About HFSP
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. The key elements of HFSP’s mission are: support for innovative, cutting edge research at the frontiers of life sciences, encouragement of high risk research, promotion of international collaboration in the spirit of science without borders and support for financial and intellectual independence for early career researchers. 3 categories of support are: Research Grants, Postdoctoral fellowships and Career Development Award. The selection 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 to extend their scientific repertoire in laboratories abroad. HFSP fellowships are for 3 years. Fellows may choose to stay for up to 3 years in the host country or use the last year of their fellowship to return to their home country or to move to another HFSPO member country. Long-Term Fellowships (LTF) are for applicants with a Ph.D. in a biological discipline, who intend to broaden their expertise by proposing a project in the life sciences which is significantly different from their previous Ph.D. or postdoctoral work. Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships (CDF) are for applicants with a Ph.D. from outside the life sciences (e.g. in physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering or computer sciences), who have had limited exposure to biology during their previous training. 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.
Funding Agency: International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO)
Area:Physical Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Engineering Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Computer Sciences and Information Technology
Purpose: Capacity Building, Innovations, Research
HFSP fellowship program for Post Doctoral Fellowship
The HFSP fellowship program supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences. Applications for high-risk projects are particularly encouraged. The projects should be interdisciplinary in nature and should challenge existing paradigms by using novel approaches and techniques. Scientifically, they should address an important problem or a barrier to progress in the field.
HFSP postdoctoral fellowships encourage early career scientists to broaden their research skills by moving into new areas of study while working in a new country.
Two different fellowships are available:
- Long-Term Fellowships (LTF) are for applicants with a PhD on a biological topic who want to embark on a novel and frontier project focussing on the life sciences.
- Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships (CDF) are for applicants who hold a doctoral degree from a non-biological discipline (e.g. physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering or computer sciences) and who have not worked in the life sciences before.
How to submit applications
Applications for the 2023 HFSP Long-Term and Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships (to start in 2023) will follow a two-step submission process via the online submission platform ProposalCentral. Firstly, applicants will be asked to submit a Letter of Intent from which the review committee will select the best proposals. In a second step, successful applicants will be invited to submit a Full Proposal.
The link to the registration portal of each program is available in the corresponding application guidelines.
The application guidelines for the 2022 HFSP
- Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships can be downloaded here.
- Long-Term Fellowships can be downloaded here
For registration queries in ProposalCentral please click here
Important Dates
- Initiation of a Letter of Intent by 1 PM (Eastern Time US) by May 18, 2022
The registration portal is open.
- Submission of a Letter of Intent by 1 PM (Eastern Time US) by May 19, 2022
- The fellowship applicant will be notified between mid-August and end of August as to whether his/her Letter of Intent was selected or not for submitting a Full Proposal.
- Submission of Full Proposals for invited applicants by 1 PM (Eastern Time US) by September 29, 2022 via ProposalCentral.
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