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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
A genetic and biochemical study of fission yeast microtubule organising centre components and their regulation
HAGAN Iain Michael (UK)
Dept. of Biophysics - Kyoto University - Kyoto - JAPAN
YANAGIDA Mitsuhiro (Host supervisor)
Analysis of the region of the mouse X chromosome containing the X-inactivation centre
HEARD Edith (UK)
Unité de Génétique Moléculaire Murine - Institut Pasteur - Paris - FRANCE
AVNER Philip (Host supervisor)
Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors: regulation and function
HERMANS-BORGMEYER Irmgard (GERMANY)
- The Salk Institute for Biological Studies - San Diego - USA
HEINEMANN Stephen F. (Host supervisor)
Identification of an activator of the human ras proto-oncogene proteins related to the yeast ste6/CDC25 products
HUGHES David Anthony (UK)
The Institute of Medical Science - University of Tokyo - Tokyo - JAPAN
YAMAMOTO Masayuki (Host supervisor)
Insulin receptor signalling: stimulation of amino acid transport in muscle
HUNDAL Harinder S. (UK)
- Hospital for Sick Children - Toronto - CANADA
KLIP Amira (Host supervisor)
Genetic analysis of cell cycle commitment in saccharomyces Cerevisiae
INSDORF Neil (USA)
- Institute of Molecular Pathology - Vienna - AUSTRIA
NASMYTH Kim (Host supervisor)
Brain maturation and the development of visual attention
JOHNSON Mark H. (UK)
Institute of Cognitive & Decision Sciences - University of Oregon - Eugene - USA
POSNER Michael I. (Host supervisor)
The importance of transcriptional control for the cell cycle regulation of CDC25+ mRNA levels in fission yeast
JONES Robert H. (UK)
Dept. of Molecular Biology Clinic - Research Institute of Scripps - La Jolla - USA
RUSSELL Paul (Host supervisor)
Study of the molecular mechanisms of interaction between microtubules and microtubule-associated proteins
KAMIMURA Shinji (JAPAN)
Research Unit of Structural Molecular Biology - MPI - Hamburg - GERMANY
MANDELKOW Eckhard (Host supervisor)
NMR studies of the structure of DNA-binding proteins and their interaction with DNA
KATAHIRA Masato (JAPAN)
Dept. of Chemistry - University of Utrecht - Utrecht - NETHERLANDS
KAPTEIN Robert (Host supervisor)
Transgenic mice carrying rearranged T cell receptor genes from a diabetogenic T cell clone
KATZ Jonathan David (USA)
- Lab. de Génétique Moléculaire des Eucaryotes - Strasbourg - FRANCE
BENOIST Christophe (Host supervisor)
MATHIS Diane (Host supervisor)
Role of noradrenaline and acetylcholine in plasticity and synaptic function in the visual cortex
KIMURA Fumitaka (JAPAN)
Dept. of Neurobiology - Harvard Medical School - Boston - USA
BAUGHMAN Robert W. (Host supervisor)
Molecular biology of neurotrophic factors
KIMURA Hideo (JAPAN)
- The Salk Institute - San Diego - USA
SCHUBERT David (Host supervisor)
Identification of the sorting protein involved in glycolipid and apical protein sorting in MDCK cells
KOBAYASHI Toshihide (JAPAN)
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory - Heidelberg - GERMANY
SIMONS Kai (Host supervisor)
Post-transcriptional regulation of HIV-I gene expression
KOROMILAS Antonis (GREECE)
Dept. of Biochemistry - McGill University - Montreal - CANADA
SONENBERG Nahum (Host supervisor)
The evolutionary divergence of gap segmentation gene functions and expression patterns in insect embryogenesis
KRAFT Robert (USA)
Institute for Microbiology & Genetics - Ludwig Maximilian University - Munich - GERMANY
JÄCKLE Herbert (Host supervisor)
Fluctuation analysis of synaptic currents in the mammalian hippocampus
KULLMANN Dimitri M. (UK)
Dept. of Pharmacology & Physiology - University of California - San Francisco - USA
NICOLL Roger (Host supervisor)
Information processing in the vertebrate retina
LAGNADO Leon (UK)
Dept. of Neurobiology - Stanford University School of Medicine - Stanford - USA
BAYLOR Denis A. (Host supervisor)
Genetic regulation of the ß-interferon response
LAMPHIER Marc Stephan (USA)
Institute of Cellular & Molecular Biology - Osaka University - Osaka - JAPAN
TANIGUCHI Tadatsugu (Host supervisor)
Regulation of cholinergic neuron-specific gene expression and transmitter function by trophic factors
LAPCHAK Paul Andrew (CANADA)
Andrus Gerontology Center - University of Southern California - Los Angeles - USA