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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
Mechanisms of translational control of Oskar mRNA during Drosophila oogenesis
VANZO Nathalie (FRANCE)
Developmental Biology Programme - EMBL - Heidelberg - GERMANY
EPHRUSSI Anne (Host supervisor)
Regulation of Schwann cell differentiation
VERHEIJEN Mark (NETHERLANDS)
Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory - The Salk Institute for Biological Studies - La Jolla - USA
LEMKE Greg (Host supervisor)
Electrophysiological and phenotypic characterization of ventrolateral medulla neurons projecting to the amygdala in rat
VILTART Odile (FRANCE)
Department of Medicine - University of Melbourne - Heidelberg - AUSTRALIA
VERBERNE Antonius (Host supervisor)
Analysis of Wingless and Hedgehog protein distribution in Drosophila melanogaster
VINCENT Stéphane André (FRANCE)
Department of Genetics - Harvard Medical School - Boston - USA
PERRIMON Norbert (Host supervisor)
Nodal function in the node and in the left/right patterning of the mouse embryo
VINCENT Stéphane David (FRANCE)
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology - Harvard University - Cambridge - USA
ROBERTSON Elizabeth J. (Host supervisor)
Gas permeability of aquaporins
VIRKKI Leila (FINLAND)
Zentrum Physiologie - Medizinische Hochschule Hannover - Hannover - GERMANY
GROS Gerolf (Host supervisor)
Role of integrins in mechanotransduction in human osteoblasts
WEYTS Franci (NETHERLANDS)
Department of Bioengineering - University of California, San Diego - La Jolla - USA
CHIEN Shu (Host supervisor)
Semaphorin3A signaling: A model system for signal-transduction during axon guidance
YARON Avraham (ISRAEL)
Biological Sciences Department - Stanford University - Stanford - USA
TESSIER-LAVIGNE Marc (Host supervisor)
Modulation of the interaction between Ras- and Rho-family GTPases and phosphoinositide 3'-kinase by cyclic AMP
YARWOOD Stephen (UK)
Department of Medical Biophysics - Ontario Cancer Institute - Toronto - CANADA
WOODGETT James R. (Host supervisor)
Genetic dissection of genome-wide expression data during osmotic stress in S. cerevisiae
ZEITLINGER Julia (GERMANY)
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research - MIT - Cambridge - USA
YOUNG Richard A. (Host supervisor)
Localized presynaptic action of brain derived neurotrophic fact (BDNF) on synaptic transmission
ZHANG Xiao-Hui (CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF)
Department of Biology - University of California, San Diego - La Jolla - USA
POO Mu-Ming (Host supervisor)
The role of laminin in neuronal survival and degeneration
AKASSOGLOU Katerina (GREECE)
Department of Neurobiology and Genetics - Rockefeller University - New York - USA
STRICKLAND Sidney (Host supervisor)
Analysis of Toll like receptors in innate and adaptive immunity using gene-targeted mice
ALEXOPOULOU Lena (GREECE)
Section of Immunobiology - Yale University Medical School - New Haven - USA
FLAVELL Richard A. (Host supervisor)
Long-range signaling in neurons
ANDERSEN Søren (DENMARK)
Department of Biology - University of California - La Jolla - USA
POO Mu-Ming (Host supervisor)
Structure determination of the DNA binding domain of dsRNA adenosine deaminase complexed with DNA in Z-conformation
ATHANASIADIS Alexander (GREECE)
Biology Department - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge - USA
RICH Alexander (Host supervisor)
Glial Ca2+ waves, transmitter release and control of blood flow in the retina
AUGER Céline (FRANCE)
Department of Physiology - University College London - London - UK
ATTWELL David (Host supervisor)
The molecular basis of ciliated mechanosensory transduction in Drosophila melanogaster
AVIDOR-REISS Tomer (ISRAEL)
Dept. of Biology and Neuroscience - University of California - La Jolla - USA
ZUKER Charles (Host supervisor)
Examination of the role of cadherin-based adhesion in the formation of central synapses
BAMJI Shernaz (CANADA)
Department of Physiology - University of California - San Francisco - USA
REICHARDT Louis F. (Host supervisor)
Molecular Study of Fos/FRAs influence in the vulnerability to cocaine
BARROT Michel (FRANCE)
Department of Psychiatry - Yale University - New Haven - USA
NESTLER Eric (Host supervisor)
Mechanisms of ribonucleoprotein assembly, evolution and catalysis
BASSI Gurminder (UK)
Department of Chemistry - University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill - USA