This Graduate School has produced many researchers who have been honored with esteemed awards such as the Japan Academy Prize, the Medal with Purple Ribbon and the Asahi Prize, thus contributing to the development of pharmaceutical sciences in Japan and in the world. This tradition continues now, and is reinforced. The amount of money per teacher provided for education and research of this School is conspicuously high in Tohoku University, which simply reflects the briskness of its research activities. In 1999 when the graduate schools were reorganized and improved, this School set up a flexible research organization able to swiftly respond to changes in the trend of research, so it was made more effective in conducting research. The Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences is endowed with a good environment for doing very original research, yielding a lot of fruits of research everyday.