Canada
Bilateral
Contact: 
1. Field of cooperation
AI
"Environmental Science and Technologies and Energy" (concluded in 2017)
"Epigenetics of Stem Cells" ※This research area was transferred to AMED from 2015.
2. Funding Agency of Canada Side
"AI"
National Research Council Canada (NRC)
"Environmental Science and Technologies and Energy"
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
"Epigenetics of Stem Cells"
3. Related Workshops
| Month/Year | Place | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 2013 | Tokyo | JST-NSERC Workshop on "Sustainable Water Use" |
4. Calls for Proposals
| Month/Year | Research Areas | Press Release |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 2022 | AI-based solutions for Well Being, Better Living Environments, and Social Connection for Aging Populations | Detail |
| Jan 2014 | Sustainable Water Use | Detail |
| May 2012 | Epigenetics of Stem Cells | Detail |
5. Currently in Cooperation
AI-based solutions for Well Being, Better Living Environments, and Social Connection for Aging Populations
Period：FY2023 - FY2026
| Title | Research Leader in Japan Research Leader in Canada |
|---|---|
| FureAI:An Implementation of an Elders' Living Support System based on Social Conversational Agents and Smart Activity Monitoring (FureAI) |
[Academia] ITO Takayuki, Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University [Industry] KUWAHARA Hideto, President, AGREEBIT, Inc. [Academia] Shichao LIU, Associate Professor, Department of Electronics, Carleton University [Industry] Alan RUTH, President, GRTHealth Inc. [NRC] Chungheng YANG, Principal Research Scientist, Digital Technologies Research Center |
| Development of Digital Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment at Home to Support Advanced Telemedicine (D-CGA@home) |
[Academia] EBIHARA Satoru, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Rehabilitation Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University [Industry] SAKAI Fuminori, President, Sakura Tech Corp. [Academia] Shannon FREEMAN, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of North British Columbia [Industry] Jordan SCHLEY, CEO, Care2Talk [NRC] Helene FOURNIER, Research Officer, Digital Technologies Research Center |
| Intelligent Assistive Robots for Caregiving (ARC) |
[Academia] YOSHIDA Eiichi, Professor, Faculty of Advanced Engineering, Tokyo University of Science [Industry] KAWASUMI Yuichiro, Manager, Core Platform Laboratory, Kawada Technologies, Inc. [Academia] Yue HU, Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering, University of Waterloo [Industry] Mojtaba AHMADI, CEO, MAE Robotics Inc. [NRC] Pengcheng XI, Senior Research Scientist, Digital Technologies Research Center |
6. Finished Projects
Sustainable Water Use
Period：FY2014 - FY2017
| Title | Research Leader in Japan Research Leader in Canada |
|---|---|
| Innovative UV Technologies for the Removal of Emerging Contaminants and Sustainable Water Supplies in Small Communities | OGUMA Kumiko, Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Engineering, The University of Tokyo Madjid Mohseni, Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of British Columbia |
Epigenetics of Stem Cells
Period：FY2013 - FY2017
※The 3 projects were transferred to AMED from 2015.
| Title | Research Leader in Japan Research Leader in Canada |
|---|---|
| Epigenetics and stemness in human hematopoiesis and leukemia: a new generation of stem cell targeted regenerative and leukemia therapeutics | NAKAUCHI Hiromitsu, Professor and Director, Center for StemCell Biology and RegenerativeMedicine, Institute ofMedical Science, University of Tokyo John E. Dick, Senior Scientist, Canada Research Chair in Stem Cell Biology, Ontario Cancer Institute |
| Genetic and epigenetic hierarchies distinguishing pluripotent and trophoblast stem cells | NIWA Hitoshi, Laboratory Head / Project Leader, Laboratory for Pluripotent Cell Studies, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology Janet Rossant, Senior Scientist, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children |
| Directing Cellular Identity to Move Towards Progenitor Cell Therapies | YAMADA Yasuhiro, Professor, Center for iPS cell Research and Application (CiRA), Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University Andras Nagy, Senior Investigator, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital |