Fourth annual °×С½ãÂÛ̳-Tohoku University Strategic Partner Funds recipients
21 April 2022
Six projects led by °×С½ãÂÛ̳ and Tohoku University academics each received £10,000 to support a wide range of collaborations
Six °×С½ãÂÛ̳ academics are launching collaborative projects with academics from Tohoku University following the fourth joint funding call from the two universities.
°×С½ãÂÛ̳ and Tohoku University contributed matched funds to support the projects, with each project receiving £10,000.
Like last year’s recipients, many of the 2021/22 recipients focused their projects on mitigating the ongoing impact of COVID-19.
Congratulations to all the recipients of this year’s °×С½ãÂÛ̳-Tohoku University Strategic Partner Funds:
Lead °×С½ãÂÛ̳ academic | Faculty | Project |
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Prof Tiziana Rossetto | Engineering Sciences | Collaboration for using post-disaster data to evaluate the relative impact of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami hazards on the Japanese building inventory. |
Prof Maureen Fordham | MAPS | Investigating caregiver conditions post- and pre-COVID-19 through the gender lens toward redefining social Critical Infrastructure (CI). |
Prof Muneer Ahmed | Medical Sciences | Development of magnetic marker for localizing non-palpable breast cancer. |
Marc Isaacs | Social & Historical Sciences | A multi-disciplinary collaboration between film ethnographers and anthropologists to access long-term memory and trauma related to disaster in Kamaishi. |
Dr Ai Nagano | Medical Sciences | Comprehensive analysis of inflammatory mechanism of severe COVID-19 cases compared to other respiratory diseases, interstitial pneumonia, asthma, and lung cancer. |
Dr Mojtaba Abdi Jalebi | MAPS | Study of the optoelectronic behaviour of novel semiconductor materials for environmentally friendly and sustainable solar cells. |
More information
- Recipients of third annual °×С½ãÂÛ̳-Tohoku University Strategic Partner Funds
- Case study: °×С½ãÂÛ̳ and Tohoku University joint consortium on long COVID
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