HFSP Long-Term Fellowship

Funding body: HFSP Eligible level: Postdoc Stipend / value: $35,000+/yr Typical deadline: Aug Duration: 3 years Country / region: International

***The Letter of Intent (LOI) Deadline for the 2027 Cycle has now passed. All applicants have been informed of their LOI outcome, please contact us if you applied for the 2027 cycle and did not receive an email***

The HFSP fellowship program supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences. Applications for high-risk projects are particularly encouraged. The projects should be interdisciplinary in nature and should challenge existing paradigms by using novel approaches and techniques. Scientifically, they should address an important problem or a barrier to progress in the field.

HFSP postdoctoral fellowships encourage early career scientists to broaden their research skills by moving into new areas of study while working in a new country.

Two different fellowships are available:

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Long-Term Fellowships (LTF) are for applicants with a PhD on a biological topic who want to embark on a novel and frontier project focussing on the life sciences.

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Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships (CDF) are for applicants who hold a doctoral degree from a non-biological discipline (e.g. physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering or computer sciences) and who have no (or little) experience in the life sciences.

There is only one competition per year for HFSP Fellowships. Applications for the 2027 HFSP Long-Term and Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships will follow a two-step submission process via the online submission platform ProposalCentral. Firstly, applicants will be asked to submit a Letter of Intent from which the review committee will select the best proposals. In a second step, successful applicants will be invited to submit a Full Proposal. The application portal for the 2027 HFSP Fellowships Letters of Intent is now open, please see our ProposalCentral Instructions (linked below).

The application guidelines for the 2027 cycle are available:

HFSP Fellowships 2027 - Application Guidelines (LTF and CDF)

Fellowships Information Webinar

We are hosting two Fellowships Webinars on the 25th of March, 2026. Carolyn Johnson (HFSP Senior Scientific Officer) and Guntram Bauer (HFSP Chief Scientific Officer) provide insights into HFSP’s expectations for frontier science, application rules and guidelines, and how to develop a compelling Letter of Intent. This session will also feature Samuel Miravet-Verde and Sandra Reinert's experiences as HFSP Fellowship Awardees. Please register via the link: Register for the Fellowships Information Webinar