Programs Project for Basic Research for Medical Innovation

Overview

Establishes an R&D system that transcends the organizational and disciplinary boundaries of academia to promote basic research, including the discovery and cultivation of groundbreaking research seeds for the creation of new medical modalities. Strengthens international collaborative research to enhance competitiveness and nurture early career researchers.

List of our Programs

Programs	Overview
Advanced Research & Development Programs for Medical Innovation	This project develops time-limited research frameworks across organizational boundaries and promotes cutting-edge research and development designed to create and incubate revolutionary breakthroughs.
International Collaborative Research Program: Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS)	The SATREPS program is a Japanese government program that promotes international joint research.
International Collaborative Research Program: Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SICORP)	The aim of this program is to contribute solutions to challenges facing world today and to bolster Japan’s scientific and technological capabilities through collaboration with a broad range of countries.
International Collaborative Research Program: The e-ASIA Joint Research Program (e-ASIA JRP)	The e-ASIA Joint Research Program (hereinafter referred to as the “e-ASIA JRP”) aims to develop a vibrant and collaborative research community in Science and Technology, to promote innovation in the East Asian region, and to contribute to the region’s economic development.
International Collaborative Research Program for Tackling the NTDs (Neglected Tropical Diseases) Challenges in African countries	This program will be implemented at universities and other research institutes both in Japan and African countries to achieve the goal of controlling NTDs (Neglected Tropical Diseases).
International Collaborative Research Program: The Interstellar Initiative	The program recognizes the world’s most promising Early Career Investigators and connects them with peers, in related but distinct disciplines, providing a platform for them to develop a solution to a major medical research question. The aim is to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and thereby catalyze discovery.
Advanced International Collaborative Research Program - Adopting Sustainable Partnerships for Innovative Research Ecosystem (ASPIRE)	Adopting Sustainable Partnerships for Innovative Research Ecosystem (ASPIRE) aims to provide sufficient funds for large-scale collaborative joint research projects in cutting-edge fields, to be conducted at the initiative of the Japanese government in collaboration with advanced countries with high standards of science and technology. Under the cooperation of funding agencies in between Japan and partner country, this new fund will support international joint research strategically by enabling flexibility to set the research budget and support period. Through this international research collaboration, Japanese researchers will be encouraged to join the world’s leading scientific community. The exchange and connection of excellent young researchers from Japan and partner countries will also be strengthened. This will promote international talent mobility and circulation, and contribute to long-term collaborative networks. Proposal solicitation, evaluation, adoption, support, etc. in this program will be conducted by the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), and AMED will support research projects in the field of “Healthcare”.
Research Program on the challenges of Global Health issues	This program promotes research related to global-scale public health issues in areas including identifying disease etiologies, investigating methods of prevention, and standardizing methods of disease diagnosis and treatment.
U.S. - Japan Cooperative Medical Sciences Program: USJ CMSP (Research on Global Health Issues)	The U.S.-Japan Cooperative Medical Sciences Program (USJCMSP), one of the oldest bilateral programs in the history of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of United States, was established in 1965. The program continues to maintain its value as a unique tool to foster research collaboration among the US, Japan and the Asia-Pacific Region
Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)	AMED provide funding to the International Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Organization, which supports innovative, interdisciplinary, and novel basic research focusing on the elaborate and complex mechanism of the living body. The HFSP supports new types of multinational studies combining specialized knowledge of different disciplines with an innovative approach.

Last updated 09/24/25