Calls for Proposals FY 2024 AMED awards 3 joint research projects with SAMRC – FY2024　Japan-South Africa 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, Cancer, Infectious disease
Contact	Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development（AMED） Division of Research Programs, 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 the South Africa Medical Research Council (SAMRC). launched a joint call for proposals "Genomic Insights into the Pathogenesis of Cancer and Infectious Diseases" on 7 October 2024 and closed the call on 2 December 2024. All proposals were evaluated by the evaluation panels in Japan and Republic of South Africa (appendix. AMED side of review committee members), and the AMED and SAMRC decided to support following three joint projects.

List of Awardees

Title of Reserach Project	Affiliation	Title	Principal Investigator
Deciphering synergistic interactions between HIV and EBV in lymphomagenesis through genomic and transcriptomic analyses	Nagoya University	Associate Professor	SATO Yoshitaka
	University of Cape Town	Associate Professor	Shaheen Mowla
Discovery and validation of new host-directed drug targets for tuberculosis in human macrophages	RIKEN	Deputy Director	SUZUKI Harukazu
	University of Cape Town	Associate Professor	Suraj Parihar
CeCa for Precision medicine: Elucidating the cervical cancer malignancy mechanisms for precise treatment based on genome comparison and drug sensitivity test of Japanese and South African patient sample	National Cancer Center	Unit Leader	YAMAMOTO Yusuke
	The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)	Centre Manager	Deepak Balaji Thimiri Govindaraj

Evaluation

Application period	7 October – 2 December 2024
Review Period	19 December 2024 – 20 January 2025
AMED-SAMRC Joint meeting	28 March 2025

Number of applications	3
Number of awardees	3

Calls for Proposals FY 2024 AMED awards 3 joint research projects with SAMRC – FY2024 Japan-South Africa Joint Call for Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SICORP)

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Calls for Proposals FY 2024 AMED awards 3 joint research projects with SAMRC – FY2024　Japan-South Africa Joint Call for Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SICORP)