Grantees 2008

Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience received 99 research grant applications from 20 countries in 2007. After careful evaluation for scientific merit, potentiality and feasibility, the Foundation decided to award the grants of 70 million yen in total to the following 15 projects.

*1.

Alaniz, Laura Daniela; Austral Hospital University (HUA), Argentina; Immunomodulatory role of HA during HC progression. Therapeutics implications

 2.

Baba, Tadashi; University of Tsukuba, Japan; Physiological role of sperm hyaluronidase in mammalian fertilization

 3.

Couchman, John R.; University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Towards visualizing the heparanosome

 4.

Desai, Umesh R.; Virginia Commonwealth University, USA; Heprin/heparan sulfate - heparin cofactor II interaction

 5.

Graham, Mark E.; GChildren's Medical Research Institute, Australia; O-GlcNAc-phosphorylation of AP180: A new post-translational modification

 6.

Guo, Zhongwu; Wayne State University, USA; Synthetic and biological studies of GPI anchors and related structures

 7.

Ihara, Yoshito; Wakayama Medical University, Japan; Biological functions of C-mannosylation in cell signaling

 8.

Kobayashi, Kazuhiro; Osaka University, Japan; Significance of O-mannosylglycan in neuro-muscular and -psychological disorders

*9.

Pavao, Mauro S. G.; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Anti-selectin activity of invertebrate glycans: effect on cancer and thrombosis

10.

Rose, David R.; Ontario Cancer Institute, Canada; Eukaryotic family 38 glycosyl hydrolases: Structure, mechanism and inhibition

11.

Tammi, Markku I.; Department of Biomedicine/Anatomy, Finland; UDP-GlcNAc regulation of hyaluronan synthesis and Has expression

12.

Trinchera, Marco; Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche Spelimentali e Cliniche, Italy; Transcriptional and epigenetic silencing of β1, 3galactosytransferase 5 in cancer

13.

Walter, Jochen; University Hospital Bonn, Germany; Sphingolipids in the regulation of Alzheimer disease related proteins

14.

Yamagata, Tatsuya; Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, P.R. China; Ganglioside suppression of tumor metastasis

15.

Yother, Janet L.; University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA; Linkage of Streptococcus pneumoniae capsular polysaccharide to the cell surface

[ * ] awardees in the category, "Exploratory Glycoscience"