Japan opens new era in university funding

Article Abstract:

The Japanese government has introduced a new grant scheme to be run by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), an agency affiliated with the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. NEDO has awarded 95 of 109 of its first research grants to various Japanese universities. The Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (Monbusho) and Science and Technology Agency have also announced several schemes for grants in various fields following the precedent shown by NEDO. Monbusho was solely responsible for research funding earlier. The aim of these grants is to establish new technologies.

Finance, Universities and colleges

---

Genomics boosted as Japan unveils plans for state-funded companies

Article Abstract:

The Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) and Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW) have decided to setup two new companies at a cost of 10-11 billion yen in six years for research and development work in genomics. MITI's Helix Institute will concentrate on developing technological methods for analyzing the functions and characteristics of genetic sequences. MHW's Pharma-Genocyte Institute will focus on family analysis of the Japanese population for gene-related diseases. These two companies will receive collaboration from private pharmaceutical, chemical and optical industries.

Genetic research

---

Research funds new friends in Japan's diet...

Article Abstract:

Japan's new ruling coalition is significantly more pro-science than the previous Diet, especially among the younger members of the Liberal Democratic Party such as Koichi Kato and Koji Omi. The second supplementary budget in 1995 includes billions of US dollars for science. Scientists are happy with the new focus but some are not sure it will last. An example of the new focus is that the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture will receive US$2.24 billion for frontier research grants in addition to its normal funds.

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: An adaptive explanation for male-biased sex ratios in overwintering monarch butterflies. Effects of population size and food stress on fitness-related characters in the scarce heath, a rare butterfly in Western Europe
• Abstracts: Research organization: a coat of many colours. Dutch universities and research laboratories set for major cuts
• Abstracts: HUGO and HGS clash over 'utility' of gene sequences in US patent law. British MPs 'likely to oppose gene patents.'
• Abstracts: Spontaneous stratification in granular mixtures. Self-similarity of complex networks. Modelling urban growth patterns
• Abstracts: Asymmetric segregation of the homeodomain protein Prospero during Drosophila development. Making one cell from two

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.