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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 maternal factors critical for dorsal axis determination in Xenopus
ITOH Keiji (JAPAN)
Molecular Medicine Unit - Harvard Medical School - Boston - USA
SOKOL Sergei (Host supervisor)
Studies of memory mechanisms using recombinant DNA and transgenic mouse
IWASATO Takuji (JAPAN)
Center for Cancer Research - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge - USA
TONEGAWA Susumu (Host supervisor)
Studies on the structure and function of immunophilins
JACKSON Sophie E. (UK)
Dept. of Chemistry - Harvard University - Cambridge - USA
SCHREIBER Stuart (Host supervisor)
Molecular basis for the transforming effect of the t(15 17) translocation in promyelocytic leukemia
JANSEN Jozef Henricus (NETHERLANDS)
Dept. of Retroviruses - Pasteur Institute - Paris - FRANCE
DEJEAN Anne (Host supervisor)
Molecular analysis of two ecdysteroid induced transcription factors
JINDRA Marek (CZECH REPUBLIC)
Dept. of Zoology - University of Washington - Seattle - USA
RIDDIFORD Lynn (Host supervisor)
Molecular and biochemical analysis of a phospholipid transfer protein receptor in the yeast Golgi complex
KAGIWADA Satoshi (JAPAN)
Dept. of Cell Biology - University of Alabama at Birmingham - Birmingham - USA
BANKAITIS Vytas (Host supervisor)
Mutagenesis of integrin alpha subunits
KERN Andreas H. (GERMANY)
Dept. of Pathology - Columbia University - New York - USA
MARCANTONIO Eugene (Host supervisor)
Identification and characterization of nuclear pore complex proteins
KESSLER Felix (SWITZERLAND)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Laboratories - The Rockefeller University - New York - USA
BLOBEL Gunter (Host supervisor)
In situ phosphorylation of postsynaptic density proteins in hippocampal cultures
KINDLER Stefan (GERMANY)
Division of Biology - California Institute of Technology - Pasadena - USA
KENNEDY Mary B. (Host supervisor)
Molecular and functional characterization of a novel transcription factor CTCF and its gene
KLENOVA Elena (RUSSIA)
Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology - Institute of Cancer Research - London - UK
GOODWIN Graham H. (Host supervisor)
Targeting and folding preproteins into the mitochondrial outer membrane
LITHGOW Trevor J. (AUSTRALIA)
Biocenter - University of Basel - Basel - SWITZERLAND
SCHATZ Gottfried (Host supervisor)
Cellular and molecular biology of hindbrain development
LOGAN Cathy Cairine (CANADA)
Division of Anatomy & Cell Biology - United Medical and Dental School - London - UK
LUMSDEN Andrew G. (Host supervisor)
Role of TrK receptors in neuronal development and survival
LOPEZ-BARAHONA Monica (SPAIN)
Laboratory of Molecular Oncology - Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute - Princeton - USA
BARBACID Mariano (Host supervisor)
Molecular dynamics of biological macromolecules using a continuum solvent model
LUTY Brock (USA)
Dept. of Physical Chemistry - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) - Zürich - SWITZERLAND
VAN GUNSTEREN Wilfred F. (Host supervisor)
Expression cloning of mammalian brain amino acid transporters
MACKENZIE Bryan (UK)
Dept. of Physiology - University of California - Los Angeles - USA
WRIGHT Ernest M. (Host supervisor)
Dissection of the role of the retinoblastoma gene product in murine erythropoiesis
MACLEOD Kay F. (UK)
Center for Cancer Research - Massachussets Institute of Technology - Cambridge - USA
JACKS Tyler (Host supervisor)
The role of cyclin E in regulation of retinoblastoma protein functions
MAKELA Tomi (UK)
Dept. of Biology - Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research - Cambridge - USA
WEINBERG Robert A. (Host supervisor)
Protein kinases in early avian embryogenesis
MARCELLE Christophe (BELGIUM)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - University of California - Irvine - USA
BRONNER Marianne (Host supervisor)
Molecular mechanisms of X chromosome inactivation
MATSUURA Shinya (JAPAN)
Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics - St Mary's Hospital Medical School - London - UK
BROWN Stephen D. M. (Host supervisor)
Treatment of quantum degrees of freedom in enzymatic processes
MAVRI Janez (SLOVENIA)
Dept. of Physical Chemistry - University of Groningen - Groningen - NETHERLANDS