Last March, HFSPO conducted a mission to strengthen its ties with significant U.S.A. scientific institutions and U.S.A. governmental agencies.
The National Institute of Health (NIH), together with the U.S.A. National Science Foundation (NSF) represent the United States at HFSPO Board of Trustees, and both agencies together provide US annual financial contribution to HFSPO, which is the second largest contribution amongst the HFSPO Members, after Japan.
The United States of America is one of the G7 countries that founded HFSPO back in 1987. Since its foundation, HFSPO has supported 2098 fellowships and 1319 frontier Research Projects in the U.S.A.
Scientists from the U.S.A. laboratories, institutions, and leading Universities continue to be among the most successful in the HFSPO highly competitive international frontier Research Grant Program. Every year, between 25 and 40 new U.S.A.-based HFSP investigators join the elite club of HFSP awardees.
"Conditions for conducting discovery frontier life science research are well developed and exceedingly conducive at U.S. institutions, and therefore it is not surprising that US scientists are immensely successful in HFSPO programs, either as investigators on research grants or as host supervisors attracting talented postdocs from abroad to their laboratories. Research ecosystem in the U.S.A seems to have discovered a winning formula for HFSP highly internationally competitive frontier HFSPO awards, and the trajectory remains on a steep upward slope", congratulates the Secretary General of HFSPO Pavel Kabat.
During the official visit to the United States, Pavel Kabat met with Sethuraman Panchanathan, the U.S.A. National Science Foundation Director, Kendra Sharp, Director of Office of International Science and Engineering of NSF, and with U.S.A. members of HFSPO Board of Trustees, Tara A. Schwetz, Acting Principal Deputy Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Theresa A. Good from the National Science Foundation.
During the visit, HFSPO also attended the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2023 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, where Pavel Kabat engaged with several science high representatives from different countries, stretching diplomatic and scientific relations for the benefit of HFSPO and science.
Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan hosted the World Science Forum in 2017 in Amman, Jordan, and is worldwide known as a global Ambassador for Science Diplomacy and Science for Peace.
