For LIMS program


Q1-1. What is the “Program for Leading Graduate Schools”? 

Q1-2. What is a “unit” of the LIMS program?

Q1-3. What types of companies or organizations are cooperating with LIMS?

Q1-4. What does the design of the logo mean?


Q1-1. What is the “Program for Leading Graduate Schools”?

A1-1. The “Program for Leading Graduate Schools” aims at mentoring talented students into future leaders armed with a broad view and creative thinking, who will be active globally in industry, government and academia. In order to do so, the program mobilizes high-level mentors and students, and entices participation of industry, government and academia. It furthermore supports a radical reform of graduate education by rebuilding a high-quality interdisciplinary Doctoral degree program with a combined Master and Doctoral course and by covering a wide variety of specialties. In this way, the program will promote the development of graduate schools befitting their status as an institution of highest educational level.
(Introduction of the “Program for Leading Graduate Schools” can be found on JSPS HP: http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-hakasekatei/index.html)

Currently, at Kyoto University, five programs of “Program for Leading Graduate Schools” have been selected and are running including the “Training Program of Leaders for Integrated Medical System for Fruitful Healthy-Longevity Society (LIMS program)”.

Students, program-specific staffs, and administrative assistants of the running programs of different universities get together annually. In 2013, “Leading Forum 2013” was held at Osaka.

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Q1-2. What is a “unit” of the LIMS program?

A1-2. At the Center for the Promotion of Interdisciplinary Education and Research (C-PiER) of Kyoto University, each leading program is performed by a “unit”. The LIMS program is carried out by the unit “Training Program of Leaders for Integrated Medical System for Fruitful Healthy-Longevity Society”.
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Q1-3. What types of companies or organizations are cooperating with LIMS?

A1-3. The LIMS program is collaborating with manufacturers of medical equipments, assistive healthcare products, automotive products, communication equipments, and housing. Collaborations with local communities include Kyoto city, Kyoto prefecture, and Keihanna science city. Intramurally, in addition to the main implementation programs, which are the Graduate School of Medicine, Engineering, and Pharmacology, we cooperate with the Institutes of Economics, Mathematical Sciences, the Advanced Biomedical Engineering Research Unit, and International Research Unit.
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Q1-4. What does the design of the logo mean?

A1-4. The letters in dark blue (the school color of Kyoto University), “LIMS” (Leaders for Integrated Medical System) are an abbreviation of “Training program of Leaders for Integrated Medical System for Fruitful Healthy-Longevity Society”. One of the main themes of the program, “swift association from seeds to fruition” can be seen in the image of a balsam fruit with its seeds bursting in all directions. The spiral at the center is an axis, a biological micro-device that bursts the seeds showing the leading concept of “evolution of research and development through spiral integration of seeds and needs (social demands)”. 

LIMSロゴデザイン

Logo image of LIMS

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