Medical Science Course｜KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL

Objective

Modern medicine has advanced by fusing results of development of natural science, including, physics, chemistry and engineering. Additionally, modern medicine has much speedily developed based on outcomes of life science such as genome science, molecular science and developmental science (occurrence, differentiation and regeneration). It also contributes to found recent advanced medicine, for instance, gene therapy, regenerative medicine and reproductive medicine. Apart from development of modern medicine, the social environment surrounding medical science and medicine has drastically transformed; harmonizing between brain death, organ transplant, in-vitro fertilization, gene therapy and bioethics led by rapidly-developing-medicine, change in disease structure caused by super aging society and rise in importance of patients’ QOL “Quality of Life”. Development and fulfilment of Medical Science targeting to form harmony of natural science, human-driven-humanities and medicine is hoped. With this situation, it will be possible to train specialists capable of comprehensively addressing social issues such as medicine and welfare getting complicated in future. Thus, it is required to establish education and research system leading graduates from non-medical undergraduate schools which are not only natural science (science, agriculture, pharmacy and engineering) but also humanity (psychology, sociology, economy and education).

In Medical Science Course, the educational objective is to train graduates from non-medical undergraduate schools to become researchers or educators much sophisticated in medical science by systematic and intensive education regarding wide range of knowledge about medical science. Additionally, the course aims to train capability of comprehensively addressing social issues on the basis of medical scientific knowledge.

Admission Policy

We hope to enroll those who are willing to contribute in playing role of educator or trainer at medical-related research institute, private company or hospital by utilizing professional knowledge and experience in medical science.

Supervisors for Research and Main Theme of Research

Supervisors for Research	Department	Main Theme of Research	Humanities	Sciences
YAMAGUCHI Masahiro	Department of Physiology (Integrative Physiology)	Analysis of neural mechanisms of olfactory behaviors using mice, Analysis of neural mechanisms of urination using mice and rats	○	○
SEKI Yasutaka	Molecular Biophysics	Estimation of hydrogen bond formation free energy in Coil Library. Accelerating the calculation of NMR chemical shift prediction for peptides. Analysis of molecular recognition mechanism of intrinsically disordered proteins.	○	○
SUGANUMA Narufumi	Human Health and Medical Sciences, Preventive and Community Medicine Section	Mechanism of occupational respiratory illness	○	○
Seiji Kishi	Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nephrology	Elucidating the "Why" of Kidney Disease Through Real-World Data Analysis.	−	○
Mariko Taniguchi-Ikeda	Departent of Pediatrics	Development of newborn screening methods	−	○
Yujiro Miura	Division of Cardiovascular Surgery	1．Development of AI-Assisted Navigation and Learning Curve Analysis in Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery (MICS) 2．Optimization and Health Economic Evaluation of Hybrid Strategies Combining Surgical and Catheter-Based Treatments in the Modern Era 3．AI-Based Automated Assessment of Aortic Valve and Annular Geometry for Surgical Planning and Procedure Selection 4．Identification of Biomarkers and Construction of AI-Driven Prognostic Models in Aortic Aneurysm and Peripheral Arterial Diseases	○	○
TAMURA Masaya	General Thoracic Surgery	Development of next-generation image guide thoracic surgery that makes full use of near-infrared fluorescence, cone beam CT, and robot support Development of tailor-made cancer treatment by 3D culture technology	−	○
IKEUCHI Masahiko	Department of Orthopaedic Surgery	Pain mechanism in osteoarthritis	−	○
INOUE Keiji	Department of Urology	・Genetic and molecular analysis of urological tumors for understanding disease mechanisms and developing new therapies. ・Development of novel diagnostic and therapeutic methods using photodynamic technology (PDD / PDT).	○	○
TESHIMA Masanori	Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery	・Development of a molecular biological diagnosis for thyroid tumor ・ntraoperative quantitative assessment of parathyroid blood flow during total thyroidectomy using indocyanine green fluorescence imaging ・Development of diagnostic biomarkers for head and neck cancer in blood microRNA analysis	○	○
MIYAUCHI Masato	Disaster and Emergency Medicine	１.Establishment of treatment using upper gastrointesti nal endoscopy for acute poisoning ２.A simulation of disaster medical response in the acute phase of a Nankai Trough earthquake ３.Educati on of Rapid Response System using VR	−	○