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Kanazawa University DoorsLet’s open the door to research Introduction to Research Program Message from the President Join Us and Study at the Intellectual Stronghold of East Asia A research university dedicated to education, Kanazawa University Let’s open the door to research while opening up its doors to both local and global society Message from the President Message from Doors

anazawa University is a Japanese national university “Satoyama Satoumi Project” with the theme of sustainable with 150 years of tradition. As the fundamental university social organization and regional regeneration. In this project, Kon the Sea of Japan side, we are positively developing education and research programs are being conducted with education and research activities on the global stage. a focus on the creation of regional coexistence with nature in In order to be “a research university dedicated to education, cooperation with local organizations and businesses. while opening up its doors to both local and global society” Approximately 60% of the world’s population reside in and the “Intellectual Stronghold of East Asia,” Kanazawa Asia, and a great variety of ethnicities and nations exist here, University is practicing not only leading-edge research but also along with resulting diverse cultures. Also, in this age of essential research to solve common problems in Asia and the accelerating globalization, universities no longer exist only for educational program which takes both into account. their native countries. Kanazawa University is enforcing the Specifically, Kanazawa University has established human resource development and education and research research centers to further promote unique research areas, function with focus on Asia which will become the world’s and cutting-edge research is being undertaken at the center in near future, with the understanding that excellent university. Moreover, in the undergraduate program, we human resources in East Asia are also excellent by global have introduced the organization by Colleges and Faculties standards. As the “Intellectual Stronghold of East Asia,” we instead of standard Departments, which allows our students gather people from not only within Japan but all over the to choose their majors world, and provide the atmosphere for healthy competition Contents while undertaking liberal to nourish global human resource with the ability to solve arts soon after entering various complicated problems. the university. In the Kanazawa is a “Historical City” nurtured by traditional postgraduate program, multiple culture. The city aims to become a “Global City” with 2 Message from the President programs offering degrees in English distinctive brilliance in the world. Kanazawa is a city open to language are available at each graduate school, and many the world, and it is unique as well as intellectually stimulating. 4 Organization and History international students especially from Asia are studying at Kanazawa University is promoting global human resource our university. development in this city. Come and research with us. We Research Project 5 At Kanazawa University, we place emphasis on global look forward to your decision. Cutting-edge Research to Open Up the World research projects such as the restoration project of the environmental measurement in the Angkor ruins in Cambodia, Growing Roster of 12 the study of chronic human health conditions caused by 3 Colleges, 16 Schools, and 46 Courses dioxin exposure in Vietnam, the mural paintings of Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence, as well as leading-edge researches Research Center 13 in basic science such as the study of the beginning of the Stronghold of Intellect to Connect to the Future universe through gamma ray burst. Ishikawa Prefecture, where Kanazawa University is located, 22 5 Graduate Schools and 28 Divisions

is the area including Noto Peninsula which juts out to the Shin-ichi Nakamura Message from the President Sea of Japan. At Noto Peninsula, there is an on-going project President, Kanazawa University 23 Global Access

02 Doors Kanazawa University 03 Organization and History Research Project

Kanazawa University comprises 3 colleges, 16 schools, 5 graduate schools and 1 research institute, which are engaged in passing on history and tradition in a form fit for the future. In 2012, the university celebrates its 150th anniversary. Cutting-edge Research to Open Up the World

University Hospital 3 Colleges & 16 Schools Kanazawa University, under the policy of “strengthening further its competitive research areas,” Cancer Research Institute

Organization and History implements intensive support for 5 research programs, which are introduced in Research Project. College of Human and Social Sciences School of Humanities University Library School of Law These 5 programs are regarded as the prioritized research programs of the Organization of Frontier Science School of Economics and Innovation, through which resource-intensive investment is being conducted. The organization also School of Teacher Education Common Institutes for Education and Research engages in strategic efforts to foster young researchers of future generations and provide support for School of Regional Development Studies Center for Regional Collaboration School of International Studies Advanced Science Research Center obtaining large-scale competitive grants. Furthermore, the university presents a distinctive feature of its 3 Information Media Center institutions with 2 research centers established in each, in a bid to form an education and research center. Foreign Language Institute College of Science and Engineering These centers are introduced in Research Center. School of Mathematics and Physics Institute of Nature and Environmental Technology School of Chemistry Research Center for Higher Education School of Mechanical Engineering Environment Preservation Center Kanazawa University, in order to be the “Intellectual Stronghold of East Asia,” promotes university-wide School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Center for Child Mental Development globalization to become a world-class education and research center through measures such as propelling School of Environmental Design the prioritized research programs and establishing centers in each institution. The university has engaged School of Natural System Health Service Center in a tireless effort for creation and reform, based on history and tradition, reviewing and reorganizing College of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences the university’s structure toward enhancing the support system for education and research as well as Liberal Arts and Science Organization School of Medicine strengthening the functions of the graduate schools. School of Pharmacy School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Organization of Global Human Resource Development School of Health Sciences Organization of Frontier Science and Innovation

Organization of Global Affairs 5 Graduate Schools Common Research Facilities Graduate School of Education Low Temperature Laboratory Graduate School of Human and Socio-Environment Studies University Museum Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology Center for Archaeological Research Graduate School of Medical Sciences Technical Support Center Law School Career Design Laboratory for Gender Equality

Kanazawa Medical College The Fourth Higher School (1879) (1894) Prioritized Research Programs Hikoso Vaccination Center Kanazawa University Research 1 (1862) (May,1949) 6 Ishikawa Teacher Training School Kanazawa Technical College Innovative Brain Science for Development, Learning and Memory (1874) (1920) http://fso.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/eng/research01.html Research 2 7 Environmental Linkage of Land, Sea, and Air over the Pan-Japan Sea Area http://fso.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/eng/research02.html The history of Kanazawa University can be traced back to the Vaccination Center established by the Kaga Clan in 1862. This makes Research 3 Kanazawa the 3rd oldest national university. 8 New Life Sciences Pioneered by Innovative AFM Technology http://fso.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/eng/research03.html After absorbing a number of other institutions including Hikoso Vaccination Center, with their history and traditions, Kanazawa was inaugurated as a new university in May 1949. Research 4 9 Cutting-edge Research Research on the Disturbance of Body Homeostasis by Nutrition, and the Regulation In April 2004, management was passed from the government to a National University Corporation, and the university set out on its http://fso.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/eng/research04.html path anew. Research 5 10 In order to train outstanding people to meet the needs of society and to develop new academic fields to meet the need of the times, New Insights into the Earth’s Interior through the 21st Century Mohole the university carried out reorganization and consolidation in April 2008, amalgamating 8 undergraduate schools and 25 courses into http://fso.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/eng/research05.html 3 colleges and 16 schools. Topic 11 In addition to the 3 colleges and 16 schools, the university currently comprises 5 graduate schools, the University Hospital, the Cancer Satoyama Satoumi Project Research Institute and so on. http://www.adm.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/satoyama/en/

04 Doors Kanazawa University 05 The first stage in brain Predicting the future science research combining Haruhiro Higashida environment from aerosols and Kazuichi Hayakawa Program Leader Program Leader the humanities and sciences community woodland and coasts Innovative Brain Science for Development, Environmental Linkage of Land, Sea, Learning and Memory and Air over the Pan-Japan Sea Area Cutting-edge Research

01 Associate Professor Atsushi Matsuki (Program Member) 02 The program team has established an observation site in Dunhuang, China to study the areas where yellow dust originates and where it settles.

01-02 The Research Center for Child Mental Development is conducting a range of research to enhance their knowledge of developmental disorders.

The place where the first arrival in Japan of these

02 01 aerosols can be observed is the Noto Peninsula utism is one kind of developmental disorders. A A congenital brain dysfunction, it is said to affect between 5 and 10 out of every thousand children born in Japan. Between 2004 and 2008, Kanazawa University worked to The Center is mapping the brain erosols are tiny particles of liquids clarify children’s social recognition through the 21st Century or solids that float in the air. One A 01 COE Program, Innovative Brain Science. As an extension using a non-invasive representative type is the yellow dust that is of this program, the Research Center for Child Mental carried by the westerlies from the Eurasian Development, established in 2007, is working to clarify the measuring device called continent. The place where the first arrival in Japan of these Furthermore, when considering environmental issues, it mechanism of childhood developmental disorders, especially the magnetoencephalograph (MEG) aerosols can be observed is the Noto Peninsula that juts out is also important to identify the special properties of each autism. Professor Haruhiro Higashida, director of the center, into the Sea of Japan. The Kanazawa University Noto Super region. Despite the fact that East Asia including the region has identified the relationship between the protein CD38 Site comprising Kanazawa University, the Satoyama Satoumi bordering the Sea of Japan is one of the world’s main and childhood autism. CD38 promotes the secretion of the Nature School (Suzu), the Marine Laboratory (Notocho), sources of aerosols, the number of observation facilities hormone oxytocin which gives rise to feelings of attachment and the Atmospheric Monitoring Station (Wajima) monitors is insufficient. By analyzing the products adhering to the and confidence. Professor Higashida inferred that autism magnetic fields that arise on the surface of children’s brains. and analyzes the environment including the atmosphere, surface of the aerosols, it is possible to learn about various sufferers, who have difficulty establishing relationships of It is one of very few initiatives within Japan to quantitatively ocean currents, soil, and ecosystems using the rich natural biochemical cycles from East Asia to the western Pacific trust, lack oxytocin, and in animal experiments using mice, analyze the differences between the brains of normal and environment of the Noto Peninsula. Ocean. The results obtained from these observations are he demonstrated that administration of oxytocin is effective autistic children. Comprehensive knowledge of the natural sciences is thought to be related to worldwide climate change and the in achieving the recovery of brooding behavior. Then, with This research involves more than brain and neuroscience, crucial for observation of the environment. For example, it global warming process. As such they are regarded with Cutting-edge Research the cooperation of families with autistic children, he found and clinical psychiatry. It also covers a wide range of is known that yellow dust by nature is insoluble in water. growing interest. that administering oxytocin relieved the symptoms of autism fields including cognitive science, biology, philosophy However, when it comes into contact with atmospheric The project envisages creating an observation network in humans too. and psychology. In order to train future researchers and pollutants, sea spray and moisture from the sea, it for the Pan-Japan Sea area from the East China Sea to Currently the Center is mapping the brain using a non- instructors, Kanazawa University established a united becomes soluble. Nevertheless, there are still many the Sea of Japan, with observation points at Miyakojima invasive measuring device called the magnetoencephalograph graduate school with Osaka University and Hamamatsu questions remaining to be answered such as what impact in Okinawa, Hedo-Misaki, and Fukuejima in addition to the (MEG). With the cooperation of people from Kanazawa with University School of Medicine in 2009 and the school is now this transformed yellow dust has in generating clouds and Noto Peninsula, as well as establishing a network of cross- children aged 3 and 4, they are using MEG to measure the developing human resources. increasing or decreasing rainfall. disciplinary researchers.

06 Doors Kanazawa University 07 Creation of new life Demonstrating the connection science areas based on Toshio Ando between the nutrition metabolism Shuichi Kaneko Program Leader Program Leader the development of of the liver and innovative measurement lifestyle-related disease

Cutting-edge Research Research on the Disturbance of Body Homeostasis technologies by Nutrition, and the Regulation and instruments New Life Sciences Pioneered 01-02 Biochip analyzers lined up in the laboratory. They are investigating the regula- by Innovative AFM Technology tory mechanism of nutrition metabolism of the liver and the link between the liver and brain in nutrition metabolism.

02 High-speed AFM has the potential to transform life sciences Our group discovered and is expected to that selenoprotein P be widely exploited is expressed in in the future large quantities 01 in the livers of diabetics 2,934 ms 2,641 ms

ave you heard of the microscope that can capture + end H dynamic images of the nanometer (1 billionth of a maintain homeostasis. However, consuming meter) world? The frontier Bio-AFM development project excessive nutrients can disrupt the functioning at Kanazawa University, “Creation of new life science areas 3,081 ms 2,787 ms of the liver. Using comprehensive human based on the development of innovative measurement gene analysis, Professor Shuichi Kaneko and technologies and instruments,” has developed the world’s his group discovered that selenoprotein P first microscope (high-speed AFM) that can observe moving is expressed in large quantities in the livers 02 01 molecules at the nanometer scale. of diabetics. Furthermore, in experiments 01-02 The step size with which motor AFM stands for Atomic Force Microscope. It is a protein myosin V moves in cells is with mice, the group discovered that microscope that allows us to observe the three-dimensional about 36 nm. The stepping behav- n the 21st century, diets are becoming richer, especially selenoprotein P causes insulin resistance. This impairs the structure of sample surfaces at the atomic level. Since it ior was observed for the first time in developed countries. However, new diseases such efficacy of insulin, a hormone that reduces blood sugar, thus using high-speed AFM. I does not use electromagnetic force, insulating objects can be as obesity, diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia are making selenoprotein P a hormone that raises blood sugar observed. Observing biological samples under their natural becoming a problem. These diseases are called lifestyle- levels. They named these types of hormones that originate in environment (i.e., in water) is also feasible, so it is widely related disease. Nutrition metabolism plays a part, and the liver as “hepatokine,” and they proved that the liver is a recognized as a cutting-edge tool for life sciences. materialized the high-speed AFM system that breaks this especially fatty tissue has an impact here. Research on the contributing factor in lifestyle-related disease. Proteins operate dynamically. Directly observing the limitation and can film biological molecules at the highest Disturbance of Body Homeostasis by Nutrition, and the As an approach to preventive medicine, the group developed molecules as video images, rather than as still images, rate of 33 frames per second, 1,000-times faster than Regulation is a prioritized research program. It focuses on a biochip which has more than 100 small grooves, each is therefore important for understanding their dynamic conventional AFM systems. Television images are produced the connection between the nutrition metabolism function containing DNA, RNA, amino acid and so on. When blood is Cutting-edge Research behavior. However, with conventional methods, the sample at 30 frames per second, so the system can film images at of the liver and lifestyle-related disease, seeking to clarify poured over the chip, it is possible to simultaneously analyze has to stay stationary to be observed. The structure of temporal resolution equivalent to television. High-speed AFM the pathogenic mechanism of lifestyle-related diseases. The how the substances in the blood react to the interactions. biological molecules has been obtained as still images, while has the potential to transform life sciences and is expected program is also conducting research into new methods of Although it has not reached the clinical stage, it is able to the dynamics has been obtained through dynamic images to be widely exploited in the future. The Bio-AFM Frontier diagnosis and treatment. store and analyze a vast amount of data about the blood of light spots emitted from fluorophores attached to the Research Center, where the project is based and leading The liver is an organ which metabolizes nutrition such as without having to remove a portion of liver tissue, which molecules. This means that the structure and dynamics have researchers with different backgrounds are brought together, sugars, fats, and protein, maintaining the nutritional level in places a burden on the body. In this way, the group aims to to be obtained separately. The present project has recently is jointly conducting frontier research. the body at a constant rate. In other words, it functions to establish methods for diagnosing lifestyle-related diseases.

08 Doors Kanazawa University 09 Ocean drilling Mainstreaming Satoyama opens a new window Shoji Arai and Satoumi in research, Koji Nakamura Program Leader Project Representative to the earth education and 01 Paddy field excercise of Kakuma New Insights into the Earth’s Interior regional collaboration towards Satoyama Nature School in Kakuma through the 21st Century Mohole Campus, Kanazawa University. Cutting-edge Research 02 “One thousand paddies” at Shirayone, the revitalization of Wajima City, Noto Peninsula. Noto Peninsula Satoyama Satoumi Project

Understanding the ocean floor and mantle greatly helps us to under- 02 stand the circulation of Noto’s Satoyama material on a global scale and Satoumi are rich in traditional culture and biodiversity 01

he importance of Satoyama and Satoumi landscapes and university members. However, they realize that the 01 T in Japan has been emphasized as sustainable human- real Satoyama issue lay well beyond their campus walls, influenced natural environments (Socio-Ecological Production inseparable from economic reality. It is thus they thought to he radius of the earth is over 6,000 km, but the only part Landscapes, SEPL) through broader global recognition of expand the mission to the Noto area. T of all that humankind has surveyed so far is the thin outer their value (The International Partnership for the Satoyama Noto’s Satoyama and Satoumi are rich in traditional crust. The 21st Century Mohole Project is an international Initiative, 2010). These biodiversity-rich landscapes have culture and biodiversity. In June 2011, “Noto’s Satoyama and research project to clarify the structure of the earth from the been formed through longstanding human-nature interaction. Satoumi,” one of the activities of the project, was designated crust to the top of its mantle, and the process of its formation. Changes in our lifestyle and industrial structure, however, as a site of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems Professor Shoji Arai’s science and technology research group have resulted in the depopulation and aging of the rural (GIAHS). The ecosystems of these landscapes are under at Kanazawa University is playing a central role in this project. communities, which in turn led to the deterioration of the threats from a shrinking rural population and an ageing society. 02 Mohole is a combination of the words “Mohorovičić landscape due to underuse. The state of our Satoyama and They started the activities to conserve the rural landscape 01-02 A large outcrop of the Oman ophiolite, discontinuity (Moho)” and “hole.” The aim of the project is to fossilized ocean floor from about 100 million Satoumi is the “inconvenient truth” behind Japan’s rapid and biodiversity and to reactivate the local communities in drill a long hole with a length of 6 to 7 kilometers through the years ago, from the vicinity of the boundary economic growth. It urges us to rethink our development the Noto area. In 2006, funding from the Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Moho, the boundary between the crust and mantle, observe between the earth’s mantle and crust. trajectory and the role of academia in society as well. Environmental Fund enabled the establishment of the “Noto the ocean floor and mantle directly, and collect material. The The Project is a challenge as a regional university in Peninsula Satoyama Satoumi Nature School” in the former earth, which was formed 4.6 billion years ago, is gradually bringing together local, regional and global actors in order Kodomari Elementary School building from Suzu-shi. These cooling, and as a result, the mantle inside the earth is Professor Shoji Arai and his group are researching the ophiolite. to mainstream the Satoyama approach towards sustainable facilities are actively run as forums for exchange between circulating slowly by the convection which this causes. This Ophiolite is a rock suite from the uppermost mantle to the development. It is a meta-project that encompasses the university and the region and for recreating Satoyama movement has a profound relationship with phenomena crust that was originally formed as the ocean floor and is now Kanazawa University’s action plans; to become “a research and Satoumi. “Noto Satoyama Meister Training Program” occurring on the earth’s surface. Ocean floor is formed exposed on land by crustal movement. It is also referred to as university dedicated to education, while opening up its doors began in 2007, in which they train young professionals up to where large amounts of magma are produced at the outlets “fossil ocean floor.” Here it is possible to observe and collect to both local and global society (2010).” 45 years of age with the aim of preparing these individuals Cutting-edge Research of ascending currents of mantle convection. This then cools, ocean-floor crust and mantle material. The Oman ophiolite in to start up environmentally-conscious agriculture, forestry, becomes heavier, and sinks back into the earth, where island the Arabian Peninsula is a representative example, and every The Noto model for revitalization of rural communities fishery and related businesses. They also run the “Noto arcs such as the islands of Japan are formed, and give rise to year, they go there with students and conduct geological In 1999, the “Kakuma Satoyama Nature School” was Peninsula Satoyama Satoumi Activity (2009-)” to enlarge crustal movements such as earthquakes. Understanding the surveys and field exercises. Currently, candidate areas for the launched to make the Satoyama in the Kakuma Campus human exchange between urban and rural areas, and “Noto ocean floor and mantle greatly helps us to understand the Mohole have been narrowed down to 3 places in the Pacific of Kanazawa University available to the public for a lifelong Ikimono Meister Training Program (2010-)” to educate the circulation of material on a global scale. Ocean, and they are making further, closer investigation of learning project of the conservation of Satoyama. This local people to develop skill in teaching the importance of As preparation towards achieving the Mohole project, the drilling sites and developing a proposal. Nature School is still going on supported by local volunteers biodiversity.

10 Doors Kanazawa University 11 3 Colleges, 16 Schools, and 46 Courses 12 Doors achieving theirgoals.We offeryoueveryopportunitytosucceedinyourstudies. toward approach an selecting in freedom of degree high a students allow colleges new the graduation, to admission From 3 Colleges, 16 Schools, and 46 Courses Growing Roster of http://www.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/e/academics/college/cmphs/ Training medicalexpertsinstate-of-the-artmethodsand technologiesandhumanisticcare College ofMedical,Pharmaceuticaland Health Sciences http://www.me.se.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/e/ School ofMechanicalEngineering http://kohka.ch.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/22_chemistry/ School ofChemistry http://wwwhep.s.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/mathphys/e/ School ofMathematicsandPhysics http://econ.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/e/ School ofEconomics http://www.law.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/school-of-law School ofLaw http://jinbun.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/english/ School ofHumanities http://www.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/e/academics/college/chss/ Extensive researchofhumansocietythroughinterdisciplinaryapproaches College ofHumanandSocialSciences http://www.p.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/e/ School ofPharmacy(6-yearcourse) http://www.m.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/igaku/ School ofMedicine(6-yearcourse) http://www.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/e/academics/college/cse/ Fostering creativeandtechnicalcapabilitiesneededtocontributesociety College ofScienceandEngineering http://sis.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/en/ School ofInternationalStudies http://chisou.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/e/ School ofRegionalDevelopmentStudies http://www.ed.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/gr/e/ School ofTeacher Education http://mhs3.mp.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/eng/ School ofHealthSciences http://www.p.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/e/ School ofPharmaceuticalSciences http://natsys.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/e/ School ofNaturalSystem http://www.ce.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/env_home/eng/ School ofEnvironmentalDesign http://www.ec.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/index.en.html School ofElectricalandComputerEngineering Research Center Topics have establishedresearchcenterstoproducemoresignificantoutcomes. The respective research organizations, in which numerous researchers work in cooperation and coordination, Stronghold of Intellect to Connect to the Future 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 http://www.adm.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/fresco/index_e.html Institute ofHumanitiesandSocialSciences Research CenterofItalianMuralPaintings, http://crs.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/en/ Institute ofHumanitiesandSocialSciences Center forCulturalResourceStudies, http://cr.lib.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/center/ Institute ofHumanitiesandSocialSciences Center forRegionalStudies, http://www.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/~ganken/eng/ Cancer ResearchInstitute http://web.hosp.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/eng/ University Hospital http://www.well-pro.jp/ Institute ofMedical, Pharmaceuticaland HealthSciences Wellness PromotionScienceCenter, http://brainliver.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/ Institute ofMedical,Pharmaceutical andHealthSciences Brain/Liver InterfaceMedicine ResearchCenter, http://www.se.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/rset/ Institute ofScienceandEngineering Research CenterforSustainableEnergyandTechnology, Kanazawa University Kanazawa

Intellect Stronghold of of Stronghold Postgraduate studies An advanced cancer research center, for advanced medical care Katsuro Tomita translating basic research Naofumi Mukaida Director Director and regional medical care to clinical practice University Hospital Cancer Research Institute Stronghold of Intellect Stronghold

Researchers from a variety of fields from clinicians to science and technology

02 specialists are pursuing

01-02 The hospital promenade and a research at the Institute panoramic view of Kanazawa University Hospital.

01 01-02 In Division of Genetics, a genetically modified mouse carcinogenesis model was established and has contributed markedly to the research on gastrointestinal carcinogenesis with the use of a 01 pathological and molecular biological approach.

02 he basic policy of Kanazawa University Hospital is the University Hospital has been T “provision of high-quality medical care placing emphasis on humanity,” fostering the medical care practitioners for providing patients with safe, anazawa University Cancer Research Institute was they are studying the interaction between tumor cells and the future of medical care,” “research and development K founded as the only cancer research institute of the the microenvironment, and in Division of Oncology and for the development of clinical medical development” high-level medical and nursing care Ministry of Education in 1967. Since then, in addition to Molecular Biology, they are studying new pathways of and “contribution of regional medical care” based on the contributing significantly to basic research, for example, the carcinogenesis and metastasis. fundamental principle of “striving to foster superior medical discovery of the proteinases involved in cancer metastasis, Division of Molecular Virology and Oncology, Division of care personnel displaying a depth of humanity, and providing the Institute is working to develop anticancer agents. Molecular Bioregulation and others are working on the Cancer high level medical care.” by Japan Council for Quality Health Care in June 2010. This Reflecting the intensification of cancer research, the Microenvironment Research Program, which undertakes In January 2007, the University Hospital received certification is proof that the University Hospital has been Institute reorganized their research system into 4 programs research focused on the environment surrounding cancer designation as an all-prefectures cancer medical-examination providing patients with safe, high-level medical and nursing in 2010, in order to conquer metastasis and drug resistance cells. In addition, the Cancer Molecular Target Exploration cooperation base hospital from the Ministry of Health, care. with an approach focused on cancer stem cells and the tumor Program seeks to clarify the mechanisms of carcinogenesis Labour and Welfare to provide superior cancer treatment in In January 2011, the University Hospital launched a high- microenvironment. In 2011, the Institute was authorized at the molecular level while the Cancer Therapeutics cooperation with regional medical care facilities by carrying level complete medical checkup (Premium Medical Check) by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Development Program aims to develop new anti-cancer out a central cancer medical care role in Ishikawa Prefecture. service in collaboration with Kanazawa Advanced Medical Technology (MEXT) as the Joint Usage/Research Center on treatments from the standpoint of clinical practice. Furthermore from June of 2008, the University Hospital has Center. In addition to detecting illnesses through general Metastasis and Drug Resistance. Researchers from a variety of fields from clinicians to adopted a 7:1 nursing system to further improve the quality checkups, medical specialists provide advice for health Since the 1980s, cancer has become the leading cause science and technology specialists are pursuing research at

of nursing care. In May 2009, the outpatient treatment facility promotion and disease prevention to promote overall health of death for Japanese, and there is a growing call for efforts the Institute. The Institute is equipped with automated cell Stronghold of Intellect opened in which 3 areas, the central treatment facility, the maintenance. to translate the findings of basic research to diagnosis and sorters (automatic cell analysis and fractionation device), outpatient care facility and the hospital wards are connected Furthermore, in the spring of 2013, the CPD (Continuing therapy. In response to these social requirements, the an X-ray CT machine for experimental animals, DNA in a compact and functional floor structure centering on Professional Development) Center is scheduled for Institute is undertaking multifaceted research. For example, sequencers, confocal laser scanning microscopes, as well a hospital promenade which marks an improvement in completion. In cooperation with Ishikawa Prefecture, it aims the Cancer Stem Cell Research Program is energetically as a high throughput screening system for anticancer agent convenience for patients. to train medical professionals, develop specialist ability, pursuing research down new avenues in various fields. In development. The Institute is endeavoring to develop into an The University Hospital was certified as Version 6.0 enhance life-long education and raise the level of medical Division of Molecular Genetics, they are studying cancer international center of excellence for malignant progression according to the hospital functional evaluation conducted care. stem cell maintenance mechanisms, in Division of Genetics, of cancer typified by metastasis and drug resistance.

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