Grantees 2010

Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience received 86 research grant applications from 16 countries in 2009. After careful evaluation for scientific merit, potentiality and feasibility, the Foundation decided to award the grants of 66 million yen in total to the following 15 projects.

 1.

Aoki, Kazuhiro; University of Georgia, USA; Defining the interface between innate immunity and glycan expression

 2.

Berti, Paul; McMaster University, Canada; Transition state analyses of maltase-glucoamylase and sucrase/isomaltase

 3.

Chien, Chi-Bin; University of Utah, USA; Specific roles of glypicans and syndecans in retinal axon guidance in vivo

 4.

Dahms, Nancy; Medical College of Wisconsin, USA; Structural analyses of MRH domain-containing lectins

 5.

Hascall, Vincent; The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA; Heparin modulates hyaluronan synthesis in diabetic nephropathy.

 6.

Kozutsumi, Yasunori; Kyoto University, Japan; Biological function of dynamic change in sugar chains of germinal center B cells

 7.

Mort, John; McGill University, Canada; Hyaluronan synthases - journey from the RER to the plasma membrane

*8.

Schulz, Benjamin; The University of Queensland, Australia; Mechanisms of glycosylation site selection by yeast oligosaccharyltransferase

 9.

Schwarting, Gerald; University of Masachusetts Medical School. USA; Structure/function studies of N-linked glycans of olfactory AC3 and CNGA2

10.

Schwartz, Nancy; The University of Chicago, USA; Role of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans in hedgehog signaling

11.

Suzuki, Takashi; University of Shizuoka, Japan; Role of sulfatide in replication of influenza A virus

12.

Tanaka, Hiroshi; Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; Synthesis of di/oligosialic acid derivatives and their biological evaluation

13.

Tashiro, Takuya; RIKEN, Japan; Immune regulation with the artificial super-sphingolipid

14.

Wu, Peng; Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, USA; Chemoenzymatic synthesis of fucosylated glycans and their derivatives

*15.

Yamada, Shuhei; Hokkaido University, Japan; Studies on novel mammalian endo-type chondroitin sulfate hydrolases

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