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Funding
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.
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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
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.
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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.
Success Stories
Wearables can track physiological response to COVID and other diseases
A new algorithm analyzes heart rate measured over the course of a day to track many physiological systems.
Using synthetic biology to create next generation biosensors
Combining electronic and natural systems into bioelectronic hybrids has fascinated humans for centuries, with many…
A multi-scale approach to understanding how cells convert physical forces into mechanical linkage
In 2016, Anna Akhmanova, Ben Goult, Jie Yan and Guy Tanentzapf were awarded an HFSP Program Grant, which led to the…
A link between breast cancer and bone growth
Breast cancer frequently metastasizes to bone where it leads to osteolytic bone degradation and poor clinical prognosis…
Human agents for developing scenarios to manage the Covid-19 pandemic
HFSP research grant alumnus Michael Meyer-Hermann is playing a central role in Germany's management of the Covid-19…
What we can learn about vertebrate ancestry, immunology and skeletal formation from sponges
A historic HFSP research grant awarded in 1996 for the project “Invertebrate molecular immunology: alloreactivity and…
A new generation of optogenetic tools for research and medicine
A successful HFSP research grant collaboration was instrumental in laying the groundwork for a recently awarded ERC…
Lab-grown mini-lungs reveal SARS-CoV-2 infection in human alveoli
Although there have been more than 50 million cases of COVID-19 and a million deaths worldwide to date, we still know…
Pure diversity on display
An article highlighting the diversity of science represented by HFSP researchers.
Enabling technology for everyday use: the role of subsurface structures for biological adhesion
Mechanisms of gecko adhesion revealed
Novel method to use insect antennae as odour sensor in a flying robot
We have designed a special algorithm for identifying olfactory information from an insect antenna and shown how these…
Discovery of a human geomagnetic sensory system
Although most humans are not consciously aware of the geomagnetic stimuli that they encounter in everyday life, we…