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1) Program Director (PD)
PD advises on the general management of the program including setting up the international joint research area, the selection of PO, and the selection, promotion and evaluation of the projects.
- Teruo KISHI, Ph.D., Honorary adviser, National Institute for Materials Science
2) Program Officers (PO)
PO engages in setting up the international joint research area and the selection, promotion and evaluation of projects to be jointly supported with the counterpart country which he/she is in charge of.
Bilateral Program
| Country | Research Area | Program Officer |
|---|---|---|
| USA | "Metabolomics" | Takaaki NISHIOKA, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University |
| "Big Data and Disaster Research" | Masaru Kitsuregawa, Ph.D., Director General, National Institute of Informatics Etsuya Shibayama, Ph.D.,Professor, Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo |
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| Singapore | "Functional Applications for Physical Sciences" | Takaaki NISHIOKA, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University |
| Canada | Canada"Epigenetics of Stem Cells" *Transferred from 2015 to the A-MED | Toshio SUDA, M.D, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cell Differentiation, Graduate School of Medicine, Keio University |
| "Sustainable Water Use" | Yoshimori HONKURA, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology | |
| China | "Highly-efficient Energy Utilization" | Akira FUJISHIMA, Ph.D., President, Tokyo University of Science |
| "Understanding the mechanisms of biodiversity formation and genomics for conservation" | Mitsuyasu HASEBE, Ph.D. Professor Division of Evolutionary Biology | |
| Japan-China-Korea | "Energy Saving" "Disaster Prevention" "Water Cycle" | Yoshimori HONKURA, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| EU | "Development of New Materials for the Substitution of Critical Metals" | Kazuyuki KURODA, Ph.D., Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University |
| France | "ICT" | Akinori YONEZAWA, Ph.D., Co-Director, RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science |
| "Molecular Technology" | Hisashi YAMAMOTO, Ph.D., Professor, Chubu University Takashi KATO, Ph.D., School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo |
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| Finland | "Information Systems for Accessibility and Support of Older People" | Etsuya Shibayama, Ph.D.,Professor, Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo |
| Israel | "ICT for a resilient society" | Kazuo IWANO, Adviser, Business Service Group Mistubishi Corporation |
Multilateral Program
| Country | Research Area | Program Officer |
|---|---|---|
| e-ASIA JRP |
"Health Research (prioritized area: Infectious Diseases / Cancer Research" ※Transferred to AMED from 2015 |
Kiyoshi KITA, Ph.D., Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo |
| "Biomass and Plant Science" | Makie KOKUBUN, Professor Emeritus, Tohoku University | |
| "Disaster Prevention" | Yoshimori HONKURA, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology | |
| "Advanced Interdisciplinary Research towards Innovation" | Dr. Haruo Takeda, Hitachi., Ltd., Research & Development Group, General Manager | |
| CONCERT-Japan | "Photonic Manufacturing" | Kenjiro MIYANO, Ph.D., Fellow, National Institute for Materials Science |
| Collaboration Hubs for International Research Program | "Environment・Energy" "Bioresources・Biodiversity" "Disaster Prevention" | Yoshimori HONKURA, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
