EMBO began as an idea enthusiastically endorsed by leading scientists from across Europe, but with no funding and no central administration. By offering to run it as a part-time job, Raymond Appleyard enabled it to become established while senior figures in the organization set about obtaining the intergovernmental agreement that would secure its long-term future.…
DetailsThe Ravello meeting took place in September 1963 and was critical in the development of what was to become EMBO. Meetings had taken place on 28 March and 28 June in Geneva, hosted by Victor Weisskopf who invited the great and the good from several European countries, working from a list drawn up by John…
DetailsThe founding myth of EMBO, set out in John Tooze’s 1981 history of the organization for the launch issue of The EMBO Journal, is that: “In December 1962, immediately following the Nobel Prize investiture ceremony, John C. Kendrew together with James D. Watson visited [CERN] in Geneva. Leo Szilard… was also in Geneva at the…
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Learn about new EMBO Global Investigator Neha Jain and her research on the molecular interplay between amyloids in the progression of neurodegenerative disease
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Learn about new EMBO Global Investigator Chin-Min Kimmy Ho and her research on how a leaf’s epidermis develops
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Learn about new EMBO Global Investigator Anna Barron and her research on cellular metabolism as a regulator of microglial fate and function
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Ten new additions are welcomed to the EMBO Global Investigator Network, which provides access to the EMBO networking and training activities
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The EMBO Lab Sustainability Award will recognize a pioneer of environmental sustainability in life science research and provide opportunities for dissemination and expansion of the winning initiative
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Perspectives from the Head of Training at EMBO Solutions
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Learn about EMBO Young Investigator Bruno Hudry and his research on the biology underlying differences between males and females of the same species
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