Research Grants in 2026

Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience received 119 research grant applications from 23 countries in 2025. After careful evaluation for scientific and social merit, potentiality and feasibility, the Foundation decided to award the grants of approximately 70 million yen in total to the following 16 projects.

Grant recipients for the 2026 fiscal year
(In alphabetical order)

 1. Gao, Xiao-Dong;

Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China;
Identification and Characterization of Dolichol-Phosphate-Hexose Translocases

 2. Goddard-Borger, Ethan;

The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia;
Targeting tryptophan C-mannosylation in myeloproliferative neoplasms

 3. Grassi, Sara;

Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy;
Role of different GM3 species in myoblasts’ metabolism and differentiation

 4. Hurtado-Guerrero,      Ramon;

University of Zaragoza, Spain;
Targeting O-Glycans with Bispecific Antibodies and NK Cells

 5. Locher, Kaspar;

ETH Zurich, Switzerland;
Investigating dolichol biosynthesis: the lipid carrier enabling glycosylation

 6. Lupoli, Tania;

New York University, United States;
Improved routes to activated microbial sugars for cell-based glycan synthesis

 7. Macauley, Matthew;

University of Alberta, Canada;
Advancing an approach to decipher the glycan ligands of Siglecs in cancer

 8. Marino, Karina;

Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine (IBYME-CONICET), Argentina;
Metabolic Dysruption in Antibody-Secreting Cells: Impact on IgG Sialylation

 9. Mattot, Virginie;

University of Lille/CHU Lille UMR-S 1172, France;
Roles of proteoglycans and their glycosaminoglycans in central leptin signaling

 10. Murakami, Mark;

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, United States;
Sialylated CD43 as a targetable vulnerability in acute lymphoblastic leukemia

 11. Ninagawa, Satoshi;

Kobe University, Japan;
Proposal of an ER-Resident Protein Quality Control System and Its Mechanisms

 12. Niu, Jia;

Boston College, United States;
Programmable O-GlcNAc Editing of Transcription Factors

 13. Ohkawa, Yuki;

Osaka International Cancer Institute, Japan;
Regulation of redox system via glycans and its application to cancer diagnosis

 14. Tanaka, Tomonari;

Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan;
Chemical knock-in of clustered sugars onto cell surface and cancer immunotherapy

 15. Totani, Kiichiro;

Seikei University, Japan;
Catalytic mechanism of ER-endomannosidase discriminating defective glycoproteins

 16. Yoshida, Yukiko;

Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan;
Mechanisms of capturing glycoproteins by N-glycan-recognizing ubiquitin ligases

Number of applicants by country (for 2026)：