Human Frontier Science Program [SEP] inception
) was established in 1989 and the secretariat was founded in Strasbourg, France. Since 1990, more than 6000 awards have been made to researchers from over 70 countries. Of these, 25 HFSP awardees have gone on to win the Nobel Prize for their scientific work.
Funding.
HFSPO receives financial support from the governments or research councils of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, UK, USA, as well as from the
Human Frontier Science Program
The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) (Frontière humaine, in French) is a program, based in Strasbourg, France, that funds basic research in life sciences. HFSP is supported by 13 countries and the European Union. Nobutaka Hirokawa has been its President and Chair of the Board of Trustees since 2012.
History.
In 1986 a feasibility study was carried out by leading Japanese scientists under the auspices of the Japanese Prime Minister's Council for Science of Technology, to explore possible means