AKAIKE Masashi, M.D.,Ph.D.
Dean, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
 

 There are three Faculties and five Graduate Schools in the fields of medicine, oral sciences, pharmaceutical sciences, nutrition, and health sciences, and the Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences and Tokushima University Hospital on Tokushima University Kuramoto Campus where the unparalleled education and research center of life science and medicine has been created. In 2004 when the national universities were incorporated, the organization to which faculty members belonged was separated from the educational organization in Tokushima University, and the Institute of Health Bioscience（HBS）was established. From April 1, 2015, the name of the HBS was changed to the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences（BMS）. As a result, all faculty members who previously belonged to the Faculties of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences have been affiliated with the BMS since then. From April, 2017, as part of the governance reforms, the BMS has developed into an organization in charge of human resources and finance on Kuramoto Campus.
 Three Faculties of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and five Graduate Schools of Medicine, Oral Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Medical Nutrition and Health Sciences provide highly specialized education for students. In addition, through the practice of education that transcends multiple educational organizations by faculty members belonging to the BMS, each quality of educational level is improved and attractive interprofessional education and cross-disciplinary graduate school education have been realized. The BMS are also promoting interdisciplinary research and basic/clinical translational research that transcends academic boundaries through collaborative research with internal organizations and educational institutions in Japan and overseas.
 The goals of the BMS is to improve the undergraduate and graduate education and to promote interdisciplinary research on Kuramoto Campus by breaking down the silos between all Faculties and Graduate Schools and effectively assigning faculty members, and at the same time to form the foundation which conducts interdisciplinary research and to support it.
 All faculty members of the BMS make a concerted effort to accomplish the goals for years to come taking advantage of their expertise and specialty in each fields.