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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
Generation of a soluble ligand-binding domain of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor for X-ray crystallography
PAAS Yoav (ISRAEL)
Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory - Pasteur Institute - Paris - FRANCE
CHANGEUX Jean-Pierre (Host supervisor)
Free energy surfaces for protein folding by theory and experiment
PACI Emanuele (ITALY)
New Chemistry Laboratory - University of Oxford - Oxford - UK
DOBSON Christopher (Host supervisor)
Free energy determinants of molecular recognition and binding
POLTICELLI Fabio (ITALY)
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics - Columbia University - New York - USA
HONIG Barry (Host supervisor)
Involvement of CREB in the control of synaptic plasticity at hippocampal excitatory synapses
PONCER Jean Christophe (FRANCE)
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - Cold Spring Harbor - USA
MALINOW Roberto (Host supervisor)
Astrocytic involvement in hippocampal circuitry
PORTER James (USA)
Laboratory of Neurobiology - ESPCI - Paris - FRANCE
ROSSIER Jean (Host supervisor)
Identification and characterization of molecular signalling requirements for follicular localisation of B cells
REIF Karin (GERMANY)
Department of Microbiology and Immunology - University of California - San Francisco - USA
CYSTER Jason G. (Host supervisor)
Targets of retinoid-controlled cell proliferation and apoptosis
REITMAIR Armin (GERMANY)
Nuclear Receptor Group - IGBMC - Illkirch - FRANCE
GRONEMEYER Hinrich (Host supervisor)
CHAMBON Pierre (Host supervisor)
Structural studies of protein export: electron cryo-microscopy of protein translocases
ROSENTHAL Peter (USA)
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology - Cambridge - UK
HENDERSON Richard (Host supervisor)
Characterization of the nucleosome remodeling factor
SANDALTZOPOULOS Raphael (GREECE)
Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology - National Cancer Institute / NIH - Bethesda - USA
WU Carl (Host supervisor)
Characterization of the new mammalian RecA homolog hHR51B
SCHÄRER Orlando (SWITZERLAND)
Department of Cell Biology and Genetics - Erasmus University - Rotterdam - NETHERLANDS
HOEIJMAKERS Jan H. J. (Host supervisor)
Development of photoreceptor patterning in the chick retina
SCHULTE Dorothea (GERMANY)
Department of Genetics - Harvard Medical School - Boston - USA
CEPKO Constance (Host supervisor)
Protein-protein interactions between the Sulfonylurea receptor SUR1 and the inward rectifier K+-channel Kir6.2
SCHWAPPACH Blanche (GERMANY)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - University of California - San Francisco - USA
JAN Lily Yeh (Host supervisor)
Structure and conformational dynamics of preprotein translocase
SHILTON Brian (CANADA)
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology - Foundation of Research and Technology - Iraklio - GREECE
ECONOMOU Anastassios (Host supervisor)
Effector phase of apoptosis: protease activation during p53 tumor suppressor dependent and independent pathways
SOENGAS Maria S. (SPAIN)
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - Cold Spring Harbor - USA
LOWE Scott (Host supervisor)
A natural case of gene silencing in plants: paramutation at the b locus in maize
STAM Maike (NETHERLANDS)
Department of Plant Sciences - University of Arizona - Tucson - USA
CHANDLER Vicki L. (Host supervisor)
Spectroscopic characterization of p53 tumor suppressor-DNA interactions
SUBRAMANIAM Vinod (INDIA)
Department of Molecular Biology - Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry - Göttingen - GERMANY
JOVIN Thomas (Host supervisor)
DNA-recognition by the TATA box-binding protein of a hyper-thermophilic archaeon
SUCKOW Jörg (GERMANY)
Structural Biology Center - National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology - Tsukuba - JAPAN
SUZUKI Masashi (Host supervisor)
Genetic determination of mouse profilin function
SUTHERLAND James D. (USA)
- EMBL - Monterotondo - ITALY
WITKE Walter (Host supervisor)
Regulation of the cardiac conduction system development
SUZUKI Kimiko (JAPAN)
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy - Cornell University Medical College - New York - USA
MIKAWA Takashi (Host supervisor)
Regulation of eukaryotic DNA replication: role of Cdc7/Dbf4 in G1/S transition in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
TERCERO José Antonio (SPAIN)
Clare Hall Laboratories - ICRF - South Mimms - UK