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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
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)
Transition states for thiophosphoryl transfer from phosphorothioates and related substrates
ONYIDO Ikenna (NIGERIA)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry - Utah State University - Logan - USA
HENGGE Alvan C. (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)
The Toll homologue in Caenorhabditis elegans: a role in epithelial morphogenesis?
PUJOL Nathalie (FRANCE)
Dept. of Molecular, Cell. and Dev. Biology - University of California - Santa Cruz - USA
CHISHOLM Andrew D. (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)
Contribution of the reticulospinal system to the control of posture and movement
SCHEPENS Bénédicte (BELGIUM)
Department of Physiology - University of Montreal - Montreal - CANADA
DREW Trevor (Host supervisor)
Histone methylation and transcriptional control
SCHNEIDER Robert (GERMANY)
Wellcome / CRC Institute - University of Cambridge - Cambridge - UK
KOUZARIDES Tony (Host supervisor)
Genetic analysis of proneural gene function in the developping cerebral cortex
SCHUURMANS Carol (CANADA)
- IGBMC - Illkirch - FRANCE
GUILLEMOT François (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)
Neural mechanisms of attention in the human sensory cortex as revealed by MEG
SOKOLOV Alexander (RUSSIA)
Inst. of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology - University of Tubingen - Tubingen - GERMANY
BIRBAUMER Niels (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)
Design and applications of a GFP-based reporter for intracellular anion concentration in plant cells
THOMINE Sebastien (FRANCE)
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology - University of California - Berkeley - USA