Calls for Proposals FY 2025 Selected Early Career Investigators under the FY 2025 Interstellar Initiative Program

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Outline

Status of Grants/Funding Opportunities	Awarded projects
R&D phase	Basic Study
Key Fields	Project for Seeds Development and Research Base
Contact	Division of Strategic Planning, Department of International Strategy, AMED E-mail: interstellar“AT”amed.go.jp (Replace “AT” with @)

Adoption contents

AMED called for applications for the 2023-2024 Interstellar Initiative Program from early-career investigators in Japan and overseas. After the considerable discussion, the Evaluation Committee selected the following twenty-six applications.

Awardees in Japan

Name	Affiliation/Institution	Position/Title
DOAN Thi Kim Dung	Innovation Center of Nanomedicine	Researcher
Eguchi Kana	Kyoto University	Senior Lecturer
Ito Daiyu	University of Yamanashi	Assistant Professor
Kanao Eisuke	Kyoto university	Assistant Professor
Ko Toshiyuki	Department of Frontier Cardiovascular Science, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo	Assistant Professor
Nishida-Aoki Nao	Waseda University	Assistant Professor
Noguchi Rei	Tokyo Women's Medical University, Department of Pharmacology	Lecturer
Osakada Takuya	Institute of Science Tokyo	Specially appointed associate professor

(Syllabary order/without honorifics)

Overseas awardees

First Name	Last Name	Affiliation/Institution	Position/Title	Country
Naama	Aviram	MSKCC	Assistant Member (Assistant Professor equivalent)	USA
Aleca	Borsuk	New York Botanical Garden	Assistance Curator	USA
NAN	CHEN	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Associate Professor	USA
Yu-Chieh David	Chen	Temple University/Biology Department	Incoming Assistant Professor (starting on August 1, 2025)	USA
Srikanta	Chowdhury	Columbia University	Associate Research Scientist	USA
Abhijit	Deb Roy	University of Connecticut School of Medicine	Assistant Professor	USA
Ahmed	Eltokhi	Mercer University School of Medicine	Assistant Professor	USA
Nikhil R	Gandasi*	Indian Institute of Science	Assistant Professor	India
Yu Amanda	Guo	Genome Institute of Singapore	Staff Scientist	Singapore
Bashima	Islam	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Assistant Professor	USA
Christin	Kosse*	The Rockefeller University	K99 Fellow	USA
Chen	Liao	Dartmouth College	Assistant Professor	USA
Serena	Lucotti	Weill Cornell Medicine	Instructor	USA
Carola	Radulescu	Imperial College London	Edmond J and Lily Safra Research Fellow	UK
Indhu Shree	Rajan Babu	University of British Columbia	Research Associate	Canada
Joanna	Sadler	University of Edinburgh	Chancellor's Fellow	UK
Daniel	Sprockett	Wake Forest University School of Medicine	Assistant Professor	USA
Shai	Zilberzwige - Tal	The Broad Institute, MIT	Postdoctoral fellow	USA

*: They have declined the award

(Alphabetical order/without honorifics)

Evaluation Process

Call open	15 April 2025 – 22 May 2025
Evaluation committee	26 June 2025

	Number of Applications	Number of Reviewed Applications	Number of Selected Applications
Investigators in Japan	19	15	8
Overseas Investigators	90	78	18*

*: Two awardees have declined the award.