Message from the Dean

The Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine and School of Medicine was established as a temporary hospital and medical school for the Nagoya domain in 1871 and has become a prestigious institution of learning with a history spanning more than 150 years. While inheriting that history since its foundation, the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine and School of Medicine has continued to advance and now seeks to be a leading research university in the world, while pioneering new medicine and healthcare as part of its ideology.
The starting point to improve the strength of research is education. Regarding the faculty and graduate school education, five educational programs by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) are being carried out, namely near-peer teaching in community oriented medical education based on onsite and virtual learning integrated with anthropology (NOVI+A), the project to strengthen sustainable clinical education and research capabilities through continuous training of specialists, the Convolution of Informatics and Biomedical Sciences on Glocal Alliances (CIBoG), Academia-Industry collaboration platform for cultivating Medical AI Leaders (AI-MAILs), and the Tokai Cancer Specialist Training Program (Tokai Cancer Pro). There is probably no other school of medicine in the country that is promoting so many educational programs by the MEXT.
International exchanges that were suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic have resumed. In 2022, the Nagoya University School of Medicine hosted the sixth annual conference of the Global Alliance of Medical Excellence (GAME), a strategic international academic alliance of schools of medicine from eight universities around the world that aims to develop future medical education and joint international research. This school participated as a central member from the beginning. From now on, we would like to promote international exchanges centering on GAME, CIBoG, AI-MAILs, and the Joint Degree Program with the University of Adelaide, Lund University, and the University of Freiburg.
Administrative efficiency and system standardization of the Tokai National Higher Education and Research System (THERS), established in 2020 in cooperation with Gifu University is proceeding well. In 2023, the Human Glycome Atlas Project (HGA) was adopted as the Large-Scale Academic Frontier Promotion Project at the Institute for Glyco-core Research (iGCORE), a world-class hub for biological studies on glycans proudly belonging to both Universities. In addition, the Center for research, education, and development for healthcare life design (C-REX), which aims to create a healthy medical society based on data-driven research, is now a collaborative hub of the THERS. Thus, each of them is steadily achieving results.
To promote the aforementioned education and research projects, collaboration with other universities, research institutes, businesses, and government agencies is essential with mutual cooperation as the driving force for progress. With your help, we will continue to move forward to fulfill the mission entrusted to the school.

April 2025
Dean of School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Medicine
KATSUNO, Masahisa