Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University

[1] Professor Shinya Yamanaka received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012 for his work on iPS cells.

Tasuku Honjo, who is also a graduate of Kyoto University, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2018 for his discovery and theory of immune checkpoint inhibitors.

[2] Established in 1939, the School of Medicine's Department of Pharmacy became an independent Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1960.

Kyoto University School of Public Health (SPH, 京都大学 大学院医学研究科 社会健康医学系専攻), established in 2000, is Japan's oldest public health professional school.

[4] College of Medical Technology, Kyoto University (京都大学医療技術短期大学部) was a junior college of nursing, medical laboratory science, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and midwifery.