international enterprises as a part of the collaborative education program of “Tokyo Interdisciplinary Life Science Consortium” where members are four excellent universities with strength in bioscience in Tokyo, i.e., Tokyo Medical and Dental Universityty, Kitasato University, Ochanomizu University and Gakushuin University.
List of Supervisors
| Supervisor | Field | Contact Address | Research Projects |
| Yuji Miyahara (Professor) | Bioelectronics | miyahara.bsr@tmd.ac. jp |
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| Akio Kishida (Professor) | Material -based Medical Engineering | Kishida.fm@tmd.ac. jp |
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| Miho Nakamura (Associate Professor) | Inorganic Biomaterials | miho.bcr@tmd.ac.jp |
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| Hiroyuki Kagechika (Professor) | Organic and Medicinal Chemistry | kage.chem@tmd.ac.jp |
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| Takeshi Tsubata (Professor) | Immunology | tsubata.imm@mri.tmd. ac.jp |
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| Nobutoshi Ito (Professor) | Structural Biology | ito.str@tmd.ac.jp |
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| Hidenori Aizawa (Associate Professor) | Neuroscience | haizawa.aud@mri.tmd.ac.jp |
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| Noriko Sato (Associate Professor) | Epigenetic Epidemiology | nsato.epi@tmd.ac.jp |
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| Kohji Mitsubayashi (Professor) | Biomedical Devices and Instrumentation | m.bdi@tmd.ac.jp |
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| Junko Kurokawa (Associate Professor) |
Bio-informational Pharmacology | junkokuro.bip@mri.tmd.ac.jp |
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3. Graduate Admission
Master’s Program
- Admission
Requirements
(1) Academic Background: Applicants must have a minimum of
16 years of education or will complet such education by the
end of September 2015, and have a bachelor’s degree or will
gain such degree by the end of September 2015.
Alternatively, applicant’s ability must be recognized by
Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School as equal
to or higher than that of a university graduate.
(2) Age: Applicants must be 34 years old or younger as of
April 1, 2015.
(3) Applicants must not be those who live in Japan at the
time of application.
(*1) Military personnel and civilian military
employees registered on the active list are not eligible.
(*2) The grants will be cancelled if grantees fail to arrive
in Japan by October 14, 2015.
(*3) An applicant who has already won scholarships awarded
by the government of his/her own
country or/from private organizations will not be selected
unless he/she declares intention to
decline receipt of these scholarships once he/she is
selected as this scholarship student.
(*4) The grants will be cancelled if an applicant on a
bachelor’s program at the time of application fails to
complete the bachelor’s program by September 30, 2015.
(*5) The following people are not qualified to apply for
this course;
1. Those who applied or will apply for the Japanese
Government Scholarship for the year 2015 with the
recommendation of universities other than Tokyo Medical and
Dental University.
2. Those who applied or will apply for the Japanese
Government Scholarship for the year 2015 or 2016with a
recommendation from a Japanese embassy.
3. Those who intend to study at a university in Japan under
the Short-term Student Exchange Promotion Program
Scholarship for the year 2015 offered by the Japan Student
Services Organization (JASSO).
(*6) Visa acquisition: Tokyo Medical and Dental University
will issue a letter of acceptance to the grantees of the
Japanese Government Scholarship, which is required for
Japan’s “College Student” (ryugaku) visa application.
If successful applicants have been residing in Japan before
the acceptance with other than College Student status, their
visa status needs to be changed to a College Student status
in Japan, by the end of the month prior to the month
scheduled for the first monthly scholarship payment.
Furthermore, it should be noted that those who change their
visa status to something other than College Student after
arriving in Japan will also lose their qualifications to be
Japanese Government Scholarship recipients from the date
when they change their visa status.
Applicants need to take contact with the prospective supervisor before sending application documents.
- Application Filing Period
January 5, 2014 to January 30, 2015
- Acceptance of Admission
The results will be posted to all applicants by the
beginning of July.
4. Application Documents
The applicant should first obtain approval of a course of study from the supervisor of the laboratory you wish to belong to. The supervisors are listed at http://sbsn.tmd.ac.jp/eng/faculty/
Applicants must submit the following documents:
| 1) | Application Form for Japanese Government (MEXT: Monbukagakusho) Scholarship (digital file and a paper version printed on both sides) | 1 (original) |
| 2) | Field of Study and Study Program (digital file and a paper version printed on both sides) | 1 (original) |
| 3) | Recommendation Report: Form 1 (filled out by the prospective supervisor) | 1 (original) |
| 4) | Total academic Report: Form 3 (filled out by the prospective supervisor) | 1 (original) |
| 5) | Certificates of graduation (or expected graduation) from university．Certificate of completion (or prospective completion) of graduate course or degree, if any | 1 (original) |
| 6) | Official academic
transcripts from university and/or graduate school
attended which certifies the achievement of an excellent academic record issued by the last school you attended (e.g. GPA, classification, ranking, etc) |
1 (original) |
| 7) | Thesis or its equivalent by which the applicant earned his/her bachelor’s degree, if any. Only documents in English are acceptable. If the applicant attended a bachelor’s program which does not require a thesis, please state so and submit its equivalent, if any. | 1 (copy) |
| 8) | Certificate of family register or citizenship in the applicant’s home country, if any | 1 (original) |
| 9) | A photocopy of your passport, if any | 1 (original) |
| 10) | A letter of reference from a head of the institution the applicant belongs to and another reference is desirable from a supervisor who knows the applicant personally. All recommendation letters should be addressed to“the President of Tokyo Medical and Dental University”. | 1 (original) |
| 11) | A photograph taken within the past 6 months (4.5×3.5 cm-sized, upper frontal view without a hat) Write the name and nationality on the back, and paste it on the application form as indicated. | 1 (original) |
| 12) | A document to certify English proficiency, such as a TOEFL score, when an applicant is not a native in English. | 1 (original) |
| 13) | Medical Certificate (should be within last six months): Form 4 | 1 (original) |
All of the above documents should be sent in a single package to:
Foreign Student Support Unit
Student Support Section
Tokyo Medical and Dental University
5-45, Yushima 1-Chome
Bunkyo-ku,Tokyo 113-8510
Japan
TEL +81-3-5803-4076, 4077 FAX: +81-3-5803-0105
E-mail: fssu@ml.tmd.ac.jp
Applicants from China Medical University (CMU) must submit the application documents to the International Exchange Center, CMU, by January 15.
Caution: Applicants need to take contact with the prospective supervisor before sending application documents.
5. Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship
Students accepted to the program will be financially
supported by Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Scholarship through
university recommendation.
Although the master’s and doctoral programs are independent
from each other,
this scholarship will only be granted to students who will
start their study at Tokyo Medical and Dental University
from the master’s program and continue to complete the
doctoral program. The scholarship gives a monthly
stipend (147,000 Yen for master’s program students,148,000
Yen for doctoral program students*) for two years. If
Japanese government approves extension of scholarship, you
can receive the scholarship for a maximum of five years
(*This stipend is subject to changes by the rule of
Monbukagakusyo).
Successful applicants for the Monbukagakusho Scholarship are
not requested to pay the entrance examination, admission and
tuition fees during the master’s program. If you can extend
the scholarship for five years, you are not requested to pay
the entrance examination, admission and tuition fees for the
doctor’s program during the master’s program
6. Features of DP-GLP
(1) Students engage in study
and research using English
(2) Applicants are allowed to take the entrance examination
in their countries of residence
(3) Once students gain required credits at master’s and PhD
courses, submit a dissertation on their research work, and
pass a final examination, students will be awarded a
Master’s degree (Science or Engineering) and PhD degree
(Science or Engineering).
7. Selection
Successful applicants will be selected based on their application documents and the interview (direct or over the Internet) with our professors. Applicants except for those from CMU will be interviewed by Internet in February, and are informed of the details of interview by email at the begging of February. Applicants from CMU must contact the International Exchange Center, CMU, by January 15 to obtain information of interview.
8. Enrollment Term
October 1, 2015
9. Contacting the Application Processing Service
If you have questions about your application, please ask by e-mail.
E-mail: fssu@ml.tmd.ac.jp
Foreign Student Support Unit
Student Support Section
Tokyo Medical and Dental University
5-45, Yushima 1-Chome,
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8510,
JAPAN
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