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The Human Frontier Science Program selects new heads of start-up laboratories

March 20th, 2014

The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) has selected 12 of its fellowship holders to receive the highly sought-after Career Development Award (CDA). Following rigorous selection in a global competition, the future for these young scientists could not be brighter as they will receive an award worth $300,000 spread over three years to jump start their first independent laboratory.

The CDA is a special feature of the HFSP fellowship programs because it offers fellows the possibility to return to their home countries or to move to another HFSP member country after their research abroad. "We are excited that we can increase the number of CDA awards in 2014 because it is an important mechanism to assure that these outstanding young researchers hit the ground running when starting their first independent laboratory," says Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, Secretary General of HFSPO, in highlighting the Program's goal to support the new leaders in the life sciences.

The 12 winners of the 2014 HFSP Career Development Award, their research institutions and research programs, are:

Stan Oliver BELL (Nationality: Germany)

IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria

Investigating the dynamics and memory of polycomb-mediated gene repression in vivo

Jan BRUGUES FERRE (Nationality: Spain)

Max Planck Institute for Physics and Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

Mechanisms of spindle morphology and scaling during early development

Angélique DELERIS (Nationality: France)

Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Heritable epigenetic and genetic changes triggered by the plant immune response

Georg KELLER (Nationality: Switzerland)

Friedrich-Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Sensory feedback processing in visual cortex during behavior

Tomomi KIYOMITSU (Nationality: Japan)

Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Defining the mechanisms and roles of cell size control during cell division

Sebastian KLINGE (Nationality: Germany)

The Rockefeller University, New York, USA

Early events of eukaryotic ribosome assembly – the small subunit processome

Kota MIZUMOTO (Nationality: Japan)

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Dissecting the roles of inter-neuronal interaction in establishing synaptic topography

Franck OURY (Nationality: France)

Institut Necker Enfants-Malades, Paris, France

Biological and molecular bases of the hormonal regulation of brain development and functions by the skeleton

Dana REICHMANN (Nationality: Israel)

The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Systematic analysis of nature and role of stress-regulated protein disorder in cellular proteostasis

Noam STERN-GINOSSAR (Nationality: Israel)

The Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel

The translational landscape of virally infected cells

Jeroen VAN ZON (Nationality: Netherlands)

FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Robust spatial patterning of multicellular organisms by noisy morphogen gradients

Marija ZANIC (Nationality: Croatia/USA)

Yale University, New Haven, USA

Molecular mechanisms of microtubule dynamic instability

Provided by Human Frontier Science Program

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