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In 1999, Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience received 90 research grant
applications from 25 countries. After careful evaluation for scientific
merit, potentiality and feasibility, the foundation approved 14 projects
and awarded a total of 70,000,000yen to them. The grantees for the 2000
fiscal year are (in alphabetical order):
| 1. |
Bertozzi, Carolyn R.; University of California,USA;
"Metabolic oligosaccharide engineering for cell surface modification" |
| 2. |
Breen, Kieran C.; University of Dundee,UK; "The role
of second messengers in the control of sialyltransferase activity" |
| 3. |
Davis, Benjamin G.; University of Durham,UK; "Site-selective
glycosylation for the investigation of protein-glycan conjugates" |
| 4. |
Furukawa, Keiko; Nagoya University School of Medicine,Japan;
"How can gangliosides prevent the neuronal death and promote itsregeneration?" |
| 5. |
Heath, Andrew W.; University of Sheffield Medical
School,UK;"Conjugates of CD40 antibodies and Bacterial Polysaccharides" |
| 6. |
Hirabayashi, Jun; Teikyo
University,Japan; "The first step to the C.elegans glycopeptide
glycome project" |
| 7. |
Hirschberg, Carlos B.;
Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine,USA; "The golgi
GDP-fucose transport and leukocyte adhesion deficiency II syndrome" |
| 8. |
Key, Brian; University of Queensland, Australia; "Role
of novel N-CAM glycoforms in axon guidance" |
| 9. |
Oohira, Atsuhiko; Aichi Human Service Center,Japan,;
Role of NGC, a neuronal part-time proteoglycan, in the cerebellar
development" |
| 10. |
Orlando, Ron; The University of Georgia,USA; "Mass
spectrometric studies on the mechanism of pectin degrading enzymes" |
| 11. |
Perrimon, Norbert; Harvard Medical School,USA; "Role
of heparan sulfate proteoglycans in Wnt signaling" |
| 12. |
Stevens, Richard L.; Brigham and Women's Hospital,USA;
"Serglycin proteoglycans in inflammation" |
| 13. |
Vlodavsky, Israel; Hadassah Universily Hospital,Israel;
"Heparanase: Potential target for detection and treatment of cancer
metastasis" |
| 14. |
Young, William W., Jr.; University of Louisville,USA;
"Structure and function of GM2 synthase" |
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