Kitasato University

Kitasato University is a private medical university headquartered at the Shirokane campus in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It grew from the neighbouring Kitasato Institute, described as the first private medical research facility in Japan, and is named after Kitasato Shibasaburo, who was nominated for the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Satoshi Omura, a professor at the university, received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Its undergraduate schools cover pharmacy, veterinary medicine, medicine, marine biosciences, nursing, science, allied health sciences and frontier engineering, and it runs affiliated hospitals and the Omura Satoshi Memorial Institute.