FY2024
Application Guidelines for Joint Usage/Research Center Program
for Transdisciplinary Collaboration on Viral Research, Stem Cell Science and System
Biology
atInstitute for Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University (LiMe)
Institute for Life and Medical Sciences (LiMe) continues the philosophy of the two founding
institutes, the Institute for Virus Research (IVR) and the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences(IFMS). It promotes research to create new scientific fields and advance medical and life sciences
based on its achievements. Joint Usage/Research Center Program for Transdisciplinary Collaboration
on Viral Research, Stem Cell Science and System Biology, an integrated center established inFY2022, will provide domestic and international researchers with unique facilities and equipment, as
well as the knowledge, technology, and scientific resources in three divisions of LiMe, Virus
Research, Regeneration Science and Engineering, and Biosystems Science. This program aims topromote cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research and human resource development throughcollaborative projects. This year we call for proposals for joint research projects as follows.
1. Target Research Areas
We look for proposals of research projects in the following three research areas as collaborations withfaculty members belonging to any of the three Departments or the Research Centers in the institute:
1. Viral Research
2. Stem Cell Science Research
3. Biosystems Science Research
We are promoting international joint research as well as domestic joint research.
Please refer to the following page for our research areas:
https://www.infront.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/laboratory
2. Eligible Applicants
A researcher who belongs to a university or a research institution, or those equivalent as of April 1st,2024.
Graduate and undergraduate students can be also listed as a researcher other than an applicant. We lookforward to active participations of students as well as young scientists. To include undergraduate andgraduate students, applicants must submit a Letter of Consent from Supervisor (Form 3). Students arerequired to enroll in “Gakkensai” or a personal accident insurance for students equivalent to or higher
than “Gakkensai” at their home university. Particularly, undergraduate students must conduct researchunder supervision of a faculty member (assistant professor or above) from their institution or theirLiMe host researcher.
3. Duration of Joint Research
The program will support the adopted joint research for one year from April 1st, 2024 to March 31st,2025.

4. Application procedures
Applicants make an application as follows after consulting in advance about research contents withLiMe faculty members (excluding program-specific faculty members) who will be a co-researcher ofthis program. Each applicant can apply for one research project as a principal investigator in the same
fiscal year.
Required forms for application
 Application of Joint Usage/ Research Center Program (Form 1)
 Letter of Consent from Director (Form 2) (Head’s signature required) Letter of Consent from Supervisor (Form 3) (Only applicable if applicants include graduate orundergraduate students) (Supervisor’s signature required)
Please download forms from our website (https://www.infront.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/kyoten/).
Submitting forms
Applicants are required to submit “Form 1” as a Word and “Form 2” and “Form 3” as a scanned PDF
by email to the address shown below. Please indicate “2024 Application for Joint Research (ApplicantName)” in your email subject line.
（Submit to:）General Affairs Section, Institute for Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University
e-mai1：330kyoten*mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Replace the * (asterisk) with @ (at mark) when sending an e-mail.
* After we receive your application, we will send you a confirmation email. If, by any chance, theconfirmation email does not reach you, please contact us.
5. Deadline
No later than 17:00 (JST) on Friday, January 12th, 2024
6. Result announcement
Selection will be conducted by the management committee for Joint Usage/Research Center Programfor Institute for Life and Medical Sciences. The result will be notified to individual applicants by theend of March 2024.
7. Research funding
LiMe will cover each of following expenses up to 1,000,000 yen yearly for one year (2024 fiscal year)
for an adopted research theme.
This fund can be used for expendable supplies, travel expenses between LiMe and applicant’saffiliation, and accommodation expenses. Note that expendable supplies should be used in LiMe.
Note that the amount of grant may be decreased from the requested amount.
*Office supplies and general-purpose items such as PCs are not included in the expendable supplies.
8. Accommodations
Contact the General Affairs Section, LiMe for accommodation information.

9. Notes1) Adopted joint researchers are requested to visit LiMe or collaborate with our faculty via WEB toimplement relevant joint research. Applicants can stay at our institution for several weeks to severalmonths.
2) At the time of application, please designate one faculty member belonging to any of the three
Departments or the Research Centers as a co-researcher.
3) The management committee composed of internal and external members select research projects
and participants. And, a web meeting on the adopted projects is planned to be held. In this meeting,approved applicants will discuss possibilities of future development of their project with LiMe facultymembers.
4) Adopted researchers are required to submit research reports at the end of FY2024. The submitted
reports will be placed on our website as well as our annual report. We will also use them for quotation
on business reports of LiMe. Therefore, if you think of patent application based on the results ofcollaborative study, please make a report with a careful attention.
5) Based on law and regulation, studies which need efforts for bioethics and safety measures, including
animal experiments, viral infection experiments, use of a human sample, human gene analysis andrecombinant DNA experiments will be required in some cases to undergo approval procedure andattendance of education and training by inside or outside committees of our institute.
6) When reporting or publishing the achievement of relevant joint research, the scientist is requested
to add a sentence as below.
“This work was supported by the Cooperative Research Program（Joint Usage/ Research Centerprogram）of Institute for Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University.”
7) Application of intellectual property rights based on this joint research should be discussed separatelywith LiMe office.
10. Contact Information
General Affairs Section, Institute for Life and Medical Sciences,
Kyoto University
Postal address: 53 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japane-mai1: 330kyoten*mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp(Replace the * (asterisk) with @ (at mark) when sending an e-mail.)

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