Calls for Proposals FY 2022 AMED awards 3 joint research projects with the MRC in the area of “Neuroscience, Neurodegenerative Disease and Dementia” – FY2022 Japan-UK Joint Grant Call for Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SICORP)
Outline
| Status of Grants/Funding Opportunities | Awarded projects |
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| R&D phase | Basic Study, Applied Study, Nonclinical Study/Pre-clinical Study |
| Key Fields | Project for Seeds Development and Research Base, Neurological and Psychiatric disorders, Aging and Dementia |
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Adoption contents
The Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) and the UKRI Medical Research Council (MRC) launched a Japan-UK joint grant call for proposals in the field of " Neuroscience, Neurodegenerative Disease and Dementia ". All proposals were evaluated by the evaluation panels in Japan and UK (appendix. AMED evaluation panel), and AMED and the MRC jointly decided to support the following three joint proposals.
List of Awardees
| Project | Country | Affiliation / Title | Principal Investigator |
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| Synaptic Pathology in ALS-FTD |
Japan | The University of Tokyo / Professor | Shigeo Okabe |
| UK | University of Edinburgh / Professor | Seth Grant | |
| Multi-analyte prognostic and diagnostic screening in blood and skin for Alzheimerʼs disease | Japan | Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology / Assistant Professor | Kaori Tsukakoshi |
| UK | Swansea University / Senior Lecturer | Sanjiv Sharma | |
| Deciphering synaptic dysfunctions of human cognitive disease gene mutations via optical physiological and neurochemical strategies | Japan | The University of Tokyo / Professor | Haruhiko Bito |
| UK | University of Oxford / Professor of Neurophysiology | Nigel Emptage |
Evaluation
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Call open |
4 August 2022 – 22 September 2022 |
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Evaluation committee |
8, 9 December 2022 |
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Number of Proposals |
18 |
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Number of Awardees |
3 |
01/13/23
Last updated 01/13/23