APPLICATION GUIDELINES

2027 Call for Proposals

2027 poster

International Collaborative Research (FY2027)

IPR invites applications for international collaborative research. Research should be conducted in the form of a collaboration with at least one Principal Investigator (PI) at IPR, or it should use equipment/experimental facilities of IPR listed in the application guidelines. In the fiscal year of 2027, the research period is from April 1, 2027 to March 31, 2028. Successful applicants will receive financial support for their travel expenses, up to the amount determined at the time of acceptance based on the availability of the funds. Each applicant should submit an “Application Form” for his/her collaborative research along with a recommendation from at least one PI at IPR. The submission deadline for FY2027 is December 1, 2026. After review, accepted applications will be announced at the end of March 2027. We also consider urgent proposals submitted after the deadline, at any time during FY2027. However, please note that travel support may not be granted for late proposals.
Structural Analysis Collaborative Research (FY2027)

This program unifies four previously independent joint research programs—Beamline for Structural Analysis of Biomacromolecular Complexes, Ultra-High Magnetic Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Cryo Electron Microscopy (cryoEM), and Microcrystal Electron Diffraction (MicroED) —which were offered separately until fiscal year 2025. In addition to allowing structural analysis using a single technique, this unified program provides the opportunity for correlative structural analysis* using multiple methods. It also accommodates proposals in cases where the most suitable technique has not yet been clearly identified.

Outcome Report

International Collaborate Research

The research results have to be reported within one month after completion of the collaborative research.

Please submit “2025 Summary of Research Report Form” to us by May 11, 2026.

*The forms are written in English.
*”Summary of Research Report” will be published on this website.

The Synchrotron Radiation Beamline for Macromolecular Assemblies

Form can be downloaded from the web site.

https://www.protein.osaka-u.ac.jp/rcsfp/supracryst/en/research/beamline/

Users are required to submit an Experiment Summary Report online within 60 days after the end of each half-year research term. Publish your research in a refereed journal or equivalent (refereed proceedings dissertation, etc.) and register the publications with the Publications Database within three years after the end of the research term. It will be requested to include the sentence which shows the usage of the beamline in the publication, and send the reprint to Institute for Protein Research.

e.g. This work was performed using a synchrotron beamline BL44XU at SPring-8 under the Collaborative Research Program of Institute for Protein Research, The University of Osaka. Diffraction data were collected at the The University of Osaka beamline BL44XU at SPring-8 (Harima, Japan) (Proposal No. 2017BXXXX, 2018AXXXX, and 2018BXXXX).

Accommodations for International Researchers

Information about Accommodations for International Researchers can be downloaded from the web site.

https://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/schools/facilities/BandB