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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
Molecular genetic studies of shoot apical meristem (SAM) development in Arabidopsis thaliana
VISHNEVETSKY Michael (ISRAEL)
Division of Biology - California Institute of Technology - Pasadena - USA
MEYEROWITZ Elliot (Host supervisor)
Function of low-voltage-activated channels in dendritic computation
WATANABE Shigeo (JAPAN)
Division of Neuroscience - Baylor College of Medicine - Houston - USA
JOHNSTON Daniel (Host supervisor)
Genetic analysis of adaptation in C. elegans
WEINKOVE David (UK)
Division of Molecular Biology - The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Amsterdam - NETHERLANDS
PLASTERK Ronald (Host supervisor)
Structural analysis of human class II TBP-associated factors and their complexes
WERTEN Sebastiaan (NETHERLANDS)
Crystallography Department - IGBMC - Illkirch - FRANCE
MORAS Dino (Host supervisor)
Role of Noggin in patterning the vertebrate central nervous system
WIJGERDE Mark (NETHERLANDS)
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology - Harvard University - Cambridge - USA
MCMAHON Andrew (Host supervisor)
In vitro dissection of the non-homologous DNA end-joining repair pathway
WILLIAMS Brandi (USA)
Department of Zoology - Wellcome / CRC Institute - Cambridge - UK
JACKSON Stephen P. (Host supervisor)
Role of the winged helix gene Mfh1 in vertebral development
WILM Bettina (GERMANY)
Department of Cell Biology - Vanderbilt University - Nashville - USA
HOGAN Brigid (Host supervisor)
Study of heparan sulfate biosynthesis
YABE Tomio (JAPAN)
Department of Chemistry - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge - USA
SEEBERGER Peter H. (Host supervisor)
Recognition of SECIS RNA by elongation factor SelB protein
YOSHIZAWA Satoko (JAPAN)
Laboratoire de RMN - CNRS - Gif-sur-Yvette - FRANCE
GUITTET Eric (Host supervisor)
Molecular and developmental analysis of Drosophila BRM complex in transcription activation
ZHU Alan (CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF)
Department of Developmental Biology - Stanford University - Stanford - USA
SCOTT Matthew P. (Host supervisor)
CENP-E motor activity and functional study of kinetochore proteins
ABRIEU Ariane (FRANCE)
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research - University of California - La Jolla - USA
CLEVELAND Don (Host supervisor)
Mechanism of protein folding in the bacterial cytosol
AGASHE Vishwas R. (INDIA)
Department of Cellular Biochemistry - Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry - Martinsried - GERMANY
HARTL Franz-Ulrich (Host supervisor)
Post-initiation transcription control in chromatin
AKHTAR Asifa (PAKISTAN)
Gene Expression Program - EMBL - Heidelberg - GERMANY
BECKER Peter (Host supervisor)
Global motion coherence and the temporal correlation hypothesis: a psychological and physiological investigation
ALAIS David (UK)
LPPA - Collège de France - Paris - FRANCE
BERTHOZ Alain (Host supervisor)
Analysis of the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay factors associated with individual polysomes in yeast
AMRANI Nadia (MOROCCO)
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology - University of Massachusetts Medical School - Worcester - USA
JACOBSON Allan (Host supervisor)
Functional cooperation between the actin cytoskeleton and microtubules in S. pombe morphogenesis
ARELLANO Manuel (SPAIN)
Cell Cycle Laboratory - Imperial Cancer Research Fund - London - UK
NURSE Paul (Host supervisor)
Structure determination of the mechanosensitive channel MscL from E. coli
AUER Manfred (GERMANY)
Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine - New York University Medical Center - New York - USA
WANG Da-Neng (Host supervisor)
Identification of molecules involved in leukocyte homing to thymus and vascularized tumors
AURRAND-LIONS Michel (FRANCE)
Département de Pathologie - Centre Médical Universitaire - Genève - SWITZERLAND
IMHOF Beat (Host supervisor)
Gating and regulation of the neuronal ClC-2 chloride channel
BAINS Jaideep (CANADA)
Department of Neurology - University of Colorado Health Sciences Center - Denver - USA
STALEY Kevin J. (Host supervisor)
Molecular mechanism of long-term potentiation in mammalian hippocampus
BARCO Angel (SPAIN)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Columbia University - New York - USA