Projects Supported by the Ishii-Ishibashi Fund

Through the president’s initiative, Keio University will maintain and improve its reputation in Japan and overseas, and the following projects will be implemented with the aim of contributing to the sustainable development of its educational and research activities.

• 1. Educational and research promotion projects proposed, planned, and implemented by the corporation
• 2. Projects that contribute to the promotion of education and research at the undergraduate faculties, graduate schools, etc.
• 3. Other projects that facilitate the purpose of this project

The Keio Affiliated Schools Study Abroad Program was founded in 2013 and sends third-year high school students, second-year high school students, second-year middle school students, and fifth-year elementary school students to prestigious boarding schools or equivalent educational institutions for a full academic year. The goal of the project is to have the best and brightest young minds from around the world given the opportunity to shape each other as they live their lives together and grow.

The Keio University School of Medicine special project for human resources development scholarship was established in 2015 as the School of Medicine’s own scholarship and is guaranteed at the time of being accepted. This is a large-scale scholarship that awards about 10 students who achieve excellent grades in the entrance examination with a continuous payment of 2 million yen per year each for the first four year levels of study (total of 8 million yen). Just as Yukichi Fukuzawa once studied at the “Tekijuku” where the elite from all across the nation gathered, the purpose is to provide generous support to the various elite students who have come from all over the country and to develop them into leaders in the medical world. Scholarship acceptance or rejection will be determined at the time of announcing the results for the entrance examinations.

In 2020, we launched a scholarship to support students who are actively engaged in international activities. Our goal is to train professionals who will play an active role across a wide range of fields as international leaders both in Japan and abroad.

The Keio University Grant for Early Career Researchers is aimed at developing young researchers, primarily at the Faculty of Science and Technology and including the Shonan Fujisawa Campus, who being rich in talent and endowed with leadership skills will go on to shoulder the future of manufacturing. The following 2 projects are being implemented.

• 1. Promotion of overseas joint research by early career researchers
  Subsidies are provided for the travel and living expenses necessary to carry out overseas joint research with overseas universities, research institutions, and private companies.
• 2. Promotion of Leading-edge Research Projects (from AY 2023)
  The grant will support leading-edge research projects that enhance Keio University's international reputation and that are original, interdisciplinary, and expandable.

The global research development project aims at not only maintaining but also significantly enhancing Keio University's reputation and status as an international research university in Japan and overseas, thereby contributing to its sustainable development in the future.

• 1. Formation, consolidation, and improvement of branding, and the promotion of international cooperation and industry-government-academia collaboration
• 2. Produce international research achievements and investigate the possibility of research that integrates the arts and sciences including through support for papers, development of research methods, development of research projects, and grants for research projects
• 3. Actively promote the dissemination of information centered on international PR and giving back to the community by sharing research outcomes through the hosting of symposiums domestically and overseas
• 4. Acquire/nurture human resources whose research has global currency, entice research projects, and dispatch early career researchers
• 5. Development of research resources unique to Keio University and Japan, and propagate this to the world
• 6. Other projects that contribute to the purposes of this project

The Keio University special projects for supporting emergency medical care systems was launched in the 2019 academic year with the aim of "improving the medical and health care functions of the School of Medicine and Keio University Hospital as well as contributing toward maintaining and developing emergency medical care systems, in particular to internationalize the hospital." In order to achieve the above objective, we are implementing the following two projects:

• 1. Securing the human resources necessary to expand emergency medical care systems at the School of Medicine and Keio University Hospital
• 2. Projects that contribute to the expansion and development of emergency medical care and training of human resources

Specifically, in order to respond to the globalization of society as an advanced treatment hospital that provides a high level of medical care and to strengthen the accompanying emergency medical care systems, the projects will focus on securing and developing human resources and improving the medical care environment especially in departments that have many opportunities to engage in emergency medical care.

Keio University has established the Department of Extended Intelligence for Medicine within the School of Medicine.

Advances in artificial intelligence are driving digital transformation in healthcare and fundamentally changing the nature of medicine. The Department of Extended Intelligence for Medicine is pioneering the interdisciplinary field of "AI for Medicine" to build a healthcare system that predicts and prevents disease based on root causes. This kind of predictive medicine relies on developing a general-purpose disease model integrates AI for diagnosis and prognosis using real-world data and causal models for intervention based on disease mechanisms.

Through cutting-edge research and education, the department aims to contribute to advances in medicine and healthcare, develop supporting scientific and technological innovations, and develop future talent, with the goal of establishing a global hub for AI medicine.