STRASBOURG, France, 2 April 2025 — To pioneer new frontiers in life science research, the Human Frontier Science Program has awarded 104 of the world’s most ingenious scientists from 30 nations with 2025 HFSP Research Grants and the first round of the new Accelerator Grants.

“We drive the most innovative research by shooting for the stars,” said Pavel Kabat, HFSP Secretary-General. “Our awards provide the world’s top scientists with the means to explore new frontiers in scientific research and discover whole new worlds of possibility.”

Scientists from these nations receive 2025 HFSP Research Grants & Accelerator Awards:

Australia	China	Hungary	Norway	Spain
Belgium	Czech Republic	India	Netherlands	Sweden
Brazil	Denmark	Israel	New Zealand	Switzerland
Burkina Faso	France	Italy	Portugal	Turkey
Canada	Germany	Japan	Singapore	United Kingdom
Chile	Greece	Korea	South Africa	United States of America

The 2025 HFSP Research Grants span the entire spectrum of life science research across the 30 Research Grants and 12 Accelerator Grants. Highlights include:

• New insight on epigenetics, the study of how our environment influences our genes by changing the chemicals that attach to them. This project resumes research began more than 100 years ago at the Biologische Versuchsanstalt (BVA) in Vienna, Austria.

• Research on how tick-borne diseases are being spread over great distances, including by migratory birds, and becoming a global concern. The study looks at how rapidly changing environmental factors driven by climate change and human activities affect tick populations, and thus, also the spread of viral diseases.

HFSPO received proposals involving more than 2100 researchers in 780 projects. To see who was awarded consult the list of new awardees and to read the abstracts of their planned work, view the 2025 HFSP Research Grants Awardees Booklet. To view the individual scientists and their country labs, click and search the Index by Country.

About HFSP Awards:

HFSP Research Grants last for three years and on average, provide $400,000 USD per year. Our Program Grants are awarded to teams of two to four scientists, at any stage of their careers, who embark upon a new collaborative project. Our Early Career Grants require that all team members are within five years of obtaining an independent position and that it has been no more than 10 years since they earned their Ph.D.

Among all our awardees we seek scientists who form internationally, preferably intercontinentally, collaborative teams, who have not worked together before, and who are engaging in work for which they have no preliminary data. In this regard, HFSP fosters frontier research and science diplomacy.

HFSP Accelerator Awards:
The new HFSP Accelerator Grants strengthen the world’s life science enterprise by diversifying the pool of expertise, providing greater equity among HFSP Member nations, and including scientists on the world’s most groundbreaking research grant teams, who might not otherwise have comparable opportunities. All 2024 HFSP Research Grant teams were given the opportunity to apply for the program with the goal of inviting one additional scientist – the Accelerator team member – to participate on the research grant team. All Accelerator Awardees have to be working at a research institution in one of the following HFSP Member countries:

• India
• Japan
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Korea
• Singapore
• South Africa

“As HFSPO was chartered by the G7 nations to drive groundbreaking life science research for the ‘benefit of all humankind,’ we have a role and a responsibility to invest in and stimulate geographically diverse talent,” said Kabat.

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The Human Frontier Science Program was founded in 1989 by G7 nations and the European Commission to advance international research and training at the frontier of the life sciences. Its aims are to promote intercontinental collaboration and training in cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research focused on the life sciences. HFSP receives financial support from the governments or research councils of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, the UK, the USA, as well as from the European Commission. Since 1990, more than 8,500 researchers from more than 70 countries have been supported. Of these, 31 HFSP awardees have gone on to win the Nobel Prize.