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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
Ecological diversity and adaptation of proteorhodopsins
BEJA Oded (ISRAEL)
Faculty of Biology - Technion - HAIFA - ISRAEL
SPUDICH John (USA)
Center for Membrane Biology, Dept. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology - University of Texas - Houston - USA
Identification of yeast histone H4 histidine kinase via deletion array screening
BESANT Paul (AUSTRALIA)
Departments of Biological Sciences and Biochemistry - University of Iowa - Iowa City - USA
FASSLER Jan (Host supervisor)
DESCHENES Robert (Host supervisor)
Expression and biochemical characterization of a key enzyme catalyzing endocannabinoid biosynthesis
BISOGNO Tiziana (ITALY)
MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology - King's College London - LONDON - UK
DOHERTY Patrick (Host supervisor)
Deciphering activity-dependent changes in neuronal circuits using novel imaging approaches
BITO Haruhiko (JAPAN)
Dept. of Neurochemistry - The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine - Tokyo - JAPAN
EMPTAGE Nigel (UK)
Dept. of Pharmacology - University of Oxford - Oxford - UK
SCHNITZER Mark J. (USA)
Dept. of Biology / Applied Physics - Stanford University - Stanford - USA
Revealing telencephalic evolution through comparative functional analysis of gene regulatory regions
BLADER Patrick (UK)
Centre de Biologie du Développement - Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse - FRANCE
BROWN Daniel G. (USA)
School of Computer Science - University of Waterloo - Waterloo - CANADA
JARVIS Erich D. (USA)
Laboratory of Genes, Brains, and Behavior - Rockefeller University - New York - USA
SCHUURMANS Carol (CANADA)
Department of Biochemistry - Sunnybrook Research Institute - Toronto - CANADA
Functional analysis of immediate early genes in LTP and memory
BLISS Timothy V. P. (UK)
Division of Neurophysiology & Neuropharmacology - National Institute for Medical Research - London - UK
KUHL Dietmar (GERMANY)
Institute for Molecular and Cellular Cognition (IMCC) - Center for Molecular Neurobiology (ZMNH) - Hamburg - GERMANY
LAROCHE Serge (FRANCE)
Centre of Neuroscience Paris-Sud - CNRS UMR 8195 - University Paris Sud - Orsay - FRANCE
MANSUY Isabelle (FRANCE)
Laboratory of Neuroepigenetics - University of Zurich - Zurich - SWITZERLAND
Role of the Ffg and Wnt genes in forebrain patterning
BORELLO Ugo (ITALY)
Department of Psychiatry - University of California - San Francisco - USA
RUBENSTEIN John L.R. (Host supervisor)
Molecular mechanisms in endocytosis
BRODIN Lennart (SWEDEN)
Dept. of Neuroscience - The Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology - Stockholm - SWEDEN
DE CAMILLI Pietro (USA)
Dept. of Cell Biology - Yale University School of Medicine - New Haven - USA
DI FIORE Pier Paolo (ITALY)
Dept. of Health Sciences - University of Milan. - Milan - ITALY
WENDLAND Beverly (USA)
Dept. of Biology - The Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore - USA
Neurophysiology of taste in the human brain
BUCHANAN Tony (USA)
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience - Institute of Neurology - LONDON - UK
DOLAN Raymond (Host supervisor)
Cell cycle regulation of megakarocytic cells generated through embryonic stem cell "in vitro" differentiation
CALÉS Carmela (SPAIN)
Department of Molecular Cell Biology - Research Institute for Microbial Diseases - Osaka - JAPAN
NAKANO Toru (Host supervisor)
In vitro assays for the study of microtubule assembly and organisation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
CARAZO SALAS Rafael Edgardo (COSTA RICA)
Cell Cycle Laboratory - London Research Institute - London - UK
NURSE Paul (Host supervisor)
Hip1R: a molecular link between endocytosis and the actin cytoskeleton
CARRENO Sebastien (FRANCE)
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology - University of California - Berkeley - USA
DRUBIN David G. (Host supervisor)
Specification of the eye field within the anterior neural plate
CAVODEASSI Florencia (SPAIN)
Dept. of Anatomy and Developmental Biology - University College London - London - UK
WILSON Stephen (Host supervisor)
The molecular mechanism of p300/SYT complex in cell adhesion control
CHAN Ho Man (UK)
Department of Cancer Biology - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - Boston - USA
LIVINGSTON David M. (Host supervisor)
Regulation of protein traffic: large ARF-GEFs as integrating molecular scaffolds
CHERFILS Jacqueline (FRANCE)
Laboratoire de Pharmacologie et Biologie Appliquée - Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan - Cachan - FRANCE
JÜRGENS Gerd (GERMANY)
ZMBP / Entwicklungsgenetik - University of Tübingen - Tübingen - GERMANY
MELANCON Paul (CANADA)
Dept. of Cell Biology - University of Alberta - Edmonton - CANADA
Ligand-receptor interactions: modulation by glycosyltransferase activity
CLAUSEN Henrik (DENMARK)
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine - Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen - COPENHAGEN - DENMARK
COHEN Stephen M. (CANADA)
ICMM - University of Copemhagen - Copenhagen - DENMARK
CONTI Elena (ITALY)
Department of Structural Cell Biology - Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry - Martinsried - GERMANY
YASUTOMO Koji (JAPAN)
Dept of Immunology and Parasitology - School of Medicine - Tokushima - JAPAN
Impact of slow oscillations on cortical synaptic plasticity
CONTRERAS Diego (USA)
Department of Neuroscience - University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - PHILADELPHIA - USA
DESTEXHE Alain (BELGIUM)
Unit Neuroscience, Information and Complexity (UNIC) - CNRS - GIF SUR YVETTE - FRANCE
SANCHEZ-VIVES Maria V. (SPAIN)
Systems Neuroscience - IDIBAPS-Institute of Biomedical Research Augusto Pi y Suñer - Barcelona - SPAIN
Two-photon imaging of cortical dynamics
COSSART Rosa (FRANCE)
Department of Biological Sciences - Columbia University - New York - USA
YUSTE Rafael (Host supervisor)
In vivo coherent anti-Stokes Raman microscopy and photon by photon analysis of single molecule data
COTLET Mircea (ROMANIA)
Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology - Harvard University - Cambridge - USA
XIE Xiaoliang Sunney (Host supervisor)
A biological and mathematical multiscale approach to left/right symmetry breaking in vertebrates
DA FONTOURA COSTA Luciano (BRAZIL)
Physics and Informatics - University of São Paulo - SÃO CARLOS - BRAZIL
IZPISUA BELMONTE Juan Carlos (SPAIN)
Gene Expression Laboratory - The Salk Institute for Biological Studies - La Jolla - USA
MÜLLER Gerd B. (AUSTRIA)
Department of Theoretical Biology - University of Vienna - Vienna - AUSTRIA