Human Frontier Science Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Life Sciences
Deadline: Letters of Intent Due May 14, 2024
Category: Life Sciences,
The HFSP fellowship program supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences. Applications for high-risk projects are particularly encouraged. The projects should be interdisciplinary in nature and should challenge existing paradigms by using novel approaches and techniques. Scientifically, they should address an important problem or a barrier to progress in the field.
HFSP postdoctoral fellowships encourage early career scientists to broaden their research skills by moving into new areas of study while working in a new country. Two different fellowships are available:
Long-Term Fellowships (LTF) are for applicants with a PhD on a biological topic who want to embark on a novel and frontier project focusing on the life sciences.
Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships (CDF) are for applicants who hold a doctoral degree from a non-biological discipline (e.g. physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering or computer sciences) and who have not worked in the life sciences before. Candidates must propose work in a country different than the one in which they did their PhD research or previous postdoctoral research. A doctoral degree must be conferred by the start of the fellowship or within three years prior to the submission deadline of the full proposal.
The application portal will open March 14, 2024 for letters of intent.