Application Guidelines for FY 2024 RIMD Joint Research Projects
Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, or RIMD, Osaka University is currently calling for proposals ofFY2024 Joint Research Projects. As part of our Joint Research Center programs, we have been promoting
advanced joint research concerning various infections. RIMD also devotes our knowledge, technology,research resources, and research facilities, including those in Thailand, to researchers both inside and outsideof Japan. Joint projects with female researchers, young talents, and those who reside overseas are particularlyencouraged.
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Proposal Categories(1) General Project: approx. 20 projects from biological response/host factor research, and basic
biological research (short-term)(2) Specific Project: approx. 10 projects from infection and pathogen research (short-term)(3) Project for International Joint Research(short-term): approx. 5 projects(4) Project for Joint Research Promotion (short-term): approx. 3 projects held within budget*Category (4) supports the startups of new Joint Research Projects. New applications will be prioritized.
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Eligibility
Researchers affiliated with a domestic university/public research institution or an equivalent institution
Researchers affiliated with an overseas university/research institution*The above-mentioned Category (3) is only open to researchers affiliated with an overseas
university/research institution while Category (4) is only open to researchers affiliated with a domestic
university/public research institution or an equivalent institution.

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Research Period
From April 1st, 2024 to March 31st, 2025

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How to apply
Prior to application, applicants are required to discuss their proposals with a RIMD host researcher.
(For details of our researchers, please refer to the attached list and our website.)
http://www.biken.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/researchers/
Application document: Application Form for FY 2024 RIMD Joint Research Projects
Please download a format below.
http://www.biken.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/share/
Submission Deadline: Friday, Wednesday 7th, 2024
*Only for Category (4), applications outside of the deadline are acceptable within our budget. For details,
please contact us at the following e-mail address.
Send to: General Affairs Section, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University

E-mail: biken-syomu@office.osaka-u.ac.jp
Application document must be signed or sealed on a designated part, and emailed in a PDF form withthe email subject line of “Application for FY 2024 RIMD Joint Research Projects.” The PDF file also
must be named “FY 2024 RIMD Joint Research Project: your institution (your name).”5.

Research Grant(1) General Project: proposal on biological response/host factor research, and on basic biologicalresearch
A maximum of 500,000 JPY is granted as accommodations, travel expenses, and consumables.
(2) Specific Project: proposal on infection and pathogen research
A maximum of 500,000 JPY is granted as accommodations, travel expenses, and consumables.
(3) Project for International Joint ResearchA maximum of 500,000 JPY is granted as accommodations and travel expenses.
(4) Project for Joint Research Promotion
A maximum of 100,000 JPY is granted as accommodations and travel expenses.
* The grant is not directly distributed to recipients. Payment is processed according to Osaka University’s
accounting regulations.

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Notification
Applicants are notified of the results no later than early March, 2024.

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Remarks(1) Grantees are required to visit RIMD at least once for their joint research works.
(2) Grantees are required to submit research report when their joint research is over.
(3) For ethical projects involving animal experiments, human clinical specimens, human gene analysis,
and genet modification experiments, grantees are required to take some legal procedures andtraining courses.
(4) Grantees are expected to publish a paper as a co-authored one with our host researcher. Please send
us a photocopy/PDF form of the paper when it is published. Please refer to the following information
when an acknowledgement to our institute is added to the paper.
English title of this Joint Research Project:
Joint Research Project of the Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University
Example of acknowledgement:This study was supported by the Grant for Joint Research Project of the Research Institute forMicrobial Diseases, Osaka University.
(5) If a research proposal has been adopted as Joint Research Project for multiple years, their pastachievements will be subject to evaluation.
(6) Grantees are may be required to complete Japan’s security export control procedures through thehost researcher at the time of application.

List of Host Researchers for Joint Research Projects
General Project: biological response/host factor research and basic biological research
Department of Molecular ImmunologyProfessor

Sho Yamasaki

Department of Immunochemistry

Professor (concur.)Hisashi Arase

Department of Immune Response Dynamics

Professor (concur.)

Kazuhiro Suzuki

Department of Molecular Microbiology

Professor

Eiji Hara

Department of Signal Transduction

Professor

Nobuyuki Takakura

Department of Homeostatic Regulation

Professor

Tohru Ishitani

Department of Regulation of Infectious Cancer

Professor

Ai Kotani

Department of Experimental Genome Research

Professor

Masahito Ikawa

Department of Genome Informatics

Professor

Daron M. Standley

Department of Host Defense

Specially Appointed Professor

Shizuo Akira(concur.)Specific Project: infection and pathogen research
Department of Molecular Bacteriology

Professor

Yasuhiko Horiguchi

Department of Viral Infections

Professor

Tatsuo Shioda

Department of Molecular Virology

Professor

Tokiko Watanabe

Department of Immunoparasitology

Professor

Masahiro Yamamoto

Department of Bacterial Infections

Professor

Tetsuya Iida

Department of Molecular Protozoology

Professor

Shiroh Iwanaga

Department of Virology

Professor

Takeshi Kobayashi

Department of Infection Metagenomics

Associate Professor

Shota Nakamura

Research Center for Infectious Disease Control

Specially Appointed Professor

Yoshiharu Matsuura(concur.)International Research Center for Infectious Diseases

Specially Appointed Associate

Masaharu Iwasaki

Professor

International Research Center for Infectious Diseases

Specially Appointed Associate

Kentaro Tsukamoto

Professor

Research Collaboration Center for Infectious Diseases

Specially Appointed Associate

Kazuhisa Okada

Professor

Department of Malaria Vaccine Development

Endowed Chair Professor

Toshihiro Horii*Any faculty members at RIMD can be a host researcher, including those who at Animal Resource Center forInfectious Diseases/Genome Information Research Center/Central Instrumentation Laboratory.
Please contact us for details.