NARA INSTITUTE of SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY
Program of Bionanotechnology
Program Introduction
An interdisciplinary bioscience and materials science program which fosters students who pursue new trends in bioscience based on materials science understanding, & cultivates abilities necessary for the creation of novel functional materials to contribute to the future of society, including development of pharmaceuticals & medical engineering materials, development of new polymers which imitate biological functions, development of novel compounds to increase farming productivity, & exploration of new cellular engineering to support regenerative medicine through an understanding of the molecular foundation of biogenic activity.
Degrees granted
Master's / Doctorate (engineering, science, bioscience)
* Degree type will be decided based on subjects taken and thesis contents.
List of Laboratories
Division of Biological Science
- Plant Cell Function
- Plant Developmental Signaling
- Plant Metabolic Regulation
- Plant Growth Regulation
- Plant Stem Cell Regulation and Floral Patterning
- Plant Physiology
- Plant Symbiosis
- Molecular Signal Transduction
- Functional Genomics and Medicine
- Tumor Cell Biology
- Molecular Immunobiology
- Molecular Medicine and Cell Biology
- RNA Molecular Medicine
- Stem Cell Technologies
- Developmental Biomedical Science
- Organ Developmental Engineering
- Cell Signaling
- Applied Stress Microbiology
- Environmental Microbiology
- Structural Life Science
- Gene Regulation Research
- Systems Neurobiology and Medicine
Division of Materials Science
- Bio-Process Engineering
- Photonic Device Science
- Information Device Science
- Sensory Materials and Devices
- Synthetic Organic Chemistry
- Photonic and Reactive Molecular Science
- Functional Organic Chemistry
- Biomimetic and Technomimetic Molecular Science
- Functional Polymer Science
- Advanced Functional Materials
- Functional Supramolecular Chemistry
- Complex Molecular Systems
- Nanomaterials and Polymer Chemistry