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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
The mechanism of metastasis specific expression of vCD44 and its role in tumor progression
KONDO Kazuhiro (JAPAN)
Institute for Genetics and Toxicology - Kernforschungszentrum - Karlsruhe - GERMANY
PONTA Helmut (Host supervisor)
Functions of FGF related and TGFß family proteins on the morphogenesis of the vertebral column
KOSEKI Haruhiko (JAPAN)
Dept. of Developmental Biology - Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology - Freiburg - GERMANY
BALLING Rudolf (Host supervisor)
Mitochondrial motility in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
KRONIDOU HORST Nafsika (CYPRUS, EU PART)
Dept. of Biochemistry - Biocenter - Basel - SWITZERLAND
SCHATZ Gottfried (Host supervisor)
Oxidative stress in plants: transcriptional regulation of defense genes
KUSHNIR Sergei (BELARUS)
Laboratorium voor Genetika - Universiteit Gent - Gent - BELGIUM
INZE Dirk (Host supervisor)
Rapid regulation of adhesive function in neuronal growth cone motility
KYPTA Robert (AUSTRIA)
Dept. of Physiology - University of California - San Francisco - USA
REICHARDT Louis F. (Host supervisor)
Identification and characterization of new classes of developmentally regulated genes in mouse embryo
LARUE Lionel (FRANCE)
- Max-Planck Institut für Immunbiologie - Freiburg - GERMANY
KEMLER Rolf (Host supervisor)
The cdc25 tyrosine phosphatase: its regulation during the cell cycle
LENAERS Guy (FRANCE)
- The Scripps Research Institute - La Jolla - USA
RUSSELL Paul (Host supervisor)
Functional analysis of the B-lymphoid tyrosine kinase blk
MALEK Sami Nimer (GERMANY)
Dept. of Molecular Biology and Genetics - The Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore - USA
DESIDERIO Stephen (Host supervisor)
Cloning and characterization of a Peyer's patch homing receptor
MALLETT Susan (UK)
Dept. of Anatomy, School of Medicine - University of California - San Francisco - USA
ROSEN Steven (Host supervisor)
Genetically engineered glial cells producing neurotrophic factors in brain transplantation
MARTINEZ-SERRANO Alberto (SPAIN)
Dept. of Medical Cell Research - University of Lund - Lund - SWEDEN
BJORKLUND Anders (Host supervisor)
Mechanistic and dynamic studies of methane activation by methane monooxygenase
MASSCHELEIN Axel (BELGIUM)
Dept. of Chemistry - MIT - Cambridge - USA
LIPPARD Stephen James (Host supervisor)
Transcriptional control in glial cell differentiation
MAYCOX Peter Ronald (UK)
Molecular Neurobiology Lab. - The Salk Institute - La Jolla - USA
LEMKE Greg (Host supervisor)
Function of molecular chaperone groEL in protein folding: structural basis of substrate recognition
MAYHEW Mark Nicholas (UK)
Rockefeller Research Laboratory - The Rockefeller University - New York - USA
HARTL Franz-Ulrich (Host supervisor)
Mutagenic analysis of shaker K+ channel gating currents
MCCORMACK Ken (USA)
- MPI for Biophysical Chemistry - Göttingen - GERMANY
STÜHMER Walter (Host supervisor)
Characterization of an endoribonuclease responsible for selective degradation of Xenopus RNA
MCKENDRY Roslyn (UK)
Div. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology - University of California - Berkeley - USA
HARLAND Richard (Host supervisor)
Molecular and cellular studies of avian multipotent/erythroid progenitor cells
MCNAGNY Kelly M. (USA)
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory - Heidelberg - GERMANY
GRAF Thomas (Host supervisor)
The role of phosphoinositide signaling in the Saccharomyces Cerevisiae cell division
MELDRUM Eric (UK)
- The Scripps Research Institute - La Jolla - USA
REED Steven I. (Host supervisor)
Molecular mechanisms underlying learning-related structural changes in Aplysia
MICHAEL Dan (ISRAEL)
Howard Hugues Medical Institute - College of Physicians of Columbia University - New York - USA
KANDEL Eric (Host supervisor)
The role of cell cycle gene CDC37 in G1 control
MONDESERT Guillaume (FRANCE)
Dept. of Molecular Biology - The Scripps Research Institute - La Jolla - USA
REED Steven I. (Host supervisor)
Genetic and biochemical analysis of the role of an unusual DNA helicase (MOT1 gene product) in the control of gene expression and cell growth
MUELLER Christopher G. (GERMANY)
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology - University of California - Berkeley - USA