Preface

Message from the founding Professor Taiji Kato*
(* Deceased on September 4, 2000)

The Institute of Molecular Medicine was initially founded in 1986 with an affiliation with the Nagoya City University Medical School and the Graduate School. The Institute is composed, at present, of three departments, Molecular Biology, Molecular Neurobiology and Molecular Genetics. A full-scale renovation of the Institute building have been completed on 1994, and the Main Radioisotope Research Center of the Medical School is also accommodated in the 1st and 2nd floors of the new building of the Institute. Each floor, where an individual RI facility is provided from 3rd to 7th floor, is opened for each department's research activity.

The Department of Bioregulation Research has been founded as the second department of the institute in 1989, where two faculty positions, Professor and Assistant Professor, are appointed. The department takes part in the undergraduate program of the Medical School giving lectures on Neurosciences and the graduate program of Graduate School on Molecular Neurobiology as well as providing a variety of research projects on molecular neurosciences. There are now six graduate students performing their individual research projects, and over 20 collaborative physician/scientists carrying out their own research projects. All members in the department are welcome to conduct any kind of research other than neuroscience so far as they would exert an effort to make creative sciences as a scientist of virtue.

Taiji Kato, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Department of Bioregulation Research