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.
Examination includes written examination for biology and language (Japanese
or English), and interview.
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.
- Structure and Function Biomedical Sciences covers the Laboratories of
Anatomy, Pathology, Surgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology and
Dermatology.
- Functional Morphology (Anatomy): Structure-function relationship in
hypothalamus, Ultramicrostructure of endocrine cells, Ultrastructural study
on development of liver (Dr. T. Soji).
- Molecular Morphology (Anatomy): Transporters in the nerve system, specific
gene expression in sensory organs, histochemistry of cells and extracellular
matrix (Dr. M. Shimada).
- Experimental Pathology and Tumor Biology: Molecular basis for oncogenesis bychemical and environmental factors, animal models for oncogenesis (Dr. T.Shirai).
- Clinical Pathology: Human pathology, diagnostic pathology,
immunohistochemical analysis of pathogenesis (Dr. T. Eimoto).
- Gastroenterological and Cardiovascular Surgery: Molecular mechanism for infiltration and metastasis of GI-related cancers, gene therapy and drug
delivery system for cancer treatment, surgical strategy for cardiovascular
disease (Dr. T. Manabe).
- Oncology, Immunology and Surgery: Thymus, thymoma and autoimmune disease, pulmonary surgery, malignancies in pediatric surgery, molecular mechanism for natural cure of cancers (Dr. Y. Fujii).
- Nephro-urology: molecular basis for urolithiasis, pathophysiology of
prostate cancer and its thermotherapy and immunotherapy, male infertility
(Dr. K. Kohri).
- Oncology and Endocrinology (Surgery): Pathophysiology of breast cancer and thyroid cancer, surgical strategy of endocrine disease (Dr. H. Iwase).
- Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences: Diabetic retinopathy, macular
degeneration, retinal microcirculation, micro drug delivery and microsurgery
(Y. Ogura).
- Neuro-otolaryngology: Pathogenesis and therapeutic strategy of Bell palsy,
Sensory nerve disease, Otitis media, Allergic laryngitis (Dr. S. Murakami).
- Geriatric and Environmental Dermatology: Aging of connective tissues,
oncological dermatology, UV therapy, proteoglycans and related proteins.(Dr. A. Morita).
- Biosignaling and Regulation in Medical Sciences includes the Laboratories
of Physiology, Pharmacology, Surgery, Orthopedics, Psychiatry, Neurosurgery,
Obstetrics and Gynecology and Pediatrics.
- Regulatory Cell Physiology: Electrophysiology of smooth muscle cells,
calcium channel in organelles, oxygen radical and skeletal muscle function
(Drs. H. Suzuki and T. Ohba).
- Neuro-physiology and Brain Science: Parkinson's disease, Huntington's
disease, neuron transplantation, development of neuron (Dr. H. Nishino).
- Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology: Vascular smooth muscle cells; molecular
pharmacology, pathophysiology, calcium and oxygen radical (Dr. T. Itoh).
- Muscularskeletal Medicine: Molecular basis for rheumatoid arthritis, micro
joint surgery, artificial joint, oncology of bone and cartilage,
degenerative arthritis (Dr. T. Ohtsuka).
- Psychiatry and Cognitive-Behavioral Science: Psycopathology of emotional disturbance,
evidence-based psychiatry, cognitive-behavioral therapy, pediatric or geriatric psychiatry, epilepsy (Dr. T. Furukawa).
- Neurosurgery and Restorative Neuroscience: Ischemic neusovascular disease, molecular
basis for recovery of brain injury, subarachnoidal hemorrhage,
pathogenesis of hydrocephalus, therapeutic transplantation of brain stem
cell (Dr. K. Yamada).
- Organ Restoration and Transplantation (Surgery): Animal models for
telatogenesis and fetal surgery, pediatric malignancy and gene therapy,
organ transplantation and complications.
- Human Reproduction and Embryology (Obstetrics and Gynecology): Prenatal diagnosis,
toxic pregnancy, perinatal medicine, reproductive immunology, microsurgery.
- Pediatrics, Neonatology and Congenital Disorders: Diagnostic and therapeutic
strategies for congenital disorders, SIDS, neonatal central nerve disorders,
developmental evaluation of children (Dr. H. Togari).
- 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.
- Biochemistry, Cell Biology and Metabolism: Sterol homeostasis,
atherosclerosis, hypercholesterolemia, cholesterol in brain, astrocytes, Alzheimer's disease (Dr. S. Yokoyama), cell cycle and its regulation, molecular basis for cell proliferation and aging, apoptosis and oncogenesis, cellular response to stress (Dr. M. Nakanishi).
- Molecular Neurology (Institute of Molecular Medicine): Astrocytes; interaction with neuron and functional molecules and their expression (Dr. K. Asai).
- Molecular and Cellular Biology (Institute of Molecular Medicine): Molecular biology of eukaryote; NF-kappa B, cell cycle check points, oncogenesis,
AIDS, autoimmune disease (Dr. T. Okamoto).
- Infection Control and Prevention (Microbiology): Entero-vaccination by recombinant cholera toxin, molecular basis for sporulation.
- Molecular Parasitology: Immunoresponse in parasite infection, vaccination
against parasite infection (Dr. N. Ohta).
- Microbiology and Infection (Virology): Molecular epidemiology of viral
infection, Molecular basis for viral infection and pathogenesis, function
of viral protein (Dr. K. Nakajima).
- Molecular Biology (Institute of Molecular Medicine): Initial biodefense
system, molecular mechanism of complement system, immunotherapy for
infectious and malignant disease (Dr.K. Okajima, Dr. N. Okada).
- Internal Medicine and Bioregulation: Gastrointestinal oncology, other GI
diseases, pulmonary medicine, ischemic heart disease, diabetes and insulin
resistance.
- Internal Medicine and Molecular Science: Clinical oncology: molecular
mechanism of proliferation, gene diagnosis, chemotherapy, clinical
neurology and dementia, gene polymorphism for GI disease, immuno pulmonary
medicine (Dr. R. Ueda).
- Internal Medicine and Pathophysiology: Pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease, life-style intervention, nephrology and hypertension,
Hyperlipoproteinemia (Drs. G. Kimura and N. Sakuma).
- Anesthesiology and Medical Crisis Management: Clinical pain science,
respiratory insufficiency, pathophysiology in shock, assisted respiration,
oxygen in critical condition, obstructive pulmonary disease (Drs. H. Katsuya
and K. Tsuda).
- Quantum Radiology: Pathological basis for radiological and ultrasonic
visualization and diagnosis: joint disease, body surface organs, clinical
nuclear medicine (Dr. Y. Shibamoto).
- Clinical Laboratory Medicine: Computerized analysis of clinical data,
quality control of clinical laboratory data, risk management in clinical
laboratory and transfusion (Dr. Y. Mizogami).
- Community Medical and Environmental Health Sciences covers the
Laboratories of Hygiene, Public Health, Forensic Medicine and Medical
Information Management.
- Health Sciences of Life, Work and Environment: Safety management of work environment, work-related disease, international collaboration for
environmental health, smoking and health, general environmental health (Dr.
T. Itani).
- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: Intervention of life-style against cancer and other life-style-related diseases, health promotion (Dr. S. Tokudome).
- Forensic Medical Science: Mechanism for drug intoxication, neurotoxins,
organic phosphorus, etc., DNA polymorphism (Dr. T. Nagao).
- Medical Informatics and Integrative Medicine: Paradigm for information
technology in medical science and practice, information networks for
hospitals and communities (Dr. M. Miyaji).
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