-
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.
-
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.
- News & Impact
-
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.
-
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
Repression of Arabidopsis light-regulated transcription by DET1
SCHROEDER Dana (CANADA)
Plant Biology Laboratory - The Salk Institute - La Jolla - USA
CHORY Joanne (Host supervisor)
Activity of primate spinal interneurons during voluntary movement
SEKI Kazuhiko (JAPAN)
Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics - University of Washington - Seattle - USA
FETZ Eberhard (Host supervisor)
Synaptic connectivity in the hippocampal CA3 =>CA1 projection
SHEPHERD Gordon M. G. (USA)
Institute of Neurophysiology - University of Oslo - Oslo - NORWAY
ANDERSEN Per O. (Host supervisor)
Characterization of exocytic vesicles in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
SINIOSSOGLOU Symeon (GREECE)
Laboratory of Molecular Biology - Medical Research Council - Cambridge - UK
PELHAM Hugh R. B. (Host supervisor)
The plant cell wall: biosynthesis, regulation and function of individual glycan components
SPRENGER Norbert (LIECHTENSTEIN)
Department of Plant Biology - Carnegie Institution - Stanford - USA
SOMERVILLE Chris R. (Host supervisor)
A computational study of the implications of calcium dynamics for synaptic integration and plasticity in Purkinje cells
STEUBER Volker (GERMANY)
Laboratory of Theoretical Neurobiology - University of Antwerp - Antwerp - BELGIUM
DE SCHUTTER Erik (Host supervisor)
Structural basis for the interaction between integrin alpha-vß3 and the collagenase MMP-2
SUAREZ PUENTE Xose Anton (SPAIN)
Dept. of Immunology and Vascular Biology - The Scripps Research Institute - La Jolla - USA
CHERESH David A. (Host supervisor)
The role of HSF1 for the repression of heat shock gene expression
TANABE Masako (JAPAN)
Department of Molecular Biology - Massachusetts General Hospital - Boston - USA
KINGSTON Robert E. (Host supervisor)
Mechanisms of transmitter release and re-uptake at a giant mammalian presynaptic terminal - the Calyx of Held
TASCHENBERGER Holger (GERMANY)
Vollum Institute - Oregon Health Sciences University - Portland - USA
VON GERSDORFF Henrique (Host supervisor)
JAHR Craig E. (Host supervisor)
Lymphotoxins and lymphoid organogenesis. The search for follicular dendritic cell (FDC) specific genes
TKACHUK Maria (RUSSIA)
Department of Pathology - Stanford University - Stanford - USA
WEISSMAN Irving (Host supervisor)
Mechanisms of gamma-delta versus alpha-ß T cell lineage commitment
TRIGUEROS FERNANDEZ Cesar (SPAIN)
- Imperial Cancer Research Fund - London - UK
OWEN Michael J. (Host supervisor)
Identification of target genes of Drosophila wingless and DWnt2 and studying the specificity of two different Wnt pathways
TRIMBORN Tolleiv (NETHERLANDS)
Department of Developmental Biology - Stanford University - Stanford - USA
NUSSE Roel (Host supervisor)
Analysis of myosin VII function in phagocytosis
TUXWORTH Richard (UK)
Department of Cell Biology and Neuroanatomy - University of Minnesota - Minneapolis - USA
TITUS Margaret A. (Host supervisor)
Characterization of the CD1d-restricted mucosal NKT cell response. Role of intestinal epithelial cells
VAN DE WAL Yvonne (NETHERLANDS)
Gastroenterology Division - Harvard Medical School - Boston - USA
BLUMBERG Richard S. (Host supervisor)
CRESSWELL Peter (Host supervisor)
Role of syntaxins in polarized sorting pathways
VAN IJZENDOORN Sven (NETHERLANDS)
Department of Anatomy - University of California - San Francisco - USA
MOSTOV Keith E. (Host supervisor)
Anatomical basis for left-right asymmetries in spatial orienting under physiological and pathological conditions
VANDENBERGHE Rik (BELGIUM)
Dept. of Cognitive Neurol. and Alzheimer's Disease Center - Northwestern University Medical School - Chicago - USA
MESULAM Marsel (Host supervisor)
Regulation of cellular senescence and crisis
VAZIRI Homayoun (CANADA)
Department of Molecular Pharmacology - Stanford University - Stanford - USA
WEINBERG Robert A. (Host supervisor)
Role of nitric oxide in the MPTP model of Parkinson's disease
VILA Miquel (SPAIN)
Department of Neurology - Columbia University - New York - USA
PRZEDBORSKI Serge (Host supervisor)
Dissecting the functions of Prp16 RNA unwindase in pre-mRNA splicing
VILLA Tommaso (ITALY)
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics - University of California - San Francisco - USA
GUTHRIE Christine (Host supervisor)
A search for novel cell death regulators and their role in tumourigenesis
VILLUNGER Andreas (AUSTRIA)
Molecular Genetics of Cancer Division - The Walter and Eliza Hall Inst. of Medical Research - Melbourne - AUSTRALIA