Expectations for the Education of Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Viewpoint of Discovery and Development of New Drugs

For the purpose of the development of new drugs for incurable diseases, many students enter graduate school of pharmaceutical sciences every year. At first, I expect education to let it develop more and spread without forgetting this will. Recently, withdrawals from Japan of the research institutes of the foreign-affiliated pharmaceutical companies have occurred successively. It is pointed out that there is it for the study about the biomedical research that is the next step of fundamental researches having been weak. I expect the immediate construction of the cluster, which consists of pharmaceutical companies and graduate schools of pharmaceutical sciences. Time of ten several years and a cost of one hundred billion yen are necessary for the research and development of new drug. The success probability is low, besides. Many trials are accomplished to raise the success probability. The one is introduction of the project system. The best members are gathered from the fields such as medicinal chemistry, molecular biology, biochemistry, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, pharmaceutics and toxicological sciences, etc. The project system is a system enforcing go or stop by own judgment, an authority and the responsibility of the purpose are given. It is necessary for the project leader to have great knowledge and the abilities to hold lively discussion. It is a researcher from graduate school of pharmaceutical sciences that is the most suited to be as a project leader. I expect to upbring education from the time when a leader is young.