HFSP Research Grants | Research Funding
Event details
| Date | 24.03.2022 |
| Category | Call for proposal |
Aim: HFSP Research Grants support innovative basic research into fundamental biological problems with emphasis placed on novel and interdisciplinary approaches that involve scientific exchanges across national and disciplinary boundaries (see guidelines).
Participation of scientists from disciplines outside the traditional life sciences such as biophysics, chemistry, computational biology, computer science, engineering, mathematics, nanoscience or physics is recommended because such collaborations have opened up new approaches for understanding the complex structures and regulatory networks that characterize living organisms, their evolution and interactions.
Research grants are provided for teams of scientists from different countries who wish to combine their expertise in innovative approaches to questions that could not be answered by individual laboratories. Preliminary results are not required and applicants are expected to develop new lines of research through the research collaboration.
Two types of Research Grant are available:
Funding: max. $500’000/year, depending on team size
Duration: 36 months
Eligibility: All members of a Program grant team must be in a position to initiate and direct their own independent lines of research. They must have full scientific and financial responsibility for their own laboratories (however small). All members of an Early Career grant team must be within 5 years of obtaining an independent position (see below) but must have obtained their first doctoral degree (PhD, MD or equivalent) not longer than 10 years before the deadline for submission of the letter of intent. A Young Investigator should be a project leader directing a research group. “Postdocs” are not eligible to apply for either program.
Only international research teams (with emphasis on intercontinental collaborations), not individual researchers, are eligible. The number of team members should normally be 2 –4. HFSPO promotes new interdisciplinary collaborations across the world. Therefore, team members are expected to have their labs in different countries; they should not have collaborated before and must propose a project significantly different from their ongoing research. The international team must designate one of its members as the Principal Applicant, who must be located in an HFSPO member country (see guidelines).
How to Apply: The two-step application process begins with a Letter of Intent. A guide for writing this LOI is available here. To submit, you must connect to ProposalCentral and obtain a reference number by 24 March 2022. The deadline for receipt of this letter, also submitted via ProposalCentral, is 31 March 2022. The Principal Applicant will be notified at the beginning of July if the team is invited to submit a full application. The deadline for invited full applications will be mid-September 2022. Full applications require an institutional signature; for this, please contact the Research Office.
Deadline: 24 March 2022
Further information
Participation of scientists from disciplines outside the traditional life sciences such as biophysics, chemistry, computational biology, computer science, engineering, mathematics, nanoscience or physics is recommended because such collaborations have opened up new approaches for understanding the complex structures and regulatory networks that characterize living organisms, their evolution and interactions.
Research grants are provided for teams of scientists from different countries who wish to combine their expertise in innovative approaches to questions that could not be answered by individual laboratories. Preliminary results are not required and applicants are expected to develop new lines of research through the research collaboration.
Two types of Research Grant are available:
- Research Grants - Early Career: Awarded to teams of researchers all of whom direct their own research groups, are within ten years of their doctoral degree conferral date, and are within five years of their initial scientific independence
- Research Grants - Program: Awarded to teams of independent researchers at any stage of their careers.
Funding: max. $500’000/year, depending on team size
Duration: 36 months
Eligibility: All members of a Program grant team must be in a position to initiate and direct their own independent lines of research. They must have full scientific and financial responsibility for their own laboratories (however small). All members of an Early Career grant team must be within 5 years of obtaining an independent position (see below) but must have obtained their first doctoral degree (PhD, MD or equivalent) not longer than 10 years before the deadline for submission of the letter of intent. A Young Investigator should be a project leader directing a research group. “Postdocs” are not eligible to apply for either program.
Only international research teams (with emphasis on intercontinental collaborations), not individual researchers, are eligible. The number of team members should normally be 2 –4. HFSPO promotes new interdisciplinary collaborations across the world. Therefore, team members are expected to have their labs in different countries; they should not have collaborated before and must propose a project significantly different from their ongoing research. The international team must designate one of its members as the Principal Applicant, who must be located in an HFSPO member country (see guidelines).
How to Apply: The two-step application process begins with a Letter of Intent. A guide for writing this LOI is available here. To submit, you must connect to ProposalCentral and obtain a reference number by 24 March 2022. The deadline for receipt of this letter, also submitted via ProposalCentral, is 31 March 2022. The Principal Applicant will be notified at the beginning of July if the team is invited to submit a full application. The deadline for invited full applications will be mid-September 2022. Full applications require an institutional signature; for this, please contact the Research Office.
Deadline: 24 March 2022
Further information
- More information about the program is available here
- A list of frequently asked questions is available here
- The application portal can be found here
- For any other questions, please contact the Research Office
Practical information
- General public
- Free