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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
Regulation of origin firing in S. cerevisiae
DYHR-MIKKELSEN Helle (DENMARK)
Clare Hall Laboratories - Imperial Cancer Research Fund - South Mimms - UK
DIFFLEY John F.X. (Host supervisor)
Structural changes during synaptic competition in a retinotectal system
ENGERT Florian (GERMANY)
Department of Biology - University of California - La Jolla - USA
POO Mu-Ming (Host supervisor)
Tracking parasite-specific helper T cells in mice infected with Leishmania major
FERLIN Walter (AUSTRALIA)
Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire - CNRS - Valbonne - FRANCE
GLAICHENHAUS Nicolas (Host supervisor)
Alteration of chromatin structure by ATP-dependent remodelling activities
FLAUS Andrew (NEW ZEALAND)
Department of Biochemistry - University of Dundee - Dundee - UK
OWEN-HUGHES Tom (Host supervisor)
RNA biochemistry and natural selection as determinants of the genetic code: implication for molecular evolution
FREELAND Stephen (UK)
Department of Ecology and Evolution - Princeton University - Princeton - USA
LANDWEBER Laura (Host supervisor)
Identification of the genes involved in the export of ribosomes from the nucleus into the cytoplasm
GADAL Olivier (FRANCE)
Biochemie-Zentrum - Ruprecht-Karls-Universität - Heidelberg - GERMANY
HURT Ed (Host supervisor)
Molecular mechanisms underlying cell motility: the role of RhoD in endosome dynamics
GASMAN Stéphane (FRANCE)
Cell Biology Department - EMBL - Heidelberg - GERMANY
ZERIAL Marino (Host supervisor)
Cellular mechanism of protein aggregation
GILCHRIST Catherine (AUSTRALIA)
Department of Biological Sciences - Stanford University - Stanford - USA
KOPITO Ron R. (Host supervisor)
Understanding and predicting protein stability using protein engineering
GUEROIS Raphael (FRANCE)
Department of Structures and Biocomputing - EMBL - Heidelberg - GERMANY
SERRANO Luis (Host supervisor)
Utilizing transgenic mice to study taste coding
GUTFREUND Yoram (ISRAEL)
Department of Neurobiology - Stanford University School of Medicine - Stanford - USA
KNUDSEN Eric I. (Host supervisor)
Toward understanding Ku-dependent non-homologous end-joining
HANAKAHI Leslyn A. (USA)
Laboratory of Genetic Recombination - Imperial Cancer Research Fund - South Mimms - UK
WEST Stephen Craig (Host supervisor)
Identification, cloning and characterization of a human methylase involved in the MELAS syndrome
HELM Mark (GERMANY)
Division of Biology - California Institute of Technology - Pasadena - USA
ATTARDI Giuseppe (Host supervisor)
Labeling strategies for the structural investigation of a new class of RNA-binding proteins by NMR
HENNIG Mirko (GERMANY)
Department of Molecular Biology - The Scripps Research Institute - La Jolla - USA
WILLIAMSON James R. (Host supervisor)
The contribution of microglia to scrapie pathogenesis
HEPPNER Frank (GERMANY)
Institute of Neuropathology - University Hospital of Zurich - Zurich - SWITZERLAND
AGUZZI Adriano (Host supervisor)
Molecular mechanism for the tonotopic gradient of electrical resonant frequency in cochlear hair cells
HIBINO Hiroshi (JAPAN)
Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience - The Rockefeller University - New York - USA
HUDSPETH Albert James (Host supervisor)
Signalling cell death - structural basis of death effector / adaptor recruitment
HILL Justine (AUSTRALIA)
Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics - The Rockefeller University - New York - USA
WERNER Milton (Host supervisor)
A gain-of-function genetic interaction screen to identify genes regulating growth in Drosophila
HIPFNER David (CANADA)
Developmental Biology Programme - EMBL - Heidelberg - GERMANY
COHEN Stephen M. (Host supervisor)
Inductive interactions and cell lineage: their relative contributions to zebrafish muscle cell fates
HIRSINGER Estelle (FRANCE)
Institute of Neurosciences - University of Oregon - Eugene - USA
WESTERFIELD Monte (Host supervisor)
Construction and characterization of a Kv4.2 transgenic mouse
HOFFMAN Dax (USA)
Department of Cell Physiology - Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research - Heidelberg - GERMANY
SAKMANN Bert (Host supervisor)
Search for binding proteins interacting with synaptic vesicle components
HORIKAWA Hiroshi (JAPAN)
Department of Neurochemistry - Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research - Frankfurt - GERMANY