Grantees 1995

In 1994, Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience received 231 research grant applications from 31 countries. After a careful evaluation for scientific merit, potentiality and feasibility, the foundation selected 21 applications and awarded them a total of 100,000,000 yen. The grantees for the fiscal year of 1995 are (in alphabetical order):

 1.

Basu, Manju; University of Notre Dame, USA; "Studies on sialyl-Lewis x glycolipid in human neuroblastoma and colon carcinoma"

 2.

Bergstršm, Tomas B.; University of Gšteborg, Sweden; "Hydrophobic interactions in binding of herpes simplex virus glycoprotein C to the heparan sulfate receptor"

 3.

Chatterjee, Subroto B.; Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, USA; "Effects of D-PDMP on galactosyltransferase (GalT-2) and cell proliferation"

 4.

Dennis, James W.; Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada; "GlcNAc-transferase V in cancer and development"

 5.

Drake, Richard R.; University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA; "Biosynthesis of heparan sulfate in human myeloma cells"

 6.

Esko, Jeffrey D.; University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA; "Glycoside modulation of glycosaminoglycan biosynthesis" **

 7.

Feizi, Ten; MRC Glycosciences Laboratory, UK; "Sequences of the endogenous oligosaccharide ligands for rat L-selectin"

 8.

Fernig, David G.; University of Liverpool, UK; "Mapping changes in heparan sulphate during mammary gland development"

 9.

Hart, Gerald W.; University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA; "Alzheimer's disease and cytoplasmic glycosylation" **

10.

Helenius, Ari; Yale University School of Medicine, USA; "Are lectins involved in glycoprotein folding?"

11.

Kitajima, Ken; University of Tokyo, Japan; "Function of N-glycanase-catalyzed de-N-glycosylation of glycoproteins"

12.

Laine, Roger A.; Louisiana State University & A & M College, USA; "Tandem mass spectrometry of synthetic isomeric oligosaccharides"

13.

Ledeen, Robert W.; New Jersey Medical School, USA; "Ganglioside as modulator of the excitatory opioid receptor"

14.

Ley, Klaus F.; University of Virginia, USA; "Glycoprotein ligands for L-selectin expressed in microvascular endothelium"

15.

Li, Yu-Teh; Tulane University, School of Medicine, USA; "Studies of a KDN-cleaving enzyme"

16.

Meldal, Morten; Carlsberg Laboratory, Denmark; "Glycopeptide libraries for the identification of high affinity glycopeptide ligands for carbohydrate binding proteins"

17.

Oriol, Rafael; "Characterization of defective adult and embryonic fucosyltransferase genes"

18.

Pizzo, Salvatore V.; Duke University Medical Center, USA; "The role of plasminogen carbohydrate in regulating fibrinolysis"

19.

Reynolds, Colin D.; Liverpool John Moores University, UK; "Biophysical and inhibition studies on lectins"

20.

Wieser, Raimund J.; University of Mainz, Germany; "Structural and functional characterization of the contactinhibin N-glycans"

21.

Yamashita, Katsuko; Sasaki Institute, Japan; "Biochemical studies of carbohydrate-deficient glycoprotein syndrome"