The European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) has also asked us to provide training in grant writing for Japanese researchers through the “Interstellar Initiative” of the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development. This comes on the heels of our previous trainings in grant writing, also at the invitation of EMBO, for researchers at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan and for researchers across India selected by IndiaBiosciences (https://indiabioscience.org/meetings/embo-indiabioscience-joint-grants-writing-workshop).