“We drive the most innovative research by shooting for the stars,” said Pavel Kabat, HFSP Secretary-General. “Our awards provide the world’s top scientists with the means to explore new frontiers in scientific research and discover whole new worlds of possibility.”
Scientists from these nations receive 2025 HFSP Research Grants & Accelerator Awards:
Australia | China | Hungary | Norway | Spain |
Belgium | Czech Republic | India | Netherlands | Sweden |
Brazil | Denmark | Israel | New Zealand | Switzerland |
Burkina Faso | France | Italy | Portugal | Turkey |
Canada | Germany | Japan | Singapore | United Kingdom |
Chile | Greece | Republic of Korea | South Africa | United States of America |
The 2025 HFSP Research Grants span the entire spectrum of life science research across the 30 Research Grants and 12 Accelerator Grants. Highlights include:
• New insight on epigenetics, the study of how our environment influences our genes by changing the chemicals that attach to them. This project resumes research began more than 100 years ago at the Biologische Versuchsanstalt (BVA) in Vienna, Austria.
• Research on how tick-borne diseases are being spread over great distances, including by migratory birds, and becoming a global concern. The study looks at how rapidly changing environmental factors driven by climate change and human activities affect tick populations, and thus, also the spread of viral diseases
HFSPO received proposals involving more than 2100 researchers in 780 projects; to see who was awarded, consult the list of new awardees and to read the abstracts of their planned work, view the 2025 HFSP Research Grants Awardees Booklet. To view the individual scientists and their country labs, click and search the Index by Country.
About HFSP Awards:
HFSP Research Grants last for three years and on average, provide $400,000 USD per year. Our Program Grants are awarded to teams of two to four scientists, at any stage of their careers, who embark upon a new collaborative project. Our Early Career Grants require that all team members are within five years of obtaining an independent position and that it has been no more than 10 years since they earned their Ph.D.
Among all our awardees we seek scientists who form internationally, preferably intercontinentally, collaborative teams, who have not worked together before, and who are engaging in work for which they have no preliminary data. In this regard, HFSP fosters frontier research and science diplomacy.
HFSP Accelerator Awards:
The new HFSP Accelerator Grants strengthen the world’s life science enterprise by diversifying the pool of expertise, providing greater equity among HFSP Member nations, and including scientists on the world’s most groundbreaking research grant teams, who might not otherwise have comparable opportunities. All 2024 HFSP Research Grant teams were given the opportunity to apply for the program with the goal of inviting one additional scientist – the Accelerator team member – to participate on the research grant team. All Accelerator Awardees have to be working at a research institution in one of the following HFSP Member countries:
• India
• Japan
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Korea
• Singapore
• South Africa
“As HFSPO was chartered by the G7 nations to drive groundbreaking life science research for the ‘benefit of all humankind,’ we have a role and a responsibility to invest in and stimulate geographically diverse talent,” said Kabat.