In a literature review course, students select recent original articles for intensive analysis before leading class discussion on the topics. They also take a lab course of 56 hours in which five separate experiments are performed. Chugai Medical Pub. Co., Tokyo, 1998. These students also attend one Journal Club per week, in Molecular Hematology or general Molecular Medicine.
Students present their research progress every other week at a departmental research conference.
At the end of the 4th year, they must submit a paper and defend their doctoral dissertation. Kida M , Wakabayashi S, Ichinose A Expression and induction by IL-6 of the normal and variant genes for human plasminogen. Ichinose A Ala601-Thr type dysplasminogenaemia genetically diagnosed in patients with retinochoroidal vascular disorders. Kida M , H -Kawabata M, Yamazaki T, Ichinose A Presence of two plasminogen alleles in normal populations. Possible roles of transglutaminases in Alzheimer's disease.