Subscribe to our newsletter Share Funding Awardees About Us Frontier Science Alumni Scientific activities HFSP Mission Research Grants Postdoctoral Fellowships Career Development The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) is an international program of research support, funding frontier research on the complex mechanisms of living organisms. Research is funded at all levels of biological complexity from biomolecules to the interactions between organisms. Key elements of HFSP’s mission are: Support for innovative, cutting edge research at the frontiers of the life sciences Encouragement of high risk research Promotion of international collaboration in the spirit of science without borders Support for financial and intellectual independence for early career researchers Selection of awards is made by high level, expert international review committees. Research Grants enable scientists from different countries to collaborate on focused innovative projects that are expected to open new fields of investigation. Interdisciplinary collaborations are especially encouraged. Postdoctoral fellowships enable the most talented early career scientists, trained in the life sciences or in the physical sciences, to extend their scientific repertoire in laboratories abroad. Former HFSP Fellows who return to their home country or move to a third HFSP member country can apply for a Career Development Award to support their transition to independence. HFSP awardees are brought together in an annual meeting to help build a global network of like-minded scientists working on a broad range of subjects within the life sciences and to stimulate new collaborations. HFSP funding programs are strictly project-related and begin at the postdoctoral level. We have no support for PhD students nor for travel grants to scientific meetings. Nor do we provide sponsorship or funds to organisers of scientific meetings. More on HFSP funding programs Announcements RSS HFSP has adopted an open access policy. At its meeting in March 2014, the HFSPO Board of Trustees approved a statement that... « Prev Pause Play Next » All announcements News RSS 19th September HFSP signs San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment Effective 19 September 2014, the HFSP is one of the 517 institutional signatories of DORA which is a declaration that challenges... 12th September Peter Walter to receive the 2014 Lasker Award HFSP congratulates Prof. Peter Walter on sharing the 2014Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award together with Kazutoshi Mori... 8th September James Collins to receive the 2015 Nakasone Award James Collins of Boston University received the 2015 HFSP Nakasone Award for his innovative work on synthetic gene networks and... More news items Awardees' Articles RSS Life span maturation and degeneration of human brain white matter Properties of human brain tissue change across the lifespan. Modeling of white matter age changes measured with quantitative MRI... Active mixing in reef corals Do corals rely entirely on ocean currents to deliver nutrients for their survival? HFSP grantees Roman Stocker and Assaf Vardi... Rescuing sensory integration in mouse models of autism Many people with autism display atypical sensory processing, and in independent studies, abnormalities in a deep brain structure... Larval Zebrafish on Speed Together with his colleagues, HFSP fellow Ruben Portugues studied the supra-spinal control of locomotion of Zebrafish larvae by... Measuring local protein concentration in living cells The way proteins are organized inside a living cell remains largely unknown. Levy and colleagues present a new way to probe this... MicroRNAs maintain visual function of photoreceptors The maintenance of the light sensitive “antennas” of photoreceptors in the retina is important for their function. We identified... More articles Frontier Science Articles about HFSP-funded research and matters related to international frontier science Happenchance and hedgehogs Earlier this year, the European Medicines Agency approved the use of a new anti-cancer drug, Erivedge, developed by Genentech in... Crowdsourcing the design of swarming nanoparticles for cancer applications The treatment of cancer is undergoing what could be called a revolution. The field has attracted the attention of bioengineers... Insect jumping, an ancient question The acrobatic leaps of insects have fascinated both storytellers and scientists for the scope of human history. ... More Frontier Science © 2010 Human Frontier Science Program Home Copyright Contact us Site map Design and technology by Reading Room Japanese sister site