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2020 HFSP awards in the News

Once again, there has been much excitement on the Web over the newly awarded HFSP Research Grants and Fellowships!

Listed below are links to announcements that have come to our attention via social media, Google Alerts or directly from the awardees or their press offices. We have probably missed some, so please send us links to any announcements that are not listed below (send to Click here to show mail address). We will add new links as we receive them.

UNSW researcher awarded $1.7m international life science grant (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Congratulations Adam Damry HFSP Fellow 2020 (Australian National University)

IMP postdocs are successful in securing HFSP funds (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Austria)

HFSP grant to study fertilisation (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Austria)

HFSP Young Investigator Award (Pauli lab, Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Austria)

Juha Saarik­an­gas re­ceives pres­ti­gi­ous Hu­man Fron­tier Science Program grant (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Bourses Human Frontier Science Program : Deux chercheurs de L'institut Curie lauréats 2020 (Institut Curie, France) - in French

Valentin Nägerl awarded by the Human Frontier Science Program (Bordeaux Neurocampus, University of Bordeaux, France)

Un prix pour explorer les espaces extracellulaires du cerveau (University of Bordeaux, France) - in French

Structure and function of biological membranes (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany)

Highly prestigious international HFSP grant awarded to IMBB-LAB (FORTH, Fοundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Greece)

Unravelling the neural basis of sexual imprinting - (Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri Ottolenghi, University of Turin, Italy)

HFSP Grant for Johannes Textor (Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands)

Projeto internacional sobre Biologia Evolutiva distinguido com 1,1 milhões de euros (Gulbenkian Science, Portugal) - in Portuguese

Prestigious international and European grants will finance PRBB research projects (Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), Spain)

How do sperm and egg fuse together? New funding to uncover mysteries of fertilisation (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain)

Human Frontier Science Program project for Sílvia Osuna (University of Girona, Spain)

Junior group leader Oriol Gallego has been awarded a HFSP Program Grant (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)

Dr. Clémence Simon receives a three-year postdoctoral HFSP fellowship (Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research, Switzerland)

Alexandre Persat wins Human Frontier Science Program grant (EPFL, Switzerland)

Dr Alexander Boys awarded Human Frontier Science Program Fellowship (University of Cambridge, UK)

Innovation in RNA research (Gates Cambridge)

Pioneering project to unlock decision making process behind larval settlement on coral receives funding boost (University of Exeter, UK)

Grant Award David Labonte (featured in the newsletter from Imperial College London, UK)

Las células T en la mira (ITBA, Argentina) - in Spanish

McGill researcher awarded HFSP 2020 grant worth $1M USD (McGill University, Canada)

UBC mechanical engineering prof receives Human Frontier Science Program grant  (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Research designed to improve treatment of viruses and cancers (University of Victoria, Canada)

The Rogers Lab receives a prestigious international grant to study the origin of life (Brandeis University's science blog, USA)

BME’s Jayant named Young Investigator, to receive funding for large-scale mapping project - (Biomedical School of Engineering, Purdue University, USA)

$1.2M grant to study evolution of Central American lizards (Washington University in St Louis, USA)

IISc group receives HFSP grant to study viral membrane fusion (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Toshio Ando of the WPI Nano Life Science Institute and colleagues have been awarded the prestigious Human Frontier Science Program Research Grant (Kanazawa University, Japan)

Prof. Robert E. Campbell was awarded a 2020 Human Frontier Science Program Award (University of Tokyo School of Science, Japan)

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