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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
Cell-cell interactions during selective synapse formation in Drosophila
CHIBA Akira (JAPAN)
Dept. of Biophysics - University of Tokyo - Tokyo - JAPAN
HOTTA Yoshiki (Host supervisor)
Transcriptional and post-translational control of proto-oncogene activity: negative regulation of AP-1 (Jun/Fos) by nuclear receptors
CLARET Francois-Xavier (FRANCE)
Dept. of Pharmacology - University of California - La Jolla - USA
KARIN Michael (Host supervisor)
A molecular analysis of dosage compensation in Caenorhabditis elegans
COOKSON Edith (UK)
Division of Genetics - University of California - Berkeley - USA
MEYER Barbara J. (Host supervisor)
Development of novel retroviral packaging systems and application to gene therapy for cancer
COSSET François-Loïc (FRANCE)
Chester Beatty Laboratories - Institute of Cancer Research - London - UK
COLLINS Mary K. L. (Host supervisor)
Development of the Cre/loxP recombination system for use in transgenic mice
CROSSLEY Philip (UK)
Dept. of Anatomy - University of California - San Francisco - USA
MARTIN Gail R. (Host supervisor)
Cell cycle control of DNA replication
D'URSO Gennaro (USA)
Dept. of Biochemistry - University of Oxford - Oxford - UK
NURSE Paul (Host supervisor)
Encoding neuron-specific small GTP-binding proteins from rat brain
DE HOOP Meltsje J. (NETHERLANDS)
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory - Heidelberg - GERMANY
SIMONS Kai (Host supervisor)
Function and regulation of the SIT4 phosphatase in the yeast cell cycle
DELLA SETA Flavio (ITALY)
- Cold Spring Harbor Lab. - Cold Spring Harbor - USA
ARNDT Kim (Host supervisor)
Molecular cloning and study of the mechanism of action of an eukaryotic transcriptional repressor
DESBOIS Christelle (FRANCE)
Anderson Cancer Center - University of Texas - Houston - USA
KARSENTY Gerard (Host supervisor)
A physiological and computational investigation of visual shape
DOBBINS Allan (CANADA)
Division of Biology - CalTech - Pasadena - USA
ALLMAN John M. (Host supervisor)
Dissection and utilization of Wnt-1 regulatory sequences to examine patterning of the early mammalian CNS
ECHELARD Yann (CANADA)
Dept of Cell & Developmental Biology - Roche Institute of Molecular Biology - Nutley - USA
MCMAHON Andrew (Host supervisor)
Molecular and genetic analysis of neural development in Caenorhabditis elegans
EDDY Sean R. (USA)
Lab. of Molecular Biology - Medical Research Council - Cambridge - UK
SULSTON John E. (Host supervisor)
Isolation and characterization of proteins involved in the regulation of the yeast heat shock transcription factor
ENGELBERG David (ISRAEL)
Division of Chemistry - California Institute of Technology - Pasadena - USA
KARIN Michael (Host supervisor)
Transgenetic and cell culture studies of mutant prion proteins
FERINO Fabrice (FRANCE)
Dept. of Neurology - University of California - San Francisco - USA
PRUSINER Stanley B. (Host supervisor)
Analysis of the regulatory domains responsible for cell, stage and developmental expression of the c-kit gene
FISCHER Klaus Dieter (GERMANY)
Division of Molecular & Developmental Biology - Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute - Toronto - CANADA
BERNSTEIN Alan (Host supervisor)
Structure-function relationships of voltage-gated chloride channels
FONG Peying (USA)
Center for Molecular Neurobiology - University of Hamburg - Hamburg - GERMANY
JENTSCH Thomas (Host supervisor)
The role of the retinoblastoma gene product, pRB, in the transcriptional control of cellular genes
GENG Yan (CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF)
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge - USA
WEINBERG Robert A. (Host supervisor)
Biochemical and genetic dissection of the N-end rule pathway
GHISLAIN Michel (BELGIUM)
Dept of Biology - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge - USA
VARSHAVSKY Alexander (Host supervisor)
Genetic and molecular dissection of cell determination in Drosophila embryos
GIRDHAM Charles H. (UK)
Dept of Biochemistry & Biophysics - University of California - San Francisco - USA
O'FARRELL Patrick H. (Host supervisor)
Analysis of a developmental stage-specific antigen in the Drosophila central nervous system
GO Masahiro (JAPAN)
Dept. of Cell Biology and Biology - Yale University - New Haven - USA