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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
Characterization of Arabidopsis mutants uncoupling nuclear and plastid gene expression
MOCHIZUKI Nobuyoshi (JAPAN)
Plant Biology Lab. - The Salk Institute - La Jolla - USA
CHORY Joanne (Host supervisor)
Memory functions of temporal cortex
NAKAMURA Katsuki (JAPAN)
Dept. of Psychology - Princeton University - Princeton - USA
GROSS Charles G. (Host supervisor)
Identification of a suppressive nuclear factor that regulates Ig-k gene rearrangement
NISHIO Yukihiro (JAPAN)
Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology - University of California - Berkeley - USA
FIRESTONE Gary L. (Host supervisor)
Role of human SWI complex in transcriptional regulation
OHTA Tsutomu (JAPAN)
Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology - Rockefeller University - New York - USA
ROEDER Robert G. (Host supervisor)
High-resolution structure analysis of LHC-II by cryo-electron microscopy
TAHARA Yoshikazu (JAPAN)
- EMBL - Heidelberg - GERMANY
KUEHLBRANDT Werner (Host supervisor)
Development of a system for inducible gene disruption in mammalian hematopoietic cells
TAKAKI Satoshi (JAPAN)
Dept. of Immunology - University of Washington - Seattle - USA
PERLMUTTER Roger M. (Host supervisor)
Characterization of guanine nucleotide exchange factors for Ras proteins
URANO Takeshi (JAPAN)
Dept. of Biochemistry - Tufts University - Boston - USA
FEIG Larry A. (Host supervisor)
The mechanisms of hairy gene function in Drosophila development
WATANABE Minoru (JAPAN)
Division of Basic Sciences - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center - Seattle - USA
PARKHURST Susan (Host supervisor)
The mechanism and control of cyclin proteolysis
YAMANO Hiroyuki (JAPAN)
Clare Hall Lab. - ICRF - London - UK
HUNT Tim (Host supervisor)
Deciphering signal tansduction in LTP with gene transfer strategies
BITO Haruhiko (JAPAN)
Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Physiology - Stanford University School of Medicine - Stanford - USA
TSIEN Richard W. (Host supervisor)
Functional regulation of human sleep: simulation of sleep processes in SAD patients
ENDO Takuro (JAPAN)
Institute of Pharmacology - University of Zürich - Zürich - SWITZERLAND
BORBELY Alexander A. (Host supervisor)
Disruption of the mouse myelin-associated glycoprotein gene by homologous recombination
FUJITA Nobuya (JAPAN)
Brain & Development Research Center - University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill - USA
SUZUKI Kunihiko (Host supervisor)
Molecular cloning of novel neurotrophins: the role of neurotrophins for motoneurons
FUNAKOSHI Hiroshi (JAPAN)
Lab. of Molecular Neurobiology - Karolinska Institute - Stockholm - SWEDEN
IBANEZ Carlos (Host supervisor)
The mechanism of processing and presentation of viral antigens for cytotoxic T-cells
GOTOH Bin (JAPAN)
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology - University of Oxford - Oxford - UK
BROWNLEE George G. (Host supervisor)
A genetic and cell biological study of lipid translocation in mammalian cells
HANADA Kentaro (JAPAN)
Dept. of Embryology - Carnegie Institution of Washington - Baltimore - USA
PAGANO Richard E. (Host supervisor)
Mechanisms of alternative splicing
HANAMURA Akemi (JAPAN)
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories - Cold Spring Harbor - USA
KRAINER Adrian (Host supervisor)
Regulation of Chlorophyll synthesis by transfer RNA
HORI Naoko (JAPAN)
Dept. of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry - Yale University - New Haven - USA
SÖLL Dieter (Host supervisor)
Identification of maternal factors critical for dorsal axis determination in Xenopus
ITOH Keiji (JAPAN)
Molecular Medicine Unit - Harvard Medical School - Boston - USA
SOKOL Sergei (Host supervisor)
Studies of memory mechanisms using recombinant DNA and transgenic mouse
IWASATO Takuji (JAPAN)
Center for Cancer Research - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge - USA
TONEGAWA Susumu (Host supervisor)
Molecular and biochemical analysis of a phospholipid transfer protein receptor in the yeast Golgi complex
KAGIWADA Satoshi (JAPAN)
Dept. of Cell Biology - University of Alabama at Birmingham - Birmingham - USA