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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
Mechanisms of associative learning in human perception
BACKUS Benjamin (USA)
Vision Sciences - SUNY State College of Optometry - , New York - USA
ERNST Marc (GERMANY)
Institute of Psychology and Education - Ulm University - Ulm - GERMANY
KEARNS Michael (USA)
Dept. of Computer and Information Science - University of Pennsylvania - PHILADELPHIA - USA
WALLIS Guy (AUSTRALIA)
Visual Computation and Learning Group - University of Queensland - ST. LUCIA - AUSTRALIA
In vivo analysis of HSPG structure and function in modulating axon guidance and cell signaling.
BALAGURUNATHAN Kuberan (INDIA)
Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry - University of Utah - SALT LAKE CITY - USA
CHIEN Chi-Bin (USA)
Dept. Neurobiology & Anatomy - University of Utah - SALT LAKE CITY - USA
KJELLÉN Lena (SWEDEN)
Dept. of medical biochemistry and microbiology - Uppsala University - UPPSALA - SWEDEN
NEUMANN Carl (GERMANY)
Developmental Biology Unit - European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) - HEIDELBERG - GERMANY
SYNAPTIC TAGGING AND CAPTURE: Functions, models and mechanisms
BITO Haruhiko (JAPAN)
Dept. of Neurochemistry - The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine - Tokyo - JAPAN
BONHOEFFER Tobias (GERMANY)
Department of Cellular and Systems Neurobiology - Max-Planck-Institut fuer Neurobiologie - Munich-Martinsried - GERMANY
MORRIS Richard G. M. (UK)
Lab. for Cognitive Neuroscience - The University of Edinburgh - EDINBURGH - UK
VAN ROSSUM Mark (NETHERLANDS)
Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation - The University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh - UK
Intracellular protease signaling induced by homopolymeric amino acids (HPAA)
BOGYO Matthew S. (USA)
Dept. of Pathology - Stanford University - STANFORD - USA
ISHIURA Shoichi (JAPAN)
Dept. of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences - The University of Tokyo - TOKYO - JAPAN
SALVESEN Guy S. (USA)
Program on Apoptosis and Cell Death Research - The Burnham Institute - SAN DIEGO - USA
TURK Boris (SLOVENIA)
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Jozef Stefan Institute - LJUBLJANA - SLOVENIA
A systems biological approach to understanding the control of specificity in Ca2+-signaling systems
BORNBERG-BAUER Erich (AUSTRIA)
Div. of Bioinformatics, School of Biological Sciences - The Westfalian Wilhelms University of Muenster - Muenster - GERMANY
HETHERINGTON Alistair m (UK)
School of Biological Sciences - University Bristol - Bristol - UK
KUDLA Joerg (GERMANY)
Dept. of Molecular and Developmental Biology of plants - Institute of Botany and Botanical garden - MUENSTER - GERMANY
SCHROEDER Julian (USA)
Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Section - University of California, San Diego - La Jolla - USA
Analysis of motion processing pathways and free flight control in wildtype and transgenic Drosophila
BORST Alexander (GERMANY)
Dept. of systems and computational neurobiology - Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology - Martinsried - GERMANY
ITO Kei (JAPAN)
Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences - The University of Tokyo - TOKYO - JAPAN
NELSON Bradley (USA)
Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems - Swiss Federal Insitute of Technology (ETH), Zurich - ZURICH - SWITZERLAND
Spatially defined addressing of cells to surfaces
BREITLING Frank (GERMANY)
Karlsruhe Institute of technology - Institute of Microstructure Technology - Karlsruhe - GERMANY
SALTZMAN W. Mark (USA)
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering - Yale University - NEW HAVEN - USA
Spatiotemporal dynamics and macromolecular organization of synaptic proteins
CHOQUET Daniel (FRANCE)
Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience - CNRS UMR 5297 - Bordeaux - FRANCE
HOLCMAN David (FRANCE)
Computational Biology and Applied Mathematics - Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris - FRANCE
IMPERIALI Barbara (USA)
Dept. of Biology - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - CAMBRIDGE - USA
MARICQ Andres Villu (USA)
Dept.of Biology - University of Utah - SALT LAKE CITY - USA
Epigenetic Programming of Gene Expression and Function
DE KLOET Edo Ronald (NETHERLANDS)
LACDR - Leiden University - Leiden - NETHERLANDS
JOËLS Marian (NETHERLANDS)
Cellular Neurophysiology, Dept. of Translational Neuroscience - Brain Center Rudolf Magnus - Utrecht - NETHERLANDS
MEANEY Michael J. (CANADA)
McGill Program for the Study of Behaviour, Genes and Environment. - McGill University - MONTREAL - CANADA
SECKL Jonathan Robert (UK)
Endocrinology Unit, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine - Centre for Cardiovascular Science - EDINBURGH - UK
SZYF Moshe (CANADA)
Dept. of Pharmacology and Therapeutics - McGill University - MONTREAL - CANADA
Glia and extrasynaptic communication in the brain
DIAMOND Jeffrey S. (USA)
Synaptic Physiology Unit - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke - BETHESDA - USA
OLIET Stephane (FRANCE)
Neurocentre Magendie - Inserm U382 - Université de Bordeaux - BORDEAUX - FRANCE
RUSAKOV Dmitri (UK)
UCL Institute of Neurology - University College London - LONDON - UK
SEMYANOV Alexey (UK)
- RIKEN Brain Science Institute - WAKO-SHI - JAPAN
Spatial and temporal dynamics of plasticity in adult visual cortex: High resolution imaging study
DINSE Hubert (GERMANY)
Neuroinformatics - Neural Plasticity Laboratory - Ruhr-University Bochum - BOCHUM - GERMANY
KALATSKY Valery (BELARUS)
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Houston - HOUSTON - USA
Infectious Synapse and Transmission of Disease
ENDERLEIN Joerg (GERMANY)
III. Institute of Physics - Georg August University - Goettingen - GERMANY
MARSH Mark (UK)
MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology - University College London - LONDON - UK
PIGUET Vincent (SWITZERLAND)
Dept. of Dermatology and Venereology - University Hospital of Geneva - GENEVA - SWITZERLAND
STEINMAN Ralph M. (USA)
Lab. of Cellular Physiology and Immunology - The Rockefeller University - NEW YORK - USA
Redesigning Photoactive Proteins in a Tightly Coupled Theoretical and Experimental Feedback Loop
HELLINGWERF Klaas J. (NETHERLANDS)
Laboratory for Microbiology - Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences - AMSTERDAM - NETHERLANDS
MARTINEZ Todd J. (USA)
Dept. of Chemistry - Stanford University - Stanford - USA
VAN GRONDELLE Rienk (NETHERLANDS)
Faculty of Science/Dept Physics & Astronomy - VU UNiversity - Amsterdam - NETHERLANDS
Structural study of eukaryotic ribosomes, eIF3, translation initiation complexes and their dynamics
PESTOVA Tatyana (RUSSIA)
Dept. of Cell Biology - SUNY Downstate Medical Center - Brooklyn - USA
SVERGUN Dmitri I. (RUSSIA)
Hamburg Outstation - European Molecular Biology Laboratory - Hamburg - GERMANY
YUSUPOV Marat (FRANCE)
Dept. of Structural Biology - IGBMC - Illkirch - FRANCE
mRNA mistranslation in biological processes
DESJARDINS Michel (CANADA)
Dept. of Pathology and Cell Biology - University of Montreal - Montréal - CANADA
PIERRE Philippe (FRANCE)
Lab. for Dendritic Cell Biology - Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille Luminy - MARSEILLE - FRANCE
SANTOS Manuel (PORTUGAL)
Biology/RNA Biology - Aveiro - Aveiro - PORTUGAL
SCHULTZ Carsten (GERMANY)
Dept. of Physiology & Pharmacology - OHSU - Oregon Health & Science University - Portland - USA
Signal integration by mixed chemoreceptor teams in bacterial chemotaxis
MEIR Yigal (ISRAEL)
Dept. of Physics - Ben Gurion University - BEER SHEVA - ISRAEL
SOURJIK Victor (GERMANY)
Systems & Synthetic Microbiology - Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology - Marburg - GERMANY
WINGREEN Ned S. (USA)
Dept. of Molecular Biology - Princeton University - PRINCETON - USA
Telomerase enzyme assembly, interactions and function
DONTSOVA Olga (RUSSIA)
Dept. of Chemistry - M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University - MOSCOW - RUSSIA
LINGNER Joachim (SWITZERLAND)
Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) - LAUSANNE - SWITZERLAND
RHODES Daniela (ITALY)
Division of Structural Biology and Biochemistry - Nanyang Technological University - Singapore - SINGAPORE
VARANI Gabriele (ITALY)
Dept. of Biochemistry - University of Washington - SEATTLE - USA
WESTHOF Eric (FRANCE)
Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN - IBMC-CNRS - Strasbourg - FRANCE
The function of glycoprotein receptors in the transit from ER to Golgi
ITO Yukishige (JAPAN)
Synthetic Cellular Chemistry Laboratory - RIKEN Advanced Science Institute - Wako, Saitama - JAPAN
KAUFMAN Randal J. (USA)
Dept. of Biological Chemistry - University of Michigan Medical Center - ANN ARBOR - USA
LINDQVIST Ylva (SWEDEN)
Dept. of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics - Karolinska Institutet - STOCKHOLM - SWEDEN
An in vitro model for evolution: precision control of directed evolution with micro fluidic devices
BIBETTE Jérome (FRANCE)
Lab. of Colloïds and Dispersed Materials - ESPCI - Paris - FRANCE
GRIFFITHS Andrew David (FRANCE)
Laboratoire de Biochimie - CBI - UMR 8231 - ESPCI Paris Tech - Paris - FRANCE
WEITZ David (USA)
Department of Physics & SEAS - Harvard University - Cambridge, MA - USA
Decision making and strategies in the brain: a multidisciplinary approach for understanding social behaviour
CAMERER Colin (USA)
Humanities and Social Sciences 228-77 - Caltech - PASADENA - USA
DUHAMEL Jean-Rene (CANADA)
Centre de Neuroscience Cognitive - CNRS - Bron - FRANCE
NAGEL Rosemarie (GERMANY)
Dept. of Economics - Universitat Pompeu Fabra - BARCELONA - SPAIN
SIRIGU Angela (ITALY)
Institute of Cognitive Sciences - CNRS - BRON - FRANCE