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CHANGE THE FUTURE WITH PROTEIN

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JOINT USAGE / RESEARCH CENTER

Joint Usage and Research Center for Proteins

Year166Cases※As of November, 2019

Since its foundation in 1958, IPR has been the “center of excellence” of protein science by managing joint-use large research facilities as well as providing cutting-edge protein science information to the world. Every year, more than 200 researchers visit and stay at the institute for their usage of our resources and we support protein science community by organizing various activities including “IPR Seminar”, which benefit over 1,000 researchers each year.

  • Domestic Collaborators

  • International Collaborative Research

  • Cryo-EM Collaborative Research

  • IPR Seminars

  • NMR Collaborative Research

  • IPR Fellows

  • Spring-8 Collaborative Research

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Promotion of diversity

Internationality

18countries 57people※Including internship

Protein Research Institute has a high foreign staff ratio of approximately 15%. In FY2019, we accepted about 40 international students and internship students. In total, people from 18 countries are conducting research at Protein Research Institute.

Gender Balance

41%

Many female researchers are conducting research at the Institute for Protein Research. Thirty two percent of faculty members, 39% of graduate doctor’s course students, and 48% of graduate master’s course students are women. Female researchers are expected to be increasingly active in the future.