Gunma University has continued to respond to the needs that have evolved over the ages of Meiji, Taisho, Showa and Heisei, as an institution of higher education playing a major role in educational reform. Gunma University continues to function upon a base that has been born from this history and the various traditions that have evolved within leading us to where we find ourselves today.
the Gunma University Hospital became the first institution of its kind in Japan to establish and utilize a heavy ion therapy facility, and since June of the same year, it has been carrying out state-of-the-art medical care by initiating full-fledged heavy ion cancer treatments. Through the management and support of this epoch-making therapeutic device, the School of Medicine has been turning out approximately 10% of the nation’s radiotherapists. Furthermore, Institute for Molecular and Cellular Regulation and the Graduate School of Medicine are currently undergoing a cooperative management program with Akita University called the Global COE Program, and the “Signal Transduction in the Regulatory System and Its Disorders” is carrying out advanced research in the field of thyroid disorders among patients with iodine deciencies, a problem that is relatively common in Gunma Prefecture, as a tradition of endocrinological research has begun to flower.
