Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) -1
The OIST Master Plan concept aims to develop a highly original, international-oriented and ‘best-in-the-world’ graduate university.
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology -2
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Promotion Corporation was established on September 1,2005,in order to prepare for the new graduate university.
１．Best in the world
①President
・Dr. Sydney Brenner, Nobel Laureate
(Physiology or Medicine,2002)
②Members of the Board of Governors
・Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa(Board Chair) – President, Science Council of Japan
２．Academic and Research Fields
The selected fields of research cover a number of core disciplines such as, bioscience, chemistry, computer and information science, engineering, mathematics and physics. Additional multidisciplinary studies which integrate the core disciplines, such as biosystems, will be developed.
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology -3
■ Initial Research Project
・Neural Computation Unit(Doya Unit)
Principal Investigator: Dr.Kenji Doya
Research Theme: A Computational Approach to Molecular Mechanism of the Mind
・Unit for Molecular Neurobiology of Learning and Memory(Endo Unit)
Principal Investigator: Dr.Shogo Endo
Research Theme: Genetic and Molecular Dissection of Learning and Memory
・G0 Cell Unit(Yanagida Unit)
Principal Investigator: Dr.Mitsuhiro Yanagida
Research Theme: Cellular Strategy for Starved G0 Arrest and Vegetative Proliferation
・Electron Microscopy Unit(Tonomura Unit)
Principal Investigator: Dr.Akira Tonomura
Research Theme: Holography Electoron Microscopy Dedicated to Nanotechnologies