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Research Activities

The OIST graduate education and research program is cross-disciplinary and aims to be at the leading edge of research in science and technology, including the Life Sciences, the Physical Sciences, and Mathematics. To lay the foundation for the Graduate University, 45 research units have been launched so far, with research in five major areas of Neuroscience, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Environmental and Ecological Sciences, as well as Physics and Chemistry. As of January 1, 2012, OIST has over 200 researchers, of whom approximately 80 are international, and about 100 administrative staff who support the researchers.