IGM (Institute for Genetic Medicine) was established by unifying two mother facilities into a middle-sized research organization for human life science: "Institute of Immunological Science" with the sixty-year history and "Cancer Institute affiliated with the School of Medicine" with the forty-year history The institute consists of eleven key laboratories, a research section for infection-associated cancer, and an affiliated animal facility. Nearly forty faculty members are working with more than 50 domestic and foreign post-docs/graduate students from Graduate Schools of Medicine, Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Veterinary Medicine, and Life Science. IGM is also open to undergraduates and PhD students from other Departments/Graduate Schools of Dental Medicine, Agriculture, etc. The institute, which is one of the largest research organizations in the Northeastern part of Japan, has a total of nearly 150 members with such different backgrounds and adheres to the highest scientific standards and emphasis on a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary approach.