Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Sciences (Doctoral course)
The Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Sciences was launched with the establishment of the Graduate School of Integrated Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Sciences. The main objective of the program is to further build on the research into the “fusion of food and drugs” which we developed in our Global COE Program. In this program, the pharmaceutical sciences, which aim to elucidate the causes of various diseases and to discover and develop safe remedies for them, is fused with the food and nutritional sciences, which aim to develop and evaluate the safety of high efficacy functional foods, and to help prevent illness by elucidating the pharmacokinetics of food constituents in the body.
Students who have completed a Master’s degree in either Pharmaceutical Sciences or Food and Nutritional Sciences are trained to have comprehensive knowledge of the other field. They are trained as scientists and other specialists to undertake cutting-edge research in the life sciences spanning the boundary between drugs and diet. Graduates of the program will have the problem-solving abilities required to tackle issues related to the interactive and synergetic effects of pharmaceuticals and food. They are expected to play significant roles as scientists and other researchers in a wide range of fields related to the research and development of products fusing drugs and food, as administrators in positions requiring high levels of expertise, or as academic staff involved in research and education in fields related to pharmaceutical sciences, food sciences, and/or nutritional sciences.