UHaifa Prof. Wins $1.3M Grant

May 6, 2015 | Dr. Shlomo Wagner in the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Haifa has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP). Together with three other research partners from universities in the US, Germany and France, Dr. Wagner was awarded a grant of $1.3 million to be split between the four researchers. The aim of the team’s study is to decipher the action mechanism in the brain of the hormone oxytocin which is responsible for social communication. The HFSP is an international organization, funded mainly by the European Union (in which the United States also participates) that awards grants in the fields of the natural sciences to research teams integrating investigators from different countries and various disciplines.