| In 2004, Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience received 118 research grant applications from 21 countries. After careful evaluation for scientific merit, potentiality and feasibility, the foundation approved 15 projects and determined to award a total of 70,000,000 yen to them. The grantees for the 2005 fiscal year are (in alphabetical order): |
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Basu, Amit; Brown University, USA; "Glycodendrimers for probing for carbohydrate - carbohydrate interaction mediated signaling" |
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Bellis, Susan L; University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA; "Variant sialylation of a4b1 integrins regulates monocyte adhesion to VCAM-1" |
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Chen, Xi; University of California, Davis, USA; "Pathogenic microbial sialidases and their carbohydrate ligands |
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Herscovics, Annette A; McGill Cancer Centre, McGill University, Canada; "Membrane glycoproteins involved in lung development" |
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Imberty, Anne; CERMAV-CNRS, France; "Lectins, adhesins and flagellins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in sugar binding" |
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Jakeman, David L.; College of Pharmacy, Dalhousie University, Canada; "Engineering enzyme substrate specificity: directed evolution of glycosynthases" |
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Lennarz, William J.; State University of New York, USA; "Functional aspects of Stt3p, a subunit of the oligosaccharyl transferase enzyme" |
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Maeda, Yusuke.; Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Japan; "Mechanism of glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor remodeling in mammalian cells" |
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Rabinovich, Gabriel.; Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Hospital de Clinicas "Jose de San Martin", Argentina; "Impact of differential glycosylation in the regulation of tumor-immune escape" |
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Salmivirta, Markku T.; Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland; "Expression and function of specialized saccharide epitopes in heparan sulfate" |
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Sato, Sachiko; Research Centre for Infectious Disease, CHUL Research Center, Canada; "Galectins-lectinocytokines that act as molecules of danger signal for immune response" |
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Slevin, Mark A.; Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; "Hyaluronan-induced signaling pathways in tumour-derived endothelium" |
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Somlo, Stefan; Yale University School of Medicine, USA; "The role of N-glycosylation in human polycystic disease" |
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Ueda, Minoru; Dept. of Chemistry,Tohoku University, Japan; "Bioactive polysaccharide concerning the memory in a carnivorous plant, Dionaea muscipula Ellis" |
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Yamaguchi, Yu; The Burnham Institute, USA; "Role of heparan sulfate in glutamatergic synapses" |
