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Associate Dean, Research




	

		

			

				

					
Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) – Research Grants
					
 Feb 4, 2025 
 12:00AM to 12:00AM

									

				

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NSERC and CIHR are currently promoting their jointly supported Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Research Grants competition. The 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.


HFSP is an international program. 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 research collaboration.


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.


Two (2) types of grants are available:


    

  1. Research Grants – Early Career (RG-Early Career); and,
    2. 

  2. Research Grants – Program (RG-Program) *
    3. 



*Participation of early career researchers is also encouraged in the RG- Program.


Webinar


In December 2024, HFSP hosted a webinar on the Research Grants competition. This webinar is available on YouTube. Please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJn-Ys9xpM.


If you are interested in applying for an HFSP research grant, please contact Ryan Heyden, Senior Advisor (heydenrw@mcmaster.ca) by February 01, 2025.


Applicants must initiate an LOI no later than March 18, 2025. To complete this step, please create an account and obtain an LOI identification # on Proposal Central.


ROADS will provide a content review to all draft LOIs received by March 13, 2025.


The final LOI must be submitted on Proposal Central by March 27, 2025.


The full application stage is by invitation only. Applicants will be selected to submit a full application after review of their Letter of Intent (LOI).


For more information, please visit HFSP’s website: https://www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp-funding/research-grants