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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
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
Integrating the genetics, mechanics and phenomenology of embryonic wound healing
BRODLAND G. Wayne (CANADA)
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering - University of Waterloo - Waterloo - CANADA
HUTSON M. Shane (USA)
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy - Vanderbilt University - Nashville - USA
JACINTO Antonio (PORTUGAL)
CEDOC - Chronic Diseases Research Center - NOVA Medical School - Lisbon - PORTUGAL
A modular protein design route to exploring the operating principles of molecular motors
CURMI Paul (AUSTRALIA)
School of Physics - University of New South Wales - Sydney - AUSTRALIA
FORDE Nancy (CANADA)
Department of Physics - Simon Fraser University - Burnaby - CANADA
LINKE Heiner (GERMANY)
Division of Solid State Physics - Lund University - Lund - SWEDEN
WOOLFSON Derek Neil (UK)
School of Chemistry - University of Bristol - Bristol - UK
The folding of helical repeat proteins: ensemble, single molecule and computational studies
D'ANDREA Luca Domenico (ITALY)
Istituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini - CNR - Naples - ITALY
DAGGETT Valerie (USA)
Department of Bioengineering - University of Washington - Seattle - USA
HARAN Gilad (ISRAEL)
Chemical Physics Department - Weizmann Institute of Science - Rehovot - ISRAEL
REGAN Lynne (UK)
Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology - Institute for Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology - Edinburgh - UK
Neural and mechanical basis of acoustic communication in Drosophila
DICKSON Barry (AUSTRALIA)
Janelia Farm Research Campus - HHMI - Ashburn - USA
MIESENBÖCK Gero (AUSTRIA)
Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour - University of Oxford - Oxford - UK
ROBERT Daniel (SWITZERLAND)
School of Biological Sciences - University of Bristol - Bristol - UK
WILSON Rachel I. (USA)
Department of Neurobiology - Harvard Medical School - Boston - USA
Biodiversity and principle of the voltage sensor domain
DIXON Jack E. (USA)
Dept. of Pharmacology, Cell. & Molecular Medicine, Chemistry & Biochemistry - University of California, San Diego - La Jolla - USA
DOYLE Declan A. (UK)
School of Immunology and Biochemistry - Trinity Biomedical Science Institute - Dublin - IRELAND
OKAMURA Yasushi (JAPAN)
Department of Integrative Physiology - Graduate School of Medicine - Osaka - JAPAN
VON HEIJNE Gunnar (SWEDEN)
Center for Biomembrane Research (CBR) - Dept of Biochemistry and Biophysics - Stockholm - SWEDEN