In June 2018, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), University of Ghana through the AMED J-GRID Project received its first ever corporate donation in Ghana of $250,000 (two hundred and fifty thousand US dollars) from MODEC, Inc. (“MODEC”) and its Fund Partners namely Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (“Mitsui”), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (“MOL”) and Marubeni Corporation (“Marubeni”) towards health science research. AMED J-Grid Project is a research collaboration between NMIMR and Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) for infectious diseases.