Human Frontier Science Program

🧪 Applying for an HFSP Postdoctoral Fellowship?
Join our webinar on how to navigate the 2027 HFSP Fellowships application process!
Two sessions available:
🕘 25 March, 09:00 & 16:00 CET
🔗 Register: zurl.co/fO8Ga

#HFSP #ResearchFellowships #FrontierScience #sts

Attention HFSP community! 🙃⏳ Final week to submit abstracts for the 25th HFSP Awardees Meeting!
HFSP Awardees and Alumni are invited to present HFSP-supported research in Geneva. 🧪
🗓 Deadline: 1 March 2026
👉 zurl.co/e7L3J
#sts #HFSPmtg2026

🧪 How do bacteria stick together to form antibiotic-resistant biofilms?

HFSP-supported grantees used high-resolution cryo-EM to reveal how the Tad pilus exits the cell via a protein ring that functions as a molecular tunnel.

#HFSPgrants #Microbiology #AntibioticResistance #sts
🔗 zurl.co/9vlkg

Final days to nominate for the 2027 HFSP Nakasone Award.🏆
If you know a peer whose research led to a clearly defined breakthrough in basic life science research, now is the time to submit a nomination! 🧪

📅 Deadline: 22 February 2026
🔗 Submit here: zurl.co/Gs7nT

#sts #HFSPNakasoneAward

Attention HFSP community! 🙃 🧪 This is your chance to contribute to the 25th HFSP Awardees Meeting scientific program! Call for Abstracts is open for Awardees and Alumni 👉 zurl.co/hlNuw
This July in Geneva, take the stage and share your research!

#HFSPmtg2026 #sts

🧪 A single atomic change can reshape how pigment is stored in the eye!

HFSP-supported researchers visualized the structure of a functional amyloid scaffold (PMEL) and showed how one mutation may trigger pigment leakage linked to glaucoma.

#HFSPgrants #StructuralBiology #sts
🔗 zurl.co/sJrlB

HFSP Symposium: Moving the Frontiers of 21st Century Life Science

Attention HFSP community in #Italy 🙃
HFSP Symposium | Rome | 21 April 2026
In collaboration with CNR, #HFSP will showcase frontier #lifesciences, from genomics to AI-supported imaging and predictive biology. 🧪
📍 Sala Marconi, CNR
🎟️ Free attendance. Registration required
🔗https://zurl.co/AqbY6
#sts

Today we celebrate the brilliant women who are shaping the future of #LifeSciences! Hundreds of brilliant women supported by HFSP, leading #FrontierResearch across disciplines and borders. 🌍 To all of you: Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪

#HFSP #WomenInScience #sts

🧪 This #HFSPResearchGrant consortium has officially kicked off!
The project explores how chromatin’s physical properties shape genome organization, gene activity, and disease.
Learn more 🔗 bit.ly/4cfgpMM
A great start for this international collaboration 👏
#sts

Good news!🎉
The nomination deadline for the 2027 HFSP Nakasone Award has been extended.
📅 New deadline: 22 February 2026

There’s still time to nominate a peer whose research led to a life science breakthrough! 🧪
🔗 zurl.co/bazP8

#sts #HFSPNAkasoneAward

Ending the week with a #CellBiology gem and a great science read for the weekend😉
🧪Cells don’t just respond to wounds, they read their shape: Endoplasmic reticulum senses wound curvature and helps cells choose the most efficient way to repair tissue.

#HFSPResearchGrants #sts
🔗 zurl.co/f7Rcg

At #HFSP, #interdisciplinarity isn’t an add-on: #Biology meets #Physics, #Chemistry, #Engineering, #Maths... Each field must be essential to the question!
Do you already have the right mix?
Applications are open.
🔗 zurl.co/mI8j8
#HFSPResearchGrants #FrontierScience

It all starts with #BasicResearch!🧪
On #WorldCancerDay, we highlight how HFSP-supported science is uncovering the hidden complexity of cancer, from brain metastasis to the tumor microenvironment and stem cell niches.
Read more in our #HFSPScienceDigest ➡️ zurl.co/t8dz8

#sts #CancerResearch

Attention scientists from all over the world 🙃🧪 Last week to submit nominations for the 2027 HFSP Nakasone Award.
Nominate a peer whose research led to a breakthrough in basic life science.

📅 Deadline: 8 February 2026
🔗 zurl.co/0UvbH
#sts #HFSPNakasoneAward

Shrews don't hibernate, they shrink to survive winter! 🐾🐹
HFSP-supported researchers reveal that seasonal changes in body size in shrews are driven by FOXO, linking metabolism, size, and lifespan. It's nature's own model of reversible shrinkage! 🧪
📰zurl.co/d1FUk

#sts #HFSPResearch

Call for Nominations HFSP Nakasone Award 2027

👉 bringing outstanding science into the spotlight
👉recognising bold, curiosity-driven research
👉ensuring breakthroughs are seen worldwide
Nominations for the HFSP Nakasone Award matter! 🧪
Can we count on you?🫵
🔗Nominate a peer: bit.ly/4aStkU9
#HFSPNakasoneAward #sts

Campus Biotech Geneva

Next stop: Geneva, Switzerland🤩
The 25th HFSP Awardees Meeting will take place at Campus Biotech Geneva
📅 8–10 July 2026
🧪 Registration is open: bit.ly/4qMPyMA
We look forward to welcoming the HFSP community again for three days of scientific exchange!
#HFSPmtg2026 #HFSP #sts
bit.ly/49ZtpTT

✂️ The importance of Education to the future scientific discoveries. Martin Chalfie. 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 37 seconds · Clipped by HFSP · Original video "Closing Session - Life Sciences in the 21st Century: Where will you take us" by HFSP

🧪 “A very important part of the future is education, giving people the opportunity to make discoveries.” Nobel Laureate Martin Chalfie at the #HFSP Japan Science Summit 2025.
On the #InternationalDayOfEducation, we’re reminded that discovery begins with opportunity!
🎥 zurl.co/wRSze
#sts

🧪 Evolution may have more raw material than we thought.
HFSP-supported researchers found that random DNA can become new genes that help bacteria resist viruses.
Read the story 👉zurl.co/kk1Xw
#sts #HFSPFellowships #DNA

🧪 Behind every HFSP Nakasone Award is a nomination!
Peer nominations help recognise transformative discoveries in basic life science research. Your turn to take action!
🔗 Nomination details: zurl.co/9dBDi
#sts #HFSPNakasoneAward

Presenting at the HFSP Awardees Meeting is more than a talk, it’s about exchanging ideas, cross-disciplinary feedback, and building new connections.

🧪 Call for Abstracts is open: zurl.co/AFFCZ
📍 Geneva, Switzerland
📅 8–10 July 2026
🗓 Deadline: 1 March 2026


#sts #HFSPmtg2026

Credit: Erik Karits. Pexels.

Why do we sleep and what happens when we don’t?💤
In our latest Science Digest, HFSP-supported research uncovers how disrupted sleep rewires the brain, with lifelong effects.🧠
A feature by @richardastone.bsky.social
Read the story 👉 bit.ly/45kXADI
🧪 #sts #SleepScience #Neuroscience #HFSP

Repairing Gli-tches during bone growth

How do bones bounce back from early growth issues?
New research supported by HFSP reveals a "back-up system" of long-lived cartilage progenitors that can step in when development goes off track.🦴
📰📎: bit.ly/4jPHqs8
🧪 #HFSPResearch #DevelopmentalBiology #sts

🧪 What makes an HFSP Research Grant project distinctive?

Bold questions
Real scientific risk
Ideas beyond incremental science

HFSP supports ambition with clear thinking about uncertainty and challenge. Go ahead, it's time to be audacious!💪

🔗 zurl.co/wTsUB
#HFSPResearchGrants #sts

🧪 What makes a strong nomination for the HFSP Nakasone Award?
A clear focus on:
✅ Specific scientific breakthrough
✅ Why it matters
✅Its impact on the field

Clarity counts more than volume!
🔗 Nominations and guidelines: zurl.co/9Noy1
#sts #HFSPNakasoneAward

Attention #HFSP Community 🙃
Registration for the 25th HFSP Awardees Meeting is now open!
Join us for three days of HFSP-supported science, discussion, and collaboration. 🧪
📍 Geneva, Switzerland
📅 8–10 July 2026
👉 Registration zurl.co/Q6TJY
#HFSPmtg2026 #sts

Webinar on Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Grants In this webinar, you will receive information about the HFSP calls with deadlines in spring 2026, including Research Grants and Postdoctoral Fellowships, and you will have the opportunity to ask quest...

Attention researchers in Norway🙃
Join the upcoming webinar hosted by @forskningsradet to learn about insights for the HFSP Research Grants & Fellowships calls. 🧪
🎥Live streaming
📅 13 Jan 14:00–15:15
Register👉https://bit.ly/49hcYU1

#HFSP #Norway #LifeSciences #GlobalScience #sts

HFSP Nakasone Awardees

🧪 Who can be nominated for the #HFSPNakasoneAward?
Scientists worldwide whose work led to a clearly defined breakthrough in basic #LifeScience research.
Past awardees span disciplines and institutions, united by transformative discoveries.
🔗 See previous recipients: zurl.co/Ol7zG
#sts

Vast Diversity of Self-Reproducing RNAs Further Supports the Plausibility of an RNA origin of life

🧪 Could life have started with RNA?
HFSP-supported researchers show that an astronomical diversity of RNAs can self-reproduce — making an RNA-based origin of life far more plausible. What do you think?
Read more 👉 bit.ly/49oSAPy
#sts #HFSPResearchGrants

HFSP Research Grants Webinar: 2027 edition HFSP hosted a webinar to guide researchers through the 2027 HFSP Research Grant application process.In this one-hour session, Almut Kelber (HFSP Director of ...

Missed our webinar on #HFSPResearchGrants?
The recording is now available! ▶️ zurl.co/8qcZf

Almut Kelber and Guntram Bauer share guidance on:
🔹 Frontier science expectations
🔹 Key rules & guidelines
🔹 Preparing a strong Letter of Intent

#sts 🧪