Human Frontier Science Program Announces 2008 Call for Letters of Intent
The Human Frontier Science Program supports novel, innovative, and interdisciplinary basic research focused on the complex mechanisms of living organisms, with topics ranging from molecular and cellular approaches to systems and cognitive neuroscience. The program emphasizes novel collaborations that bring biologists together with scientists from fields such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science, and engineering to focus on problems at the frontier of the life sciences.
Research Grants provided by HFSP support basic research in the life sciences with emphasis placed on novel, innovative, and interdisciplinary approaches that involve scientific exchanges across national and disciplinary boundaries. Research grants are awarded for novel collaborations involving extensive collaboration among teams of scientists working in different countries and in different disciplines. Two types of grants are available: Young Investigator Grants and Program Grants.
Young Investigators Grants: Newly appointed investigators will be expected to propose projects with team members having distinct expertise and coming from different areas of the life sciences (if not from outside the life sciences). Typically, "Young Investigators" will have completed one or two periods of postdoctoral training and be appointed to staff positions that allow them to initiate and direct their own independent lines of research.
Program Grants: These grants are designed to help teams of independent researchers develop new lines of research through collaboration. Priority will be given to new, innovative research projects for which preliminary results might not necessarily be available. Applications from independent investigators early in their careers are encouraged. All members of a Program Grant team must be in a position to initiate and direct their own independent lines of research, have responsibility for their own laboratories, and show evidence of independence.
For both grant programs, teams will receive up to $450,000 per year for the whole team, depending on team size.
The principal applicant of a research grant must have a laboratory in a HFSP-member country.
Visit the HFSP Web site for complete program guidelines, a list of eligible member countries, and application procedures and materials.
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Link to Complete RFP
Primary Subject: Science/Technology
Geographic Funding Area: National
