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Affiliated Institutes
The University of Tokyo is home to many affiliated institutes that engage in diverse research efforts, such as development
of frontier medicine, mitigation of earthquake hazards, and exploration of sociocultural phenomena.
Each institute serves as a major hub for research in its field, and strives to broadly contribute to the advancement of
society through its research achievements. Also, as members of the University of Tokyo’s postgraduate education
community, the institutes contribute to training the next generation of researchers.
Institute of Medical Science
http://www.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp/imsut/en/
The Institute of Medical Science (IMSUT)
advances cutting-edge medical science
research targeting infectious diseases,
cancer and other intractable diseases.
Emphasizing interdisciplinary research,
IMSUT brings together researchers
and graduate students with diverse
backgrounds in fields from medicine to
engineering. Uniquely among Japanese
university-affiliated research institutes,
IMSUT houses its own hospital.
Covering a wealth of disciplines from
the basic to the clinical, IMSUT is the
largest life science institute in Japan. In
its basic research departments, scientists
pursue research based on individual ingenuity
and initiative, while the core research
centers pursue more orchestrated projects
such as medical genomics, stem cell
research and regenerative medicine and
the creation of animal models to investigate
human diseases. Finally, the affiliated
IMSUT Hospital targets the implementation
of advanced medical treatments
based on the findings of the departments
and research centers.
Departments
Microbiology and Immunology,
Cancer Biology, Basic Medical Sciences
Research Facilities
Human Genome Center, Center for Experimental
Medicine and Systems Biology, The
Advanced Clinical Research Center, Center
for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine,
International Research Center for Infectious
Diseases, Research Hospital, Laboratory
Animal Research Center, Amami Laboratory
of Injurious Animals, Laboratory of Molecular
Genetics, Medical Proteomics Laboratory
Earthquake Research Institute
http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/
Our target is the entire earth. Over 80
professors from the fields of seismology,
volcanology, geophysics, geochemistry, geology,
geodesy, applied mathematics, information
science, civil engineering, engineering
seismology, and a wide range of other fields
have gathered, to lead cutting-edge research
in earthquakes, volcanoes, and disaster
preventions, as well as the earth’s interior,
through field observations, lab experiments,
theoretics, analyses, and simulations.
We work together with the following
departments/school: Department of Earth
and Planetary Science, Department of
Departments
Department of Earth and Planetary Science,
Department of Civil Engineering, Department
of Architecture, Graduate School of Interfaculty
Initiative Information Studies, Department
Civil Engineering, Department of Architecture,
Graduate School of Interfaculty Initiative
Information Studies, and Department
of Complexity Science and Engineering, in
providing students with a unique graduate
school education.
ERI invites excellent researchers and
educators from around the world for collaborative
international research. ERI is
also proactively involved in technological
development to open new windows in
the field of earth science, and has been
producing leading-edge observation
equipment and research results.
of Complexity Science and Engineering
Affiliated Research Facilities
(Foundational Research Centers)
Earthquake Prediction Research Center,
Volcano Research Center,
Ocean Hemisphere Research Center,
Center for High Energy Geophysics Research,
Research Center for Large-scale Earthquake,
Tsunami and Disaster, Coordination Center
for Prediction Research of Earthquakes and
Volcanic Eruptions, Center for Geophysical
Observation and Instrumentation, Earthquake
and Volcano Information Center
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