| IQB Institute for Quantitative Biosciences34of best practice in laboratory techniques and management. We encourage the IQB to try to recover the promised lab space from the Department of Agriculture. Furthermore, the SAC recommends a reorganization of IQB labs amongst the three buildings to foster interactions and mentoring.Collaborations with foreign institutionsThe IQB has now established labs in the Karolinska Institute in collaboration with members of both Institutes. The IQB plans to expand this system to other foreign institutes. This strategy is promising for the further development of IQB internationally as well as within the University of Tokyo. The SAC strongly supports these collaborations and encourages this development. To achieve success in these ventures, strong IQB leadership will be required.Collaboration with administrative staffThe administrative team presented the current situation and their ideas for future directions to the SAC in English. The SAC admires their efforts to improve their relationship with the researchers within IQB. We also understand some of the problems; for example, the University policy of compulsory rotation of the staff sometimes prohibits the IQB from keeping some well-trained and specialized administrative persons.Strong leadershipSince its founding, the IQB has changed and developed quickly as a result of the strong leadership of the current director. Considering that expansion of the institute is still on-going, the SAC recommends that the current director continue and serve a third three-year term. In the future, the SAC suggests a change in the Institutional bylaws to allow appointment to the directorship for up to two consecutive terms of 4 or 5 years, as opposed to the three-year term limits currently in place.
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