Life Sciences - HFSP Research grants 2015 ($ 1,350,000)

The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) invites applications for its Research grants 2015. Deadline for submission is March 27, 2014. Deadline for password registration and initiation of the online application is March 20, 2014. There are two types of Research grants available: Young Investigators' Grants and Program Grants.

• Young Investigators' Grants are awarded to teams of researchers, all of whom are within the first five years after obtaining an independent laboratory (e.g. Assistant Professor, Lecturer or equivalent);
• Program Grants are awarded to teams of independent researchers at any stage of their careers. The research team is expected to develop new lines of research through the collaboration.

Teams will receive up to $ 450,000 per year for the whole team depending on the size of the team. Each grant is awarded for a period of three years.

The HFSP supports innovative basic research into fundamental biological problems with emphasis placed on novel and interdisciplinary approaches that involve scientific exchanges across national and disciplinary boundaries. In the past decade biological research has become increasingly quantitative rather than descriptive. The participation of scientists from disciplines outside the traditional life sciences such as biophysics, chemistry, computational biology, computer science, engineering, mathematics, nanoscience or physics has contributed to this change and will continue to do so. Such collaborations have opened up new approaches for understanding the complex structures and regulatory networks that characterize living organisms, their evolution and interactions.