Greetings
Director; Akihito YAMAGUCHI
At the 70th anniversary of The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR), ISIR has been reorganized on April 1st, 2009, to the institute composed of three major research divisions (information & quantum science, material & beam science, biological & molecular science) , and expanded and improved Nanotechnology Center, in order to contribute to the development of multidisciplinary science. In addition, Center for Research Education and Training, International Collaboration Center and Research Laboratory of Quantum Beam Science has been newly established and Materials Analysis Center has been reorganized to Comprehensive Analysis Center. These centers are expected to contribute graduate education of Osaka University and facilitate the domestic and international collaboration. This reorganization is the first big step toward the future of our institute.
ISIR was founded in 1939 on the basis of strong desire and the support of the business circles in KANSAI area. In order to perform our important mission, we started to construct the Nanotechnology Incubation Building in this April. It is a five-storied building having 5,000 m2 floor space, which is composed of rental laboratories for business corporations and alliance laboratories for domestic and international collaboration. It is the first case of the on-campus Nanotechnology incubation facility in Japan.
In this June, our ISIR has been authorized as a headquarter of the new Network Joint Research Center for Materials and Devices composed of five national university institutes including IMRAM (Tagenken) in TOHOKU Univ., RIES (Denshiken) in HOKKAIDO Univ., CRL (Shigennken) in Tokyo Institute of Technology, and IMCE (Sendouken) in Kyushu Univ.
ISIR will continue to make contributions to the development of industry through basic science and technology and inspire the future.