The Research Administration Division
Research Administration Division
iCeMS, based on its vision, promotes research activities, strengthens international networks, and engages in various activities to return research results to society. It challenges pioneering initiatives with a specialized professional team.
By expanding the results of these initiatives within Kyoto University and to universities and research institutions nationwide, and by strengthening cooperation with other WPI centers, iCeMS aims to build a world-class research environment.
Innovation Unit
To strengthen the research infrastructure of iCeMS, the Innovation Unit plans, performs, and provides support for diverse measures to promote financial support (external funding, donation, and other resources) and human exchange (academic exchange, industry-academia collaboration, technology transfer, etc.).
- Coordinating international research agreements
- Managing intellectual property rights, patents, and industrial applications
- Developing strategies to gain research grants
- Fundraising
Communication Design Unit
The Communication Design Unit focuses on outreach activities as well as domestic and international public relations to share iCeMS research outcomes with the additional objective of promoting international brain circulation.
- International public relations and communications
- Organizing scientific outreach events
- Online and offline communication of scientific topics
- Activating international exchange of researchers
Analysis Center
The Analysis Center was established to facilitate access to the experimental equipment and advanced analytical techniques that iCeMS has assembled through its activities as a WPI center.
This center comprises three units: the Materials Analysis Unit, the Bioanalysis Unit and the Shared Equipment Support Unit. These units not only support researchers in the fields of materials science and cell biology, as well as in related interdisciplinary fields but also operate all shared equipment and laboratories in iCeMS. The three units work together to support researchers who are boldly engaged in interdisciplinary research, not to mention their own specialized fields.
- Maintaining and operating shared equipment and facilities
- Providing advice and guidance for experimental design
- Hosting hand-on training sessions and seminars
- Ensuring a safe experimental environment