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2017 HFSP awards in the news

We are delighted that more and more institutions and universities are publicising their scientists’ prestigious HFSP awards! Listed below are links to those that have come to our attention via Twitter, Facebook, 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.

Can seabirds detect infrasound? - Stellenbosch University, South Africa

UC academic’s international team wins $2 million research grant for imaging single molecules - University of Canterbury, New Zealand

International Synthetic Biology Team to Create an Ancient Cell - University of Texas at Austin, USA

$1M grant to Yijun Ruan of JAX for 3D genome studies of memory, learning and epilepsy - The Jackson Laboratory, USA

Jackson Lab-Led Team Wins $1M Grant to Study Genomics of Neuroplasticity - GenomeWeb

Researchers Win $1.2M to Study Social Mobility in Meerkats – Duke University, USA

UMass Amherst Polymer Scientist Wins International Research Award – UMass Amherst, USA

Study to focus on breast cancer's effect on bone composition – Cornell University, USA

WashU engineer, collaborators win $1 million international grant – Washington University in St Louis, USA

Professor Neal Devaraj receives 2017 HFSP Award - UC San Diego, USA

Schlau-Cohen Awarded a Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Young Investigator Grant – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Emily Standen is one of the 2017 awardees of the Human Frontier Science Program Research Grant – University of Ottawa, Canada

Prof. Akio Ishiguro received a 2017 Human Frontier Science Program Research Grant Award - Tohoku University, Japan

Dr. Masa-aki Yoshida has been awarded a Program Grant from the Human Frontier Science Program - Shimane University, Japan

Professor Jae Kyoung Kim Receives the 2017 Human Frontier Science Program Award - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea

Young Investigator Grant for Sung-Yon Kim – Seoul National University, Korea (in Korean)

Chiara Stringari awarded a Young Investigators’ Grant by the Human Frontier Science Program - Ecole Polytechnique, France

Fabrizia Stavru awarded a Young Investigators' Grant by the Human Frontier Science Program - Institut Pasteur, France

Nick Brown awarded HFSP research grant - University of Cambridge, UK

MFPL group leader Sascha Martens awarded prestigious HFSP Program Grant – Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Austria

Prestigious grant for research into sleep deprivation - University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Countering the effects of sleep deprivation by resetting the molecular clock? - University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Two Hubrecht employees received a Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) postdoc fellowship and one employee received a HFSP Career Development Award – Hubrecht Institute, the Netherlands

Roboter nach dem Vorbild der Mistkäfer - Kiel University, Germany (in German)

Biosensor for detecting defects in the protein balance of cells - Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

BIG congratulations to George. The Human Frontier Science Program granted his proposal on developing novel large scale neural interface devices - Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Elucidating the molecular logic of membrane-less compartments – MPI for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany

International award for münster university biophysicist - University of Münster, Germany

Human Frontier Science Program supports intercontinental collaboration - Research in Germany portal

Javier Montenegro obtains one of the 30 worldwide projects funded by the HFSP Organization – University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Big grant for dung beetle research - Lund University, Sweden

WCMM researcher receives grant from the Human Frontier Science Program – Umeå University, Sweden

New Study To Resurrect Enzymes Billions Of Years Old - Uppsala University, Sweden

HFSP AWARDS 2017 - RESEARCH GRANT for Auke Jan Ijspeert from EPFL – EPFL, Switzerland

All’Università di Pavia ben due Research Grants dalla “Human Frontier Science Program Organization” - University of Pavia, Italy (in Italian)

Una investigación para obtener enzimas artificiales liderada por la UGR recibirá más de un millón de euros - University of Granada, Spain (in Spanish)

Prestigious grant for imaging single molecules - CHEMEUROPE.com

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