Annual Report 2024 and Grant Offer for 2025

Glycoscience
Mizutani Foundationfor

AimMajor
Activities

The Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience, on the basis of its global policy, awards
grants to glycoscientists worldwide for innovative basic and applied research proposals,
supports international exchanges of researchers in the field of glycoscience and also
relevant meetings and their hosting organizations, aiming to promote glycoscience andcontribute to the welfare of humankind.

The Foundation conducts the following activities in order to achieve the above goals.
1. 	Worldwide award of research grants for innovative basic and applied research
proposals in the field of glycoscience
2. 	Assistance in international exchanges between Japanese and overseas
glycoscientists
3. 	Contribution to glycoscience-related meetings and their hosting organizations
4. 	Conduct other activities necessary to achieve the aims of the Foundation

Chairperson : Ken Mizutani
Trustees: Tamao Endo, Tomoya Ogawa, Toshisuke Kawasaki, Kunihiko Suzuki,
Organization			Yasuo Suzuki, Masaki Yanagishita
Auditors: Takayasu Kishi, Nobuhiro Takeuchi
Councilors : Yukishige Ito, Tatsurou Irimura, Makoto Kiso, Ken Kitajima, Yuji Shimojima,			Naoyuki Taniguchi, Shoko Nishihara, Yousuke Funakoshi, Koichi Honke
Secretary General : Hiroshi Maruyama

Annual Report 2024 and Grant Offer for 2025

RGrantrecipientsesearch Grant Awarded
in 2024

Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience received 117 research grant applications
from 30 countries in 2023.
After careful evaluation for scientific and social merit, potentiality andfeasibility, the Foundation decided to award the grants of approximately 70 milion yen
in total to the following 14 projects.

(in alphabetical order)

1. Arda, Ana		 Center for Cooperative Research in Bioscience - CICbioGUNE, Spain		 Cell surface competing lectin binding by 19F-NMR
2. Bommer, Guido		 de Duve Institute, Belgium
Hereditary glycosylation defect due to the failure to protect asensitive enzyme

8. Hung, Shang-Cheng
Academia Sinica, Taiwan		 evelopment of microarrays for probing specific GAG-protein
Dinteractions
9. Jacinto, Estela		 Rutgers, the State University, United States
Regulating T cell receptor diversity by the hexosamine pathway

3. Boulard, Matthieu		 European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Italy

10. Kambe, Taiho
Kyoto University, Japan	Inhibition of cancer cell growth by suppressing Golgi
mannosidase II activation

 novel role of chromatin glycosylation in the epigeneticA
control of ribosome biogenesis
4. Dehesh, Katayoon		 University of California, Riverside, United States	
Decoding Golgi-Mediated Glycosylation in Hypometabolismassociated Aging

11. Katoh, Toshihiko
Kyoto University, Japan	Studies on association between mucin O-glycome and gut
microbiome

5. Fujita, Yuki
Shimane University, Japan	Mechanism of neural circuit formation by glycoproteins

12. Orellana, Ariel
Andres Bello University, Chile	
Unveiling the UDP-Arap Transporter in Plant Cell WallBiosynthesis

6. Harada, Yoichiro
Osaka International Cancer Institute, Japan
An intrinsic mechanism to suppress N-glycosylation and its
role in cancer

13. Pshezhetsky, Alexey	CHU Ste-Justine, University of Montreal, Canada	
Role of Neuraminidase 1 in psoriasis development
14. Yellajoshyula, Dhananjay
Casen Western Reserve University, United States	
Identification of glial inhibitory proteoglycans in theneurological movement disorder dystonia

7. Huang, Mia
The Scripps Research Institute, United States	Chemoproteomic mapping of the Man(b1-4)GlcNAc
disaccharide interactome in cells

Number ofapplicants bycountry

Australia, Brazil, Chile, Estonia,France, Hong Kong, Hungary,
New Zealand, Pakistan, Slovenia,
South Africa, Switzerland
Belgium, Canada, China,Finland, India,Netherlands

Germany, Israel,Taiwan

1122Japan

30

12Total

93

117
12

Malaysia, Sweden, UK

422
5

6

9

Portugal
Argentina

Italy

11 USA, Spain

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Grantees

1993-2024

Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience invited research grants for thirty one times
and received 4,396 applications from 61 countries. After careful evaluation by theselection committee, the Foundation approved 497 projects of 31 countries andawarded a total of approximately 2,365 million yen to them.
Grant
recipients
1993-2024

Total497

Number ofapplicants bycountry
1993-2024

184 USA125 Japan
20

UK

18

Canada16

France15

Israel13

Australia, Italy (each)

12

Netherlands

11

Sweden10

Argentina

9

Germany, Spain (each)

7

Denmark

6

Switzerland

5

China

4

Belgium

3

Brazil, Finland (each)2

Hungary, Taiwan (each)

1Austria, Chile, Greece, India,Ireland, Nigeria, Portugal, Slovak Rep., Slovenia, Uruguay(each)

Country

ApplicantsCountry

ApplicantsCountry

Applicants

USA

1,471

Denmark

22

Chile5Japan

672

Hungary

21

South Africa

5UK

254

Malaysia

20

Bulgaria

3

Italy

227

Austria

16

Hong Kong

3

Australia

194

Ireland14

Turkey3Israel151

Taiwan14

Costa Rica

2

Canada150

Greece

13

Cuba

2

Spain

140

New Zealand

13

Estonia2

Sweden127

Norway13

Iceland

2

France115

Nigeria

11

Serbia&Montenegro

2Germany

98

Poland11

Tanzania

2

Netherlands

84

Mexico10

Colombia

1

Argentina

82

Slovak Rep.

10

Iran

1

Portugal

71

Korea

8

Jamaica

1

China

54

Croatia

7

Kenya

1

Finland47

Slovenia

7

Peru1Switzerland

47

Thailand7

Saudi Arabia

1

Brazil38

Uruguay7

Sri Lanka

1

India

37

Czech Rep.

6Uganda1

Belgium

33

Pakistan

6

Total

4396

Russia23

Singapore

6Country61

Annual Report 2024 and Grant Offer for 2025

The 32ndResearch Grant Offer for 2025

Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience invites grant applications for basic and appliedstudies in the field of glycoscience.

An appricant must 1) have a doctor’s degree or its equivalent2)	have a documented capability of performing independent studies
Eligibility3)	be a member of a research institute where he or she can carry out
the proposed project.
Previous grant recipients who were awarded prior to 2020 are eligible.

As much as 7,000,000 yen may be requested. In principle, a grant will be approvedfor one year. However, if desired, the period can be extended up to one year with theGrant

Selection

approval of the Foundation. The total budget for grants is 70,000,000 yen per annum.
No more than 10% of the grant may be used for indirect costs (overheads), and no part of
the grant may be used for stipends of the principal and/or collaborative investigators.

The applications will be reviewed by the selection committee consisting of specialists
appointed by the Foundation based on followings.
1) Glycoscience field
2) Originality
3) Scientific and social merit
4) Feasibility

An applicant must

Application

1) make registration on our website,(https://www.mizutani.or.jp/grant/apply.html)
We open registration page from July 1st, 2024.
2) s ubmit application documents as a single ZIP file.
(Please obtain application guidelines and forms from our website in your preferredformat. )Deadlines

September 1, 2024 (Japan Time). Selection Outcome will be notified to the applicants nolater than February 20, 2025, and the successful proposals will be funded in March 2025.

The Protection of Personal Information: The Foundation will use personal information obtained inrelation to the Research Grant for administrative purposes.

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nternational Conferences

Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience offers grants to the organizers of international
conferences to promote exchanges between Japanese and foreign glycoscientists.
In the fiscal year 2023, we supported following conferences.

ExchangeProgram1.

Gordon Glycobiology Seminar and Conference

California, USA, 3/11-17,2023

2.

The 21st European Carbohydrate Symposium(EUROCARB21)

Paris, France, 7/9-13,2023

3.

The 26th International Symposium on
Glycoconjugates (GLYCO26)

Taipei, Taiwan, 8/27-9/1,2023

4.

89th Harden Conference Proteoglycans:
Matrix Master Regulators 2023

Surrey, UK, 9/4,2023

5.

2023 Society for Glycobiology annual meeting(SFG2023)

Hawaii, USA, 11/5-8,2023

G

rant for

Domestic Conferences in Japan

This grant is for organizers of domestic conferences held in Japan.
We supported following conferences in the fiscal year 2023.

DomesticConferencesin Japan

1. 第 23 回関西グライコサイエンスフォーラム
2. 第 55 回日本結合組織学会学術大会

3. 第 37 回日本キチン・キトサン学会大会
4. 第 42 回日本糖質学会年会

5. 糖鎖科学中部拠点フォーラム「若手の力」と糖鎖科学講義
6. 第 22 回青森糖質研究会

7. 第 33 回日本メイラード学会年会
8. 第 17 回東北糖鎖研究会

9. 第 17 回多糖の未来フォーラム

10. 第 20 回糖鎖科学コンソーシアムシンポジウム

大阪、5/20, 2023
岡山、6/24, 2023
鳥取、9/5-6, 2023
鳥取、9/7-9, 2023
静岡、9/21, 2023
青森、10/6, 2023
東京、10/12-13, 2023
群馬、11/11-12, 2023
東京、11/17, 2023
東京、11/30-12/1, 2023

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Grant Offerfor Conferences

The Mizutani Foundation is to contribute to the welfare of mankind through promotionof scientific exchange between Japanese and foreign glycoscientists by contributing

Grant Application
Guidelines forGlycoscience
Meeting

international conferences on glycoscience.
Proposals should be made an application format by the chairperson of the meeting.
After the meeting, please submit us a report of the meeting (the form is available fromour website) within one month.
Our total yearly budget is JPY 5,000,000 and we expect to support approximatery 20
conferences every year.

The deadline dateby which theapplication mustbe submitted

Due to taking the time to review, the complete application must be emailed by deadline (Japan time).
202420252026

Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Sorry. As for conferences held in 2024 and Jan. 2025, you cannot apply for the grant any more.
Nov.
Application Deadline : 11/30

Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun.
Conferences held in Feb. - Jun. 2025

Mar.
Application Deadline: 3/31

Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan.
Conferences held in July 2025 - Jan. 2026

Nov.

Feb. Mar. Apr. May. Jun.

Application Deadline: 11/30

Conferences held in Feb. - Jun. 2026

1. November, 30 : For the meetings planned to be held in next February, March, April, May, and June
2. March, 31 :	For the meetings planned to be held in this July, August, September, October,November, December and next January

Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience
Marunouchi Center Bldg. 9F
1- 6 -1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005 Japan
Phone: 81- 3 - 3211- 0861 / Fax: 81- 3 - 3211- 0862
E-mail: info@mizutanifdn.or.jp
URL: https://www.mizutanifdn.or.jp/2024/ MDO