EFSD/JDS Reciprocal Travel Fellowship Programme

2024

Aika Miya: Hokkaido University Hospital - Sapporo, Japan
Fat distribution's role in metabolic and inflammatory markers in type 2 diabetes

Tetiana Yatsenko: Palladin Institute of Biochemistry of NAS of Ukraine - Kyiv, Ukraine
Investigation of the molecular and genetic regulation of PAI-1 expression in diabetic kidney disease

2023

Eunyoung Lee: Chiba University - Japan
Deciphering the physiological implications of FADS3 in adipose tissues

Keita Suzuki: Kanazawa University - Ishikawa, Japan
Interaction between genotypes of fatty acid desaturase and intake of essential fatty acids on chronic kidney disease

2022

No award was made

2021

Programme did not run  (COVID-19 pandemic)

2020

Programme did not run  (COVID-19 pandemic)

2019

Kentaro Suda: Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine - Japan
Deciphering the contribution of mixed pathology to Alzheimer´s dementia

Akiko Teshima: Tokyo Medical University Hospital - Japan
Exosomes as liquid biopsies for type 2 diabetes

2018

Ayumi Kanno: Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine  - Japan
The Role mechanism of neurodegenerative disease in type 2 diabetes mellitus through human islet amyloid polypeptide  

Tomohide Yamada: University of Tokyo - Japan
Integration and systemization of clinical evidence of diabetes by utilizing artificial intelligence

2017

Karim Bouzakri: University of Strasbourg - France
Role of MARCKS protein in beta cell function and survival in healthy and diabetic patients

Kohei Kido: Ritsumeikan University - Shiga, Japan
Effects of ischemic preconditioning per se or in combination with exercise on muscle glucose metabolism in man

Kazuhiro Nomura: Kobe University - Japan
The mechanism of maintaining of skeletal muscle quantity and quality to prevent obesity and type 2 diabetes

2016

No award was made

2015

Michishige Terasaki: Showa University School of Medicine - Tokyo, Japan
Screen for peptides and small molecules increasing beta cell regeneration and improving glucose homeostasis in zebrafish and mice

Mototsugu Nagao: Nippon Medical School - Tokyo, Japan
Dissection the role of micro RNAs in pancreatic beta cell lipotoxicity

2014

Keizo Kaneko: University of Tohoku - Japan
The research of novel mechanisms by which the gut brain axis affects adaptaton to calorie restriction

2013

No award was made

2012

Haruhiko Tanaka: University of Tokyo - Japan
Genetic differences modifying circulating adipocytokines levels between Caucasians and Japanese