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Funding
HFSP supports novel, innovative and interdisciplinary basic research focused on the complex mechanisms of living organisms. A clear emphasis is placed on novel collaborations that bring biologists together to focus on problems at the frontier of the life sciences.
Awardees
Awardees
In this section you find information about the awardees in the HFSP scientific programs. This includes a searchable database of HFSP awardees, information on the HFSP Nakasone Award and other achievements by HFSP awardees.
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Events
HFSP promotes and participates in several events every year. We are committed to bringing together the scientific community and forging new opportunities to network and have scientific discussions that help to create bridges and partnerships for the future of frontier science.
About
About
The Human Frontier Science Program is a program of funding for frontier research in the life sciences. It is implemented by the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) with its office in Strasbourg. Here you can find all you need to know about the HFSPO.
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Research award for HFSP fellow

Congratulations to HFSP fellow Gisa Gerold on receiving the 2017 Robert Koch Postdoctoral Award for Virology.

Gisa Gerold, 4th from the right

Prior to becoming an HFSP fellow, Gisa Gerold studied for her PhD at the Humboldt University of Berlin, working with Arturo Zychlinsky at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology. In 2009, she received an HFSP Long-Term Fellowship and went to work with Charles Rice in the Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Diseases at Rockefeller University in New York. After returning to Germany in 2012, she started her research group in the Department for Experimental Virology at TWINCORE in Hanover.

Press release from the Robert Koch Stiftung

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Research award for HFSP fellow