Calls for Proposals Early-stage FY 2021 AMED awards 58 applicants - FY 2021 Interstellar Initiative

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Status of Grants/Funding Opportunities	Awarded projects
R&D phase	Basic Study
Key Fields	Innovation and Clinical Research Center Project
Contact	Office of Internatinoal Collaboration, Division of International Strategy, Department of International Strategy, AMED E-mail: interstellar“AT”amed.go.jp (Replace “AT” with “@”)

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AMED called for proposals for the 2020-2021 Interstellar Initiative from early-career investigators in Japan and overseas over two open calls. The evaluation committee discussed and identified 58 highly meritorious applicants (See the following table of the awardees).

No.	Name(First Name-Last Name)	Affiliation	Position	Country or Region
1	Clarice Aiello	University of California, Los Angeles	Assistant Professor	USA
2	Melvin Anyasi Ambele	University of Pretoria	Senior Research Officer	South Africa
3	Sri Ayu Anggraini	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology	Researcher	Japan
4	Jamuna Bai Aswathanarayan	JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research	Assistant Professor	India
5	Mirza S Baig	Indian Institute of Technology Indore	Associate Professor	India
6	Frank Biedermann	Institute of Nanotechnology	Emmy Noether junior research group leader	Germany
7	Alice Bowen	University of Manchester	Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw and Dorothy Hodgkin/EPSRC Research Fellow	United Kingdom
8	Joshua Butcher	Oklahoma State University	Assistant Professor	USA
9	Ilana Chefetz	Hormel Institute	Assistant Professor	USA
10	Jun Chen	University of California, Los Angeles	Assistant Professor	USA
11	Song Lin Chua	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Assistant Professor	Hong Kong
12	Andrea del Campo	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	Assistant Professor	Chile
13	Dubey Nileshkumar	Naional University of Singapore	Assistant Professor	Singapore
14	Karen Fortuna	Dartmouth College	Assistant Professor	USA
15	Aiko Hasegawa	Department of Pediatrics, Shinshu University School of Medicine	Designated Assistant Professor	Japan
16	Yohei Hayashi	RIKEN	Team Leader	Japan
17	Xiaodong He	Shandong University	Lecturer	China
18	Kimberly Hreha	University of Texas Medical Branch	Research Assistant Professor	USA
19	Benjumin Hsu	University of New South Wales	Research Fellow	Australia
20	Tomoko Ikeuchi	Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology	Researcher	Japan
21	Atsuko Imai-Okazaki	Juntendo University	Assistant Professor	Japan
22	Hisaya Kato	Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine	Assistant Professor	Japan
23	Hiroyuki Koike	Nippon Medical School	Assistant Professor	Japan
24	Marek Kukumberg	National University of Singapore	Research Fellow	Singapore
25	Abigail Langton	Centre for Dermatology Research, The University of Manchester	Research Fellow	United Kingdom
26	Norika (Mengchia) Liu	The Jikei University	Assistant Professor	Japan
27	Tomislav Mestrovic	University North	Assistant Professor	Croatia
28	Anand Mhatre	University of Pittsburgh	Assistant Professor	USA
29	Jack Miller	University of Aarhus/The PET Centre & The MR Research Centre	Associate Professor of Medical Physics	Denmark
30	Catarina Miranda	University of Coimbra	Auxiliary Investigator	Portugal
31	Yuichi Mori	Showa University/University of Oslo	Associate Professor / Researcher	Japan
32	Junko Mukohyama	International University of Health and Welfare MITA Hospital	Assistant Professor	Japan
33	Akihiro Okamoto	National Institute for Materials Science	Group Leader	Japan
34	Yusuke Okuno	Nagoya City University	Professor	Japan
35	Damilola Omoboyowa	Adekunle Ajasin University	Lecturer 1	Nigeria
36	Christian Penaloza	Mirai Innovation Research Institute	Lead Researcher	Japan
37	Anna Pyayt	University of South Florida	Associate Professor	USA
38	Anais Rameau	Weill Cornell Medical College	Assistant Professor	USA
39	Sherif Rashad	Tohoku University	Assistant Professor	Japan
40	Gulam Mohmad Rather	Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey	Senior Research Associate	USA
41	Chirag Raval	The City University of New York	Assistant Professor	USA
42	Nadia Rivero-Segura	Instituto Nacional de Geriatría	Researcher	Mexico
43	Jaime Ross	University of Rhode Island/Karolinska Institutet	Assistant Professor of Neuroscience	USA
44	Nimrod Rubinstein	Calico Life Sciences	Principal Data Scientist	USA
45	Rahul Samant	The Babraham Institute	Tenure-Track Group Leader	United Kingdom
46	Jayshree Samanta	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Assistant Professor	USA
47	Adriana San Miguel	North Carolina State University	Assistant Professor	USA
48	Shimizu Takashi	University of Tokyo	Assistant Professor	Japan
49	Tatsuma Shoji	DNA Chip Research Inc.	Researcher	Japan
50	Sangeetha Shyam	International Medical University	Fellow, Senior Lecturer	Malaysia
51	Vinamrita Singh	Netaji Subhas University of Technology, East Campus	Assistant Professor	India
52	Maria de la Encarnacion Solesio Torregrosa	Rutgers University	Assistant Professor	USA
53	Gajanan Subhash Revankar	Osaka University	Specially Appointed Assistant Professor	Japan
54	Kentaroh Takagaki	Tokushima University	Associate Professor, Special Appointment	Japan
55	Ingrid Kirsten van Dijk	Lund University	Researcher	Sweden
56	Nan-Kai Wang	Columbia University Irving Medical Center	Assistant Professor	USA
57	Hongwu Wang	University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	Assistant Professor	USA
58	Akihide Yoshimi	National Cancer Center Research Institute	Section Head	Japan

Evaluation Process

Call open	1st call: 5 March 2021 - 28 May 2021 2nd call: 9 June 2021 - 22 June 2021
Evaluation committee	13 July 2021

Number of Proposals	89
Number of proposals reviewed	74
Number of Awardees	58

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09/24/21

Last updated 09/24/21