Awards
The original announcement of this year's awards - 2009 - is available in PDF format below
List of 2009 Research Grant Awards (Young
Investigator and Program Grants) ![[pdf]](/images/pdf_download.png)
List of 2009 Long-Term Fellowship Awards
List of 2009 Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship
Awards
List of 2009 Career Development Awards
The HFSP Nakasone Award for Frontier Research
We are pleased to announce the establishment of the HFSP Nakasone Award. The idea for this new and prestigious award was presented in Tokyo in July 2009 during the HFSP 20th anniversary celebrations in the presence of former Prime Minister Nakasone. The award honours the vision of former Prime Minister Nakasone for his efforts to launch a program of support for international collaboration and to foster early career scientists in a global context. Mr. Nakasone presented the idea of HFSP at the G7 economic summit in Venice in 1987 and, after an intense phase of preparation, the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization was established in Strasbourg, France in the autumn of 1989 to implement the Program. Since then it has supported approximately 5500 scientists from 65 countries, 16 of whom have gone on to win the Nobel Prize.
The HFSP Nakasone Award is designed to honour scientists who have undertaken frontier-moving research, including technological breakthroughs, which has advanced biological research. Both senior and junior scientists will be eligible and peer-recognised excellence will be the major criterion.
The award will be made to an individual or a team of scientists. Awardees will receive an unrestricted research grant of USD 10,000, a medal and personalised certificate. The award ceremony will be held at the annual HFSP Awardees Meeting where the awardee(s) will be expected to deliver the HFSP Nakasone Lecture.
The prize is open to all scientists, not only those who have received funding within the HFSP.