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HFSP promotes and supports international, cutting-edge, and interdisciplinary research focused on the life sciences. This page shows the latest news from HFSP and other items of interest to the scientific community.
A quick look at the bold research, global gatherings & new partnerships that shaped the #HFSP year: 👉 zurl.co/7AMHm
Thank you to our amazing HFSP community: awardees, alumni, reviewers, and partners around the world! 🧪
Here’s to a healthy, inspiring, and curiosity-filled 2026! 🥂
#sts #happynewyear
December 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
🧪 Wondering if HFSP Research Grants are the right fit for you?

You might be a good match if your idea is:
🔹 Too bold or risky for traditional funders
🔹 Strongly interdisciplinary
🔹 Best tackled by an international team

🔗zurl.co/6oyBA
#HFSPResearchGrants #sts
December 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
“There will be new pandemics, and we must be ready.”🧪
🗓️ On the International Day of #EpidemicPreparedness watch this #HFSP Summit talk by Arnaud Fontanet (Institut Pasteur) on how #LifeSciences can help mitigate future pandemic risk:
🎥 zurl.co/45KYz
#sts
How may life sciences help mitigating pandemic risk in a changing world.
Arnaud Fontanet, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, was the second keynote to complete the first round of panelist to debate the Climate Change and Health at t...
zurl.co
December 27, 2025 at 3:17 AM
❄️ Season’s Greetings from all of us at HFSP!

Wishing our global community of scientists, partners, and supporters a joyful holiday season and a healthy, inspiring start to the New Year. Thank you for being part of the frontier science journey! 🌍🧪

#HFSP #GlobalScience #FrontierScience
December 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🧪 Fossil spores can tell us when the Earth was burning 🔥
HFSP-supported research shows that wildfire heat can darken plant spores, linking colour changes in fossils to past mass extinctions.
Read more 👉 bit.ly/48XJPvx
#sts #HFSPResearchGrants
December 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🧪 Call for Abstracts open!

HFSP awardees and alumni are invited to submit abstracts and present HFSP-supported research at the 25th HFSP Awardees Meeting.

🗓️ Deadline: 1 March 2026 (23:59 CET)
👉 Info & Submissions: zurl.co/f3NtI

#HFSPmtg2026 #HFSP #sts
December 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
🧪 What does the HFSP Nakasone Award recognise?
A clearly defined breakthrough in basic life science research, a discovery that advanced our understanding of how living organisms work. 🔎The focus is on a specific scientific achievement from the past 10 years.
🔗 Learn more: zurl.co/EYazR
#sts
December 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Incredible work pushing the frontiers of 3D imaging in living systems! 🔬
Proud to support this kind of innovative, high-impact research. Congrats on this achievement!

#HFSPFellowships #Microscopy #FrontierScience
New paper out! Combining single-objective light-sheet microscopy and time-resolved SPAD array detection, we massively accelerate fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) compared to confocal FLIM, making FLIM applicable to 3D specimen such as organoids and embryos.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
December 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Attention scientists from all over the world🙃
The Call for Letters of Intent for #HFSPResearchGrants 2027 is now open! 🧪
Get your international & interdisciplinary team. It's time to put your bold research idea into practice!
🔗https://bit.ly/48VsGCG
📅 15 Dec 2025–26 Mar 2026
#sts #LifeSciences
December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Do you know an exceptional scientist who made a ground-breaking contribution to the Life Sciences in the last 10 years?
Nominate now! 👉zurl.co/kxDC3
#HFSPNakasoneAward #LifeSciences
December 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
🧪 How do you recover a lost ecosystem from sediment and what does it change about biology today?
Screening + discussion: Hunt for the Oldest DNA
12 Dec | 10:00 | Palais Universitaire, Salle Pasteur, Strasbourg | Free
Registration: zurl.co/2Uw20

#sts #ScienceFilm
December 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
🧪 What makes the HFSP Science Digest unique? It’s not just a collection of research, it’s a curated journey through frontier science!

🌍 Global teams
🔬 Bold basic research
🎨 Beautiful design

Explore the new edition → zurl.co/7gd29
#sts #HFSPScienceDigest
December 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
🧪 This #WorldSoilDay, meet the microbes powering Earth’s hidden electrical grid.
HFSP-supported researchers discovered that soil bacteria use a set of protein “plugs” to move electrons across the ground, helping them breathe without oxygen.
👉 zurl.co/P24ly #sts
December 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
🧪 Coronaviruses aren’t limited to one region.
In Belize, HFSP researchers studied Neotropical bats and uncovered three coronavirus lineages, some with evolutionary ties to known human viruses, including one that was completely new.
Full story 👉 zurl.co/KWDJd #sts
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Attention Strasbourg research community 🙃🎓
Join us for an Emmy Award–winning doc screening + discussion: Hunt for the Oldest DNA 🧪
📅 12 Dec 2025 | 10:00
📍 University of Strasbourg
🎟️ Free, registration required: zurl.co/v7ltx
#sts #AncientDNA #ScienceFilm
December 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Attention scientists from all over the world 🙃
Nominations are now open for the 2027 HFSP Nakasone Award!
Help us recognize a transformative discovery in basic life science research 🧪
Deadline: 8 Feb 2025
Learn + zurl.co/wNCT3
#sts #HFSPNakasoneAward
December 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
🧪 Meet FANTASIA, the AI decoding the “dark proteome.” It learns the language of proteins to reveal the hidden functions of genes across 1,000 animal genomes. Kudos to the HFSP Research Grant team behind this incredible tool🎉
👉 zurl.co/D7P7O #sts #HFSPResearchGrant
November 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Greetings from Prague!
The HFSP Masterclass is in full swing 🇨🇿 — welcoming early career researchers from Central Europe to explore HFSP funding, frontier science, and international collaboration.
#HFSPmasterclass #HFSP #GlobalScience #ScienceWithoutBorders
🧪 #sts
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
🧬 From swimming success to standing still.
HFSP-supported researchers mapped how bacterial motility evolved — and discovered that losing the ability to swim has shaped life more than gaining it.
#HFSPgrants #Microbiology #Evolution #sts 🧪
🔗 zurl.co/PzeeA
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
🧪 Starting in 1 hour!
Join our HFSP Research Grant webinar today at 13:00 CET with Almut Kelber & Guntram Bauer.
👉 zurl.co/FekdN
#HFSP #FrontierScience #sts
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🧪 Last chance to register!
HFSP’s Research Grant webinar is this week – 19 Nov, 13:00 CET 🎓
Get tips from Almut Kelber & Guntram Bauer on frontier science + LoI prep.
👉 Register: zurl.co/TrT7K
#HFSP #FrontierScience #sts
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
From Sendai to Kyoto: the HFSP Science Summit Japan 2025 connected outstanding scientists and young researchers in a week of collaboration and discovery.
📖 Read the full story → zurl.co/5eYb5
🧪 #sts #HFSPSummitJapan
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
📣 The 25th HFSP Awardees Meeting is coming!
Three days of science and collaboration at the heart of Geneva’s innovation hub. What a joy! 🙃 Save the Date:
📅 8–10 July 2026
📍 Campus Biotech Geneva, Switzerland

zurl.co/jip5N
#HFSPmtg2026 #sts 🧪
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
🧪 “Science must be used for good. As a bridge. As a dialogue.”
On World Science Day for Peace and Development, a powerful reminder from Mona Nemer, Chief Science Adviser Canada, last month at the #HFSPSummit in Japan.

🎥 zurl.co/dN19a

#WorldScienceDay #HFSP #sts
✂️ Science can be used for good
54 seconds · Clipped by HFSP · Original video "Final Words" by HFSP
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November 10, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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I am beyond excited to share that my postdoc project @szndohrn.bsky.social and the @arnonelab.bsky.social is now available in #ScienceAdvances @science.org. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM