Center Overview

　The University of Tsukuba's “Designated National University Corporation” concept envisions a “true university” that “creates new academic fields based on interdisciplinary collaboration” and contributes to solving global issues through cross-disciplinary research that transcends disciplines and organizations.
In the medical and healthcare fields, we are promoting joint research with multiple national research institutes and companies located in Tsukuba City, with Tsukuba Science City at its core, a potential global biocommunity area where cutting-edge science and technology research and development institutions are concentrated. We are also implementing a Co-Creation Space Project (bio field/policy priority field) to promote the formation of the "Tsukuba Digital-Bio International Center," which combines interdisciplinary life science research covering medicine, food, and the environment based on the world's largest variety of human, animal, and plant bioresources with artificial intelligence technology.
In addition, we are starting to build an infrastructure for inter-organizational collaboration within the University of Tsukuba to utilize big data accumulated in the Tsukuba area, such as the Ecotil survey research conducted by the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) and the SIP project (National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences) that investigated the impact of dietary habits on health.
Based on these research fields, accumulated results, and cutting-edge research infrastructure, this project will incorporate cutting-edge digital (AI) technology and advanced engineering technologies such as Cybernics to solve problems in the medical field, and will organize Center for Cyber Medicine Research, where medicine, informatics, and engineering work together under one roof, and will build a research system in collaboration with local governments and companies for social implementation.
This interdisciplinary research system will lead to the development of human resources with bio-first digital analysis technology, and by creating a virtuous cycle of research in new academic fields and human resource development, we aim to contribute to the creation of a wellbeing society.