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2021 HFSP awards in the News

The newly announced HFSP research grants and fellowships for 2021 are generating much excitement on the web!

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 $1.8m international life science grant - University of New South Wales, Australia

Waikato scientist part of team awarded prestigious Human Frontier grant - Waikato University, New Zealand

Hokkaido University’s Akira Kakugo receives prestigious HFSP Program Award 2021 Research Grant - Hokkaido University, Japan

Prof. Azusa Kamikouchi Selected to Receive a 2021 HFSP Research Grant - Nagoya University, Japan

Deux chercheurs en biologie de l'ENS de Lyon lauréats du prestigieux financement "Human Frontier Science Program" - Ecole Normale Supérieure de  Lyon, France (in French)

Ben Engel awarded prestigious Human Frontier Science Program Grant - Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, Germany

Wojciech Kopec receives Human Frontier Science Program grant 2021 - MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany

Göttingen: Biophysiker Kopec erhält Human Frontier Science Program Grant 2021 - Goettinger Tageblatt (in German)

Evolution of brain function in sensory processing - MPI for Brain Research, Germany

Research grant to study how cells sense mechanical stimuli - MPI for Developmental Biology, Germany

Rewinding Evolution: Dr Georg Hochberg was awarded the Human Frontier Science Program Grant - MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany

Human Frontier Science Program: Award for Benjamin Risse - University of Münster, Germany

Prof. Dr. Michael Lenhard receives Human Frontier Science Program Award - University of Potsdam, Germany

Top endorsement for Technion research into memory in biology, computing and materials - Technion, Israel

Understanding memory through materials: a new HFSP project at SISSA - SISSA, Italy

Perché le vespe sono afrodisiache per i lieviti e ne promuovono la biodiversità - University of Turin, Italy (in Italian)

New grant to fund research on the inner workings of the cell - Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

Florian Muijres receives grant for in-swarm mating of malaria mosquitoes - Wangeningen University, the Netherlands

Congratulations to our fellowship winners - Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland

Phyllotaxis modelling project wins funding from the Human Frontier Science Program - John Innes Center, UK

Team investigating the evolution of bacterial ‘tails’ wins prestigious grant - Imperial College London, UK

Dr Julien Bergeron wins prestigious Human Frontier Science Program grant - King's College London, UK

Gizem Ozbaykal-Guler recognised as an ‘outstanding young life-scientist’ through prestigious new Fellowship - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

DPhil Engineering Science student awarded HFSP Fellowship - University of Oxford, UK

Biology professor awarded $1M to study bird flight - McGill Reporter, Canada

McMaster researcher receives $1.5M for international study of microbial communities - McMaster University, Canada

Bones and biofilms: Researchers Kathryn Grandfield, John Whitney awarded prestigious HFSP grants - McMaster University, Canada

Anne-Lise Routier obtient une subvention du Human Frontier Science Program - University of Montreal, Canada (in French)

Grove School’s Alessandra Carriero Receives Elite $1 Million HFSP Grant For Bone Mineral Transport Research - The City University of New York, USA

Prof. Henry Hess Receives Prestigious HFSP Program Award 2021 Research Grant - Columbia University, USA

Lily Cheung Wins $1.1 Million Human Frontier Science Program Award - Georgia Tech, USA

Little crop of horrors - The Pennsylvania State University, USA

SMU chemist and team to study how photosynthesis uses sunlight to support growth in changing environments - Southern Methodist University, USA

Dr. Boo Shan Tseng Awarded Prestigious Human Frontier Science Program Grant - University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

UW biology professors Jeffrey Riffell, David Perkel awarded research grants from Human Frontier Science Program - University of Washington, USA

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