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COUV_EXE+TRANCHES_QUADRI+SPE:Mise en page 1 17/06/10 16:41 Page 1 09 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS HFSPO is grateful for the support of the following organizations: Australia (AU) National Health and Medical Research Council ANNUAL REPORT 20 (NHMRC) Canada (CA) Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) European Union (EU) 09 European Commission – Directorate General Research (DG RESEARCH) European Commission – Directorate General APRIL 2009 - MARCH 2010 Information Society (DG INFSO) France (FR) Ministère des Affaires Étrangères et Européennes (MAEE) ANNUAL REPORT Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche (MESR) Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg (CUS) Région Alsace Human Germany (DE) Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) Frontier India (IN) Science Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology Program Italy (IT) Ministry of Education, University and Research Japan (JP) Ministry for Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Republic of Korea (KR) Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) New Zealand (NZ) Health Research Council (HRC) Norway (NO) The Research Council of Norway (RCN) Switzerland (CH) State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER) The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) United Kingdom (UK) 12 quai Saint-Jean - BP 10034 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) 67080 Strasbourg CEDEX - France Medical Research Council (MRC) Fax. +33 (0)3 88 32 88 97 e-mail: [email protected] United States of America (US) Website: www.hfsp.org National Institutes of Health (NIH) HUMAN FRONTIER SCIENCE PROGRAM National Science Foundation (NSF) Japanese Website: http://jhfsp.jsf.or.jp HUMAN FRONTIER SCIENCE PROGRAM The Human Frontier Science Program is a unique program funding basic research of the highest quality at the frontier of the life sciences that is 09 innovative, risky and requires international collaboration. Special empha- sis is given to the support and training of independent young investiga- APRIL 2009 - MARCH 2010 tors, beginning at the postdoctoral level. The Program is implemented by an international organization, supported financially by Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, ANNUAL REPORT Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the European Union. Since 1990, more than 5000 awards have been made to researchers from 69 countries. Of these, 16 HFSP awardees have gone on to receive the Nobel Prize. 2 INTRODUCTION 7 Introduction 8 Highlights in FY 2009 9 Message of the Secretary General 10 Board of Trustees 12 Council of Scientists 14 Secretariat 15 CHAPTER 1 - HFSP FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM 17 1.1 Introduction 18 1.2 Long-Term and Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships 18 1.3 Long-Term and Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships 2010 20 1.4 Short-Term Fellowships 22 1.5 Career Development Awards 23 1.6 Career Development Awards in 2010 24 1.7 The 2010 Review Committee for Fellowships 25 CHAPTER 2 - HFSP RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAM 27 2.1 Overview of the Grant Program 28 2.2 Young Investigator Grants 29 2.3 Program Grants 30 2.4 Awards in 2010 30 2.5 The 2010 Review Committee for Research Grants 36 CHAPTER 3 - PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS 39 3.1 HFSP 20th Anniversary 40 3.2 Awardees Meeting 42 3.3 Frontiers Meeting 44 contents 3.4 HFSP Nakasone Award 47 3.5 MIOIR Review 48 3.6 HFSP Communications 49 3.7 Honours and Prizes 52 The following documents are available on the HFSP website www.hfsp.org CHAPTER 4 - BUDGET AND FINANCE 59 Joint Communiqués 4.1 Guidelines for HFSPO funding 60 (Tokyo 1992, Washington 1997, Berlin 2002, Berne 2004, Ottawa 2007): 4.2 Key financial figures for FY 2009 61 http://www.hfsp.org/pubs/Pubs_reports_top.php 4.3 FY 2009 financial summary 68 Statutes of the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization: 4.4 Budget for program activities FY 2010 71 http://www.hfsp.org/about/Aboutstatutes.php APPENDIX 77 Guidelines for the Participation of New Members in the HFSP: A.1 History of the Program 78 http://www.hfsp.org/about/AboutNew_Mem.php A.2 Summary of decisions of the Board of Trustees in FY 2009 80 General Reviews of the HFSP (1996, 2001, 2006-2007): A.3 Research Grants awarded in 2009 81 http://www.hfsp.org/pubs/Pubs_reports_top.php A.4 Long-Term and Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships awarded in 2009 84 Updated and previous lists of awards, including titles and abstracts: A.5 Short-Term Fellowships awarded in 2009 88 http://www.hfsp.org/awardees/Awards-index.php A.6 Career Development Awards made in 2009 89 introduction Introduction Message of the Secretary General Highlights in FY 2009 Board of Trustees Council of Scientists Secretariat Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker (Secretary General), Toru Nakahara (Deputy Secretary General), Front: Jill Husser Since 1990, 832 Research Grants involving 3174 duction scientists, 2,443 Long-Term, 60 Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships and 157 Career Development Awards have been awarded. Researchers from nearly 70 countries FY 2009 have received HFSP funding so far. The Human Frontier Science Program The focus of research supported by HFSP is on the (HFSP) promotes fundamental research complex mechanisms of living organisms, ranging from in the life sciences with special the biomolecular level to that of behaving organisms. emphasis on novel and interdisciplinary The life sciences have undergone a revolution in recent research, international and in particular years, emerging as a leading scientific area with a intercontinental collaboration and support convergence of interest from other disciplines such as for young investigators. Since its physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science and establishment in 1989, HFSP has engineering on solving biological questions. HFSP aims demonstrated the value of creating a to stay at the forefront of research by involving framework for competitive, collaborative, scientists from outside the life sciences as part of international research of the highest research collaborations and as postdoctoral fellows. To Former Prime Minister Nakasone making a presentation to former caliber and of providing young scientists this end, the Young Investigator and Program Grants are President Masao Ito and Secretary General Toresten Wiesel with the opportunity to emerge as specifically geared to fostering interactions between talented researchers capable of shaping scientists from different disciplines and this is a major the science of the future. factor in the review of applications in these programs. In encouraged to include young scientists with the addition, HFSP has extended its commitment to result that a significant number of scientists under the interdisciplinary research by introducing Cross- age of 40 participate in this program. Taking these Professor Akito Arima took up the The International Human Frontier Science Program Disciplinary Fellowships to equip young scientists from researchers together, approximately 70% of annual position of President of HFSPO, as Organization (HFSPO) implements the Program through outside biology with the skills needed to tackle HFSP funds are awarded to early career researchers. successor of Professor Masao Ito, on the following mechanisms of research support, details of problems in the life sciences. 1 April 2009. which can be found in Chapters 1 and 2 of this report: The HFSPO is governed by a Board of Trustees (Board) A program dedicated to the frontiers of science must consisting of representatives of the MSPs. The Board is Long Term Fellowships – for young scientists within support the next generation of researchers, who are in Professor Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker advised by a scientific advisory body, the Council of three years of obtaining their PhD who wish to broaden the strongest position to open took up the position of Secretary Scientists (Council) and the Organization is run from the their scientific experience in a foreign laboratory. new avenues of research. Several of the HFSP General of HFSPO, as successor of Secretariat in Strasbourg, France. programs are specifically targeted towards Professor Torsten Wiesel, on 1 July Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships – modeled on the Long- 2009. Term Fellowships but specifically for scientists with PhDs early career scientists: the Fellowship programs, in non-biological disciplines who seek training in the life Career Development Award and Young Investigator sciences. Grant. In addition, Program Grant teams are 20th anniversary celebrations were held in association with the 9th Awar- Career Development Awards – for former HFSP Fel- dees meeting at the National Center lows who return to their home countries to help them The HFSPO is financed and managed by for Sciences,Tokyo, Japan, on 1-4 June set up their own independent laboratories. representatives of the Management Supporting 2009. Parties (MSPs). The MSPs are those countries that Young Investigator Grants – grants for interdisciplinary directly fund the HFSP Programs plus the teams of young researchers within the first five years of A meeting on the Frontiers of their first independent positions, who are located in dif- European Union, which represents the EU Biology was held in Strasbourg on ferent countries. countries that do not contribute directly. The 3-6 March 2010. MSPs are: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Program Grants – for interdisciplinary teams of resear- India, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea,
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