Calls for Proposals Early-stage FY 2019 AMED awards 8 joint projects with MRC on "Infectious Diseases"- FY 2019 Japan-the UK Joint call for Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SICORP)

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Status of Grants/Funding Opportunities	Awarded projects
R&D phase	Basic Study, Applied Study, Nonclinical Study/Pre-clinical Study
Key Fields	Emerging/ Re-Emerging Infectious Disease Project Of Japan(1st), Other programs(1st)
Contact	Division of International Collaboration, Department of International Affairs E-mail: sicorp "at" amed.go.jp, Replace "at" with "@". Remarks: Please contact us, preferably by e-mail using the above contact information.

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AMED and MRC (Medical Research Council) called for joint project proposals from early stage researchers in Japan and the UK in the "Infectious Diseases" research area and began to accept proposals on December 16th, 2019. The joint evaluation committee comprised both the UK and Japanese scientists. After the committee’s discussion, it identified eight highly meritorious projects (See the attached list of the awarded projects).

List of Awardees

Project	Country	Affiliation	Principal Investigator
Elucidation of cell-autonomous immunity and host defense against Toxoplasma gondii by interferon-inducible GTPases	Japan	Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University	YAMAMOTO Masahiro
	U.K.	The University of Birmingham	Eva-Maria Frickel
Interferon stimulated defences that target Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) and Hepatitis D Virus (HDV)	Japan	National Institute of Infectious Diseases	WATASHI Koichi
	U.K.	MRC University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR)	Sam Wilson
Dynamic Imaging in Viral Encephalitis Defines Unique Roles for Chemoattractants	Japan	Nippon Medical School	MIYABE Yoshishige
	U.K.	University of Liverpool	Benedict Michael
The HDAC6/USP7 axis in enveloped RNA virus infection	Japan	Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine	MIYAKE Yasuyuki
The HDAC6/USP7 axis in enveloped RNA virus infection	U.K.	University of Bristol School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine	Yohei Yamauchi
Systematic analysis of persistence mechanisms by high-throughput bar-seq and single cell analyses	Japan	Nara Institute of Science and Technology	MUTO-FUJITA Ai
	U.K.	University of Surrey	Suzie Hingley-Wilson
A cross-sectional approach to identification & interrogation of adaptive & functional mutations affecting CCHFV replication & pathogenicity in humans	Japan	Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University	KUROSAKI Yohei
	U.K.	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)	David Allen
Study of the T cell Response During Cryptococcal Meningitis Using New Tools	Japan	Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine	KAWAKAMI Kazuyoshi
	U.K.	University of Birmingham	Rebecca Drummond
The human T-cell leukaemia virus HTLV-1: transcriptional heterogeneity at the single-cell level	Japan	Kumamoto University	SATO Yorifumi
	U.K.	Imperial College	Charles Bangham

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