This
single department graduate school
was newly founded as an interdisciplinary
educational body of systems life
sciences in 2003. Participating
academic staff come from six faculties
and two research institutes of
Kyushu University where they specialize
in their own research. Two staff
members of the Faculty of Law
give lectures regarding the ethics
of Life Science and patents. Special
bioinformatics staff have also
joined the school from October,
2003. The department is composed
of four divisions: The Division
of Bioinformatics, The Division
of Life Engineering, The Division
of Medical Molecular Cell Biology,
and The Division of Molecular
Life Sciences.
Presently, systemic
life sciences experts engage in
research and promote the frontier
of life sciences as an integrative
biology ranging from molecules,
genes, cells, tissues, organs,
to the whole organism. Further
areas of inquiryare bioinformatics
regarding individualized medicine,
clinical gene therapy, drug design
based on genomes, biotechnological
production of beneficial substances,
regenerative medicine based on
tissue-engineering, nanomedicine,
and various advanced fields of
biomedical engineering. Within
this Department, the biological
sciences, including |
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medical molecular
cell biology and molecular life
sciences, are functionally joined
with bioinformatics and life engineering.
Graduate students are expected
to make further contributions
to the field.
At the basic
stage, first-year graduate students
from various fields learn fundamental
subjects in different fields from
their major studies in undergraduate
courses. At the second stage,
based on the acquisition of knowledge
from different fields of this
Department, the students continue
to advance their special subjects
of study. Interdisciplinary seminars
have been arranged for all graduate
students in order to promote mutual
understanding among the four different
fields and to identify important
interdisciplinary problems. Groups
of professors and/or associate
professors jointly teach and direct
each student for both education
and research. Furthermore, the
ethics of life science lecture
is taken by all students.
In addition,
the Department has been established
as a 5-year graduate school, where
a doctoral degree of Systems Life
Sciences, Science, Engineering
or Philosophy, is conferred. For
students interested in a master's,
a degree in each for four fields
is conferred after 2-years of
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