Niigata Univ. team to lead int'l human kidney protein project
January 13, 2006An international organization aiming to create a database of all human proteins has chosen a project submitted by a Niigata University team that is designed to map out all the proteins in the human kidney and urine as one of its scientific initiatives, sources familiar with the matter said Friday. The project by the team led by Tadashi Yamamoto, professor of structural pathology at the Institute of Nephrology, is the second project from Japan to be adopted by the Human Proteome Organization based in Montreal after the ''Human Disease Glycomics'' project by an Osaka University team.