This seed fund was established based on a mutual agreement between the two universities to promote and encourage collaborative research. In this inaugural call for proposals, a total of 20 applications were submitted, and following a joint review conducted by both institutions, the five interdisciplinary projects listed below were selected for funding.<\/p>\n
The selected projects will receive research grants to support their activities for up to one year, beginning in April 2026.<\/p>\n
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| Research Areas<\/td>\n | NTU Lead<\/td>\n | Tohoku University Lead<\/td>\n | Project<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Neuroscience\/Psychology<\/td>\n | Prof. Wen-Sung Lai<\/p>\n (College of Science)<\/td>\n | Prof. Kenichiro TSUTSUI<\/p>\n (Graduate School of Life Sciences)<\/td>\n | Neural Mechanisms of Cortico-Amygdala Circuits in Emotional Regulation and Psychiatric Disorders<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| AI in Healthcare<\/td>\n | Assoc. Prof. \nFuren Xiao(College of Medicine)<\/td>\n | Prof. Noriyasu HOMMA<\/p>\n (School of Medicine)<\/td>\n | AI-Driven Integration of Brain Tumor MRI and Pathology Reports for Feasibility Assessment of Non-Invasive Pathological Characterization<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Agricultural Chemistry, Food Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Metabolomics, Computational Science<\/td>\n | Assoc. Prof. \nHong-Jhang Chen(College of Bioresources and Agriculture)<\/td>\n | Assistant Prof. \nHiroyuki HATTORI<\/p>\n (Graduate School of Agricultural Science)<\/td>\n | Establishing a High-throughput Screening Platform for Bioactive Materials Using Untargeted Metabolomics and Molecular Networking: A Japan\u2013Taiwan Collaborative Study on Indigenous Foods for Sustainable Functional Agriculture<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Robot\/AI Ethics, Social Robotics<\/td>\n | Prof. Hsiu-Ping Yueh<\/p>\n (Research Center for Digital Humanities)<\/td>\n | Prof. Yasuhisa HIRATA<\/p>\n (Graduate School of Engineering)<\/td>\n | Toward Ethically Aligned AI Robot Design for Responsible Human-Robot \nInteraction: A Cross-Cultural Interdisciplinary Collaboration<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Silicon carbide (SiC), Quantum technology, Color center\/Spin defect<\/td>\n | Prof. Kung-Yen Lee<\/p>\n (Department of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering)<\/td>\n | Prof. Makoto KODA<\/p>\n (Graduate School of Engineering)<\/td>\n | Defect engineering toward Silicon Carbide quantum devices<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Contact:<\/p>\n Global Strategy Office |