Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences
Graduate School Program for Ph.D. in Medical Science


Nagoya City University underwent major transformation in 2002, by shifting its primary educational target from undergraduate to graduate students. Undert this new powerful system, we invite motivated and challenging. The Graduate School of Medical Sciences offers a four-year graduate program with combination of course works and research projects, designed for a Ph. D. degree in Medical Science. The program has a history since 1961 and currently more than 140 professors are engaged and some 180 graduate students are studying. It covers research fields of medical science widely, intensively and borderlessly, in order for every student to receive high-leveled comprehensive education of medical research frontier and to choose the keenest and the most interesting and suitable research topic for his/her Ph. D. project. We welcome intelligent, motivated, diligent and challenging students for the future of medical science.

Application and Selection.


Application for the program starting every April, must be submitted to The Office of Student Affairs, Nagoya City University, Kawasumi 1, Mizuho-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya 467-8601, Japan as indicated below. Application forms are available at the office upon request by mail. Questions can be answered by The General Office, Nagoya City University Medical School, Kawasumi 1, Mizuho-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya 467-8601, Japan, telephone +81-52-853-8078, FAX, +81-52-842-0863.

Student Eligibility


The Program is designed for those who have M.D., D.D.S., D.V.M., who have a master degree or equivalent in any field in the Japanese Education system, or who have an equivalent education background in any foreign education system. Foreign candidates are normally required to have received 18-year-or-longer education when they have M.D., D.D.S., D.V.M. or a master-or-equivalent degree, or otherwise 16-year-or-longer education plus 2-year-or-longer career of research engagement. Those who have other equivalent-or-higher educational backgrounds may also be eligible. Eligibility is a subject of evaluation and must be approved by our Eligibility Evaluation Committee before the examination. The applicants are advised to contact a potential mentor(s) beforehand, to discuss possibility of accommodation in laboratories and requisition of Japanese medical license for practice in some specific research projects.

Facilities


Main Building is Medical Science Building, a five year-old building of 2000 square meters times 11 floors, that accommodates most of the laboratories. It also has the Central Core Equipment Facility that includes electron-microscopes, peptide synthesizers, peptide and nucleotide sequencers, nucleotide microarrays, and many other major common equipment. Institute of Molecular Medicine currently composed of three laboratories has its own building and is a driving force of our research activity. The animal experiment laboratory and radioisotope laboratory are in independent buildings that provide excellent service for all research projects. The new hospital building is to be completed by 2003 to provide 3500 square meters times 17 floors, where many clinical research projects are expected to be established.

Research Fields


The program comprises four major courses, 1) Structure and Function Biomedical Sciences, 2) Biosignaling and Regulation in Medical Sciences, 3) Biodefense system and Comprehensive Medical Sciences, and 4) Community Medical and Environmental Health Sciences.

  1. Structure and Function Biomedical Sciences covers the Laboratories of Anatomy, Pathology, Surgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology and Dermatology.


  2. Biosignaling and Regulation in Medical Sciences includes the Laboratories of Physiology, Pharmacology, Surgery, Orthopedics, Psychiatry, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Pediatrics.


  3. Biodefense system and Comprehensive Medical Sciences is composed of the Laboratories of Biochemistry, Molecular biology, Neurobiology, Immunology, Microbiology, Virology, Parasitology, Anesthesiology, Radiology, Internal Medicine and Laboratory Medicine.


  4. Community Medical and Environmental Health Sciences covers the Laboratories of Hygiene, Public Health, Forensic Medicine and Medical Information Management.