<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><rss version="2.0" xml:base="http://www.hfsp.org/about-us/press-and-media-centre/news-items/rss.xml" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <channel> <title>HFSP News</title> <link>http://www.hfsp.org/about-us/press-and-media-centre/news-items/rss.xml</link> <description></description> <language>en</language> <item> <title>HFSP Matters No. 4</title> <link>http://www.hfsp.org/about-us/press-and-media-centre/news-items/hfsp-matters-no-4</link> <description> &lt;p&gt;The new HFSP Newsletter has been published. In the fourth issue of HFSP Matters you can read up on what has happened within and around the HFSP community: research, awards &amp;amp; conferences. We also report of staff changes in the secretariat and provide first information about the 2015 awardees meeting. The newsletter is available for download &lt;a href=&quot;/sites/www.hfsp.org/files/webfm/Communications/HFSP%20Matters%204.pdf&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; </description> <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2014 07:57:55 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">850 at http://www.hfsp.org</guid> </item> <item> <title>HFSP 2014 awards in the news</title> <link>http://www.hfsp.org/about-us/press-and-media-centre/news-items/hfsp-2014-awards-news</link> <description> &lt;p&gt;Once again, we are happy to see institutions publicising their scientists&amp;#39; prestigious HFSP awards! Listed below are those that have come to our attention via Twitter, Facebook or Google Alerts. We have probably missed some, so please send us links to any announcements that are not listed below &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.isr.umd.edu/news/news_story.php?id=7232&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;(send to &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:communications@hfsp.org&quot;&gt;communications@hfsp.org&lt;/a&gt;). We will add new links as we find them... </description> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 11:59:30 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">833 at http://www.hfsp.org</guid> </item> <item> <title>Announcement of 2014 HFSP awards</title> <link>http://www.hfsp.org/about-us/press-and-media-centre/news-items/announcement-2014-hfsp-awards</link> <description> &lt;p&gt;HFSP is pleased to announce the 2014 Research Grants, Fellowships and Career Development Awards. The awards were approved by the Board of Trustees on March 18&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; and the lists of the different HFSP award categories can be found &lt;a href=&quot;/awardees/newly-awarded&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Congratulations to this year&amp;rsquo;s winners!&lt;/p&gt; </description> <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2014 11:24:02 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">826 at http://www.hfsp.org</guid> </item> <item> <title>The first HFSP fellow to receive the Louis-Jeantet Prize</title> <link>http://www.hfsp.org/about-us/press-and-media-centre/news-items/first-hfsp-fellow-receive-louis-jeantet-prize</link> <description> &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;/sites/www.hfsp.org/files/webfm/Communications/Elena-Conti_0.jpg&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;&quot; /&gt;HFSP cordially congratulates Elena Conti, Director of the Department of Structural Cell Biology at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich (Germany), on being a co-recipient of the 2014 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine for her outstanding contributions to understanding mechanisms related to RNA.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In 1997, Elena Conti was awarded an HFSP... </description> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:19:20 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">821 at http://www.hfsp.org</guid> </item> <item> <title>HFSP grantees win NSF/AAAS photography competition</title> <link>http://www.hfsp.org/about-us/press-and-media-centre/news-items/hfsp-grantees-win-nsfaaas-photography-competition</link> <description> &lt;p&gt;HFSP grant awardees Roman Stocker (MIT, Cambridge, USA) and Assaf Vardi (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel), together with their postdocs Vicente Fernandez (MIT), Orr Shapiro (WIS) and Melissa Garren (MIT) have won the NSF/AAAS International Science &amp;amp; Engineering Visualization Challenge in the photography category. Their sophisticated collage of a coral derived &amp;lsquo;whirlpool&amp;rsquo; shows how coral polyps maintain their micro-environment. The winning image has been selected... </description> <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:05:11 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">817 at http://www.hfsp.org</guid> </item> <item> <title>Registration opens for the 2015 HFSP grant applications</title> <link>http://www.hfsp.org/about-us/press-and-media-centre/news-items/registration-opens-2015-hfsp-grant-applications</link> <description> &lt;p&gt;The next call for HFSP Research Grants is open. Compulsory registration for interested&amp;nbsp; teams to obtain a registration number must be made by 20 March 2014. The team&amp;rsquo;s letter of intent must be submitted online by 27 March 2014 via the HFSP extranet site which is now open. Full information on the 2015 competition is available &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hfsp.org/funding/research-grants/information-and-guidelines&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; </description> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:19:28 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">805 at http://www.hfsp.org</guid> </item> <item> <title>NYU biologist Purugganan named to HFSP’s Council of Scientists</title> <link>http://www.hfsp.org/about-us/press-and-media-centre/news-items/nyu-biologist-purugganan-named-hfsp%E2%80%99s-council-scientists</link> <description> &lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;/sites/www.hfsp.org/files/nyu_short_black_web_0.jpg&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin: 5px 10px;&quot; /&gt;HFSP welcomes New York University biologist Michael Purugganan as the new U.S. representative to the Human Frontier Science Program&amp;rsquo;s Council of Scientists (COS). Purugganan is NYU&amp;rsquo;s Dean for Science and will be one of 14 scientists representing HFSP&amp;rsquo;s members on the advisory panel.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Council of Scientists advises the HFSP Board of Trustees on a range of scientific... </description> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:28:52 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">804 at http://www.hfsp.org</guid> </item> <item> <title>HFSP launches search for the next Secretary General</title> <link>http://www.hfsp.org/about-us/press-and-media-centre/news-items/hfsp-launches-search-next-secretary-general</link> <description> &lt;p&gt;The Board of Trustees of the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), representing the member countries&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;*&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, invites applications and nominations for the position of Secretary General (SG) of HFSP. The SG is responsible for the implementation of the Program and is the public voice for HFSP in the world of global science funding. HFSP supports research into the complex mechanisms of living organisms, promoting international collaboration in the spirit of science without borders... </description> <pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:25:46 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">771 at http://www.hfsp.org</guid> </item> <item> <title>Two more HFSP alumni win Nobel Prizes</title> <link>http://www.hfsp.org/about-us/press-and-media-centre/news-items/two-more-hfsp-alumni-win-nobel-prizes</link> <description> &lt;p&gt;We are very excited to congratulate HFSP alumni Martin Karplus and Michael Levitt for receiving the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Arieh Warshel &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Both Nobel Laureates had been supported previously by HFSP: Michael Levitt was a 2008 research grant recipient and is actually hosting an HFSP Fellow who was awarded in April this year. Martin Karplus was the principal applicant of a 2005 research... </description> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:34:15 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">768 at http://www.hfsp.org</guid> </item> <item> <title>Three HFSP alumni receive the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine</title> <link>http://www.hfsp.org/about-us/press-and-media-centre/news-items/three-hfsp-alumni-receive-2013-nobel-prize-physiology-or-</link> <description> &lt;p&gt;Our cordial congratulations go to three HFSP alumni for receiving the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Today the Nobel Committee announced that the 2013 Nobel Prize was awarded to James Rothman, Randy Schekman and Thomas S&amp;uuml;dhof &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The three Nobel Laureates have been supported several times by HFSP in previous years. We are very pleased that all three of... </description> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:40:22 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">765 at http://www.hfsp.org</guid> </item> </channel> </rss>