Research Grants – Program
The Human Frontier Science Program’s Research Grants – Program funds international, interdisciplinary teams for innovative basic research into fundamental biological mechanisms.
Funder: Human Frontier Science Program
Due Dates: March 17, 2026 (LOI initiation) | March 26, 2026 (LOI submission) | September 10, 2026 (Full proposal, invited only)
Funding Amounts: Fixed annual amounts based on team size: $300,000 (2 members), $400,000 (3), $500,000 (4); 3-year duration; no detailed budget required.
Summary: Supports international, interdisciplinary teams at any career stage to pursue innovative, high-risk basic research into fundamental biological mechanisms.
Description
The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Research Grants – Program scheme funds ambitious, interdisciplinary, and international basic research projects that seek to advance understanding of fundamental mechanisms of living organisms. Open to teams of independent investigators at any career stage, the program encourages novel collaborations that bridge life sciences with disciplines such as physics, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, and computational sciences. Projects must be highly innovative, high-risk/high-reward, and launch new research directions that cannot be achieved by individual laboratories or within a single country. Applied, clinical, or purely descriptive research is not supported.
