With its falling birthrate and super-aging society, Japan is in need of a paradigm shift that will move it away from a 'medical care that cures' toward a 'medical and nursing care that supports.’ The Global Nursing Research Center, GNRC, was established in April 2017, with the purpose of promoting research into a transdisciplinary innovative nursing science that will allow nursing, which plays a central role in providing ‘care,’ to develop into a new field in a society experiencing a falling birthrate and super-aging, and to foster young researchers able to lead it.
         One of our missions is to develop young researchers who can lead a transdisciplinary innovative nursing science. In the United States, there is a system that allows institutes such as universities to employ post-doctoral fellows using grants from the National Institutes of Health. The young researchers employed in this system can learn the basics of being Principal Investigators, PI, under their mentors. The establishment of the GNRC created a training center designed to develop young researchers in Japan. However, putting in place three post-doctoral fellows a year, which was planned as one of our key performance indicators, is currently difficult because the number of positions we can make available is limited by our current budgetary situation.
         Therefore, in order to fulfill our mission, it will be necessary to acquire additional funds from external parties so that we may employ excellent young researchers as post-doctoral fellows. We would be most grateful if many people throughout society come to support our activities as a training center designed to develop young researchers able to play a central role in Japan and the world.

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