Research Grants in 2025

Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience received 122 research grant applications from 26 countries in 2024. After careful evaluation for scientific and social merit, potentiality and feasibility, the Foundation decided to award the grants of approximately 70 million yen in total to the following 16 projects.

Grant recipients for the 2025 fiscal year
(In alphabetical order)

 1. Andersen, Morten;

Macquarie University, Australia;
Glycan markers against septic shock

 2. Anthony , Robert;

Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, United States;
Defining Anti-Anaphylactic N-Linked Glycan Structures

 3. Bennett, Alexander;

University of Gothenburg, Sweden;
Glycycle - Circadian Dynamics of the colonic mucus glycome

 4. Ereno Orbea, June;

CIC bioGUNE, Spain;
Leveraging Siglec Glycoimmune Checkpoints to Boost CAR Therapy Efficacy

 5. Foulquier, Francois;

University of Lille/ CNRS, France;
Decipher the lipid secrets of N-glycosylation

 6. Lunghi, Giulia;

University of Milano, Italy;
Investigation of metabolic alterations contributing to neuronal degeneration in Gaucher Disease

 7. Ma, Junfeng;

Georgetown University, United States;
Characterization of tyrosine O-GlcNAcylation

 8. Manabe, Shino;

Hoshi University, Japan;
Enhancement of IgG function by chemically modified glycosylation

 9. Mise, Koki;

Okayama University Hospital, Japan;
Glyco-proteogenomics to seek novel mechanisms of diabetic vascular complications

 10. Morita, Yasu;

University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States;
Arabinan homeostasis in mycobacteria

 11. Oka, Takuji;

Sojo University, Japan;
Fundamental studies on galactomannan biosynthesis in filamentous fungi

 12. Okumura, Ryu;

Osaka University, Japan;
Elucidation of the mechanism how FAM3 family protein regulates glycosylation

 13. Pinho, Salomé;

i3S-Institute for Research and Innovation in Health, University of Porto, Portugal;
Glyco-T: reprogramming T cell glycosylation in cancer immunotherapy

 14. Sawamoto, Kazunobu;

Nagoya City University, Japan;
Glycan-driven neuronal migration and its application in regenerative medicine

 15. Viollier, Patrick;

University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Switzerland;
Chemical-genetic diversity of sialic acids in bacterial flagellation

 16. Yamaji, Toshiyuki;

Juntendo University, Japan;
Search for novel glycolipid-related factors using a homemade paralog KO library

Number of applicants by country (for 2025)：