A quick look at the bold research, global gatherings & new partnerships that shaped the #HFSP year: 👉 zurl.co/7AMHm#HFSPThank 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

🧪 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

“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#EpidemicPreparedness#HFSP#LifeSciences#sts

❄️ 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

🧪 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

🧪 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

🧪 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

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

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

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

🧪 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

🧪 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

🧪 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#WorldSoilDay #sts

🧪 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

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

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

🧪 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

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

🧬 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

🧪 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

🧪 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

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

📣 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 🧪

🧪 “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#HFSPSummit #WorldScienceDay #HFSP #sts

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/...

How can you make your HFSP Research Grant proposal stand out? Join our webinar on 19 Nov, 13:00 CET to learn what HFSP looks for in frontier science + tips for your Letter of Intent. 🧪 Register now: zurl.co/Q8v9f #HFSP #FrontierScience #sts

The HFSP Masterclass is underway in Daejeon, Republic of Korea! Hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT and supported by HFSP, this is the first Masterclass initiated by an HFSP Member Country, a fantastic collaboration between IBS, KRIBB & KRISS. #HFSPmasterclass #GlobalScience 🧪 #sts

Too warm to buzz? Check out our newest paper on how warming temperatures affect bee buzzes in the Arctic. Well done to Charlie and Guadalupe and other coauthors for this nice study in the Swedish Arctic! @hfspo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

👋Hello from Daejeon! The HFSP Masterclass is live in the Republic of Korea. It brings together early-career scientists to explore bold research, global collaboration, and how to apply for HFSP support. Stay tuned for highlights! #HFSPMasterclass #GlobalScience 🧪 #sts

🧪 Stress dulls joy. But science is finding the switch🙃 HFSP-supported researchers uncovered how chronic stress disrupts reward circuits in the brain and how gently tuning one pathway may reverse anhedonia. #HFSPResearchGrants #Neuroscience #sts 📑🔗 zurl.co/Lifzc

🧪 Meet the HFSP experts behind the HFSP Research Grants! Join Almut Kelber and Guntram Bauer for a live webinar on frontier science, HFSP rules, and crafting your Letter of Intent on 19 November at 13:00 CET. 🔗 Register: zurl.co/eclSU #HFSP #FrontierScience #sts

How do group actions synchronize without speaking? 🧠 HFSP researchers are using Ta, a #ParticipatoryArt piece, to explore how #CollectiveBehavior emerges from individual actions, blending #Neuroscience, #Biology, and #Art. 🎨 #HFSPGrants #sts 🧪 🔗 zurl.co/PGEoo

Thinking of applying for the next HFSP Research Grant call? Join our HFSP Webinar on 19 Nov, 13:00 CET with Almut Kelber & Guntram Bauer for insights into frontier science and the 2027 application process. 🔗 Register: zurl.co/hp8OE #HFSP #FrontierScience #sts 🧪

The #HFSPMasterclass series continues. After a fantastic session with researchers from the Baltics last month, we're heading to South Korea and Czech Republic in November to meet early career scientists from Central Europe 🇨🇿🇭🇺🇵🇱 zurl.co/eZQzv#HFSPMasterclass 🧪 #sts

The new HFSP Science Digest is here! 🥳 From molecules to oceans, we explore how frontier science is shaping the future of biology. 🧪 Featuring 89 scientists supported by HFSP across continents: tackling aging, brain function, immunity, and marine life. 📖 bit.ly/4qnX2Wo #sts #HFSPScienceDigest

🧪 Can your skin microbiome talk to your immune system and your neurons? With HFSP support, researchers use Skin-on-a-chip tech to decode the cross-talk between microbes, immunity, and nerves, unlocking new frontiers in skin health! #HFSPgrants #sts 🔗zurl.co/KvhtY

🧪 How do plants fight off pathogens without immune cells? 🌿 #HFSPFellow Tatsuya Nobori mapped immune activity at single-cell and spatial levels revealing rare “PRIMER” cells that kickstart tissue defense. #sts #PlantImmunity #ClimateResilience 🔗zurl.co/EIaJe

Stingless and sterile, yet super social 🐝 HFSP Fellow Benjamin Taylor decoded the genome of Australian Tetragonula stingless bees, showing there’s more than one way to evolve a “superorganism”! 🧪 Read the story: zurl.co/aMt88 #sts #HFSP

🧪 The #HFSPSummitJapan ended today in Kyoto ✨ Nobel Laureates & Nakasone Awardees shared insights with young researchers 🧬 Svante Pääbo gave a fascinating keynote on human evolution. 👩‍🔬 A lively poster session closed the day. What a journey! What a Summit! More highlights soon 🙂 #sts

🧪 The #HFSPSummitJapan High-Level Event has started at The University of Tokyo 🇯🇵! Nobel Laureates, Science Leaders, HFSP Nakasone Awardees & Japanese researchers debating innovation, collaboration, and the future of life sciences. 🌟 #HFSPsciencesummit #sts

Day 2 of the #HFSPScienceSummit kicked off with a full house at the Satellite Event hosted by @riken-brc-jp.bsky.social Exciting scientific discussions, brilliant minds, and a packed room. What a way to start the day! 🧪 #sts

Nobel Laureates Martin Chalfie, Randy Schekman & Tim Hunt taking the stage at the HFSP Science Summit Japan 2025 first satellite event at Tohoku University, in Sendai. #HFSPScienceSummit

🧪 The HFSP Science Summit Japan has officially kicked off today at Tohoku University in Sendai! An inspiring start with outstanding researchers & young scientists reflecting on collaboration and innovation in life sciences. 🌍✨ #sts #HFSPSummitJapan

🧪 Materials are ready, teams are in motion, and we’re counting down the hours! From 1 to 4 Oct, Nobel Laureates, Nakasone Awardees & young researchers gather across Japan to explore the frontiers of life science! Stay tuned! 👉 zurl.co/dlap9 #sts #HFSPSummitJapan

🧪 Can AI learn the language of plant life? HFSP Fellow Haopeng Yu developed PlantRNA-FM, a foundation model trained on RNA data from 1124 plant species. It decodes how RNA shapes gene regulation, boosting plant science and crop design. 🌱🤖 #HFSPfellowships #AI #PlantBiology #sts 🔗 zurl.co/8Ksoy

🧪An HFSP project led by Akio Ishiguro (Tohoku University) reveals how sensory feedback allows undulatory animals to adapt their movement in water and on land. Curious about how high-risk science is shaping the future of discovery? Join us in Japan! 👉bit.ly/48vsrj9 #sts #HFSPSummitJapan

🧪 The HFSP MasterClass is live in Tallinn! Scientists from the Baltics are joining #HFSP reviewers, alumni, and mentors for an intensive workshop on how to craft successful HFP #Fellowship and #ResearchGrant applications. 🔍 Letters of Intent and public abstracts. #ResearchTraining #GrantWriting #sts

🧪 The final Satellite Event of the HFSP Summit Japan 2025 takes place at Kyoto University (4 Oct). Nobel Laureates & HFSP Nakasone Awardees join early-career scientists for the event “Next Frontiers in Life Science: HFSP × Nobel Prize in Kyoto.” Details👉 bit.ly/4nFDnyZ #sts #HFSPSummitJapan

🧪 From Alzheimer’s to motor proteins: research highlighted in the #HFSPSummitJapan HFSP-supported Japanese scientists uncovered a key mechanism in kinesin-1 movement with implications for neurodegenerative disease research. Read the science story👉 bit.ly/4gzxHo1 #sts

🧪 On 3 Oct, the centerpiece of the #HFSPSummitJapan 2025 takes place at The University of Tokyo 🎓 All 15 Nobel Laureates, HFSP Nakasone Awardees, Japanese Researchers and Leadership Speakers will gather for a day of keynotes & panels on frontier science & innovation. 👉 bit.ly/48p4WZ3 #sts