Calls for Proposals FY 2021 AMED awards 3 joint research projects with NordForsk, the Academy of Finland, the Research Council of Norway, and the Swedish Research Council – FY2021　Japan-Nordic 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	Innovation and Clinical Research Center Project
Contact	Office of International Collaboration, Division of International Strategy, Department of International Strategy E-mail: sicorp "at" amed.go.jp (Replace "at" with "@")

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The Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) and NordForsk issued a Japan-Nordic joint call for proposals "Japan-Nordic Frontier Research Projects for Healthy Longevity" in collaboration with the Academy of Finland, the Research Council of Norway and the Swedish Research Council, and closed the call on 7 October 2021. All proposals were evaluated by the expert review panel (appendix. Japan-Nordic joint call expert review panel), and the AMED and NordForsk decided to support following three joint projects.

List of Awardees

Project	Role	Affiliation	Title	Name
Nordic-Japan multidomain interventions for healthy aging and prevention of dementia and disability	Project Leader	Karolinska Institute in Sweden	Professor	Miia Kivipelto
	Japanese co-PI	National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology	President	ARAI Hidenori
Molecular and structural biomarkers for personalised care in osteoarthritis	Project Leader	Lund University in Sweden	Professor	Martin Englund
	Japanese co-PI	Juntendo University	Associated Professor	ISHIJIMA Muneaki
Unveiling the risk factors of ageing to promote healthy longevity	Project Leader	University of Oslo in Norway	Associate Professor	Evandro Fei Fang
	Japanese co-PI	Chiba University	Professor	YOKOTE Koutaro

Please refer to the NordForsk website for more information.

Evaluation

Application period	24 June 2021 - 7 October 2021
Panel meeting	8 November 2021

Number of applications	14
Number of awardees	3

Calls for Proposals FY 2021 AMED awards 3 joint research projects with NordForsk, the Academy of Finland, the Research Council of Norway, and the Swedish Research Council – FY2021 Japan-Nordic Joint Call for Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SICORP)

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Calls for Proposals FY 2021 AMED awards 3 joint research projects with NordForsk, the Academy of Finland, the Research Council of Norway, and the Swedish Research Council – FY2021　Japan-Nordic Joint Call for Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SICORP)