Education & Career
Education & Career
Internship Program
2025 CiRA Research Internship Program
The CiRA Research Internship Program welcomes graduate students and undergraduates to conduct research at CiRA for a short period.
We introduce a few participants of this year's CiRA Research Internship Program in a series of short articles on CiRA Reporter.
CiRA Research Internship Program in 2025
| Eligibility |
Undergraduate (mainly the 3rd and 4th year※) and graduate students who wish to enroll in CiRA ※This program is primarily intended for students planning to enter graduate school within one or two years. |
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| Period |
1-6 consecutive weeks during summer 2025
※Depends on host labs ※Excluding summer holidays of CiRA (August 11 to 15) |
| Location | Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University |
| Participation fee |
※Overseas university students will be accepted under the Kyoto University Short-Term International Student System.
※This fee is waived for students affiliated with overseas universities with an Academic Exchange Agreement with Kyoto University.
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| Transportation and accommodation expenses |
Partially covered※
※In principle, domestic university students will receive a bank transfer payment after the internship, and overseas university students will receive a cash payment (in Japanese yen) during their stay. ※Travel expenses are paid in accordance with the Kyoto University Regulations. Please note that travel and other related expenses will not be provided when you have any private matters unrelated to the internship before and/or after the program, such as traveling or going home for holidays. |
| Number of positions | Each lab can host a maximum of two students, with up to one from an overseas university (depending on the labs). |
| Responsibilities |
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| Application form | |
| Application procedure |
Please complete the online form and upload the Application and the Written Pledge by the deadline.
※If you have difficulty submitting the documents via the form, we also accept submissions by E-mail. Please submit all application materials by the deadline to the E-mail address provided in below. |
| Deadline for application |
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| Notification of Results |
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| Contact information |
CiRA Research Internship Committee ※Due to CiRA’s Year-end and New Year holidays from December 27, 2024, to January 5, 2025, inquiries received during this period will be handled sequentially from January 6 onward. Thank you for your understanding. |
Application process
Application document submission form
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For overseas university students - For domestic university students
Application document submission form
※1 You are encouraged to check the research interests of the laboratories in which you wish to do your internship and contact the PIs by E-mail in advance. Please refer to the following research descriptions and lab websites.
※2 Fill out the required information on the application and submit it along with other documents after obtaining consent from your home university supervisor.
※3 If you have difficulty submitting the documents via the web form, we also accept submissions by E-mail. Please submit all application materials by the deadline to the CiRA General Affairs Section (cira-internship*cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp). (Please change * to @)
For E-mail submissions, you will be notified of receipt of your application within 5 working days of submission. If you do not receive the reply within 5 working days, please contact the address above, as your application may not have been received.
※4 Notification of decisions is expected by the end of March for overseas university students and by the end of June for domestic university students.
※5 After the decision of acceptance, participants will be required to have Personal Accident Insurance and Personal Liability Insurance valid during the program period.
Other:
As for 4th year students in the Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, please apply through
My Course Program.
Host PIs and group in 2025
Dept. of Life Science Frontiers
| PI | Research Overview |
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| Hirohide Saito | RNA Synthetic Biology |
| Yasuhiro Takashima | Regulating stem cells and life |
| Knut Woltjen |
Gene and epigenome engineering tools to control human genome functions |
| Shunsuke F. Shimobayashi | Elucidating gene regulation in iPS cells |
| Risa K. Kawaguchi |
Multi-omics data analysis for stem cell research |
Dept. of Cell Growth and Differntiation
| PI | Research Overview |
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| Haruhisa Inoue | Dream driven approach |
| Shin Kaneko | Research of immunotherapy using iPSC technology |
Dept. of Clinical Application
| PI | Research Overview |
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| Shimpei Gotoh |
Elucidating the mechanism of intractable lung diseases using iPS cells |
| Makoto Ikeya |
Research using iPSC-derived neural crest cells and their derivatives |
| Hidetoshi Sakurai |
Generation of novel therapy against muscular disease using iPSC technology |
| Akitsu Hotta |
iPS cell and genome editing technologies to combat intractable genetic disorders |
Uehiro Research Div. for iPS Cell Ethics
| PI | Research Overview |
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| Misao Fujita |
Considering the ethics of iPS cell research and regenerative medicine |
| Jusaku Minari |
Social implications of emerging biomedical research |
