News 03 November 2014 YY Fellowship Autumn 2014 winners announced Awardees of the Autumn 2014 Yamagiwa-Yoshida Memorial International Cancer Study Grants congratulated Header Paragraph The objectives of this 3 month YY fellowship, of a value of USD 10,000, are to initiate, set-up or pursue bilateral cancer research projects with collaborating investigators abroad, to exchange and exploit complementary skills and material, as well as receive training in advanced experimental research methods and techniques. UICC and the Japan National Committee for UICC would like to congratulate the following Autumn 2014 Yamagiwa-Yoshida Memorial International Cancer Study Grants (YY) selection Fellowship Awardees: Dr Joel Alter from Bar-Ilan University, Department of Medicine, Ramat-Gan, Israel Going to: Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, United States Mentor: Professor John Condeelis Subject: Elucidating the in vivo role of Pyk2 in cancer metastasis Dr Nikolaos Parisis from Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Délégation Languedoc-Roussillon, Department Laboratory of Phosphorylation and Cell Cycle control, Montpellier, France Going to: The Rockefeller University, New York, United States Mentor: Associate Professor Hironori Funabiki Subject: A novel histone H3 phosphorylation that regulates genome integrity Dr Maxim Shevtsov from Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Department of Cell Technologies, St.Petersburg, Russian Federation Going to: Technical University Munich, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Munich, Germany Mentor: Professor Gabriele Multhoff Subject: Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles conjugated with Hsp70 or specific anti-Hsp70 monoclonal antibody (cmHsp70.1) for targeting brain tumors in magnetic resonance imaging Dr Fenggang Yu from Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Department of Otolaryngology, Singapore Going to: Shimane University, Matsue, Japan Mentor: Professor Hironori Yoshiyama Subject: Establishment of Epstein-Barr virus infection ex vivo models in healthy and pre-malignant nasopharyngeal epithelial cell cultures UICC Yamagiwa-Yoshida Memorial International Cancer Study Fellowships (YY) are granted after a severe review process conducted by a panel of external experts chaired by Prof. Nicol Keith (University of Glasgow). The grants are funded by the Japan National Committee for UICC and Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co. Ltd., Japan The Spring 2015 call for proposals is now open until 15th January 2015 APPLY NOW For more information regarding YY Fellowships, including details of all the 2014 award winners, please visit the YY Fellowships section More information on the Japan National Committee for UICC Last update Friday 07 June 2019 Share this page
