Research Institute for Science and Technology
This Institute hosts various different types research groups on many disciplines. Each group make efforts to achieve its target, but at the same time collaborations among them are encouraged to explore new possibility, which can be realized "only in TUS".
Message from the Institute Director
The Research Institute for Science and Technology (RIST) was established in November 2005 to coordinate collaborative research activities in the whole university. It consists of Research Centers, Research Divisions, Social Relation Liaison Projects, Technical Division and Center for National Joint Usage / Joint Research.
Centers, Divisions and Liaison Projects are limited-term research groups on specific scientific targets with members selected throughout whole university, and sometimes even from outside. The Centers are funded jointly by Ministry of Education and the university, while Divisions are financially supported solely by the university and expected to be cores of new Centers. Social Relation Liaison Projects are collaborative activities based on agreement between the university and industries. Technical Division houses and controls experimental equipment open to university members. Research Center for Fire Safety Science is one of the nationally selected organizations for joint usage/joint research open to outside university and is now extending its activities internationally, especially in Asia.
All the members of RIST, which have different organization structure, explore their activities for their own but at the same time collaborations between members are strongly encouraged to open new horizon in science and technology. To substantiate this, they are grouped into 4 categories, Materials (M), Pharmacy and Bio (P), Information and Societal (I), and Fundamentals (F). RIST as a whole has an annual meeting, RIST-Forum, while groups in each category have meetings frequently.
I hope and believe that new directions in science, which are achievable "only in TUS" will be created based on the very unique research organization, RIST.
Hidetoshi Fukuyama
Director General, Research Institute for Science and Technology
Organization of the Research Institute for Science and Technology
Research Centers
- Center for Fire Science and Technology
- IR FEL Research Center
- Chiral Materials Research Center
- Center for Colloid and Interface Science
- Center for Technologies against Cancer
- Green and Safety Research Center
- Center for Physical Pharmaceutics
- Research Center for RNA Science
- Center for Environmental Health Science for the Next Generation
- Leading-Edge Holography Technologies Research and Development Center
Research Divisions
- Manufacturing and Advanced Measurement Science Research Division
- Division of Chemical Biology
- Global Science and Technology Center for Crisis and Risk Management
- Translational Research Division
- Advanced Device Laboratories
- Photovoltaic Science and Technology Research Division
- Division of Ecosystem Research
- Division of Energy and Environment Photocatalyst
- Division of Next Generation Data Mining Technology
- Mountain Atmosphere Research Division
- Division of Intelligent System Engineering
- Quantum Bio-Informatics Research Division
- Division of Pharmaco-creation Frontier
- Division of Integrated Science of Oshamambe town
- Imaging Frontier Research Division
Social Relation Liaison Projects
- Research and Development Projects of Smart Devices Using Interface Nanotechnology
- Research Project for Glycoprotein Engineering funded by Otsuka Chemical Co., Ltd.
- Research Development of a Radiosensitizer SQAG for Treatment of Malignant Tumors
- Organ Regeneration Research Project
- Development of Drug Delivery System for Non-invasive Treatment of Breast Cancer
Technical Division
- Research Equipment Center
Center for National Joint Usage/Joint Research
- Research Center for Fire Safety Science