Department of Education for Medical Research Base

Our department aims to improve the level of graduate students by planning, implementing, and evaluating the initial education of Graduate School. To that end, we plan, implement, and evaluate the curriculum for general education subjects such as medical research, especially basic medical research, translational research, an introduction to medical research that forms the basis of industry-academia collaborative research, biohazards, basic laboratory techniques, and information processing technology, as well as laboratory exercises.

As a graduate school course, we have taken over the theme from Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences and are conducting research and development of new treatments for various diseases, mainly malignant tumors. In cooperation with the Joint Research Facility, we are applying virus-infected carrier cells as a new drug delivery system, mainly for cell and gene therapy, and developing new gene therapy methods for malignant tumors using carrier cells, tumor-specific cell lytic viruses, fiber-modified adenovirus vectors, and lentiviruses. We are also conducting clinical research and development of a groundbreaking inhalation-type gene therapy for clinical research on malignant tumors, and expanding into gene therapy of intestinal bacterial flora as an extension of various cancer stem cell research, and are conducting research and development of innovative treatments and prevention methods for digestive cancers.

Since last year, we have also begun research to clarify the therapeutic evidence for various treatments aimed at establishing multidisciplinary treatments for cancer and intractable diseases, and are currently conducting this research using herbal medicine.