Kobe Pharmaceutical University has a long history, which celebrated the eightieth anniversary in 2012. Since the founding in 1932, the goal of our University has been to educate students who will be able to contribute to society, and we have produced a great many talented people who play active parts as pharmacists in hospitals, dispensing pharmacies, and drugstores as well as researchers, developers and medical representatives in pharmaceutical companies.
Now it is necessary to enrich the education system. For that purpose, we have cooperated with Kobe University, other universities, and medical institutes nearby. And we have tried to train students who have enriched knowledge in pharmacy, scientific thinking abilities, consciousness to be medical men, warm hearts to understand patients, and cooperativeness to work with other stuff in medical teams. Life-long education is getting more important to follow the rapid progress in medical care. We have established a characteristic education system for it conducted by Kobe Pharmaceutical University Extension Center.
As well as education, research activities are essential to the mission of universities. At our University, we have actively developed research projects on clinical pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, tried to contribute to society by the products, and at the same time to produce talented people who can be active in a broad field related to pharmacy.
Pharmaceutical science is an area of study that explores and elucidates the physical properties of chemicals such as medicines and food that are deeply related to maintaining life and health and methods for their analysis and manufacture, their physiological effects, and their usage.
As new drugs are being actively developed in recent years, a great deal of interest has been focused on issues such as their side effects and drug-induced diseases and suffering. In this light, this University is conducting pharmaceutical education based on educational policies in place since our school foundation, that is, pursuing academic learning and improving one's character under the direction of our faculty who have outstanding teaching skills and who are passionate about pharmaceutical sciences.
For pharmacists and other professionals who are engaged in work vital to life, a broad range of knowledge is demanded of them, and strict ethical standards and a rich and varied sense of what it means to be human are required.
This University is intensely pursuing R&D on great new drugs with the highest degree of safety. Furthermore besides, we have been sending forth to medical institutions and pharmaceutical companies personnel who feel inspired to contribute to society.
We are all working with serious intent on study and research to keep and improve people's lives and health everywhere.
