Greeting | from the President
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- Dr. Michinari HAMAGUCHI
- President
Nagoya University
As the President of Nagoya University, I offer you my most sincere greetings. I feel the magnitude of responsibility of this office, which I assumed on April 1, 2009, a year that marks a major milestone for Nagoya University: the 70th anniversary of its founding.
Nagoya University takes pride in its free and vibrant academic culture and cites in its Academic Charter one of its principal objectives as being the cultivation of courageous intellectuals capable of opening up a new era. To nurture young researchers as well as those in mid-career in a wide range of fields, while maintaining the University's traditional excellence in research - attested to by its three Nobel laureates in 2008 - and ensuring balanced research activities in the future, the University must develop and support not only the most advanced fields of science and technology but also fields concerned with the transmission of humanity's cultural assets. The University must also ensure that its research results meet society's needs and that its environment is capable of supporting research at the highest world level.
Human resource development is one of the most important duties that a university must fulfill as a center of intellectual pursuit. I believe that university education should aim at cultivating people who are morally and socially independent, as well as international and interdisciplinary in their perspective. Toward this aim, I would like to see Nagoya University further globalize its education and promote postgraduate education involving more active interdisciplinary collaboration. I am convinced that by realizing these objectives Nagoya University will be able to offer truly outstanding education.
Nagoya University, as one of Japan's pivotal comprehensive research universities, plays a great role in shaping and influencing the future of today's youth in Japan and overseas, in these times of growing diversification of values, confusion and uncertainty. I am determined to do my best to further Nagoya University's continued growth and progress as an academic establishment that cultivates courageous intellectuals who can lead us into a new era and that produces the world's foremost educational and research results. Your support and cooperation in this endeavor would be most sincerely appreciated.
- Dr. Michinari HAMAGUCHI
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Educational Background and Professional Experience
- 1980 M.D., Ph.D., Nagoya University Research Associate, Cancer Research Facility, School of Medicine, Nagoya University
- 1993 Professor, Pathological Control Research Facility, School of Medicine, Nagoya University
- 2002 Director, Pathological Control Research Facility, School of Medicine, Nagoya University
- 2003 Professor, Center for Neural Disease and Cancer, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University
- 2004 Director, Center for Medical Education Research and Support, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University
- 2005 Dean, Graduate School of Medicine and School of Medicine, Nagoya University
- 2009 President, Nagoya University
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Area of Expertise
Cancer biology, cancer biochemistry, cellular biology -
Area of Research
Molecular mechanism in cancer invasion and metastasis -
Hobbies
Music appreciation, drawing, gardening