Out of eighteen jointly-written proposals, Hokkaido University (HU) and the University of Melbourne (UoM) selected the five teams as recipients of the 2026 Hokkaido-Melbourne Joint Research Workshops Fund as follows.
Professor Tsuyoshi Setoguchi, Executive Vice President for Research, HU, commented that the selected workshops are expected to further strengthen the partnership between the two universities across an even wider range of research fields. He also expressed his anticipation for the workshops' outcomes in 2026, a milestone year marking the 150th anniversary of HU and the fifth round of the Joint Research Workshops Fund.
HU-hosting workshops:
- Cancer microenvironment and next generation research collaboration by Dean Shinya Tanaka from the Faculty of Medicine, HU, with Professor Frederic Hollande from the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences (MDHS), UoM
- Disaster-Resilient Infrastructure Materials under Bushfire, Flooding, and Climate Extremes by Professor Takafumi Sugiyama from the Faculty of Engineering, HU, with Associate Professor Xuemei Liu from the Faculty of Engineering and IT, UoM
- From Molecular Mechanisms to Disease Therapies: Integrating Autophagy and Neurodegeneration Research by Professor Nobuo Noda from the Institute for Genetic Medicine, HU, with Professor Daniel Hatters from MDHS, UoM
UoM-hosting workshops:
- Rural Futures in the Asia-Pacific Symposium by Professor Susanne Klien from the Institute for the Advancement of Higher Education, HU, with Senior Lecturer Judit Kroo from the Faculty of Arts, UoM
- Symmetries of quantum integrable stochastic processes by Associate Professor Travis Scrimshaw from the Faculty of Science, HU, with Professor Jan de Gier from the Faculty of Science, UoM
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