Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience

Mailing Address:
Shinkawa Chuo Building 1F
1-17-24 Shinkawa,
Chuo-ku, Tokyo
104-0033 Japan
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Grantees 2012

Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience received 150 research grant applications from 27 countries in 2011. After careful evaluation for scientific merit, potentiality and feasibility, the Foundation decided to award the grants of 70 million yen in total to the following Projects.

1.: Baum, Linda; University of California Los Angeles, USA; Galectin-1 regulates migration of dendritic cells across lymphatic endothelium
2.: Berisio, Rita; IBB, CNR, Italy; Molecular mechanisms of defense response induced by chitin oligosaccharides
*3.: Empadinhas, Nuno; University of Coimbra, Portugal; Unravelling the early steps in the biosynthesis of the mycobacterial MGLP
4.: Enghild, Jan; Aarhus University, Denmark; Characterization of the HC2/TSG-6-mediated transfer of HCs between GAGs
5.: Grobe, Kay; University of Muenster, Germany; Characterization of heparan sulfate/Hedgehog interactions in vitro and in vivo
6.: Gu, Jianguo; Tohoku Pharmaceutical University, Japan; Role of N-glycosylation in integrin-mediated signaling
7.: Hosokawa, Nobuko; Cincinati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, USA; Roles of Perlecan in intestinal stem cell development in Drosophila
8.: Lin, Xinhua; Osaka University, Japan; Functional analysis of N-glycans based on chemical synthesis and bio-imaging
9.: Liu, Yong-yu; University of Louisiana at Monroe, USA; Globo-series glycosphingolipids and the stemness of cancer stem cells
10.: Maccarana, Marco; Lund University, Sweden; Functions of dermatan sulfate investigated in mice with targeted DS-epimerases
11.: Nomura, Kazuya; Kyushu University, Japan; Study on the roles of glyogenes involved in cell division of C. elegans
12.: Ramakrishnan, Parameswaran; California Institute of Technology, USA; Regulation of NF-κB by O-GlcNAc glycosylation and its role in diabetogenesis
13.: Suzuki, Tadashi; University of California, USA; Advancing heparan sulfate characterization by NMR Spectroscopy
14.: Tsuboi, Shigeru; Oyokyo Kidney Research Institute, Japan; A mechanism for evasion of CTL immunity by tumors expressing core2 O-glycans
15.: Wakamiya, Nobutaka; Asahikawa Medical Universtiy, Japan; Study of biological functions in novel collectin family
16.: Williams, Spencer; University of Melbourne, Australia; Structural insight into inhibition of N-glycan processing endomannosidase

[ * ] awardees in the category, "Exploratory Glycoscience"

The Grantees