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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
Role of the reticular formation in movement and posture
SCHEPENS Bénédicte (BELGIUM)
Département de Physiologie - Université de Montréal - Montréal - CANADA
DREW Trevor (Host supervisor)
Mechanisms of ligand-receptor interaction in Wingless signaling
SCHOCK Frieder (GERMANY)
Department of Genetics - Harvard Medical School - Boston - USA
PERRIMON Norbert (Host supervisor)
Characterization of the mitochondrial effects of proapoptodic bcl-2 family molecules
SCORRANO Luca (ITALY)
Department of Cancer, Immunology and AIDS - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - Boston - USA
KORSMEYER Stanley J. (Host supervisor)
The control of mRNA stability in response to extracellular stimuli
SHIM Jaekyung (KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (SOUTH KOREA))
Department of Pharmacology - University of California, San Diego - La Jolla - USA
KARIN Michael (Host supervisor)
Molecular mechanisms underlying the differential targeting of calcium channels at neurotransmitter release sites
SPAFFORD J. David (CANADA)
Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology - Free University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam - NETHERLANDS
SMIT August B. (Host supervisor)
Neural stem cell cilium: characterization and function
SPASSKY Nathalie (FRANCE)
Department of Neurosurgery Research - University of San Francisco - San Francisco - USA
ALVAREZ-BUYLLA Arturo (Host supervisor)
Subregionalized specification of muscle cell identity in the somite
SPORLE Ralf (GERMANY)
Unité de Génétique Moléculaire du Développement - Institut Pasteur - Paris - FRANCE
BUCKINGHAM Margaret (Host supervisor)
A gene trap screen in Xenopus tropicalis to isolate genes involved in anterior patterning
SRINIVAS Shankar (INDIA)
Division of Developmental Biology - National Institute for Medical Research - London - UK
SMITH James C. (Host supervisor)
Mechanisms of chemokine-mediated integrin activation in vivo
STEIN Jens (GERMANY)
Department of Immunology and Oncology - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid - Madrid - SPAIN
MARTINEZ-A Carlos (Host supervisor)
Sister chromatid separation in vertebrates: biochemical characterization of separin and downstream substrates
STEMMANN Olaf (GERMANY)
Department of Cell Biology - Harvard Medical School - Boston - USA
KIRSCHNER Marc W. (Host supervisor)
The role of the glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors in learning and memory
STRIDE Brenda (CANADA)
Dept. of Molecular Biology of the Cell - German Cancer Research Center - Heidelberg - GERMANY
SCHÜTZ Günther (Host supervisor)
Biogenesis of yeast telomerase
TEIXEIRA FERNANDES Maria Teresa (PORTUGAL)
Telomere Research Unit - ISREC - Epalinges - SWITZERLAND
LINGNER Joachim (Host supervisor)
Signaling by Frizzled receptors: how is specificity achieved?
TEN BERGE Derk (NETHERLANDS)
Department of Developmental Biology - Stanford University - Stanford - USA
NUSSE Roel (Host supervisor)
Study of the innate immune system: funtional analysis of the mammalian Toll-like receptors
TILLOY Florence (FRANCE)
Section of Immunobiology - Yale University Medical School - New Haven - USA
MEDZHITOV Ruslan (Host supervisor)
Functional significance of putative ATP binding and hydrolysis motifs of human MutL alpha in DNA mismatch repair
TOMER Guy (ISRAEL)
Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics - Oregon Health Sciences University - Portland - USA
LISKAY R. Michael (Host supervisor)
Calcium-dependence of RGS3-mediated desensitization of calcium channel inhibition in chick DRG neurons
TOSETTI Patrizia (ITALY)
Department of Neuroscience - Tufts University - Boston - USA
DUNLAP Kathleen L. (Host supervisor)
Methods to assess the funtional role of hippocampal subfields
TREVES Alessandro (ITALY)
Division of Neural Systems, Memory and Aging - University of Arizona - Tucson - USA
MCNAUGHTON Bruce L. (Host supervisor)
Functional studies of a bitter substance-activated channel
TSUNENARI Takashi (JAPAN)
Department of Neuroscience - The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - Baltimore - USA
YAU King-Wai (Host supervisor)
The role of cortical area MT in fine stereoscopic depth discrimination
UKA Takanori (JAPAN)
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology - Washington University School of Medicine - St. Louis - USA
DEANGELIS Gregory (Host supervisor)
Intra-molecular signal transduction in photoreceptors
VAN THOR Jasper (NETHERLANDS)
Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics - University of Oxford - Oxford - UK