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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
Phototransduction mechanism in cones
FUKADA Yoshitaka (JAPAN)
Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry - Graduate School of Science - Tokyo - JAPAN
KAWAMURA Satoru (JAPAN)
Dept of Biology - Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences - Suita - JAPAN
LAMB Trevor D. (AUSTRALIA)
Department of Neuroscience - John Curtin School of Medical Research - CANBERRA - AUSTRALIA
PUGH Edward (USA)
F. M. Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology - School of Medicine - PHILADELPHIA - USA
Mechanisms of morphogen gradient formation: experimental studies and mathematical modeling
HAMMERSCHMIDT Matthias (GERMANY)
- Cologne University, Institute of Developmental Biology - Cologne - GERMANY
LANDER Arthur (USA)
Department of Developmental and Cell Biology - University of California, Irvine - Irvine - USA
NAKATO Hiroshi (JAPAN)
Dept. of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development - The University of Minnesota - Minneapolis - USA
Dissecting the mechanics of cellular adhesion: from biomimetic systems to living cells
JONES Richard A. L. (UK)
Dept of Physics and Astronomy - Sheffield University - Sheffield - UK
NASSOY Pierre (FRANCE)
Laboratoire Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences (LP2N) - UMR5298 CNRS, Université de Bordeaux - Talence - FRANCE
SHULL Kenneth R. (USA)
Department of Materials Science and Engineering - Northwestern University - Evanston - USA
Visualization of protein interactions that regulate Myc family transcription factors in living cells
KERPPOLA Tom (FINLAND)
Dept. of Biological Chemistry - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor - USA
LARSSON Lars-Gunnar (SWEDEN)
Plant Biology - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Uppsala - SWEDEN
Probing, imaging and modelling the bio-mechanics of hearing at the cellular and molecular levels
PROST Jacques (FRANCE)
Dépt. Physicochimie - Institut Curie - UMR168 - Paris - FRANCE
STEELE Charles (USA)
Mechanical Engineering - Stanford University - Stanford - USA
ULFENDAHL Mats (SWEDEN)
Center for Hearing and Communication Research - Karolinska Institutet - Stockholm - SWEDEN
WADA Hiroshi (JAPAN)
Bioengineering and Robotics - Tohoku University - SENDAI - JAPAN
Visualization of molecular events involved in endocytosis at the synapse
ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO Guillermo (SPAIN)
Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics - University of Seville - Seville - SPAIN
FERNÁNDEZ-CHACÓN Rafael (SPAIN)
Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics - University of Seville - Seville - -
KLINGAUF Jürgen (GERMANY)
Cellular Biophysics - Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics - Muenster - GERMANY
LAGNADO Leon (UK)
School of Life Science - University of Sussex - Brighton - UK
The biophysics of noise and signal in visual cortex
GRAHAM Lyle (USA)
Laboratory of Neurophysics and Physiology - CNRS - PARIS - FRANCE
SEGEV Idan (ISRAEL)
Dept. of Neurobiology - Hebrew University - Jerusalem - ISRAEL
STORM Johan Frederik (NORWAY)
Dept.of Physiology and Neurophysiology - University of Oslo - Oslo - NORWAY
Interplay between DNA supercoiling and DNA-bending proteins in the regulation of gene expression
ADHYA Sankar (USA)
Laboratory of Molecular Biology - National Cancer Institute - BETHESDA - USA
FINZI Laura (ITALY)
Dept. of Physics - Emory University - ATLANTA - USA
NELSON Philip C. (USA)
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy - University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - USA
Functional imaging of receptors in living cells by 2-photon uncaging of signalling molecules
BOOTMAN Martin (UK)
Life, Health and Chemical Sciences - The Open University - Milton Keynes - UK
ELLIS-DAVIES Graham (USA)
Dept of Neuroscience - Mount Sinai School of Medicine - New York - USA
KASAI Haruo (JAPAN)
Lab. of Structual Physiology - Center for Disease Biology & Integrative Medicine - Tokyo - JAPAN
An interdisciplinary approach to the problem of language and music specificity
ALTER Kai (GERMANY)
Institute of Neuroscience - Newcastle University Medical School - Newcastle upon Tyne - UK
BESSON Mireille (FRANCE)
Center for Research in Cognitive Neuroscience (CRNC) - National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) - Marseille - FRANCE
KOLINSKY Régine (BELGIUM)
Unit of Research in Cognitive Neurosciences - Free University of Bruxelles - Brussels - BELGIUM
PERETZ Isabelle (CANADA)
Psychology/International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research - Université de Montréal - MONTRÉAL - CANADA
Structural and functional studies of the yeast ribosome
ANDERSEN Gregers Rom (DENMARK)
Dep Molecular Biology and Genetics - Aarhus University - Aarhus - DENMARK
GOLDMAN Yale E. (USA)
Pennsylvania Muscle Institute - Perelman School of Medicine - Philadelphia - USA
KINZY Terri G. (USA)
Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology - Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School - Piscataway - USA
NISSEN Poul (DENMARK)
Dept. of Molecular Biology and Genetics - Aarhus University - Aarhus - DENMARK
Ecological diversity and adaptation of proteorhodopsins
BEJA Oded (ISRAEL)
Faculty of Biology - Technion - HAIFA - ISRAEL
SPUDICH John (USA)
Center for Membrane Biology, Dept. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology - University of Texas - Houston - USA
Functional analysis of immediate early genes in LTP and memory
BLISS Timothy V. P. (UK)
Division of Neurophysiology & Neuropharmacology - National Institute for Medical Research - London - UK
KUHL Dietmar (GERMANY)
Institute for Molecular and Cellular Cognition (IMCC) - Center for Molecular Neurobiology (ZMNH) - Hamburg - GERMANY
LAROCHE Serge (FRANCE)
Centre of Neuroscience Paris-Sud - CNRS UMR 8195 - University Paris Sud - Orsay - FRANCE
MANSUY Isabelle (FRANCE)
Laboratory of Neuroepigenetics - University of Zurich - Zurich - SWITZERLAND
Molecular mechanisms in endocytosis
BRODIN Lennart (SWEDEN)
Dept. of Neuroscience - The Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology - Stockholm - SWEDEN
DE CAMILLI Pietro (USA)
Dept. of Cell Biology - Yale University School of Medicine - New Haven - USA
DI FIORE Pier Paolo (ITALY)
Dept. of Health Sciences - University of Milan. - Milan - ITALY
WENDLAND Beverly (USA)
Dept. of Biology - The Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore - USA
Regulation of protein traffic: large ARF-GEFs as integrating molecular scaffolds
CHERFILS Jacqueline (FRANCE)
Laboratoire de Pharmacologie et Biologie Appliquée - Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan - Cachan - FRANCE
JÜRGENS Gerd (GERMANY)
ZMBP / Entwicklungsgenetik - University of Tübingen - Tübingen - GERMANY
MELANCON Paul (CANADA)
Dept. of Cell Biology - University of Alberta - Edmonton - CANADA
Ligand-receptor interactions: modulation by glycosyltransferase activity
CLAUSEN Henrik (DENMARK)
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine - Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen - COPENHAGEN - DENMARK
COHEN Stephen M. (CANADA)
ICMM - University of Copemhagen - Copenhagen - DENMARK
CONTI Elena (ITALY)
Department of Structural Cell Biology - Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry - Martinsried - GERMANY
YASUTOMO Koji (JAPAN)
Dept of Immunology and Parasitology - School of Medicine - Tokushima - JAPAN
Impact of slow oscillations on cortical synaptic plasticity
CONTRERAS Diego (USA)
Department of Neuroscience - University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - PHILADELPHIA - USA
DESTEXHE Alain (BELGIUM)
Unit Neuroscience, Information and Complexity (UNIC) - CNRS - GIF SUR YVETTE - FRANCE
SANCHEZ-VIVES Maria V. (SPAIN)
Systems Neuroscience - IDIBAPS-Institute of Biomedical Research Augusto Pi y Suñer - Barcelona - SPAIN
A biological and mathematical multiscale approach to left/right symmetry breaking in vertebrates
DA FONTOURA COSTA Luciano (BRAZIL)
Physics and Informatics - University of São Paulo - SÃO CARLOS - BRAZIL
IZPISUA BELMONTE Juan Carlos (SPAIN)
Gene Expression Laboratory - The Salk Institute for Biological Studies - La Jolla - USA
MÜLLER Gerd B. (AUSTRIA)
Department of Theoretical Biology - University of Vienna - Vienna - AUSTRIA
Structural and functional analyses of the initiation mechanism of archaeal DNA replication
DIRUGGIERO Jocelyne (FRANCE)
Department of Biology - Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore - USA
FORTERRE Patrick (FRANCE)
Institut de génétique et Microbiologie - Université Paris-Sud - ORSAY - FRANCE
HARADA Yoshie (JAPAN)
Institute for Protein Research - Osaka University - Osaka - JAPAN
ISHINO Yoshizumi (JAPAN)
Lab. of Protein Chemistry and Engineering - Dept of Bioscience and Biotechnology - Fukuoka-Shi - JAPAN
The origin of oxygen on earth: the innovation and evolution of photosynthetic water oxidation
DISMUKES Charles G. (USA)
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology - Rutgers University - Piscataway - USA
KLIMOV Vyacheslav V. (RUSSIA)
Dept. of Photobiology - Institute of Basic Biological Problems - Pushchino - RUSSIA
WYDRZYNSKI Thomas J. (USA)
Research School of Biological Sciences - The Australian National University - Canberra - AUSTRALIA