HFSP-Human Frontier Science Program
Deadlines: End of August: registration deadline for obtaining a password and initializing the application process
Beginning of September: submission deadline
Long-term Fellowships
Postdoctoral Fellowships are available for scientists who wish to work in foreign laboratories, with emphasis on individuals early in their careers who wish to obtain training in a different field of research.
Long-term fellowships are reserved for applicants with a PhD in a biological discipline to embark on a new project in a different field of the life sciences. Preference is given to applicants who propose an original study in biology that marks a departure from their previous PhD or postdoctoral work so as to learn new methods or change study system.
The HFSP fellowships are awarded for up to 3 years. Fellows may interrupt the HFPS support after the second year for up to two years while being funded through other programs of the host supervisor. The third fellowship year can be used as a return fellowship to the home country to prepare the initiation of an independent laboratory.
Eligibility criteria:
- Applicants may submit an application before receiving their PhD degree. However, at the start of the fellowship, applicants must have a research doctorate (PhD) or a doctoral-level degree comparable to a PhD with equivalent experience in basic experimental research.
- Applicants must have at least one lead author paper either accepted for publication, in press or published, in a peer-reviewed international journal.
- Applications will not be accepted from candidates who obtained the PhD degree in the host country of the HFSP fellowship, even if the applicant is not a national of that country.
- A candidate cannot apply to go to the country of which he/she is a national, even though he/she may have undertaken pre- or post-doctoral studies abroad or obtained his/her PhD in another country.
- A host supervisor can only endorse the application of one single candidate in the same round of awards, either a Cross-Disciplinary or a Long-term Fellowship application. The presence of HFSP fellows from previous award years in the host laboratory is not relevant in this regard.
Fellows who return to their home countries are eligible to apply for a Career Development Award.
Career Development Award
HFSP Career Development Award (CDA). HFSP fellows having completed at least two full years of their fellowship tenure and who are within two years after the end of their fellowship are eligible to apply. The CDA award provides a start up grant of 300K USD over three years to help initiate the first independent laboratory of the former fellow.
Cross disciplinary Fellowships
Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships (CDF) are open to 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.
Applicants for the CDF should propose a significant departure from their past research by changing e.g. from material science or physics science to cell biology, from chemistry to molecular biology, or from computer science to neuroscience.