South Africa has this month (January) become the latest, and first African, member of the international Human Frontier Science Programme organisation (HFSP). The HFSP promotes international collaboration in basic research focused on sophisticated and complex mechanisms found in living organisms. It does so by awarding research grants and funding postdoctoral fellowships. The HFSP was the result of a Japanese initiative and commenced functioning in 1989, making its first awards in 1990. Its current membership is Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Republic of (South) Korea, Singapore, Switzerland, the UK, the US, plus those European Union countries that are not part of the Group of Seven largest democratic economies collectively represented by the European Commission.
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