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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
Computer simulation of protein folding
FUKUNISHI Yoshifumi (JAPAN)
Dept. of Chemistry - Rutgers State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick - USA
LEVY Ronald M. (Host supervisor)
Cofactors for Drosophila homeotic gene products
FUSE Naoyuki (JAPAN)
Dept. of Molecular Biology and Genetics - Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore - USA
BEACHY Philip (Host supervisor)
Abnormal phosphorylation in Alzheimer's disease brain
HASEGAWA Masato (JAPAN)
- MRC Lab. of Molecular Biology - Cambridge - UK
GOEDERT Michel (Host supervisor)
Low frequency internal motions in proteins studied by quasi spectral densities
ISHIMA Rieko (JAPAN)
Ontario Cancer Institute - Princess Margaret Hospital - Toronto - CANADA
IKURA Mitsuhiko (Host supervisor)
Role of Hox genes in neural development
ITASAKI Nobue (JAPAN)
Lab. of Developmental Neurobiology - National Institute for Medical Research - London - UK
KRUMLAUF Robert (Host supervisor)
On the modulation by intercellular messengers of glutamatergic synaptic transmission
KATSUKI Hiroshi (JAPAN)
Dept. of Psychiatry and Neurobiology - Washington University School of Medicine - St. Louis - USA
ZORUMSKI Charles F. (Host supervisor)
Once per cell cycle regulation of DNA replication in yeast
KAWASAKI Yasuo (JAPAN)
Section of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology - Cornell University - Ithaca - USA
TYE Bik-Kwoon (Host supervisor)
Analysis of leukocyte transendothelial migration mechanism
KITAYAMA Joji (JAPAN)
The Center for Blood Research - Harvard Medical School - Boston - USA
SPRINGER Timothy (Host supervisor)
Quantal fluctuations and modifications of transmission efficacy in cerebellar GABAergic synapses
KONDO Satoru (JAPAN)
- Max-Planck-Inst. für Biophysikalische Chemie - Göttingen - GERMANY
MARTY Alain (Host supervisor)
Inorganic polyphosphate synthesis and its functions in Escherichia coli
KURODA Akio (JAPAN)
Dept. of Biochemistry - Stanford University - Stanford - USA
KORNBERG Arthur (Host supervisor)
Construction of a functional helical protein and study of structural uniqueness in helical proteins
KURODA Yutaka (JAPAN)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology - Cambridge - USA
KIM Peter S. (Host supervisor)
Molecular identification of dorsalizing factors in Xenopus oocyte
MARIKAWA Yusuke (JAPAN)
Dept. of Zoology - University of Toronto - Toronto - CANADA
ELINSON Richard P. (Host supervisor)
Analysis of primary neuron differentiation in the embryonic zebrafish brain
MASAI Ichiro (JAPAN)
Developmental Biology Research Centre - King's College - London - UK
WILSON Stephen (Host supervisor)
Analyses of 2nd messenger-mediated Ca2+ dynamics by an imaging of IP3 in single cells
MIYAWAKI Atsushi (JAPAN)
Howard Hughes Medical Inst. - University of California - La Jolla - USA
TSIEN Roger Y. (Host supervisor)
Studies on homologous recombination and development of retroviral vector toward gene therapy
MIYOSHI Hiroyuki (JAPAN)
Laboratory of Genetics - The Salk Institute - La Jolla - USA
VERMA Inder M. (Host supervisor)
Graph and probability theory applied to problems of sensory representation, integration and perception
MOGI Kenichiro (JAPAN)
Physiological Laboratory - University of Cambridge - Cambridge - UK
BARLOW Horace B. (Host supervisor)
Analysis of the physiological control of the acquisition of cytokine-producing phenotype
MURAKAMI Masao (JAPAN)
Lab. of Immunology - NIH - Bethesda - USA
PAUL William E. (Host supervisor)
Mechanism and functions of mammalian cell death gene Ich-1
NAKAGAWA Toshiyuki (JAPAN)
Cardiovascular Research Center - Massachusetts General Hospital - Charlestown - USA
YUAN Junying (Host supervisor)
Production and characterization of mutant mice with subtle alterations in glutamate receptors
NAKAZAWA Kazu (JAPAN)
Center for Cancer Research - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge - USA
TONEGAWA Susumu (Host supervisor)
Molecular cloning and characterization of ligands for neurexins
OKAMOTO Masaya (JAPAN)
Dept. of Molecular Genetics - University of Texas - Dallas - USA