A grant on Korea-Japan joint research project funded by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) has been awarded to our group. The funding will support our collaborative work with Prof. Hiroshi Sugimoto and Prof. Minoru Fujii in Kobe University for 2 years. We will develop a high-contrast bioimaging platform using nanocrystalline silicon quantum dots.