Calls for Proposals Early-stage FY 2020 AMED awards 3 joint projects with CIHR on "Advancing Epigenetic Technologies" - The Japan-Canada Joint call for Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SICORP)
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Outline
| Status of Grants/Funding Opportunities | Awarded projects |
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| R&D phase | Basic Study, Applied Study, Nonclinical Study/Pre-clinical Study |
| Key Fields | Health and Clinical Data Project, Project for Seeds Development and Research Base |
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Adoption contents
AMED and CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research) called for joint project proposals from early-career researchers in Japan and Canada in the "Advancing Epigenetic Technologies" research area and began to accept proposals on June 22nd, 2020. The evaluation committee discussed and identified three highly meritorious projects (See the following table of the awarded projects).
List of Awardees
| Project | Country | Affiliation | Principal Investigator |
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| Artificial Intelligence based adaptive and interpretable models for analyzing multi-track epigenomic sequential data | Japan | Tokyo University | Soichiro Yamanaka |
| Canada | University of Manitoba | Ahmed Ashraf | |
| Single-cell probing of epigenetic memory in immunity | Japan | RIKEN | Jay Shin |
| Canada | McGill University | David Langlais | |
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Characterization of the integrative epigenetic and epitranscriptomic |
Japan | National Cancer Center Research Institute | Akihide Yoshimi |
| Canada | Simon Fraser University | Ly Vu |
Evaluation Process
| Call open | 22 June 2020 - 15 September 2020 |
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| Evaluation committee | 18 November 2020 |
| Number of Proposals | 6 |
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| Number of proposals reviewed | 6 |
| Number of Awardees | 3 |
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Last updated 02/19/21