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| Takehiko Koji, PhD. Dean |
The Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences was organized on April 1,
2002 by integrating and reorganizing graduate schools of the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry,
and Pharmaceutical Sciences. It is a medical graduate school consisting of medicine,
dentistry, and pharmaceutical sciences, which is very rare in this country.
Recent drastic development in the fields of life science has rapidly eliminated
the boundary of academic disciplines. In order to continuously produce
the worldfs leading research achievements in such an environment,
we believe it is absolutely necessary to bring together knowledge
from various research areas and work harder to accomplish higher goals.
In fact, we recruited many distinguished post-graduate students in the last nine and a half years,
and the results of their vigorous research activities in life and medical science
have been published in a number of international journals.
I am confident that gFull implementation of wide-ranging cooperation
with peaceful and fruitful mind would never fail to grow a huge Amaranth.h
is certainly being practiced.
I took up the post of Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences on October 11, 2011.
I am the fourth Dean after Dr. Kotaro Taniyama, Dr. Masao Tomonaga, and Dr. Shunichi Yamashita.
I am determined to inherit their consistent institutional reform and tireless efforts
toward realization and sophistication of the Graduate School,
integrate the whole structure on Sakamoto Campus, operate the structure efficiently,
collaborate academic body and administrative bodies,
and finally commit myself to the development of creating a stable future vision.
Our Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences started with four specialties
such as Medical and Dental Sciences (Doctorate), Infection Research (Doctorate),
Life Science and Radiation Research (Doctorate),
and Pharmaceutical Sciences (first and latter half of Doctorate).
Tropical Medicine (Masterfs) was added on April 1, 2006 to form the present structure.
A fixed number of students in each grade is 108 and about 110 professors together with faculty,
lab, and administrative staffs are supporting them in their education and research.
Our graduate school never stops evolving. We have set two goals.
One is to provide qualified health providers such as medical doctors, dentists,
pharmacists, nurses, obstetrics nurses, physical therapists and operational therapists
with continuing education so that participants will be able to serve worldwide
as highly-skilled professionals with abilities to think scientifically,
using precise knowledge and sophisticated techniques.
The other is to train successors of graduate school education by awakening
and developing the potential of participants to conduct research
at a higher level and developing potential of participants to conduct research
at a higher level and education with excellence.
For these supreme ideal, we have taken steps to strengthen our graduate school education
by introducing several new courses.
We established a gTraining Course for Prospective Infectious Diseases Researchersh in 2005
and a gTraining Course for Prospective Clinical Medicine and Cancer Treatment Specialistsh in 2007.
Two years later, in 2009, we established a practical training course,
gTraining for the Use of Advanced Equipmenth, for graduate students
to achieve mastery of cutting-edge devices which are available for research activities
at the Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
It is our intention to foster such human resources that will prove their competence in international medical
and academic societies and succeed in the globalized world.
With this vision in mind, we applied for the government-funded programs
which were designed to subsidize projects to send young researchers abroad.
Our proposals for the gInstitutional Program for Young Researcher Overseas Visitsh
and gStrategic Young Researcher Overseas Visits Program for Accelerating Brain Circulationh
were adopted in 2009 and 2011 respectively.
Successful adoption of these proposals will enhance our institutional support for graduate students
and young post-doctoral researchers who wish to accumulate experiences abroad.
In addition, in 2011, we opened gNU-CLEAR Training Programh which enables third-year medical students
to attend lectures offered at graduate school,
and it is expected that by earning credits for the graduate-school coursework before actual enrollment,
they will be able to commence graduate degree courses simultaneously while still enrolled in postgraduate clinical training.
With these innovative approaches in parallel with our existing schemes like special selection for working people,
autumn admissions and a variety of financial aid and scholarship programs such as the Special Research Student in Scholarship,
we aim to attract even more excellent students from broader backgrounds and to assist their post-graduate study and research.
Through these educational and inspiring activities, we will strive to be a graduate school that can have substantial influence,
from a scientific perspective, in todayfs global society with its constant changes
and uncertainties to create a society full of health and peace.
Thank you very much for your trust and support extended to us.
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