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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.
- News & Impact
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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
Biological effects of neurotrophic factors on neural development and regeneration
HARADA Takayuki (JAPAN)
Center for Developmental Biology - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Dallas - USA
PARADA Luis F. (Host supervisor)
The neural representation of decisions during orientation discrimination in macaque area LIP
JANSSEN Peter (BELGIUM)
Department of Physiology and Biophysics - University of Washington Medical School - Seattle - USA
SHADLEN Michael N. (Host supervisor)
Does plasticity at hippocampal to prefrontal cortex synapses depend on the level of activity in target neurons?
JAY Thérèse M. (FRANCE)
Center for Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience - Albany Medical College - Albany - USA
O'DONNELL Patricio (Host supervisor)
Structural studies of mammalian fertilisation proteins
JOVINE Luca (ITALY)
Department of Biology and Molecular Biology - Mount Sinai School of Medicine - New York - USA
WASSARMAN Paul M. (Host supervisor)
Chimeras of two related genes, PrP and Doppel, for analysis of the structural requirements for prion propagation
KARPUJ Marcela (ISRAEL)
Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases - University of California - San Francisco - USA
PRUSINER Stanley B. (Host supervisor)
The light harvesting function of carotenoids in oxygenic photosynthesis
KENNIS John (NETHERLANDS)
Department of Chemistry - University of California - Berkeley - USA
FLEMING Graham R. (Host supervisor)
GABAergic inhibition in the human neonatal epileptic slices
KHAZIPOV Roustem (RUSSIA)
Department of Neurology - Harvard Medical School - Boston - USA
HOLMES Gregory L. (Host supervisor)
Identification of RAFT1/FRAP/mTOR-associated proteins involved in cell growth and the rapamycin-sensitive pathway
KIM Do-Hyung (KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (SOUTH KOREA))
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research - Cambridge - USA
SABATINI David M. (Host supervisor)
Molecular mechanisms underlying the propagation of synaptic modifications
KOBAYASHI Katsunori (JAPAN)
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology - University of California - Berkeley - USA
POO Mu-Ming (Host supervisor)
A neural code for the perception of motion
KREKELBERG Bart (NETHERLANDS)
Vision Center Laboratory - The Salk Institute for Biological Studies - San Diego - USA
ALBRIGHT Thomas (Host supervisor)
Structure of asparaginyl tRNA synthetase-inhibitor complexes
KRON Michael A. (USA)
Protein - RNA Complex Group - EMBL - Grenoble - FRANCE
CUSACK Stephen (Host supervisor)
Functional analysis of interneuron development in the spinal cord
LANUZA Guillermo (ARGENTINA)
Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory - The Salk Institute for Biological Studies - La Jolla - USA
GOULDING Martyn D. (Host supervisor)
Regulatory function of CDK7 phosphorylation during the transcription cycle
LAROCHELLE Stéphane (CANADA)
- IGBMC - Illkirch - FRANCE
EGLY Jean-Marc (Host supervisor)
Effect of innate immunity on T cell responses to bacterial infection
LAUVAU Grégoire (FRANCE)
Laboratory of Antimicrobial Immunity - Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research - New York - USA
PAMER Eric G. (Host supervisor)
Regulation of axis specification and germ layer formation by SPC1 and 4 activities
LE GOOD Jessie Ann (UK)
- ISREC - Epalinges - SWITZERLAND
CONSTAM Daniel (Host supervisor)
Metaplastic regulation of synaptic LTP induction in CA1 neurons of rat hippocampus
LE RAY Didier (FRANCE)
Departamento de Plasticidad Neural - Instituto Cajal / CSIC - Madrid - SPAIN
BUÑO Washington (Host supervisor)
Mechanism of Motor Neuron Programming
LEE Soo-Kyung (KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (SOUTH KOREA))
Gene Expression Laboratory - The Salk Institute - La Jolla - USA
PFAFF Samuel (Host supervisor)
Structural studies of the yeast S. cerevisiae spindle pole body
LI Su (CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF)
Division of Cell Biology - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology - Cambridge - UK
KILMARTIN John V. (Host supervisor)
Molecular determinants of spinal motor axon guidance
LIEBERAM Ivo (GERMANY)
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics - Columbia University - New York - USA
JESSELL Thomas (Host supervisor)
Analysis of the gene expression program during morphogenesis of the Drosophila tracheal system
LUSCHNIG Stefan (GERMANY)
Department of Biochemistry - Stanford University School of Medicine - Stanford - USA