Completed Terminated Projects - International Collaborative Research Program: Strategic International Research Cooperative Program (SICP)

Outline

Key Fields Other programs(1st)
R&D phase Basic Study, Applied Study, Nonclinical Study/Pre-clinical Study, Clinical Study, Clinical Trials, Post Marketing, Clinical Research, None
Contact
Division of International Collaboration, Department of International Affairs
TEL: +81-3-6870-2210
E-mail: international”at”amed.go.jp
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Implementing Body

Finland

Counterpart Funding Agencies
  • The Academy of Finland (AF)
  • The Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (Tekes)
Research Fields Medical Science
Joint Calls
  • “Application of Medical ICT Devices” (CFP:2012, Research Period: 2013–2015)
  • “Medical Genomics with special attention to Bioinformatics” (CFP:2013,Research Period:2014–2016)

Projects

Project Title Teleassistance for Seniors with Dementia–A Novel Concept for Safety
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Japanese PI Hirokazu Kato
Finnish PI’s Affiliation University of Oulu, Department of Information Processing Science
Finnish PI Petri Pulli
Project Period 2013-2015
Project Title Dependable WirelessHealthcare Networks for Reliable Body Area Network-based Healthcare
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Yokohama National University
Japanese PI Ryuji Kohno
Finnish PI’s Affiliation University of Oulu, CWC(Centre for Wireless Communications)
Finnish PI Jari Henrik Juhani Iinatti
Project Period 2013-2015
Project Title Novel system for multi-organ quantitative tissue perfusion
Japanese PI’s Affiliation National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute
Japanese PI Hidehiro Iida
Finnish PI’s Affiliation University of Turku, Turku PET Centre
Finnish PI Juhani Matti Knuuti
Project Period 2013-2015
Project Title Genomics, bioinformatics and systems medicine to facilitate therapy of ovarian cancer
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Japanese PI Johji Inazawa
Finnish PI’s Affiliation Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland
Finnish PI Olli Pekka Kallioniemi
Project Period 2014-2016
Project Title Privacy-preserving genomic data analysis for personalized medicine (PRIVAGEN)
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Waseda University
Japanese PI Kana Shimizu
Finnish PI’s Affiliation University of Helsinki
Finnish PI Antti Honkela
Project Period 2014-2016
Project Title Bioinformatics platform for predicting autologous cell therapy efficacy in patients with heart failure
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine
Japanese PI Yoshiki Sawa
Finnish PI’s Affiliation University of Helsinki
Finnish PI Esko Markus Kankuri
Project Period 2014-2016

Germany

Counterpart Funding Agencies
  • German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; DFG)
  • Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung; BMBF)
Research Fields Computational Neuroscience (CFP:2012 and 2013, Research Period: 2013–2015 and 2014–2017, respectively)

Projects

Project Title Testing computational models of learning from social, real, and fictive feedback in human and nonhuman primates
Japanese PI’s Affiliation National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Japanese PI Masaki Isoda
German PI’s Affiliation Faculty of Natural Sciences, Otto-von-Guericke Universitat Magdeburg
German PI Markus Ullsperger
Project Period 2014-2017
Project Title Decoding of in vivo two-photon imaging data in mouse motor cortex
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Japanese PI Yukiyasu Kamitani
German PI’s Affiliation Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tubingen
German PI Takashi Sato
Project Period 2014-2017
Project Title The development of the functional organization in visual cortex
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University
Japanese PI Kenichi Ohki
German PI’s Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Goethe University
German PI Matthias Kaschube
Project Period 2014-2017
Project Title Autonomous learning of active depth perception: from neural models to humanoid robots
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Japanese PI Jeong Sungmoon
German PI’s Affiliation Neuroscience Department, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
German PI Jochen Triesch
Project Period 2014-2017
Project Title Impedance regulation during energy transfer motor tasks: from human experiments to computational modeling and robotics
Japanese PI’s Affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Japanese PI Ganesh Gowrishankar
German PI’s Affiliation Technische Universitat Munchen (TUM)
German PI Patrick van der Smagt
Project Period 2013-2015
Project Title Heterogeneity of the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus: Quantification, Simulation, and Functional Analysis
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Brain Science Institute, RIKEN
Japanese PI Toru Takumi
German PI’s Affiliation Charite University
German PI Grigory Bordyugov
Project Period 2013-2015
Project Title Neural circuit mechanisms of reinforcement learning
Japanese PI’s Affiliation The University of Tokyo
Japanese PI Kenji Morita
German PI’s Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6), Julich Research Centre
German PI Abigail Morrison
Project Period 2013-2015
Project Title The influence of feature salience over microsaccades in normal and blindsight humans and monkeys: an experimental and theoretical investigation
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Department of Developmental Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Japanese PI Masatoshi Yoshida
German PI’s Affiliation Physiology of Active Vision Laboratory, Werner Reichardt Center for Integrative Neuroscience
German PI Ziad M.Hafed
Project Period 2013-2015

South Africa

Counterpart Funding Agency
  • National Research Foundation (NRF)
Research Fields Life Sciences (CFP:2012, Research Period:2013–2015)

Projects

South African PI’s Affiliation

Project Title Protective and subversive mechanisms of macrophage genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection Japanese PI’s Affiliation RIKEN Japanese PI Harukazu Suzuki South African PI’s Affiliation University of Cape Town South African PI Frank Brombacher Project Period 2013–2015

Project Title The role of HIV infection in pre-eclampsia
Japanese PI’s Affiliation University of Fukui
Japanese PI Tadashi Konoshita
South African PI’s Affiliation KwaZulu-Natal
South African PI Jagidesa Moodley
Project Period 2013–2015
Project Title Genetic and pathogenic diversity of Pantoea ananatis strains
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Shizuoka University
Japanese PI Yuichi Takikawa
South African PI’s Affiliation University of Pretoria
South African PI Teresa Ann Coutinho
Project Period 2013–2015

Switzerland

Counterpart Funding Agency
  • Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)
Research Fields Medicine for an Aging Society (CFP:2013, Research Period:2013–2016)
Project Title Cortically-triggered robotic hand orthosis for home-based therapy and assistance in activities of daily living
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Kyushu University
Japanese PI Jumpei Arata
Swiss PI’s Affiliation ETH Zürich
Swiss PI Roger Gassert
Project Period 2013-2016
Project Title Development of A Comprehensive System for Assessment of Sarcopenia, Osteoporosis and Joint Dysfunction
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Osaka University
Japanese PI Masaki Takao
Swiss PI’s Affiliation University of Bern
Swiss PI Zheng Guoyan
Project Period 2013-2016
Project Title Preemptive cancer treatments based on detection and elimination of precancerous cells using cell competition and supercompetition markers
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Hokkaido University
Japanese PI Yasuyuki Fujita
Swiss PI’s Affiliation University of Bern
Swiss PI Eduardo Moreno
Project Period 2013-2016

Brazil

Counterpart Funding Agency
  • The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
Research Fields Nanobiotechnology (CFP:2013, Research Period:2014–2016)

Projects

Project Title Bio-functionalization of Ti-based materials for osseointegrated implants
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Japanese PI Takao Hanawa
Brazilian PI’s Affiliation UNESP-Universidade Estadual Paulista
Brazilian PI Luís Augusto Sousa Marques da Rocha
Project Period 2014-2016
Project Title Amazon fruits nano-supplements development: nutrigenomic and nutrigenetic effects on aging and health (EPIDIET PROJECT)
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Tokyo Metropolitan University
Japanese PI Toshiro Aigaki
Brazilian PI’s Affiliation Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Brazilian PI Ivana Beatrice Mânica da Cruz
Project Period 2014-2016
Project Title Evaluation of different extracts and isolated compounds from Brazilian Propolis in obesity and diabetes via in vitro and in vivo assay
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Chubu University
Japanese PI Je Tae Woo
Brazilian PI’s Affiliation University of São Paulo
Brazilian PI Jairo Kenupp Bastos
Project Period 2014-2016

Israel

Counterpart Funding Agency
  • The Israeli Ministry of Science, Space and Technology
Research Fields Age dependent Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders (CFP:2013, Research Period:2013–2016)

Projects

Project Title Pathogenic mechanism underlying neurodevelopmental disorder in schizophrenia
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Nagoya University
Japanese PI Kozo Kaibuchi
Israeli PI’s Affiliation Weizmann Institute of Science
Israeli PI Orty Reiner
Project Period 2013-2016
Project Title Late Life Depression:Molecular Basis and Neural Networks
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Hiroshima University
Japanese PI Shigeto Yamawaki
Israeli PI’s Affiliation Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center
Israeli PI Bernard Lerer
Project Period 2013-2016
Project Title RNA-based novel approaches for discovery of ALS biomarker
Japanese PI’s Affiliation The University of Tokyo
Japanese PI Shin Kwak
Israeli PI’s Affiliation Bar-Ilan University
Israeli PI Erez Levanon
Project Period 2013-2016

The United Kingdom

Counterpart Funding Agency
  • Medical Research Council (MRC)
Research Fields The Use of Next Generation Optical Microscopy for Neuroscience Disease Challenges (CFP:2013, Research Period:2014–2016)

Projects

Project Title Single molecule imaging of synaptic protein dynamics in neurodegeneration
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Kyoto University
Japanese PI Akihiro Kusumi
British PI’s Affiliation Medical Research Council
British PI Giovanna Mallucci
Project Period 2014-2016
Project Title Investigation of cortical memory circuits in normal and disease model mice using synaptic optogenetics
Japanese PI’s Affiliation The University of Tokyo
Japanese PI Haruo Kasai
British PI’s Affiliation Cardiff University
British PI Kevin Fox
Project Period 2014-2016

India

Counterpart Funding Agency
  • Department of Science and Technology (DST)
Research Fields Biomedical Research (CFP:2013, Research Period:2014–2017)

Projects

Project Title Identification of biomarkers for infection-induced reactive arthritis based on the inflammation amplifier
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Hokkaido University
Japanese PI Masaaki Murakami
Indian PI’s Affiliation Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences
Indian PI Ramnath Misra
Project Period 2014–2017
Project Title Improvement of the accuracy for differential diagnosis against viral infection–DENV, CHIKV, and FluV- by spreading of high quality RDT in India
Japanese PI’s Affiliation National Institute of Infectious Diseases Osaka University
Japanese PI Takeshi Kurosu Tatsuo Shioda
Indian PI’s Affiliation VMMC and Safadrjung Hospital International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi
Indian PI Rajni Gaind Sujatha Sunil
Project Period 2014–2017
Project Title Role of TLRs in patients with severe complicated malaria due to Plasmodium vivax and the development of diagnostic method for predicting the severity
Japanese PI’s Affiliation Kyorin University School of Medicine
Japanese PI Fumie Kobayashi
Indian PI’s Affiliation Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research
Indian PI Rakesh Sehgal
Project Period 2014–2017

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