Life sciences organizations
Web LinksOrganizations, associations, societies and institutions that promote the life sciences. The information is listed by country in alphabetical order. Please use the Search to find specific information.
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161   Link   Italy: Comitato Telethon Fondazione ONLUS
The fight against muscular dystrophy and other genetic disease. Funding of research, fellowships and special programmes. 		658
162   Link   International: Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)
The HFSP supports novel, innovative and interdisciplinary basic research focused on the complex mechanisms of living organisms; topics range from molecular and cellular approaches to systems and cognitive neurosciences. A clear emphasis is placed on novel collaborations that bring biologists together with scientists from fields such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science and engineering to focus on problems at the frontier of the life sciences. 		746
163   Link   International: Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds
The Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds is a public foundation - an independent, not-for-profit institution for the exclusive and direct promotion of basic research in biomedicine. It supports researchers and projects aimed to experimentally elucidate basic phenomena of human life and pays particular attention to the promotion of junior scientists.

The Foundation awards long-term fellowships to PhD students, supporting some 110 PhDs worldwide at the same time. It grants travel grants to PhD students and post-doctoral scientists to enable them to participate in short-term practicals in laboratories further afield or in scientific courses, e.g. summer or winter schools. In both programmes, the Foundation supports Europeans working in Europe and overseas and students from overseas working in Europe. It awards fellowships to medical students who study in Germany to give them the opportunity of pursuing excellent research. Senior scientists are mainly addressed by the International Titisee Conferences.
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164   Link   International: Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
The Foundation encourages all theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of cancer and the search for cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies and prevention.
- Damon Runyon Fellowship Award
- Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
- Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award 		689
165   Link   International: Danone Institute/International Coordination
The purpose of the Danone Institutes is to link scientists involved in nutrition research with health and education professionals. Through these efforts, we aim to bring relevant scientific knowledge about diet and health to the attention of the general public. 		709
166   Link   International: International Union Against Cancer (UICC)
The International Union Against Cancer (UICC) is the leading international non-governmental organization dedicated exclusively to the global control of cancer.
Vision: A dynamic global community of connected cancer control organizations, professionals and volunteers working together to eliminate cancer as a major life-threatening disease for future generations.
Mission: To connect, mobilize and support cancer organizations and individuals with knowledge and skills to be effective.

International cancer fellowships play a major role in the UICC's vision and mission. They provide opportunities for professional development for cancer investigators, clinicians, nurses, and cancer society staff and volunteers.
Each year an international review panel of over 800 volunteer experts considers more than 1,000 applications. Each year this results in up to 200 fellowships, to advance, transfer and disseminate cancer knowledge from those who have it to those who need it.
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167   Link   International: Santa Fe Institute
The Santa Fe Institute is a transdisciplinary research community that expands the boundaries of scientific understanding. Its aim is to discover, comprehend, and communicate the common fundamental principles in complex physical, computational, biological, and social systems that underlie many of the most profound problems facing science and society today.

The Institute supports residential student fellowships at the undergraduate through the postdoctoral level. Omidyar and Postdoctoral Fellows are in residence from one to three years working both on collaborative and individual projects. Generally there are openings for such scholars with a Fall application deadline. SFI supports a small number of graduate students in residence, all of whom are matriculating at other institutions. Usually such residencies are no more than one year and they are individually arranged. The Institute hosts a small number of highly motivated and extremely talented undergraduates as part of its NSF-supported Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. Application deadline for REU students is in early spring for student residencies during the summer term.
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168   Link   International: Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation seeks to prevent pediatric HIV infection and to eradicate pediatric AIDS through research, advocacy, and prevention and treatment programs.
Through its grant awards, the Foundation seeks to advance and recognize the work of outstanding professionals committed to eradicating pediatric AIDS. Selected on the basis of their accomplishments, dedication, and innovation, award recipients represent the best and brightest minds in their fields. These grants provide scientists and scholars with the opportunity and resources to focus on issues critical to pediatric AIDS and to accelerate basic research that is vital in the struggle to end this devastating pandemic. 		651
169   Link   USA: The National Science Foundation (NSF)
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…" With an annual budget of about $6.06 billion, we are the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing.

The NSF funds research and education in science and engineering, through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements. The Foundation accounts for about 20 percent of federal support to academic institutions for basic research.
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170   Link   International: NATO Science Programme
The Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Committee is the primary NATO committee supporting practical cooperation in civil science and
innovation. This new organization oversees a programme which contributes to NATO’s mission by linking science to society through projects conducted under well-established procedures. It focuses on security, environmental sustainability and other defined priorities of its Partner nations. The SPS Programme enables NATO to demonstrate its commitment to practical, visible projects with tangible output. 		651
171   Link   International: International Brain Research Organization (IBRO)
The International Brain Research Organization (IBRO), or in French, l’Organisation internationale de recherche sur le cerveau, was incorporated 29 March 1961 by the Senate of Canada.
The objectives of IBRO are:
- to develop, support, co-ordinate and promote scientific research in all fields concerning the brain;
- to promote international collaboration and interchange of scientific information on brain research throughout the world;
- to provide for and to assist in education and the dissemination of information relating to brain research by all available means.

The IBRO Funding Programme aims to foster neuroscience, especially in less well-funded countries, by providing support to high quality neuroscientists from diverse geographic and scientific areas (US/Canada Region excluded). Funding is available for:
- Research Fellowships
- Return Home Fellowships
- International Travel Grants
- Regional Exchanges
- Brain Campaign
- Symposia & Workshops
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172   Link   International: The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation
The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation was established to stimulate and support research in the area of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, later the Foundation expanded its interests to include diseases of connective tissue and, ultimately, all basic biomedical sciences.

To attain its ultimate goal of increasing the number of imaginative, well-trained, and dedicated medical scientists, the Foundation grants financial support of a three-year duration to young men and women planning careers in biological or medical research. Under this program, 21 three-year research fellowships are awarded annually, resulting in a total of 63 outstanding fellowships.
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173   Link   USA: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
HHMI, a nonprofit medical research organization that ranks as one of the nation’s largest philanthropies, plays a powerful role in advancing biomedical research and science education in the United States. The Institute spent $730 million for research and distributed $101 million in grant support for science education in fiscal year 2009.
- HHMI Investigators
- Collaborative Innovation Awards
- Early Career Scientists
- Janelia Farm Research Campus
- International TB/HIV Initiative
- Grants for Science Education
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174   Link   International: UNESCO
UNESCO - the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Fellowships. 		709
175   Link   Israel/Germany: Minerva Foundation
Exchanges and research cooperation between German and Israeli scientists are the central pillars of the Minerva Program. For over 40 years, scientists and researchers have been participating in exchanges, a fact that has played a significant role in reconciling the two countries in as much as this is historically possible.
- Minerva Fellowships
- German-Israeli Minerva School
- Minerva-Weizmann Program
- Minerva Short-Term Research Grants
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176   Link   International: JNCASR, COSTED
This fellowship programme is jointly organized by the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) and the Committee on Science and Technology in Developing Countries (COSTED) to foster free mobility and exchange of scientists from developing countries and to promote South-South co-operation. The fellowship covers short-term research, training or participatory research work in physical, chemical and biological sciences in reputed scientific institutions in India including the JNCASR. The programme is open to scientists, teachers and research scholars affiliated to scientific or academic institutions in developing countries in the Asian (excluding India), African, Arab and Latin American regions. The length of the fellowship is up to three months and it is obligatory for awardees to spend this entire period making maximum benefit of the fellowship. The deadlines for receipt of applications are 30 June and 31 December each year.
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177   Link   International: Academy of sciences for the developing world (TWAS)
TWAS is an autonomous international organization based in Trieste, Italy. Its principal aim is to promote scientific capacity and excellence for sustainable development in the South.
Prizes, grants, exchange, meetings 		642
178   Link   International: Fogarty International Center for advanced study in the health sciences•
The Fogarty International Center is dedicated to advancing the mission of the National Institutes of Health by supporting and facilitating global health research conducted by U.S. and international investigators, building partnerships between health research institutions in the U.S. and abroad, and training the next generation of scientists to address global health needs.

Fogarty offers a variety of funding opportunities through its Research Grants and Research Training Grants programs.
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179   Link   USA: Office of research services (ORS)
The ORS plans and directs service programs for public safety and security operations, scientific and regulatory support programs, and a wide variety of other program and employee services. The ORS advises the NIH Deputy Director for Management and other NIH senior staff on the management and delivery of technical and administrative services in support of the NIH research mission. 		642
180   Link   International: Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International (JDRF)
JDRF is the worldwide leader for research to cure type 1 diabetes. It sets the global agenda for diabetes research, and is the largest charitable funder and advocate of diabetes science worldwide.

As the leading charitable funder of diabetes research worldwide, JDRF offers a wide variety of grants and fellowships to qualified researchers. 		643
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