Osaka University Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences: Cutting-edge science and a multidisciplinary education

✍ Scribed by Hisato Kondoh; Toshio Yanagida

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 241 KB
• Volume: 89
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0006-3525
• DOI: 10.1002/bip.20928

✦ Synopsis

he life sciences have entered a new era. Recent advances have offered exhaustive information on biomolecules and extensive characterization of subcellular organelles and cellular organs, the platforms for these biomolecules to play on. This progress, accomplished in recent decades, is just a prelude to a modern life science field that seeks to clarify how these elementary biomolecules and biosystems interact dynamically to organize themselves into functional biomechanisms, and how they generate remarkable functions unique to living organisms.

To achieve this, modern life sciences must be liberated from the classical framework of narrow scientific specialties. They need interdisciplinary approaches based on the integration of broad specialties, including basic sciences, medicine, and engineering. Adopting computational sciences and live measurement technologies, for instance, greatly strengthens their investigative powers. To implement this idea, and to advance the frontiers of modern life sciences, the Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences was launched in Osaka University in 2002. The conceptual framework of this School is illustrated in Figure 1.