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Funding
Funding
HFSP supports novel, innovative and interdisciplinary basic research focused on the complex mechanisms of living organisms. A clear emphasis is placed on novel collaborations that bring biologists together to focus on problems at the frontier of the life sciences.
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Awardees
Awardees
In this section you find information about the awardees in the HFSP scientific programs. This includes a searchable database of HFSP awardees, information on the HFSP Nakasone Award and other achievements by HFSP awardees.
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Events
Events
HFSP promotes and participates in several events every year. We are committed to bringing together the scientific community and forging new opportunities to network and have scientific discussions that help to create bridges and partnerships for the future of frontier science.
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About
About
The Human Frontier Science Program is a program of funding for frontier research in the life sciences. It is implemented by the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) with its office in Strasbourg. Here you can find all you need to know about the HFSPO.
Awardees
Modeling cell fate during Drosophila heart development
FURLONG Eileen E. (IRELAND)
Dept. of Genome Biology - European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) - Heidelberg - GERMANY
HARTENSTEIN Volker (GERMANY)
Dept. of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology - University of California, Los Angeles - LOS ANGELES - USA
MOCHIZUKI Atsushi (JAPAN)
Theoretical Biology Laboratory - RIKEN - Wako - JAPAN
Polyglutamylation of microtubules as an epigenetic regulator of motor traffic
GIANNIS Athanassios (GREECE)
Institute of Organic Chemistry - University of Leipzig - LEIPZIG - GERMANY
JANKE Carsten (GERMANY)
Institut Curie - Dept. of "Genotoxic Stress and Cancer" - Orsay Cedex - FRANCE
SURREY Thomas (GERMANY)
Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories - Cancer Research UK London Research Institute - London - UK
VERHEY Kristen (USA)
Dept. of Cell and Developmental Biology - University of Michigan Medical School - ANN ARBOR - USA
Self-Organized Wiring of the Cerebral Cortex through Thalamocortical Growth Cones: An Integrated Approach
GOODHILL Geoffrey J. (AUSTRALIA)
Queensland Brain Institute and Dept. of Mathematics - University of Queensland - ST LUCIA - AUSTRALIA
LOPEZ-BENDITO Guillermina (SPAIN)
Dept. of Developmental Neurobiology - Institute of Neuroscience - San Juan De Alicante - SPAIN
PAULSEN Ole (NORWAY)
Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience - University of Cambridge - Cambridge - UK
SHIMOGORI Tomomi (JAPAN)
Lab for Molecular Mechanisms of Thalamus Development - RIKEN - Wako - JAPAN
Structure and dynamics of neuronal granules that regulate RNA localization
KIEBLER Michael (GERMANY)
Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology - LMU - Munich - GERMANY
LEVITT Michael (USA)
Dept. of Structural Biology - Stanford University School - STANFORD - USA
LUKAVSKY Peter J. (AUSTRIA)
Central European Institute of Technology - Masaryk University - Brno - CZECH REPUBLIC
ULE Jernej (SLOVENIA)
- The Francis Crick Institute - London - UK
From molecular mechanics to the dynamics of cell shape change and tissue morphogenesis.
LECUIT Thomas (FRANCE)
IBDM - Development Biology Institute of Marseille Luminy - UMR 7288 - Marseille - FRANCE
LENNE Pierre-François (FRANCE)
IBDM - Developmental Biology Institute of Marseilles - Aix-Marseille Université/CNRS - Marseille - FRANCE
MUNRO Edwin (USA)
Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology - Biological Sciences Division - Chicago - USA
Advancing the Frontier of Enzyme Reaction Mechanisms in the ADP-ribosyltransferase Family
LIM Carmay (MALAYSIA)
Institute of Biomedical Sciences - Academia Sinica - Taipei - CHINA, REPUBLIC OF (TAIWAN)
MERRILL A. Rod (CANADA)
Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology - University of Guelph - Guelph - CANADA
OPPENHEIMER Norman (USA)
Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry - University of California, San Francisco - SAN FRANCISCO - USA
PAI Emil F. (GERMANY)
Dept. of Biochemistry - University of Toronto - Toronto - CANADA
Designing Molecular Hydrogels to Control and Direct Cell Behaviour
MERRY Catherine (UK)
Stem Cell Glycobiology - Nottingham University - Nottingham - UK
ULIJN Rein (NETHERLANDS)
Advanced Science Research Center - City University of New York - New York - USA
XU Bing (USA)
Department of Chemistry - Brandeis University - Waltham - USA
Gastrulation in the chick embryo: a quantitative study using live imaging and computer modeling
NEWMAN Tim (UK)
Professor of Theoretical Physics, Biophysics - College of Life Sciences - Dundee - UK
WEIJER Cornelius (NETHERLANDS)
School of Life Sciences - University of Dundee - Dundee - UK
Translation by single ribosomes one codon at a time
NOLLER Harry F. (USA)
Dept. of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, Noller Lab. - University of California, Santa Cruz - SANTA CRUZ - USA
RITORT Felix (SPAIN)
Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics - University of Barcelona - BARCELONA - SPAIN
TINOCO Ignacio (USA)
Dept. of Chemistry - University of California, Berkeley - Berkerley - USA
YOSHIMURA Shige (JAPAN)
Dept. of Responses to Environmental Signals and Stresses - Kyoto University - KYOTO - JAPAN
The brain's turing machine: serial chaining of cognitive operations in human and non-human primates
DEHAENE Stanislas (FRANCE)
Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM-CEA - NeuroSpin - Gif sur Yvette - FRANCE
ROELFSEMA Pieter R. (NETHERLANDS)
Dept. of Vision & Cognition - Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience - Amsterdam - NETHERLANDS
SHAPIRO Kimron (CANADA)
School of Psychology - Bangor University - Bangor - UK
SIGMAN Mariano (ARGENTINA)
Integrative Neuroscience Lab. / Physics Department - University of Buenos Aires - Buenos Aires - ARGENTINA
VANDUFFEL Wim (BELGIUM)
Psychofysiologie - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Leuven - BELGIUM
Epigenetics of critical periods in vocal communication – from mouse to man
ESTELLER BADOSA Manel (SPAIN)
Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) - Cancer Epigenetics and Biolopgy Program (PEBC) - L'Hospitalet del Llobregat - SPAIN
HENSCH Takao (USA)
Center for Brain Science - Harvard University - Cambridge - USA
WERKER Janet F. (CANADA)
Dept. of Psychology - University of British Columbia - Vancouver - CANADA
Mechanisms regulating the dynamics of a parasite community in a wild herbivore system
ALBERT Reka (ROMANIA)
Dept. of Physics - Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics - University Park - USA
HUDSON Peter John (UK)
Dept. of Biology - Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics - University Park - USA
STEAR Michael J. (UK)
Div. of Animal Production and Public Health - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - Glasgow - UK
Adjustable Curie-temperature nanoparticles to study the biological functions of fever
ATSARKIN Vadim (RUSSIA)
V.A. Kotel'nikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics - Russian Academy of Sciences - Moscow - RUSSIA
KAUL Andrey (RUSSIA)
Lab. of Coordination Chemistry - Moscow State Lomonosov University - Moscow - RUSSIA
ROY Edward (USA)
Dept. of Pathology - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Urbana - USA
Reproductive isolation and autoimmunity in plants
DANGL Jeffery (USA)
Dept. of Biology - Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Chapel Hill - USA
DOEBELI Michael (CANADA)
Dept. of Mathematics and Dept. of Zoology - University of British Columbia - Vancouver - CANADA
JONES Jonathan D. G. (UK)
The Sainsbury Lab. - Norwich Research Park - Norwich - UK
WEIGEL Detlef (GERMANY)
Department of Molecular Biology - Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology - Tuebingen - GERMANY
Human immune memory & vaccine responses: high-throughput analyses of antibody repertoire & function
ALMAGRO Juan C. (CUBA)
Antibody Engineering - Centocor Research and Development, Inc - Radnor - USA
DUNN-WALTERS Deborah (UK)
Faculty of Health & Medical Sciences - University of Surrey - Guildford - UK
LANZAVECCHIA Antonio (ITALY)
Immune Regulation Lab. - Institute for Research in Biomedicine - Bellinzona - SWITZERLAND
MEHR Ramit (ISRAEL)
The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences - Bar-Ilan University - Ramat-Gan - ISRAEL
Physical and biochemical mechanisms of membrane deformation in lipid-mediated endocytosis
BASSEREAU Patricia (FRANCE)
Physical Chemistry Curie - Curie Institute - Paris - FRANCE
JOHANNES Ludger (GERMANY)
Cellular and Chemical Biology - Institut Curie - Paris Cedex 05 - FRANCE
PARTON Robert (AUSTRALIA)
Institute for Molecular Bioscience - University of Queensland - Brisbane - AUSTRALIA
RAO Madan (INDIA)
Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines - National Centre for Biological Sciences (TIFR) - Bangalore - INDIA
Investigating mechanisms of cell polarity with new functionalized magneto-fluorescent nanoparticles
BAWENDI Moungi (USA)
Dept. of Chemistry - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge - USA
BELLAICHE Yohanns (FRANCE)
Department of Developmental Biology and Genetics - Institut Curie - Paris - FRANCE
DAHAN Maxime (FRANCE)
Laboratoire PhysicoChimie - Institut Curie - Paris - FRANCE
PIEHLER Jacob (GERMANY)
Department of Biology, Division of Biophysics - University of Osnabrück - Osnabrück - GERMANY
Oncogene control of DNA replication dynamics
BECHHOEFER John (CANADA)
Dept. of Physics - Simon Fraser University - Burnaby - CANADA
BENSIMON Aaron (SWITZERLAND)
Genomic Vision Company - Paris Cedex 15 - FRANCE
D'ADDA DI FAGAGNA Fabrizio (ITALY)
Telomeres and cellular senescence Lab. - IFOM Foundation - Milan - ITALY
Optimization in natural systems: ants, bees and slime moulds
BEEKMAN Madeleine (AUSTRALIA)
Behaviour and Genetics of Social Insects Lab - School of Life and Environmental Sciences - Sydney - AUSTRALIA
MIDDENDORF Martin (GERMANY)
Dept. of Computer Science - University of Leipzig - Leipzig - GERMANY
NAKAGAKI Toshiyuki (JAPAN)
Research Institute for Electronic Science / Math and Phys Ethology Lab - Hokkaido University - Sapporo - JAPAN
SUMPTER David (UK)
Mathematics Dept. - Uppsala University - Uppsala - SWEDEN
Behavior of a T4 bacteriophage primosome as it influences replisome movement during DNA replication
BENKOVIC Stephen (USA)
Dept. of Chemistry - The Pennsylvania State University - University Park - USA
CROQUETTE Vincent (FRANCE)
Lab. of Statistical Physics - Ecole Normale Supérieure - Paris - FRANCE