Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Date (from‐to) : 2015/11 -2018/03
Author : IKENAKA Kazuhiro; ITO Kei; UEKI Takatoshi; OHKI Kenichi; KATO Takahiro; KANEMARU Kazunori; SHIMIZU Takeshi; TAKEBAYASHI Hirohide; TANAKA Kenji; HASHIOTO Kohichi; YAMAZAKI Yoshihiko; INOUE Kazuhide; OKABE Shigeo; OZAKI Norio; KANBA Shigenobu; KIRA Junichi; KOHSAKA Shinichi; FUKUYAMA Hidenao; BANNAI Hiroko; NAKASHIMA Kinichi; IMAI Hiroo; MATSUI Ko; TACHIKAWA Masanori; KAKEGAWA Wataru
We Glia Assembly communicated with Glial Heterogeneity (sponsored by DFG, program name SPP1757, project leader Dr. Frank Kirchhoff) and organized the international research consortium, called “YoungGlia”. The purpose of this framework is to stimulate mutual exchange visits of young researchers of glial research. The collaborative research between Japan and Germany will be carried out by the young researchers.The collaboration must be approved by the principle investigators on both sides but the original proposal and execution of the research itself must be done by the young researchers. According to the above basic concept, we selected 11 research pairs at 1st (FY2015) and 2nd (FY2016) YoungGlia and supported their international collaborations for 1-2 years. We organized 3rd YoungGlia (FY2017) and all funded pairs presented their achievements. In addition, at the 3rd YoungGlia, we invited Canadian and American groups and expanded our partnership beyond Japan-Germany communication.