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2022 HFSP awards in the News

The newly announced 2022 HFSP Research Grants and Fellowships 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.

A balanced team asking interdisciplinary, fundamental, and venturous questions wins HFSP - India Bioscience

Scientist, team get ₹9 cr. grant for skin research - The Hindu, India

Two BGU researchers awarded prestigious HFSP research grants - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Prestigious HFSP grant goes to the University of Vienna for lipid research - University of Vienna, Austria

ISTA researchers receive prestigious HFSP and ERC grants – Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Professor LeBoeuf awarded HFSP Grant: exchange as key to research excellence - University of Freiburg, Germany

Human Frontier Science Program: Zwei Förderpreise für Austro-Forscher - Austria Presse Agentur (in German)

How do cells' powerhouse and nucleus communicate?: AU researcher part of new Human Frontier Science Project - Aarhus University, Denmark

Pauline Durand-Smet lauréate d’un financement HFSP - Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, CNRS, France (in French)

Prestigious funding for bridging biophysics and evolution – MPI Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany

Grant: Understanding skin formation – Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany

HFSP-förderung zur erforschung von lipid-signaturen - Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Germany

Early Career Grants 2022 ad una federiciana - University of Naples, Federico II, Italy (in Italian)

Spiare il microcosmo cellulare: Konstantinos Lefkimmiatis dell’Università di Pavia si aggiudica lo Human Frontier Science Program award - University of Pavia, Italy (in Italian)

International team delves into the hidden life of disordered proteins - Wageningen University, the Netherlands

IGC researcher awarded a HFSP Fellowship - Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Portugal

BCMaterials Research Professor Stefan Wuttke, among the scientists awarded with the HFSP (Human Frontier Science Program) grants - Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures (BCMaterials), Spain

The project in which UJI researcher Jordi Gamir participates obtains funding from the Human Frontier Science Program to study how viruses manipulate hosts to maximise their dispersal - University Jaume 1, Spain

Human Frontier Science Program supports research on plant-pollinator interactions of I2SysBio - University of Valencia, Spain

BIOTECMED research receives one million euros from Human Frontier to investigate how viruses manipulate the sense of smell - University of Valencia, Spain

Rosa Fernández awarded a prestigious Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Research Grant – Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC), Spain

Human Frontier Science Program supports research on plant-pollinator interactions with I2SysBio participation - Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (CSIC), Spain

One million euros to understand the evolutionary transition from water to air breathing - el-lipse website for Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) 

Two researchers at Stockholm University receive the 2022 Human Frontier Science Program Award – Stockholm University, Sweden

Pushan Bag is awarded with prestigious postdoctoral fellowship in life science - Umeå Plant Science Centre, Sweden

Umeå doctoral student receives prestigious postdoctoral fellowship in Life science - Umeå University, Sweden

SciLifeLab Fellow Erdinc Sezgin awarded the HFSP research grant – SciLifeLab website, Sweden

Bristol Scientists awarded over $2 million for cutting edge research - University of Bristol, UK

Dr Diana Fusco wins prestigious Human Frontier Science Program grant - University of Cambridge, UK

Investigadora de Ikiam gana una subvención de más de 1 millón de euros para investigación - Regional College Amazon Ikiam, Equador (in Spanish)

Grove School’s Alessandra Carriero receives elite $1 million HFSP grant for bone mineral transport research - City University of New York, USA

UChicago scientists receive grants for international collaborations on complex mechanisms of life - University of Chicago, USA

Study aims to unlock secrets of animal time perception - Johns Hopkins University, USA

Miami Engineering faculty member’s team awarded $1.24 million to study biofilms - University of Miami, USA

Human Frontier Science Program awards $1.5-million grant to New College of Florida and partnering international researchers for marine mammal study - New College of Florida, USA

McLean researcher Nikolaos Daskalakis awarded international life science grant - McLean Hospital, USA

Catching a buzz: robot bees to help study pollination - UMass Lowell, USA

Research team granted $840,000 to replicate ‘buzz pollination’ - Open Access Government website, USA

McBrayer lab member receives prestigious Human Frontier Science Program Fellowship – Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern, USA

Tulane math professor receives international research award - Tulane University, USA

Holehouse to study disordered proteins - Washington University in St. Louis, USA

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