Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University

Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University
東北医科薬科大学

Type	Private
Established	1939
Location	Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture , Japan
Website	http://www.tohoku-mpu.ac.jp

Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University (東北医科薬科大学, Tōhoku ika yakka daigaku) is a private university in Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The Tohoku Pharmaceutical University (東北薬科大学, Tōhoku yakka daigaku) was established in 1949, based on the Tohoku Pharmaceutical College, which was established in 1939. In 1959, it became the first cancer research institute established at a private pharmaceutical university in Japan. In 1962 it became the first graduate school at the private pharmacy college.^[1] With the establishment of a Medical Department in 2015, the university became Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University (東北医科薬科大学, Tōhoku ika yakka daigaku).