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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
Biomineralization and biomimetic mineralization using the Dps family of protein cage architectures
DOUGLAS Trevor (USA)
Dept. of Chemistry - Indiana University - Bloomington - USA
YAMASHITA Ichiro (JAPAN)
Dept. of Material Science - Nara Institute of Science and Technology - Nara - JAPAN
ZETH Kornelius (GERMANY)
Dept. of Protein Evolution - Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology - Tübingen - GERMANY
Capturing the methylome by a novel approach to functional proteomics
FEINBERG Andrew (USA)
Center for Epigenetics - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - Baltimore - USA
KÖSTER Hubert (GERMANY)
Caprotec GmbH - Berlin - GERMANY
ROBERTS Richard J. (UK)
New England Biolabs - Ipswich - USA
WEINHOLD Elmar (GERMANY)
Institute of Organic Chemistry - RWTH Aachen University - Aachen - GERMANY
Testing the role of cell polarity during thymocyte development.
GU Min (AUSTRALIA)
Research & Innovation - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University - Melbourne - AUSTRALIA
ROBEY Ellen (USA)
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology - University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley - USA
RUSSELL Sarah (AUSTRALIA)
Cell Biology Laboratory - Swinburne University of Technology - Hawthorn - AUSTRALIA
The control circuitry of nitrogen assimilation in bacteria
HWA Terence (USA)
Department of Physics - University of California, San Diego - La Jolla - USA
KUSTU Sydney (USA)
Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology - University of California Berkeley - Berkeley - USA
LENZ Peter (GERMANY)
Dept. of Physics - University of Marburg - Marburg - GERMANY
WANG Yiping (CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF)
College of Life Sciences - Peking University - Beijing - CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF
Structure and function of candidate magnetite-based magnetoreceptor cells
KIRSCHVINK Joseph (USA)
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences - California Institute of Technology - Pasadena - USA
MCNAUGHTON Peter (NEW ZEALAND)
Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases - School of Biomedical Sciences - London - UK
WALKER Michael M. (NEW ZEALAND)
School of Biological Sciences - University of Auckland - Auckland - NEW ZEALAND
WINKLHOFER Michael (GERMANY)
Institute for Biology and Environmental Sciences - Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg - Oldenburg - GERMANY
Deterministic and stochastic choices of cell fate and wiring specificity in the CNS
KOENTGES Georgy (GERMANY)
Warwick Systems Biology Centre - University of Warwick - Coventry - UK
LUO Liqun (USA)
Dept. of Biology - Stanford University - Stanford - USA
MIZRAHI Adi (ISRAEL)
Dept. of Neurobiology - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Jerusalem - ISRAEL
Social recovery from losses in the workforce: honey bee colonies as a model of recovery strategies
LE CONTE Yves (FRANCE)
Dept. of Ecology for Invertebrates - French National Institute for Agricultural Researc - Avignon - FRANCE
PLETTNER Erika (CANADA)
Dept. of Chemistry - Simon Fraser University - Burnaby - CANADA
RÖSSLER Wolfgang (GERMANY)
Dept. of Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology (Zoology II) - Biozentrum, University of Wuerzburg - Wuerzburg - GERMANY
WATMOUGH James (CANADA)
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics - University of New Brunswick - Fredericton - CANADA
Approach to the construction of minimal living cells
LUISI Pier Luigi (ITALY)
Dept. of Biology - University of Roma Tre - Rome - ITALY
UEDA Takuya (JAPAN)
Dept. of Medical Genome Sciences - The University of Tokyo - Kashiwa - JAPAN
Roles of V0 and SNAREs in lipid mixing and pore opening during membrane fusion.
MAYER Andreas (GERMANY)
Dept. of Biochemistry - University of Lausanne - Epalinges - SWITZERLAND
RIZO-REY Josep (USA)
Biophysics - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Dallas - USA
ROSENMUND Christian (GERMANY)
Neuroscience Research Center NWFZ - Charite, Universitaetsmedizin Berlin - Berlin - GERMANY
Interplay between Tissue Mechanics of Morphogenesis and Gene Expression during Gastrulation.
FARGE Emmanuel (FRANCE)
Dept. of Physico-Chemistry Curie - UMR 168 Curie Institute, Paris - PARIS - FRANCE
SANSON Bénédicte (FRANCE)
Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience - University of Cambridge - CAMBRIDGE - UK
SOLNICA-KREZEL Lilianna (POLAND)
Dept. of Developmental Biology - Washington University School of Medicine - St. Louis - USA
From the cytoskeleton to cell shape: multiscale control of cell growth
CRESTI Mauro (ITALY)
Dept. of Environmental Science - University of Siena - SIENA - ITALY
DUMAIS Jacques (CANADA)
Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias - Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez - Viña del Mar - CHILE
GEITMANN Anja (GERMANY)
Dept.of Plant Science - McGill University - Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue - CANADA
MAHADEVAN Lakshminarayanan (USA)
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, - Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Dept. of Physics - Cambridge - USA
New Methods of Bio-molecular Crystal Structure Determination Specific to Neutron Diffraction Data
HAUPTMAN Herbert A. (USA)
Dept. of Structural Biology - Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute - BUFFALO - USA
NIIMURA Nobuo (JAPAN)
Graduate School of Science and Engineering - Ibaraki University - HITACHI - JAPAN
PODJARNY Alberto (FRANCE)
Department of Structural Biology and Genomics - Institut of Genetics and Molecular and Cell Biology (IGBMC) - Illkirch - FRANCE
Plants and environment: Systemic signals and target gene networks in reponse to pathogen attack
HEINLEIN Manfred (GERMANY)
Institute of Plant Molecular Biology (IBMP) - CNRS - STRASBOURG - FRANCE
KOVALCHUK Igor (UKRAINE)
Dept. of Biological Sciences - University of Lethbridge - LETHBRIDGE - CANADA
KUIPER Martin (NETHERLANDS)
Department of Biology - Norwegian University of Science and Technology - Trondheim - NORWAY
PECK Scott C. (USA)
Dept of Biochemistry - University of Missouri-Columbia - Columbia - USA
Towards a process-based model of plant BVOC emissions
ARNETH Almut (GERMANY)
Dept. of "Ecosystem-Atmosphere Interactions" - Institute of Meteorology & Climate Research-Atmospheric Environmental Research - Karlsruhe - GERMANY
MONSON Russell K. (USA)
School of Natural Resources and the Environment - Laboratory for Tree Ring Research - Tucson - USA
NIINEMETS Ulo (ESTONIA)
Dept. of Plant Physiology - Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences - TARTU - ESTONIA
SCHNITZLER Jörg-Peter (GERMANY)
research unit:environmental simulation - Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology - München - GERMANY
Molecular, statistical, and bioinformatics analysis of Plasmodium and human genome co-evolution
AWADALLA Philip (CANADA)
Department of Molecular Genetics - University of Toronto - Toront0 - CANADA
MCVEAN Gil (UK)
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics - Oxford University - OXFORD - UK
TISHKOFF Sarah (USA)
Depts. of Genetics and Biology - University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - USA
TRAMONTANO Anna (ITALY)
Physics - Sapienza University - Rome - ITALY
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