School of Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

Our department, which cooperates with the graduate school in order to train researchers, places a particular emphasis on giving students a high degree of freedom in the curriculum. By making only the most basic courses in the fields of pharmacy and natural sciences into required courses, we provide students with the freedom to choose the majority of their courses, allowing them to go in their own individual direction depending on their interests and create curriculums of various different structures within the same system.

For second year courses and higher, there is often more than one target grade level, so students are free to complete courses outside of their own grade level if it is a subject which interests them. For example, the exercise courses offered by each laboratory are targeted at second through fourth years, allow students to experience the latest trends in each field, and are particularly popular.

Students are assigned to a laboratory for their graduation research in their third year, which also allows them an earlier opportunity to become involved in research than the old curriculum. This system allows students to experience research and complete courses in subjects which interest them, enabling a deep and engaging learning experience. Almost all of our students intend to continue on to graduate school, and to go even further and join experimental laboratories as researchers.

In order to cultivate talented pharmacologists with drug discovery and development experience based on the philosophy and goals of the School of Pharmacy, in addition to what is listed in the School of Pharmacy policy, the School of Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences are looking for the following types of candidates:

  1. Persons who are interested in research and development and who after graduating will have a willingness to contribute to society through drug discovery and development and life sciences.
  2. Persons who can nurture mental and physical strength to overcome ethics problems and other difficulties as researchers and developers.

Curriculum policy

System: We are organizing our curricula based on the relevant academic system for each field.

Graduated system: The system is organized so that students learn basic science subjects early on, then gradually transition to subjects related to applied pharmacology. Finally, through special practice in the laboratory, they are able to work producing cutting-edge research results.

Individualization (based on career path): Students are assigned to laboratories from the second half of the 3rd year in order to undertake high-level research activities, and are able to understand drug discovery science based on the role of the pharmacist in the medical field and how medicines are used.