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In 1998, Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience received 97 research grant applications from 21 countries. After careful evaluation for scientific merit, potentiality and feasibility, the foundation approved 13 projects and awarded a total of \70,000,000 to them. The grantees for the 1999 fiscal year are (in alphabetical order):
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Drickamer, Kurt; University of Oxford, UK; "Role of the mannose receptor in adaptive immunity" |
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Gallo, Richard L.; Veterans Medical Research Foundation, USA; "Dermatan sulfate, inflammation and wound repair" |
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Gastinel, Louis N.; CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) UPR 9039, France; "b4GalT structure/function relationships based on its crystallographic structure" |
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Golard, Andre G.; Northwest Hospital, USA; "Ganglioside control of calcium channel activity" |
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Habuchi, Osami; Aichi University of Education, Japan; "Purification and molecular cloning of GalNAc-4SO4 6-O-sulfotransferase" |
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Kawakita, Masao; The Tokyo Metropolitan Instute of Medical Science, Japan; "Regulatory role of nucleotide sugar transporters in glycoconjugate biosynthesis" |
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Le Bivic, Andr |
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Porcelli, Steven A.; Harvard Medical School, USA; "T cell recognition of isoprenoid glycolipids presented by CD1c" |
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Real, Francisco X.; Institut Municipal d'Investigacio Médica, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain; "Role of sialylation in glycoprotein targeting" |
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Seeberger, Peter H.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; "Identification of oligosaccharide ligands for natural killer cell receptors" |
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Suzuki, Kunihiko; University of North Carolina School of Medicine, USA; "Glycolipid metabolism in the pathophysiology of genetic neurological disorders" |
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Thorson, Jon S.; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Sloan-Kettering Division, Joan and Sanford I. Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Cornell University, USA; "Biosynthetic alterations of the calicheamicin aryltetrasaccharide" |
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Toole, Bryan P.; Tufts University School of Medicine, USA; "Effects of perturbation of hyaluronan function on tumor progression" |
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