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Support for Research Programs (Projects and Exchanges of Scientists)


Table of Activities of YSF
(unit of amount: 103Yen)
Activities Fiscal Year '1977 - 2005 '2006 '2007 '2008 Grant Total
Supports for the Study Applied Number 1,419 53 44 41 1,557
Actual Support Number 487 19 15 15 536
Amount of Supports 1,922,270 40,000 40,000 40,000 2,042,270
Travel Founds for the scientists to visit Japan Short - term Applied Number 1,003 0 0 0 1,003
Actual Support Number 307 0 0 0 307
Amount of Supports 217,930 0 0 0 217,930
Long - term Applied Number 65 0 0 0 65
Actual Support Number 17 0 0 0 17
Amount of Supports 25,670 0 0 0 25,670
Travel Founds for the scientists to go out of Japan Short - term Applied Number 6,245 0 0 0 6,245
Actual Support Number 1,852 0 0 0 1,852
Amount of Supports 478,030 0 0 0 478,030
Long - term Applied Number 1,536 57 39 35 1,667
Actual Support Number 194 9 4 5 212
Amount of Supports 226,970 9,000 4,000 4,860 244,830
Supports for YAMADA Conference Applied Number 59 1 1 2 63
Actual Support Number 59 1 1 2 63
Amount of Supports 547,280 8,000 8,010 15,500 578,790
Supports for YAMADA Symposium Applied Number 2 0 1 1 4
Actual Support Number 2 0 1 1 4
Amount of Supports 19,830 0 8,000 8,000 35,830
Supports for Workshops Applied Number 161 0 0 0 161
Actual Support Number 86 0 0 0 86
Amount of Supports 76,150 0 0 0 76,150
Special Support for the Study Applied Number 4 0 0 0 4
Actual Support Number 4 0 0 0 4
Amount of Supports 313,980 0 0 0 313,980
Others Applied Number 75 6 6 6 93
Actual Support Number 75 6 6 6 93
Amount of Supports 175,900 29,960 25,190 25,840 256,890
Grant Total Applied Number 10,569 117 91 85 10,862
Actual Support Number 3,083 35 27 29 3,174
Amount of Supports 4,004,010 86,960 85,200 94,340 4,270,370
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Support for Research Project in 2009
13cases ¥ 30,000,000(Applied 42 cases)
Spokesperson Subjects
Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University
Shinya HAYAMI
Development of ferroelectric metallomesogens controlled by electron dynamics
National Institute of Genetics
Takuji IWASATO
Roles of Rac-inactivator a-chimerin in neuronal circuit development
Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University
Tomomichi FUJITA
Mechanism of Differential Inheritance of Cell Fate Determinant in Plant Stem Cells
Graduate School of Science, Osaka University
Kiyotaka ONITSUKA
Synthesis of Functional Conjugated Polymers Containing Typical and Transition-Metal Elements
Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University
Kenji INABA
Structural basis for protein distlfide formation and cleavage factors involved in ER quality control
Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University
Hirotsugu KOJIMA
Study of the very small plasma density measurement instrument for observing the spatial distribution of space plasmas
Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Takao NAKATA
Study on the mechanism of neuronal polarity formation using photo-manipulation of phosphatidyl-inositol 3kinase cascade
Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University
Masato OIKAWA
Synthetic studies on marine natural products and analogues that specifically bind to neuronal receptors
Disease Glycomics Team, RIKEN
Shinobu KITAZUME
Sialylation-development endothelial cell adhesion molecule function
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University
Osamu ABE
Eperimental study on mass independent isotopee fracitionation of oxygen
Faculty of Science, Japan Women’s University
Ryoko SHIMADA
Optical properties of inorganic/organic hybrid excitons
Research Institute for Scientific Measurements, Tohoku Univversity
Noboru WATANABE
Study on electronic states of excited molecules by means of molecular frame electron energy loss spectroscopy
Research Center of Nuclear Physics, Osaka University
Mizuki SUMIHAMA
Studies of resonances in the non-perturbative QCD by various meson photoproductions at the SPring-8/LEPS facility
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Support for Long-term visit in 2009
4cases ¥ 4000,000 (Applied 23cases)
Researcher Subjects Country Period
Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University
Kazuma GOTOH
Study of new graphite intercalation compounds: the key for novel carbon materials including metal nano-particles USA 09/07
VACD System Research Program, RIKEN
Miwa UMEBAYASHI
Analysis of cholesterol transport from late endsome Swiss 09/04
School of Medicine, Keio University
Hirotaka MASUDA
Function of stem/progenitor cells in endometrial regeneration and endometriosis Australia 09/07
Computational Biology Research Center, AIST
Naoki OSATO
A genome-wide analysis of transcriptional regulatory networks in C. elegans USA 09/04
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