In 2000, Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience received 110 research grant
applications from 21 countries. After careful evaluation for scientific
merit, potentiality and feasibility, the foundation approved 14 projects
and awards a total of 70,000,000 yen to them. The grantees for the 2001
fiscal year are (in alphabetical order):
| 1. |
Bendiak, Brad K.; University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center, USA; "New NMR/derivatization methods tailored to oligosaccharide
structure elucidation" |
| 2. |
Carlson, Steven S.; University of Washington, USA;
"The keratan sulfate proteoglycan, SV2, as a presynaptic receptor" |
| 3. |
De Libero, Gennaro; Univerisity Hospital, Switzerland;
"T cell recognition of CD1-glycolipid complexes: molecular requirements
for their immunogenicity" |
| 4. |
Endo, Tamao; Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology,
Japan; "Physiological and pathological changes of brain glycoproteins
during aging" |
| 5. |
Fan, Jian-Qiang; Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
USA; "Pathophysiological dysfunction of misfolded alpha-galactosidase
A in Fabry disease" |
| 6. |
Fosang, Amanda J.; Murdoch Childrens Research Institute,
Australia; "Regulation of metalloproteinase activity by aggrecan
keratan sulphate chains" |
| 7. |
Hagen, Fred K.; University of Rochester, USA; "A
comprehensive functional genomics screen of glycosyltransferases
in C. elegans" |
| 8. |
Ito, Yukishige; The Institute of Physical and Chemical
Research, Japan; "Chemical synthesis of glycoprotein glycans as
molecular probes for functional analysis" |
| 9. |
Maccioni, Hugo J.F.; Universidad Nacional de Cordoba,
Argentina; "Golgi complex ganglioside glycosyltransferases: organization
and determinants for retention" |
| 10. |
Mayor, Satyajit; National Centre for Biological Sciences,
India; "The structural basis for the sorting and raft-association
of GPI-anchored proteins" |
| 11. |
Moore, Stuart E. H.; Institut National de la Sante
et de la Recherche Medicale, France; "Tools to study the fate and
function of free oligosaccharides in mammalian cells" |
| 12. |
Stanley, Pamela M.; Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
USA; "Mechanism of fringe modulation of notch signaling" |
| 13. |
Tanzer, Marvin L.; University of Connecticut Health
Center, USA; "Cell surface calreticulin: A lectin with a role in
regulating cell shape" |
| 14. |
Van Kuppevelt, Toin H.; University of Nijmegen, Netherlands;
"Heparan sulfate sequences identified using phage display-derived
antibodies" |
