Nakatani Foundation of Electronic Measuring Technology Advancement (Tokyo ; hereafter, the ?Foundation?) today announced the thirteen recipients of its research subsidies for fiscal 2007. Sysmex Corporation (HQ: Kobe; president: Hisashi Ietsugu; hereafter, the ?Company?) has been a financial supporter of the Foundation for many years.
The Foundation was established in April 1984, endowed principally by the Company and its founder and first president, the late Taro Nakatani, with the mandate of “promoting advances in electronic measuring technology as a foundation for industrial technology, in order to contribute to the development of Japanese society and its economy as well as the betterment of national life.” Since it began, the Foundation has provided annual subsidies for research in the field of in vivo electronic measuring technology, awarding a total of 467 million yen to 243 research projects over the last 24 years.
| 1. Subsidy recipients and research themes |
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Please see "Recipients of FY2007 Research Subsidies." (attached) |
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| 2. Presentation ceremony |
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Time: February 29, 2008, 13:30 |
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Place: Cherry Room, Hamamatsucho Tokyo Kaikan, 39F, WorldTradeCenter Bldg. |
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| 3. About the Association |
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Address: 1-2-2 Ohsaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
Phone: (+81)3-5719-5216
URL: http://www.nakatani-foundation.jp/ |
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Recipients of FY2007 Research Subsidies
Nakatani Foundation of Electronic Measuring Technology Advancement
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For Senior Researchers |
Recipient |
Position and Affiliation |
Research Theme |
Amount (yen) |
Kotaro Oka |
Department of Biosciences & Informatics,Keio University
Professor |
Development of multi-color imaging technique for FRET-based fluorescent probes |
2,000,000 |
Kunio Awazu |
Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
Professor |
Development of Non-invasive Cell Analyzer by Infrared Spectroscopy |
2,000,000 |
Kazunori Uemura |
Laboratory of Hemodynamics,Department of Cardiovascular Dynamics, Advanced Medical Engineering Center,National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute
Research Scientist |
Continuous monitoring system of cardiac output and left atrial pressure by using arterial pressure contour and electrical conductance |
1,790,000 |
Hiromichi Horinaka |
Department of Physics and Electronics, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University
Professor |
Monitoring device of drug distribution in living body based on optically assisted ultrasonic velocity-change imaging |
1,780,000 |
Hidetaka Torigoe |
Department of Applied Chemistry,Faculty of Science,Tokyo University of Science
Associate Professor |
Development of a novel method to electrochemically detect single nucleotide polymorphisms of diabetes-related genes |
2,000,000 |
Yuji Morimoto |
Department of Integrative Physiology and Bio-Nano Medicine
Associate Professor |
Real time molecular imaging using gold nanoparticles |
2,000,000 |
Tetsuto Minami |
Kobe Advanced ICT Research Center,
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Expert Researcher |
Integrated decoding approach using multimodal brain imaging |
1,970,000 |
Subtotal |
13,540,000 |
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| For Junior Researchers |
Recipient |
Position and Affiliation |
Research Theme |
Amount
(yen) |
Tsutomu Ohmori |
Department of Medical Engineering,National Defense Medical College
Assistant Professor |
Tissue Characterization and Imaging by Transient Grating Method |
1,000,000 |
Sayuri Arimitsu |
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine Osaka University
M.D. |
Three Dimensional Motion Analysis of Pathologic Joints Using Virtual Reality System |
1,000,000 |
Nagaoka Takashi |
Shizuoka Cancer Center Research Institute Cancer Diagnostic Research Division
Researcher |
Development of multispectral camera for early cancer diagnosis |
1,000,000 |
Munenori Ono |
Department of physiology and neurobiology,Faculty of medicine, Kyoto University
Post Doc. |
A method for simultaneous recordings of electrophysiological and optical signals from a single neuron |
990,000 |
Subtotal |
3,990,000 |
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Total amount of subsidies: ¥17,530,000 |
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