Fourth annual UCL-Tohoku University Strategic Partner Funds recipients

21 April 2022

Six projects led by UCL and Tohoku University academics each received £10,000 to support a wide range of collaborations

Six UCL academics are launching collaborative projects with academics from Tohoku University following the fourth joint funding call from the two universities.

UCL 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 UCL-Tohoku University Strategic Partner Funds:

Lead UCL academic	Faculty	Project
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.

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