Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine

Overview

Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine

Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine (also known as Obihiro University) is a public university located in Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan. It was founded in 1941 as the Obihiro Technical School of Veterinary Medicine. It received university status and its current name in 1949. It is regarded as one of the top agricultural institutions of Japan.

Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Key Statistics

The university is organized into two schools, namely, the School of Agriculture and Animal Science and the Graduate School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences and Agriculture. It offers undergraduate programs in veterinary medicine and agriculture. Its postgraduate programs include a master’s program in animal science and agriculture, a doctoral program in animal science and agriculture, and a doctoral program in veterinary science.

Obihiro University has a population of 1,341, with 1,167 undergraduates, 133 postgraduates, and 41 students in other programs. Among these, 69 are international students. It employs 230 staff, including 62 professors, 32 associate professors, 10 senior assistant professors, 27 assistant professors, 77 administrative staff, and 17 technical staff.

Its university library offers printed, electronic, and audio-visual resources to support the instructional, research, and extension programs of the university.

Other Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine key statistics include its academic exchange programs with various international institutions. Some of these are the Chungnam National University College of Veterinary Medicine (Korea), the Mongolian State University of Agriculture (Mongolia), Hei Long Jiang Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences (China), and the University of Liege (Belgium).

Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Research

The university has four research departments that conduct studies on various animal and agro-scientific projects. These are the Department of Veterinary Medicine, the Department of Life and Food Sciences, the Department of Agro-environmental Science, and the Department of Human Sciences. Funding sources include internal and external agencies such as the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries and the Japan Veterinary Medical Association.

The university's top three research fields are biology, virology, and chemistry. Its researchers have published in publications like the Journal of Veterinary Medical Science, Veterinary Parasitology, and Parasitology International. Its researchers had been invited to attend and/or present papers at international conferences, such as Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, and Data Mining in Bioinformatics.

The most cited publication from Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine research is Suzuki et al.’s (1997) “A role for macrophage scavenger receptors in atherosclerosis and susceptibility to infection,” which was published in Nature. It has been cited a total of 1,670 times to date. The second most cited paper is Hirabayashi et al.’s (2002) “Oligosaccharide specificity of galectins: A search by frontal affinity chromatography,” published in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. It has received a total of 1,057 citations.

Meanwhile, the university’s third most cited paper is Efstratiou et al.’s (2011) “Waterborne transmission of protozoan parasites: Review of worldwide outbreaks - An update 2011-2016,” published in Water Research. It has been cited by papers, articles, and other publications around 692 times so far.

The research centers of Obihiro University include the Animal Medical Center, the Research Center for Global Agromedicine, the National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, and the Field Center of Animal and Agriculture.