Calls for Proposals Selected Early Career Investigators under the FY 2023 Interstellar Initiative Program

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Outline

Status of Grants/Funding Opportunities	Awarded projects
R&D phase	Basic Study
Key Fields	Innovation and Clinical Research Center Project
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
AOKI Sho	Tohoku University	Assistant Professor
FUJITA Daishi	Kyoto University	Associate Professor
KOIDE Shuhei	The University of Tokyo	Assistant Professor
LI Junjie	Kyushu University	Associate Professor
MAEDA Keiko	Nagoya University	Assistant Professor
NOMOTO Takahiro	The University of Tokyo	Associate Professor
TOYONAGA Takahiko	The Jikei University School of Medicine	Assistant Professor
WAKAMATSU Manabu	Nagoya University	Assistant Professor
WU Quan	Kyoto University	Program-Specific Senior Lecturer

(Syllabary order/without honorifics)

Overseas awardees

First Name	Last Name	Affiliation/Institution	Position/Title	Country
Elisa	Corsiero	Queen Mary University of London	Lecturer in Immunology	UK
Mahdieh	Danesh Yazdi	Stony Brook University	Assistant Professor	USA
Mirco	Dindo	University of Perugia	Assistant Professor	Italy
Daniel	Hachim	Pontifical Catholic University of Chile	Assistant Professor	Chile
Ryo	Higuchi-Sanabria	University of Southern California	Assistant Professor	USA
Sho	Iketani	Columbia University Irving Medical Center	Assistant Professor	USA
Amit Ranjan	Maity	Amity University	Associate Professor	India
Ross	Milton	University of Geneva	Assistant Professor (TT)	Switzerland
Salahuddin	Mohammed	Notre Dame of Maryland University	Assistant Professor	USA
Sivaraj	Mohana Sundaram	SRM Institute of Science & Technology	Assistant Professor	India
Megan	Peters	University of California Irving	Assistant Professor	USA
Carol	San Martin	University of Chile	Assistant Professor	Chile
Marc	Schneeberger Pane	Yale University	Assistant Professor	USA
Ross	Thyer	Rice University	Assistant Professor	USA
Pamela	Urrutia	Universidad de Chile	Assistant Professor	Chile
Saining	Xie	New York University	Assistant Professor	USA
Houlong	Zhuang	Arizona State University	Assistant Professor	USA

(Alphabetical order/without honorifics)

Evaluation Process

Call open	5 April 2023 – 22 May 2023
Evaluation committee	18 July 2023

	Number of Applications	Number of Reviewed Applications	Number of Selected Applications
Investigators in Japan	22	22	9
Overseas Investigators	62	62	17