Hot off the press
Featured recent articles by HFSP awardees
- Replicators embedded in metabolic networks
- Control of T cell differentiation by the aryl hydrocarbon receptor
- Transcriptional control of tissue growth
- The effect of a soft boundary on the motion of a nearby sphere
- A direct measure of covert attention
- Heat shock factor 1 is a circadian transcription factor
- A neural code based on spike timing in the retina
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The HFSP supports novel, innovative and interdisciplinary basic research focused on the complex mechanisms of living organisms; topics range from molecular and cellular approaches to systems and cognitive neuroscience. A clear emphasis is placed on novel collaborations that bring biologists together with scientists from fields such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science and engineering to focus on problems at the frontier of the life sciences.
Scientific Programs
Research Grants are awarded for novel collaborations involving extensive
collaboration among teams of scientists working in different countries and
in different disciplines. Two types of grants are available:
Young Investigator Grants and Program Grants.
The competition for 2009 grants is now closed
more details Current guidelines and application procedures
Postdoctoral Fellowships are available for scientists who wish to work in foreign laboratories, with emphasis on individuals early in their careers who wish to obtain training in a different field of research. Fellows who return to their home countries are eligible to apply for a Career Development Award.
Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships:
Cross-disciplinary fellowships are intended for postdoctoral fellows with a Ph.D.
degree in the physical sciences, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and computer sciences
who wish to receive training in biology.
Next deadline to apply for a fellowship will be at the end of August 2008.
The online application form and the new guidelines will be available in July 2008.
more details Former guidelines
Please note that HFSP funding programs start at the postdoctoral level. No support is available for undergraduate or PhD students. In addition we do not provide travel grants for attending conferences.
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THE HUMAN FRONTIER SCIENCE PROGRAM ORGANIZATION IS PLEASED TO WELCOME NORWAY AS A NEW CONTRIBUTING COUNTRY. Following signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Research Council of Norway, Scientists from Norway are now able to take part fully in the HFSP scientific programs. See Press Release
Announcement of 2008 Program and Young Investigator Grants, Long-Term and Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships and Career Development Awards. Lists of the new awardees are available HERE
HFSP JOURNAL VOL. 2, NO. 1 IS NOW ONLINE: The HFSP Journal aims to foster communication between scientists publishing high quality, innovative interdisciplinary research at the interface between biology and the physical sciences. See the HFSP Journal web site.
The reports of the 2007 HFSP Awardees Meeting held in Twin Waters, Queensland, Australia is now available on the web together with reports of all earlier Awardees Meetings since 2001 HERE
Paths to Discovery - profiles of HFSP Awardees written by science writer Geoffrey Montgomery are now online HERE
HFSP Secretary General, Torsten Wiesel has been awarded the National Medal of Science, the most prestigious honour for science in the USA. The award ceremony was held at the White House on Friday July 27th.
