Grantees 2018
Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience received 220 research grant applications from 35 countries in 2017. After careful evaluation for scientific and social merit, potentiality and feasibility, the Foundation decided to award the grants of approximately 76 million yen in total to the following 20 projects.
- 1.
- Abad-Rodriguez, Jose; Foundation of the National Hospital for Paraplegics of Toledo, Spain; Negatively charged axonal glycans in myelination patterning
- 2.
- Bandini, Giulia;Boston University, USA; Studies on the activity and
function of T. gondii and C. parvum SPYs
- 3.
- De Castro, Cristina; University of Napoli, Italy; Chloroviruses encode a
novel glycosylation biosynthetic machinery
- 4.
- de Haan, Cornelis; Utrecht University, Netherlands; Dissecting the
complexity of influenza A virus binding kinetics
- 5.
- Ebert, Berit; The University of Melbourne, Australia; A pipeline to
determine GT functions by probing the sub-Golgi interactome
- 6.
- Higashiyama, Tetsuya; Nagoya University, Japan; Action mechanism of
bio-active sugar chain AMOR
- 7.
- Kasahara, Kohji; Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan;
Function of platelet sulfatide rafts in blood coagulation system
- 8.
- Kitagawa, Hiroshi; Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Japan; Regulation of
cytokinesis and exosome formation by chondroitin sulfate
- 9.
- Kobayashi,Toshihide; University of Strasbourg, France;
Distribution and function of glycolipids recognized by lipid-binding proteins
- 10.
- Nishijima, Ken-ichi; Nagoya University, Japan; Modification of sialic
acids in chickens by gene manipulation
- 11.
- Oohashi, Toshitaka; Okayama University, Japan; Potential impact of
perineuronal net on the pathogenesis of Schizophrenia
- 12.
- Perkins, Stephen; University College London, UK; CCP-SAS: solution
structure modelling of important glycans and oligosaccharides
- 13.
- Sato, Chihiro; Nagoya University, Japan; Environmental factors-induced
alterations of polysialic acid in brain
- 14.
- Smet-Nocca,Caroline; Universite de Lille, France; Structure and function
of O-GlcNAc/phosphorylation crosstalk of Tau protein
- 15.
- Turnbull, Jeremy; University of Liverpool, UK; Dissecting mechanisms of
regulation of cancer stem cells by heparan sulfate
- 16.
- Vocadlo, David; Simon Fraser University, Canada; In vivo genome wide
dynamics of O-GlcNAcylated chromatin-associated proteins
- 17.
- von Gunten, Stephan; University of Bern, Switzerland; The sweet touch
of tumors: cancer glycosylation effects on NKIS formation
- 18.
- Woo, Christina; Harvard University, USA; A proximity-directed
glycosyltransferase to edit O-GlcNAc on specific signaling proteins
- 19.
- Yu,Biao; Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China;
Decagram-scale synthesis of appetite-suppressant glycosides P57 &
gordonoside F
- 20.
- Zhou, Lan; Case Western Reserve University, USA; Develop O-glycan
Modified Notch Decoys to Mobilize Hematopoietic Stem Cells
