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News
from World Green Tea Association
"REPORT of the THIRD O-CHA(tea) PIONEER ACADEMIC RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAM"
To contribute to the further development and promotion of the industry andculture on tea, we founded the third O-CHA(tea) Pioneer Academic Research Grant program in 2002. It aims to give the financial support partially to the research by the young researchers or engineers.
- Organizing Body
The World Green Tea Association
Chairperson Shosaburo Kimura
- Field of the Research
All fields on tea.
- The Period of the Application
July 1st, 2003 to September 30th, 2002
- Selection of awardees
March 19th, 2003
- Term of research
April 2003 March 2004
- Recipients of the third O-CHA(tea) Pioneer Academic Research Grant Program
| Topic Areas |
Name |
Institution |
Title of the research |
Health
Benefits |
Sivaprakasam
Balasubramanian |
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University |
EGCCG, a green tea polyphenol, induces differentiation of normal human epidermal Keratinocytes
→abstract |
Health
Benefits |
Kazumi Asai |
National Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science |
Effect of tea components on cytokineproduction from human T cell
→abstract |
Health
Benefits |
Ning Li |
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Institution of Nutrition and Food Safety |
Molecular mechanism by which tea extracts inhibits myocardial hypertrophy by renal hypertension in rat
→abstract |
Culture and
History |
Tamao Kuwahara |
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The establishment of afternoon tea and its cultural study
→abstract |
| Production |
Susanne Baldermann |
Institute for Lebensmittelchemie, TU-BS |
Characterization and Evaluation of carotenoids cleavage enzymes in different processing stages of Japanese green tea
→abstract |
- For more details, contact following e-mail address:ryokucha@pref.shizuoka.lg.jp
- O-CHA Pioneer Academic Research Grant Program is not being called for this year.
World Green Tea Association
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World Green Tea Association
Address:Shizuoka O-CHA Plaza, 14-1 Minamicho, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka City,Shizuoka Prefecture,422-8067 Japan
tel: +81-54-654-3700 Fax; +81-54-202-1460 E-mail:info@o-cha.net |
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