Funder
Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO), INT: Research Grants
Added date
08/02/2024
Closing date
19/03/2024
Call summary
HFSP Research Grants support innovative basic research into fundamental biological problems with emphasis placed on novel and interdisciplinary approaches that involve scientific exchanges across national and disciplinary boundaries.
Participation of scientists from disciplines outside the traditional life sciences such as biophysics, chemistry, computational biology, computer science, engineering, mathematics, nanoscience or physics is recommended because such collaborations have opened up new approaches for understanding the complex structures and regulatory networks that characterize living organisms, their evolution and interactions.
Research grants are provided for teams of scientists from different countries who wish to combine their expertise in innovative approaches to questions that could not be answered by individual laboratories. Preliminary results are not required and applicants are expected to develop new lines of research through the research collaboration.
Amount note Awarded teams receive a fixed sum, over three years, depending on team size (awarded 2-member teams will receive 300,000 USD, 3-member teams 400,000 USD and 4-member teams 500,000 USD annually, if all members have their labs in different countries).
Scientific scope
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Biological Sciences; Computational Biology; Nanotechnology
PI eligibility
Two types of Grant are available:
Research Grants – Program (RG-Program): to allow teams of independent researchers to develop new lines of research through a new collaboration, with applications including independent investigators early in their careers being particularly encouraged;
Research Grants – Early Career: to enable teams of young investigators who are directing a research group to initiate and direct their own independent lines of research.
Eligibility Note HFSP Research Grants support teams of independent leaders of research groups. Therefore applications from individual scientists or early career researchers carrying out their postdoctoral or PhD level projects are not eligible.