ETH - Global - Awarded projects

The third call for proposals for the Strategic Japanese-Swiss Cooperative Programme on "Medical Research" has closed and the Japanese and Swiss review committees have now taken a decision on proposals to be supported. We are pleased to announce the names of the successful applicants:

Results from the third call

Swiss applicant	Japanese applicant	Project title
Bertrand Huard, Geneva University Medical Center	Yasuhiko Tomino, Juntendo University	Pathogenic role of O-glycosylated IgA and the plasma-cell survival factor APRIL in IgA nephropathy
Jens Volker Stein, Theodor Kocher Institute University of Bern	Yoshinori Fukui, Kyushu University	Molecular Mechanism Controlling Migration and Activation of Lymphocytes in Peripheral Lymphoid Tissues
Dario Neri, ETH Zurich	Yohei Mukai, osaka University	Next-Generation Targeted Cytotoxics: Chemical Proteomics Discovery of Internalizing Antigens for the Development of Antibody-Drug Conjugates

Results from the second call

Swiss applicant	Japanese applicant	Project title
Urs Albrecht, University of Fribourg	Toru Takumi, Hiroshima University	The Circadian Clock and Mood Disorders - From Animal Models to Human Disease
Antoine Peters, Friedrich Miescher Institute	Haruhiko Koseki, RIKEN Center for Allergy and Immunology	Dissecting Polycomb Function in the Acquisition of toti-/pluripotency during pre-implantation embryonic development and induced reprogramming of somatic cells
Josef Jiricny, University of Zurich	Shunichi Takeda, Kyoto University	Proteomic Analysis of DNA Repair Pathways in the Chicken DT40 B lymphocyte line
Dominique Soldati-Favre, University of Geneva	Masahiro Yamamoto, Osaka University	Functional Study of Effector Molecules in Apicomplexan Parasites
Bart Deplancke, EPFL	Diego Miranda- Saavedra, Osaka University	Characterisatioin of the Transcriptional Networks Controlling Lymphopoiesis

Results from the first call

Swiss applicant	Japanese applicant	Project title
Yann Barrandon, EPF Lausanne	Shigeru Kinoshita, Kyoto Prefectural University	Exploring corneal stem cell fate for corneal regenerative therapy
Georg Holländer, Basel University Children's Hospital	Yousuke Takahama, University of Tokushima	Thymic medulla induction by mature T cells and their re-education by promiscuous gene expression: A novel strategy to treat autoimmunity
Takashi Ishikawa, ETH Zürich	Yoko Toyoshima, University of Tokyo	Structural analysis of cilia from genetically engineered Tetrahymena using electron cryo-microscopy
Andreas Engel, University of Basel	Chikara Sato, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology	Development of single particle reconstruction image analysis aiming at determination of the membrane protein structures

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