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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Heidelberg, 23 May 2016 - EMBO today announced that 58 researchers in the life sciences were newly elected to its membership. 50 of the scientists reside in 13 different countries in Europe; eight Associate Members were elected from China, Japan, Lithuania, Singapore and the United States.
New EMBO Members are elected annually in recognition of their contributions to scientific excellence. Their selection is a tribute to their research and achievements.
“I am delighted by the addition of 58 outstanding scientists to our membership. I would like to congratulate them and welcome them to the EMBO community”, EMBO Director Maria Leptin stated. “By serving the principles of excellence and integrity through their views and actions, they make invaluable contributions to science and society.”
The newly elected members and associate members are:
New EMBO Members 2016
Adam Antebi, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
M. Madan Babu, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Laure Bally-Cuif, Institut de Neuroscience Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, Franc, and Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Mohamed Bentires-Alj, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Michael Brand, Center for Regenerative Therapies, TU Dresden, Germany
Dana Bronze, IFOM, Istituto FIRC, Milan, Italy
Frank Buchholz, UCC, TU Dresden, Germany
Ana I. Caño-Delgado, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Barcelona, Spain
Jason S. Carroll, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Andrew P. Carter, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Agnieszka Chacinska, International Institute of Mol. & Cell Biology in Warsaw, Poland
Kristina Djinović-Carugo, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Austria
Óscar Fernández-Capetillo, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO), Madrid, Spain, and Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Darren Gilmour, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Ian A. Graham, University of York, United Kingdom
Manajit Hayer-Hartl, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST), Klosterneuburg, Austria
István Katona, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Jan O. Korbel, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Pekka Lappalainen University of Helsinki, Finland
Helder Maiato, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Cellular (IBMC), Porto, Portugal, and Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S), Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Marcos Malumbres Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
Fatima Mechta-Grigoriou, Institut Curie, Paris, France
Maria M. Mota, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal
Daniel J. Müller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Eugene Myers, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
One Nilsson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
Ruth H. Palmer, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Jane E. Parker, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Köln, Germany
Matthieu Piel, Institut Pierre Gilles de Gennes, Institut Curie/CNRS, PSL University, Paris, France
Simon Polo, IFOM, The FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milano, Italy
Hans-Reimer Redewald, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
Claire Rougeole, CNRS / Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
Raffaella Santoro, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Uwe Sauer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Hans R. Scholar, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany
Melina Schuh, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
Roberto Solano, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB), Madrid, Spain
Francois Spitz, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Didier Stainer, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany
Kate G. Storey, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Peter ten Dijke, University Medical Centre, Leiden
Pavel Tomancak, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
Ian Tomlinson, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, United Kingdom
Jernej Ule, The Francis Crick Institute and UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom
Antonella Viola, Università di Padova, Italy
Douglas J. Winton, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Gulnara Yusupova, Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC), Illkirch, France
Xiaodong Zhang, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Juleen R. Zierath, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
New Associate EMBO Members 2016
George Fu Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, and Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
Hiroshi Hamada, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan
Marc W. Kirschner, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
Timothy J. Aitchison, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
Huck-Hui Ng, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
Virginias Siksnys, Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Hong Wu, Peking University, Beijing, China
Xiaowei Zhuang, HHMI, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
An online directory with all existing and new EMBO Members can be found at people.embo.org.
About EMBO
EMBO is an organization of more than 1700 leading researchers that promotes excellence in the life sciences. The major goals of the organization are to support talented researchers at all stages of their careers, stimulate the exchange of scientific information, and help build a European research environment where scientists can achieve their best work.
EMBO helps young scientists to advance their research, promote their international reputations and ensure their mobility. Courses, workshops, conferences and scientific journals disseminate the latest research and offer training in techniques to maintain high standards of excellence in research practice. EMBO helps to shape science and research policy by seeking input and feedback from our community and by following closely the trends in science in Europe.
For more information: www.embo.org.
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