Project Selected for the 2026 A3 Foresight Program

We are pleased to announce that a collaborative research project involving ABCD Lab has been selected for the 2026 A3 Foresight Program, jointly supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

The A3 Foresight Program supports tri-national research collaborations among leading institutions in Korea, China, and Japan to establish world-class research hubs through collaborative research, scientific exchange, and the training of early-career researchers. Our project was selected as one of only two funded teams out of 23 proposals.

We look forward to fostering long-term collaboration and advancing multimodal neuroscience research across Asia !

*Our project information is below.

---

Project Title

Astrocyte-dependent Brain Vulnerability Across Development

Core Institutions

• Korea: Seoul National University (Hong-Gyun Lee)

• China: Tongji University (Zhenyue Chen)

• Japan: National Institute for Physiological Sciences (Masaki Fukunaga)

  
  

Program Information

• Funding Agencies: NRF (Korea), NSFC (China), and JSPS (Japan)

• Project Duration: 5 years (3+2)

NRF Announcement link