For more than 50 years, Tokyo Women’s Medical University (TWMU) and Waseda University have conducted joint researches in the fields of artificial organs, medical materials, and medical instrumentation, and have steadily cultivated medical-engineering collaboration between the two universities.
In April 2008, the Tokyo Women’s Medical University-Waseda University Joint Institution for Advanced Biomedical Sciences (TWIns) has been established as a collaborative facility with the aim of realizing advanced medicine based on “medical-scientific fusion” and fostering human resources to play this role. In 2010, we have also established the first in Japan joint graduate school doctoral program (Joint Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences) with Waseda University for fostering human resources with knowledge and skills in medical regulatory science who will play a leading role in the development and realization of advanced medical devices, medical materials, regenerative medicine, and genomic medicine.
