The Strasbourg-based International Human Frontier Science Program Organisation has a new Secretary General. Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, Secretary General of the European Research Council and former president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, will take office on 1 July 2009, succeeding Nobel Prize winner Professor Torsten Wiesel.
The Human Frontier Science Program is an international and interdisciplinary organisation that promotes research in the field of life sciences and aims to improve work conditions of researchers and scientists. Support has been provided to 5,000 scientists and researchers from 64 different countries during the past 18 years, through contributions worth $60 million annually, from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, New-Zealand, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland, the UK, the US and the European Commission.
The newly appointed Secretary General has many years of experience in research and research policy at the national, European and international levels. Matthias Kleiner, Winnacker’s successor at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft described this appointment as a boost for the promotion of life sciences.
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