Our Mission
National Institute of Genetics (NIG) was established to carry out broad and comprehensive research in genetics.
Research
NIG conducts top-level research in life sciences lever-aging on approaches and resources in Genetics. NIG also develops new research fields within the broader concept of Genetics.
Education and Career Development
NIG takes part in graduate level education. It also offers various systems to enhance research ability of young researchers.
Intellectual Infrastructure and Collaboration Research
NIG provides various research infrastructures (genetic resources and information/services) to the scientific com-munity. It also functions as a hub for international and do-mestic collaborations.
Social Contribution
NIG actively disseminates the achievements from genet-ic research to the society. It also promotes alliance between industry and academia.
NIG contributes to the development of academic research as one of the inter-university research institutes constituting the Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS).
About the LOGO
Symbol mark of the Institute, which designs the metaphase plate of the first meiotic division and symbolizes the remark by Dr. Hitoshi Kihara (1946): “The history of the earth is recorded in the layers of its crust; the history of all organisms is inscribed in the chromosomes.”