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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
The generation of a mouse model of human Pemphigus Vulgaris
NISHIMURA Hiroyuki (JAPAN)
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology - Harvard University - Cambridge - USA
STROMINGER Jack L. (Host supervisor)
Identification of output genes of the mammalian circadian clock
NOTON Elizabeth A. (UK)
Laboratory of Developmental Chronobiology - Massachusetts General Hospital - Boston - USA
REPPERT Steven (Host supervisor)
Factors determining dominance/subdominance of class I MHC restricted epitopes and their related CD8+ T cell responses
NUSSBAUM Alexander (GERMANY)
Department of Neuropharmacology - The Scripps Research Institute - La Jolla - USA
WHITTON J. Lindsay (Host supervisor)
Analysis of ITAM receptors in NK cell functions
OGASAWARA Koetsu (JAPAN)
Department of Microbiology and Immunology - University of California - San Francisco - USA
LANIER Lewis L. (Host supervisor)
Development of sensors for in vivo real-time imaging of GTPase signaling
OTOMO Takanori (JAPAN)
Dept. of Biochemistry - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Dallas - USA
ROSEN Michael K. (Host supervisor)
The role of embryonic patterning genes in flower development
PALATNIK Javier (ARGENTINA)
Department of Molecular Biology - MPI for Developmental Biology - Tübingen - GERMANY
WEIGEL Detlef (Host supervisor)
Cell cycle and cancer genetic pathways in Zebrafish
PATTON E. Elizabeth (CANADA)
Division of Hematology and Oncology - Children' s Hospital - Boston - USA
ZON Leonard (Host supervisor)
Structure-function relationships in ion-channels studied by single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy
PRALLE Arnd (GERMANY)
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology - University of California - Berkeley - USA
ISACOFF Ehud Y. (Host supervisor)
Characterisation of kakapo, a cytoskeletal linker involved in integrin-mediated adhesion
ROEPER Katja (GERMANY)
Wellcome / CRC Institute - University of Cambridge - Cambridge - UK
BROWN Nicholas H. (Host supervisor)
Two memory systems at work: dynamic interactions between short-term and long-term memory
SAKAI Katsuyuki (JAPAN)
Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology - Institute of Neurology - London - UK
PASSINGHAM Richard E. (Host supervisor)
Histone methylation and transcriptional control
SCHNEIDER Robert (GERMANY)
Wellcome / CRC Institute - University of Cambridge - Cambridge - UK
KOUZARIDES Tony (Host supervisor)
Characterization of a new receptor family controlling synaptogenesis by regulating mitochondrial homeostasis
SELIMI Fekrije (FRANCE)
Department of Molecular Biology - Rockefeller University - New York - USA
HEINTZ Nathaniel (Host supervisor)
Identification of novel proteins that modulate microtubule dynamics in C. elegans and Xenopus
SRAYKO Martin (CANADA)
- MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics - Dresden - GERMANY
HYMAN Anthony (Host supervisor)
Role of the COP9 signalosome in regulating the action of the photomorphogenic repressor COP1
SULLIVAN James A. (UK)
Dept. of Molecular, Cell and Development Biology - Yale University - New Haven - USA
DENG Xing Wang (Host supervisor)
Molecular mechanism of sister chromatid cohesion: structural studies of non-SMC cohesin proteins
SUTANI Takashi (JAPAN)
Dept. of Biological Chemistry and Mol. Pharmacology - Harvard Medical School - Boston - USA
HARRISON Stephen C. (Host supervisor)
Elucidation of animal diversity by comparing Drosophila and Tribolium wing development
TOMOYASU Yoshinori (JAPAN)
Division of Biology - Kansas State University - Manhattan - USA
DENELL Robin E. (Host supervisor)
Structural studies of the dimeric p53 protein and its interactions with DNA
TUGARINOV Vitali (ISRAEL)
Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology - University of Toronto - Toronto - CANADA
KAY Lewis (Host supervisor)
Endoderm cell migration in zebrafish gut development
VERKADE Heather (AUSTRALIA)
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics - University of California - San Francisco - USA
STAINIER Didier (Host supervisor)
HEATH Joan K. (Host supervisor)
Function and structure of yeast septins
VERSELE Matthias (BELGIUM)
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology - University of California - Berkeley - USA
THORNER Jeremy (Host supervisor)
Regulation of gene expression during the cell movements of early morphogenesis
VOICULESCU Octavian (ROMANIA)
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology - University College London - London - UK