is a

private university Private universities and private colleges are institutions of higher education, not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments. They may (and often do) receive from governments tax breaks, public student loans, and grant (money ...

Shimotsuke, Tochigi 250px, Reconstructed portion of Shimotsuke Kokubun-ji is a city located in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 60,274 in 24,654 households, and a population density of 810 persons per km². The total area of the ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

, established in 1972. In 2008 the

Gates Foundation The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), a merging of the William H. Gates Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation, is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington, it was l ...

awarded $100,000 to Hiroyuki Matsuoka, a medical researcher at the university, to do research on

flying syringe Flying syringe is a phrase that is used to refer to proposed, but not yet created, genetically modified mosquitoes that inject vaccines into people when they bite them. History In the 1990s, Bob Sinden of Imperial College, London, and Julian Cramp ...

s.Flying Syringes and Other Bold Ideas
The Washington Post, October 23, 2008

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Educational institutions established in 1972 Private universities and colleges in Japan Universities and colleges in Tochigi Prefecture Medical schools in Japan 1972 establishments in Japan Shimotsuke, Tochigi {{tochigi-university-stub