Alumni Association
Professor Tony James (University of Bath)
20 October 2011
Joint Research Project
Project title: Stimulus-responsive Molecular Capsules Via Boronate Esterification
Japanese Lead Scientist: Professor Yuji Kubo Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University
UK Counterpart: Professor Tony James Department of Chemistry, University of Bath
Project Duration: 2008 to 2010
Following a British Council Funded trip to Japan in 2002, Tony James and Yuji Kubo have forged a very successfully collaboration. The “World Cup” meeting was followed in 2003 by the secondment of Marcus Phillips from Bath as a JSPS Summer Fellow to the Kubo lab at Saitama University. A JSPS bilateral award worth in the region of 2,500,000 Japanese Yen then funded exchanges including Yoshihiro Misawa (2004) and Yusuke Ishii (2005) to Bath. The collaboration was further strengthened by a Royal Society International Joint Project between Tony and Yuji which allowed Ewan Galbraith (2006) to visit Saitama, and Tsuyoshi Minami (2006) and Kenichi Kataoka (2007) to visit Bath. In 2007 while they were at a conference in Shanghai Tony, Yuji and John Fossey discussed possible collaborative projects, leading to a JSPS bilateral award, resulting in visits by Tsuyoshi Minami to Bath in 2008 and 2009. Tony and Yuji also had chance to discuss research during an extended stay by Tony as a JSPS Short Term Fellow in 2008 at Kyushu University hosted by Seiji Shinkai. More recently Iwan Davies joined Yuji Kubo’s Lab in Tokyo Metropolitan University as a JSPS funded Postdoctoral Fellow (2010-11). While, the most recent interaction between Tony, Yuji and John was at Catalysis and Sensing for Health (CASH 11) in Bath a GB Sasakawa Foundation and JSPS supported event highlighting UK-Japan scientific collaboration.
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