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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
Glycobiology meets nanotechnology: nanoparticle probes for the analysis of polysaccharides
BRUST Mathias (GERMANY)
Dept. of Chemistry/Centre for Nanoscale Science - University of Liverpool - LIVERPOOL - UK
FERNIG David (UK)
Biochemistry - University of Liverpool - Liverpool - UK
LOUNIS Brahim (FRANCE)
Centre de Physique Moléculaire Optique et Hertzienne - CNRS & Université Bordeaux 1 - TALENCE - FRANCE
SUGAHARA Kazuyuki (JAPAN)
Lab. of Proteoglycan Signaling and Therapeutics - Hokkaido University - Sapporo - JAPAN
Optical detection and manipulation of protein signaling - sensory processing in the mammalian brain
CHARPAK Serge (FRANCE)
Neurophysiology & New Microscopies Lab. - Paris Descartes University - Paris - FRANCE
ISACOFF Ehud Y. (USA)
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology - University of California Berkeley - Berkeley - USA
REUVENY Eitan (ISRAEL)
Biomolecular Sciences - Weizmann Institute of Science - REHOVOT - ISRAEL
TRAUNER Dirk (AUSTRIA)
Department of Chemistry - New York University - New York - USA
The interaction between physical forces and development at the shoot apical meristem
COUDER Yves (FRANCE)
Lab. of Statistical Physics - Ecole Normale Supérieure - PARIS - FRANCE
MEYEROWITZ Elliot (USA)
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering - California Institute of Technology - Pasadena - USA
PETERSON Carsten (SWEDEN)
Department of Theoretical Physics - Lund University - LUND - SWEDEN
TRAAS Jan (NETHERLANDS)
Dept. of Reproduction and Plant Development - Ecole Normale Supérieure - Lyon - FRANCE
Discovery of Caenorhabditis elegans chemical ecology
DE BONO Mario (MALTA)
Division of Cell Biology - MRC Lab. of Molecular Biology - CAMBRIDGE - UK
EDISON Arthur S. (USA)
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology - University of Florida - GAINESVILLE - USA
STERNBERG Paul (USA)
Division of Biology - California Institute of Technology - PASADENA - USA
TEAL Peter E. A. (USA)
Chemistry Research Unit - Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary En - GAINESVILLE - USA
Autopropulsion of liposomes in living systems, and mimicking with abiotic systems
DEMING Timothy (USA)
Dept. of Bioengineering - University of California - Los Angeles - USA
FRIEDERICH Evelyne (LUXEMBOURG)
Cytoskeleton and Cell Plasticity Lab. - Life Sciences Research Unit - LUXEMBOURG - LUXEMBOURG
GETTEMANS Jan (BELGIUM)
Nanobody lab., Dept. of Biochemistry - Ghent University - GHENT - BELGIUM
SYKES Cécile (FRANCE)
Biomimetism of cellular movement UMR168 - Physical Chemistry Curie Lab. , Curie Institute - Paris - FRANCE
Modelling the regulation of cell patterning in Arabidopsis root epidermis
DOLAN Liam (IRELAND)
Plant Sciences - University of Oxford - Oxford - UK
MONK Nick (UK)
School of Mathematics and Statistics - University of Sheffield - Sheffield - UK
WADA Takuji (JAPAN)
National Institute for Basic Biology - Okazaki - JAPAN
Oxidative lipidomics of programmed cell clearance: from nematodes to humans.
FADEEL Bengt (SWEDEN)
Division of Molecular Toxicology, Institute of Environmental Medicine - Karolinska Institutet - STOCKHOLM - SWEDEN
KAGAN Valerian (USA)
Dept. of Environmental and Occupational Health - University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh - USA
QUINN Peter J. (UK)
Dept. of Life Sciences - King’s College London - LONDON - UK
XUE Ding (USA)
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology - University of Colorado - BOULDER - USA
Deciphering the function and dynamics of regulatory networks by high-throughput experiments and analysis
FRIEDMAN Nir (ISRAEL)
School of Computer Science & Engineering / Institute of Life Sciences - Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Jerusalem - ISRAEL
O'SHEA Erin (USA)
Depts of Molecular and Cellular Biology - Howard Hughes Medical Institute, FAS Center for Systems Biology - Cambridge - USA
REGEV Aviv (ISRAEL)
Dept. of Biology - Massachusetts Institute of Technology / HHMI - Cambridge, MA - USA
Ceramide containing rafts: structure and function
HANNUN Yusuf (USA)
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Medical University of South Carolina, USA - CHARLESTON - USA
KURZCHALIA Teymuras (GEORGIA)
Dept. of Biology and Genetics - Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics - DRESDEN - GERMANY
MAYOR Satyajit (INDIA)
Dept. of Cellular Organisation and Signalling - National Centre for Biological Sciences - Bangalore - INDIA
RIEZMAN Howard (SWITZERLAND)
Dept. of Biochemistry - University of Geneva - GENEVA - SWITZERLAND
How myosin walks: a molecular dynamics and engineering analysis of chemomechanical transduction
HOUDUSSE Anne (FRANCE)
Structural Motility Group - Institut Curie - UMR144 CNRS - Paris - FRANCE
KARPLUS Martin (USA)
Lab. of Biophysical Chemistry - ISIS, Universite Louis Pasteur - STRASBOURG - FRANCE
SWEENEY H. Lee (USA)
Dept. of Pharmacology & Therapeutics - University of Florida College of Medicine - Gainesville - USA
TROUT Bernhardt (USA)
Dept. of Chemical Engineering - MIT - CAMBRIDGE - USA
Neural substrate of bottom-up and top-down visual attentional integration
ISA Tadashi (JAPAN)
Department of Neuroscience - Kyoto University/Graduate School of Medicine - Kyoto - JAPAN
ITTI Laurent (FRANCE)
Computer Science, Psychology and Neuroscience - University of Southern California - LOS ANGELES - USA
MUNOZ Douglas (CANADA)
Centre for Neuroscience Studies - Queen's University - KINGSTON - CANADA
THEEUWES Jan (NETHERLANDS)
Cognitive Psychology - Vrije Universiteit - AMSTERDAM - NETHERLANDS
Folding kinetics and stability studies of individual RNA molecules, application to RNA interference
ISAMBERT Herve (FRANCE)
Physical Chemistry Research Unit - Institut Curie - Paris - FRANCE
MELLER Amit (ISRAEL)
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering - Israel Institute of Technology Technion-IIT - Haifa - ISRAEL
SAGI Irit (ISRAEL)
Dept. of Biological Regulation - Weizmann Institute of Science - Rehovot - ISRAEL
SONENBERG Nahum (CANADA)
Dept. of Biochemistry - McGill University - Montreal, Quebec - CANADA
X-ray nano-tomography of higher order chromatin structure in a transcriptionally active domain
MCNALLY James G. (USA)
Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression - National Institutes of Health - Bethesda - USA
SCHNEIDER Gerd (GERMANY)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie - Institut für Weiche Materie und funktionale Materialien - Berlin - GERMANY
Metabolons and complexity in plant secondary metabolism studied by BIA-MS and nanodisc anchoring
MØLLER Birger Lindberg (DENMARK)
Plant and Environmental Sciences - University of Copenhagen - Frederiksberg - DENMARK
ROEPSTORFF Peter (DENMARK)
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Danish Biotechnology Instrument Center (DABIC) - ODENSE M - DENMARK
SLIGAR Stephen (USA)
School of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Departments of Chemistry, Biochemistry and the Center for Biophysics - University of Illinois - Urbana - USA
WERCK-REICHHART Danièle (FRANCE)
Functionnal Genomics of Plant P450s - Institute of Plant Molecular Biology - STRASBOURG - FRANCE
The molecular mechanism of G protein-coupled receptor signalling
OPRIAN Daniel (USA)
Dept. of Biochemistry - Brandeis University - WALTHAM - USA
RIEKEL Christian (GERMANY)
Experiments - European Synchrotron Radiation Facility - GRENOBLE - FRANCE
SCHERTLER Gebhard F.X. (AUSTRIA)
Department of Biology - ETH Zurich - Zurich - SWITZERLAND
Conformational changes and energies involved in SNARE-induced membrane fusion
PEREZ Eric (FRANCE)
Lab. of Statistical Physics - Ecole Normale Supérieure - PARIS - FRANCE
ROTHMAN James (USA)
Department of Cell Biology - Yale University - New Haven, CT - USA
Requirement of awareness in learning
SAKAGAMI Masamichi (JAPAN)
Brain Science Institute - Tamagawa University - Machida - JAPAN
SCHULTZ Wolfram (GERMANY)
Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience - University of Cambridge - CAMBRIDGE - UK
VOGELS Rufin (BELGIUM)
Lab. Neuro- en Psychofysiologie - K.U Leuven - Leuven - BELGIUM
WATANABE Takeo (JAPAN)
Dept. of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences - Brown University - Providence - USA
Analysis of neuronal turnover in the adult human brain by retrospective birth dating of cells
BUCHHOLZ Bruce (USA)
Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - LIVERMORE - USA
FRISÉN Jonas (SWEDEN)
Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology - Karolinska Institute - Stockholm - SWEDEN
Mechanisms of antimicrobial peptide interactions with the target cell membrane
GIZELI Electra (GREECE)
Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology - Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas - Heraklion - GREECE
JELINEK Raz (ISRAEL)
Dept. of Chemistry - Ben Gurion University - Beersheva - ISRAEL
KONDOH Jun (JAPAN)
Dept. of Systems Engineering - University - Shizuoka - JAPAN
OUELLETTE Andre J. (USA)
Pathology & Lab Medicine - University of Southern California - Los Angeles - USA
Heparan sulfate saccharide sequences in (patho)biology: unravelling a third level of bioinformation
BOONS Geert-Jan (NETHERLANDS)
Complex Carbohydrate Research Center - The University of Georgia - Athens - USA
TURNBULL Jeremy (UK)
Dept. Biochemistry, Institute of Integrative Biology - University of Liverpool - Liverpool - -
VAN KUPPEVELT Toin (NETHERLANDS)
Dept. of Matrix Biochemistry - University of Nijmegen - Nijmejen - NETHERLANDS