2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Engineering Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Graduate major in Science and Technology for Health Care and Medicine
Advanced Science and Technology for Health Care and Medicine II
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Science and Technology for Health Care and Medicine
- Instructor(s)
- Hiroyuki Nakamura / Masayoshi Tanaka / Katsunori Tanaka / Toshiaki Mori / Satoshi Okada / Kumi Kuroda / Toshiki Yoshii
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- -
- Course Code
- STM.C502
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
Interdisciplinary research fields are rapidly expanding in modern society. Therefore, it is important for future researchers to capture challenges based on multidisciplinary insights. This course will provide professional knowledges of interdisciplinary research fields which is important for front-line life engineers in life engineering course. In particular, "Advanced Human Centered Science and Biomedical Engineering II" will focus on advanced interdisciplinary researches between chemistry and life science fields. In this interdisciplinary research field, fusion of knowledges and technologies in each field will lead to development of novel technologies and creation of new interdisciplinary research fields. In this course, students can learn professional knowledges and understand how chemistry and life science fields have merged to have technological innovations through learning particular cases.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to :
1) Understand the part of molecular mechanism about cancer metastasis and design the future strategies for anti-cancer drug development
2) Design cell surface by the evaluation of physical property using atomic force microscopy
3) Explain stress responses in photosynthetic organisms and biosensers made of proteins
4) Understand the principle and application of "in cell" and "a whole body" molecular imaging
5) Manipulation and visualization of neuronal activities that control social behaviors
Keywords
Advanced Human Centered Science and Biomedical Engineering, Membrane curvature sensors, Biomineralization, Cancer chemotherapy, Atomic force microscopy, Photosynthetic organisms, Molcular imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neuroscience of social behaviors
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
In the first half of the class, the main points of the day's lecture are explained. In the latter half, these main points are discussed in details. Students are asked to provide solutions to the questions and submit to the professor as a report. Always check the required learning for each class and be sure to complete it as a part of peparation and review.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Cancer chemotherapy (Nakamura) | Learn the recent development of cancer chemotherapy and understand the future strategies for anti-cancer drug development. |
| Class 2 | Molecular imaging (K.Tanaka) | Understand the principle and application of "in cell" and "a whole body" molecular imaging. |
| Class 3 | Exploration of membrane curvature sensors related to cancer metastasis （M.Tanaka） | Learn some of the molecular mechanisms of cancer metastasis and understand the difficulties of new anti-cancer development with future perspective. |
| Class 4 | MR imaging of biomolecules (Okada) | Understand the basic principle of MRI and learn the development of contrast agents for imaging of biomolecules. |
| Class 5 | Manipulation and visualization of neuronal activities that control social behaviors (Kuroda) | Understand their neural mechanisms of basic animal behaviors and experimental strategies to manipulate and visualize the neuronal activities in behaving animals. |
| Class 6 | Stress responses in photosynthetic organisms (Yoshida) | Understand molecular mechanism of various stress responses in photosynthetic organisms. |
| Class 7 | Observation of cell surface by the evaluation of physical property using atomic force microscopy (Mori) | Understand characteristics of cell surface which included physical properties such as strength and modulus as well as height image by using atomic force microscopy. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
None required.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Handouts will be distributed at the beginning of class if necessary.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Assessment is based on the quality of the reports and the submission status in each class.
Related courses
- HCB.C521 ： Advanced Human Centered Science and Biomedical Engineering I
- HCB.C401 ： Joint Creative Design
- HCB.C421 ： Outline of Human Centered Science and Biomedical Engineering I
- HCB.C422 ： Outline of Human Centered Science and Biomedical Engineering II
Prerequisites
Students are encouraged to complete the related courses.
Other
If misconduct, such as plagiarism or misappropriation of someone else's work is committed, we will treat it strictly： The grade of the subject will be 0.