Calls for Proposals FY 2023 [1st Alignment Call] Advanced International Collaborative Research Program - Adopting Sustainable Partnerships for an Innovative Research Ecosystem

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Outline

Status of Grants/Funding Opportunities	Awarded projects
R&D phase	Basic Study, Applied Study, Nonclinical Study/Pre-clinical Study
Key Fields	Innovation and Clinical Research Center Project
Contact	Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development（AMED） Division of Research Program, Department of International Strategy E-mail: amed-aspire“AT”amed.go.jp (Replace “AT” with @) Remarks: Inquiries by email are strongly encouraged.

Adoption contents

The evaluation committee discussed and identified the following awarded projects.

ASPIRE-A

Project	Affiliation	Title	Principal Investigator	Partner Principal Investigator / Title/ Partner Affiliation/ Country (Partner Funding agency)
International Collaborative Research Pioneering Next-Generation Assisted Reproductive Medicine	Osaka University	Professor	IKAWA Masahito	Marisa Bartolomei/ Professor/ University of Pennsylvania/ USA (NIH/NICHD)
	Osaka University	Professor	IKAWA Masahito	Martin Matzuk/ Professor/ Baylor College of Medicine/ USA (NIH/NCI)
The pandemic 5W1H investigation	The University of Tokyo	Professor	SATO Kei	Anavaj Sakuntabhai/ Professor/ Institute Pasteur/ France (NIH/NIAID)
The pandemic 5W1H investigation	The University of Tokyo	Professor	SATO Kei	Andrea Marzi/ Senior Investigator/ National Institutes of Health/ USA (NIH/NIAID)
Chromatin molecular pathology for precision medicine	The University of Tokyo	Professor	SHIRAHIGE Katsuhiko	Camilla Björkegren/ Professor/ Karolinska Institutet/ Sweden (SRC)
International collaboration to understand physiological mechanisms of glial cells and their pathological transitions	National Institute for Physiological Sciences	Professor	WAKE Hiroaki	Marie-Ève Tremblay/ Professor/ University of Victoria/ Canada (CIHR)
				Marco Prinz/ Professor/ University of Freiburg/ Germany (DFG)
				Rosa Chiara Paolicelli/ Assistant Professor/ University of Lausanne/ Switzerland (SNSF)

ASPIRE-B

Project	Affiliation	Title	Principal Investigator	Partner Principal Investigator / Title/ Partner Affiliation/ Country (Partner Funding agency)
Exploration of personal medical strategies and novel therapeutic targets based on the pathogenetic mechanisms of chronic rhinosinusitis in Japanese and US patients.	University of Fukui	Professor	FUJIEDA Shigeharu	Atsushi Kato/ Professor/ Northwestern University/ USA (NIH/NIAID)
Understanding the immune responses that develop against the gastric onco-pathogen Helicobacter pylori and its application to immunotherapy	Oita University	Professor	YAMAOKA Yoshio	Thomas Borén/ Professor/ Umeå University/ Sweden (SRC)

* Projects are listed in alphabetical order based on the name of the principal investigator.
* Funding Agency

CIHR:Canadian Institutes of Health Research
DFG:German Research Foundation
NIH/NCI:National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute
NIH/NIAID:National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
NIH/NICHD:National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
SRC: Vetenskapsrådet - Swedish Research Council
SNSF:Swiss National Science Foundation

Evaluation Process

Call open	6 June - 8 August 2023
Evaluation committee (interview)	17,18 November 2023

	Number of proposals	Number of proposals interviewd	Number of Awardees
ASPIRE-A	26	10	4
ASPIRE-B	17	7	2