Biotechnology Course
Tokyo Tech Graduate School: Bioscience and Biotechnology Course
Prof .Toshiaki Kamachi
Director of Bioscience and Biotechnology Course, Tokyo Tech-Tsinghua University Joint Graduate Program
When I visited Beijing for the first time 18 years ago, the air was filled with smoke from the charcoal briquettes used in cooking, and bicycles crowded the streets. The 2008 Beijing Olympics brought modernization of the cityscape, and cars and subways replaced bicycles as the main form of transportation. China continues to change dramatically even now. In the midst of these changes, Chinese universities have also advanced rapidly. According to the QS World University Rankings 2015, Tsinghua University is 25th in the world.
Biotechnology is one of the priority fields in China's high-technology development plans. Given China's enormous population, advances in the areas of Medicine and Pharmaceuticals, Food and Agriculture, and Environment and Energy are indispensable both for raising citizens' living standards and for furthering economic development. Tsinghua University faculty involved in the Bioscience and Biotechnology Course are leading research in these three main areas.
Cooperation between the two universities has great significance. Now having mastered Chinese, made friends in China, and gained specialized expertise at Tsinghua, graduates of the program are playing active roles in various fields.
Life Science and Technology Life Science and Technology
Human Centered Science and Biomedical Engineering
Tsinghua University: Bioscience and Biotechnology Course
Associate Prof.ZHANG Chong
Director of Bioscience and Biotechnology Course,Tokyo Tech-Tsinghua University Joint Graduate Program
Entering the 21st century, life science has become the most vibrant frontier subject in the field of natural science, as it plays crucial roles in the development of human society. The solution of many challenges facing our society, such as population expansion, aging society, disease hazards, food safety, energy crisis, ecological environment deterioration, biodiversity, etc., all rely on the break through of life science. It is a frontier field full of opportunities and challenges, and it is the duty of our two institutions to cultivate creative talent with global competence to lead the global collaboration in the field. Through our dual-Master degree program, we will create all opportunities for students to take excellent courses from our two universities, encourage academic exchange, explore frontier research topics, and comprehensively improve students' quality, international vision, scientific spirit and innovative ability.