Calls for Proposals Early-stage FY 2022 AMED awards 3 joint research projects with NHMRC – FY2022　Japan-Australia 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	Project for Seeds Development and Research Base, Aging and Dementia
Contact	Office of International Collaboration, Division of International Strategy, Department of International Strategy E-mail: sicorp "at" amed.go.jp (Replace "at" with "@")

Adoption contents

The Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) launched a joint call for proposals "NHMRC-AMED 2022 Dementia Collaborative Research Scheme" on 27 April 2022, and closed the call on 22 June 2022. All proposals were evaluated by a joint review committee consisting of experts (appendix. AMED side of review committee members), and the AMED and NHMRC decided to support following three joint projects.

List of Awardees

Title of Reserach Project	Affiliation	Title	Chief Investigator
Reducing Cognitive impairment by management of Heart Failure as a Modifiable Risk Factor: the Cog-HF trial	Gunma University	Assistant Professor	OBOKATA Masaru
	Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute	Group Leader	Quan Huynh
Exploring biomarkers, therapeutic targets, and modifiable risk factors for non-Alzheimer's dementia	Tohoku University	Assistant Professor	KAGAWA Yoshiteru
	The University of Melbourne Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health	Research Group Director	Yijun Pan
Novel therapeutic strategies to intervene in tau-associated neurodegeneration by modulating tau clearance and neuroinflammation	The University of Tokyo	Assistant Professor	YAMADA Kaoru
	The University of Melbourne Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health	Group Head	Chien-Hsiung Yu

Evaluation

Application period	27 April - 22 June 2022
Review committee	18-24 October 2022
AMED-NHMRC joint meeting	28 October 2022

Number of applications	6
Number of awardees	3

Calls for Proposals Early-stage FY 2022 AMED awards 3 joint research projects with NHMRC – FY2022 Japan-Australia Joint Call for Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SICORP)

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Calls for Proposals Early-stage FY 2022 AMED awards 3 joint research projects with NHMRC – FY2022　Japan-Australia Joint Call for Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SICORP)