Guest Lecture by Professor Warwick Anderson: Human Frontier Science Program - what is it, what does it support, and how to apply, Tue 15 Sept

The Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Professor Warwick Anderson will be visiting Monash University in September this year.  Former CEO of the NHMRC, Professor Anderson has recently joined the Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) in the role of Secretary General, and will present an information session on the research funding opportunities available within the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP).  The HFSP is an international program of research support, funding frontier research on the complex mechanisms of living organisms. Research is funded at all levels of biological complexity from biomolecules to the interactions between organisms. 

Information Session

Date:  Tuesday 15 September 2015

Time: 3.00 – 4.00 pm

Venue:  Lecture Theatre S12, 16 Rainforest Walk (Building 25), Clayton campus

RSVP:  Please register at https://my.monash.edu.au/news-and-events/bookings/mnhsroe/view/145906/

Key elements of HFSP’s mission are:

• Support for innovative, cutting edge research at the frontiers of the life sciences

• Encouragement of high risk research

• Promotion of international collaboration in the spirit of science without borders

• Support for financial and intellectual independence for early career researchers