Date: 2024-06-05
A total of 31 applications were submitted for the 2024 1st Round Academia Sinica Grand Challenge Program Seed Grant: 6 from the Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences; 19 from the Division of Life Sciences; 6 from the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences. Of these, 7 were selected for funding, including 2 from Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, 3 from Division of Life Sciences, and 2 from Division of Humanities and Social Sciences. Please refer to the following lists for detailed information.
Application Results for 2024 1st Round Academia Sinica Grand Challenge Program Seed Grant
A. Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences: (2 Projects)
Project No. | Project Title | (1) Project PI (2) Project Co-PI | Affiliation |
AS-GCS-113-M07 | Self-supervised Structure Discovery of Multi-modal Sequential Data | (1) Li Su | Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica |
AS-GCS-113-M08 | Investigations of key quantum effects in quantum materials and their devices | (1) Wei-Li Lee
(2) Guang-Yu Guo (2) Raman Sankar | Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica Department of Physics, National Taiwan University Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica |
B. Division of Life Sciences:(3 Projects)
Project No. | Project Title | (1) Project PI (2) Project Co-PI | Affiliation |
AS-GCS-113-L08 | Image-based mining of tubulin PTM-combinations in facilitating organelle placement | (1) Wei-Yuan Yang | Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia |
AS-GCS-113-L09 | Using multimodal machine learning-defined classifiers to perform Single-cell spatial imaging of in situ intrahepatic HBV-specific T cells in human | (1) Yang Cheng | Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia |
AS-GCS-113-L10 | Generating region-specific cortical organoid by manipulating patterning transcription factor expression level | (1) Shen-Ju Chou | Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia |
C. Division of Humanities and Social Sciences: (2 Projects)
Project No. | Project Title | (1) Project PI (2) Project Co-PI | Affiliation |
AS-GCS-113-H06 | Experiencing Ancient Fishing Villages across the Pacific: Unveiling Early Social Complexity with Novel Angles | (1) Pei-Yu Chen | Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica |
AS-GCS-113-H07 | Linking Economic Shocks to Long-Term Birthrate Decline – Revisiting Negative Education-Fertility Relationship | (1) Ting-Yuen Terry Cheung (2) Tsung-Hsien Li | Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica; Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica |