Research Infrastructure Management Center

Research Infrastructure Management Center aims to enhance the institute’s research foundations, and recruit, develop and apply talent who use the foundations to promote research to enhance the institute’s research capabilities.
Key missions include:

• Planning and execution of strategic procurement of research equipment and facilities, and research foundations pivoting around research facilities
• Provision of technologies and knowledge utilizing the research foundations
• Management of the research foundations, and promoting their use including shared use
• Recruitment and development of talent who will organize and utilize the research foundations, and promoting various career plans
• Providing support for life-science research ethics education and experiment plan auditing

The center has two offices; the Research Infrastructure Strategy Office and the TC College Promotion Office, and five centers; the Core Facility Center, the Bioscience Center, the Research Support Center for Low-Temperature Science, the Bioresource Research Support Center and the Life Science and Bioethics Center, to provide support to research across the institute.

• Research Infrastructure Strategy Office
  The office is responsible for planning strategic organizing of research equipment and facilities in the institute, and for coordinate plans and sharing information within the office.
• TC College Promotion Office
  The office promotes all-Japan TC College projects to develop advanced technology personnel, and provides training and other support for engineers to improve their skills and careers.
  TC College
  

• Core Facility Center
  As a core facility aggregating technical employees with diverse technologies, knowledge and know-how, the center promotes joint use of facilities with internal and external researchers and associates, and conducts activity such as providing support for student education.
  Core Facility Center
• Bioscience Center
  The center promotes bioscience research through sharing of the most advanced research equipment and by providing technological and other support, to support new fused research in bioscience and relevant fields. The center also contributes to the maintenance and enhancement of bioscience safety control structures.
• Research Support Center for Low-Temperature Science
  The center provides freezing mixtures such as liquid helium across the institute, provides support for education and research on low temperature, and provides opportunities of joint research.
  Research Support Center for Low-Temperature Science
  
• Bioresource Research Support Center
  The center provides education, conducts research and provides research support to contribute to the development of individualized medicine at the institute, as well as promotes the research and development of industry-academia-collaborated medical innovations.
  Bioresource Research Support Center (Japanese)
  
• Life Science and Bioethics Center
  The center is establishing domestic and overseas research support networks to promote education and advanced research on medical ethics, research ethics and bioethics at the institute, and launches academic research on various issues concerning medical and dental research and bioethics.
  Life Science and Bioethics Center (Japanese)
  

• Core Facility Center (external use)
• Bioscience Center (user registration/how to use communal equipment) (Japanese)