Application for
Yamada Research Grant 2011
Yamada Institute for Bee Product and Health Science conducts research in Bee Products as well as in Natural Products for protecting individual health from the stand point of preventive medicine. “Yamada Research Grant” was established in 2008 to promote researches on Natural Products and/or preventive medicine. We welcome applications from a wide range of specialty.
Research topics must be related to natural materials including honeybee products such as royal jelly, propolis, honey, bee pollen, larvae of a bee, etc. Following lists show subjects of application, and please select a theme from these lists. Any original and new research subjects are welcome as long as they are related to health and preventing medicine.
Research will be supported through the grant if the application is approved by the Review Committee. The Program Board has a right to increase or decrease the requested amount of the approved grants.
Applicants must complete the application form in accordance with the detailed instructions. The instruction and the application form can be down loaded from the website of the Institute for Bee Products & Health Science.
The web address of the Institute is: http://www.bee-lab.jp/
All applicants must use this application form. Otherwise, your application is rejected. The application and attached documents will not be returned to the applicant.
If the applicants request royal jelly, propolis, honey, bee pollen and/or honeybee larvae as test samples, these items are provided for free. Please indicate the desired amount in the application form.
From May 1, 2011 to June 30, 2011 (until 17:00 Japan Time)
The contents of the application form can be modified during the period specified above. When modifying the registered application contents, you will need the personal password which was provided at the time of initial submission of the application.
Applications will be examined by a Review Committee, which is comprised of expert members from industry and academia. Funding will require approval by the Program Board of Yamada Apiculture Center, Inc. It is anticipated that the applications will be reviewed and approved for funding by the end of August, 2011.The applicants will receive a notice by e-mail by the end of August, 2011. The names of successful applicants will be announced on the website of “Yamada Research Grant”. Please note that we will not respond to any inquiries concerning the reasons of the determination.
The research grant will be provided to the funded applicants by the end of November 2011. The usages of the research grant will be under the discretion of the applicants. It is to be used in accordance with proposal written in the application. When it is deviated from the original application, the applicant should write a letter to the Program Committee to justify the reasons.
Regarding the grant research, the private information acquired by Yamada Apiculture Center, Inc. and Yamada Institute for Bee Product and Health Science will be limited to accepting the application, making the selection, notifying the outcomes, and presenting the grant. As for inquiries regarding private information protection, please contact the Program Board.
Yamada Institute for Bee Product and Health Science shall be entitled to be able to disclose the name of the applicant and the institutional affiliation where the applicant belongs to, and the information regarding the results obtained by the research grant to the general public.
Should there be any request made by the Applicant to disclose / correct / cancel the usage of the private information acquired by Yamada Apiculture Center, Inc. concerning the Granted Research, Yamada Institute for Bee Product and Health Science shall address such request in an adequate and prompt manner by first confirming the identity of the requesting person as being the same person with the Applicant.
The applicant should submit a copy of the final report and in the final report format to the “Yamada Institute for Bee Product and Health Science” on or before September 30, 2012. The submission deadline is October 20, 2012.
After the completion of the research period, the funded researcher should make a presentation on his/her research results either by making an oral presentation or by poster presentation at the workshop sponsored by Yamada Apiculture Center, Inc.
The researcher to be granted must submit an agreement concerning the granted research. For the agreement details, refer to the website of Institute For Bee Products & Health Science.
It is the responsibility of recipient of the grant to fully understand and comply with the requirements. Failure to comply may results in the request for refunding the full amount or a part of the grant. Failures are : submitting no reports by the deadline to be scheduled; finding a significant difference between the research details and what was presented when applying; reporting the results that have already presented before the granted research duration; and/or not following the entries of an agreement.
When the applicant makes a presentation of the outcome of the research at an academic conference, he/she shall make sure to describe within the presentation that the research was supported by “Yamada Research Grant”. When publishing the dissertation or other publications, he/she shall make sure to describe that “This research was supported (in part) by Yamada Research Grant” in the acknowledgement.