Anne Ephrussi wins the FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award 2024
The award recognizes her exceptional achievements in the life sciences and highlights her as a role model
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Generative AI and foundation models in the life sciences
A workshop on landscape, limits, opportunities and concerns
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Fiona Watt receives the 2024 ISSCR Achievement Award
The EMBO Director is awarded for her seminal work with skin stem cells
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Defining DNA replication processes
Learn about new EMBO Installation Grantee Hana Polasek-Sedlackova and her research on the molecular mechanisms driving successful DNA replication
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Ten scientists receive EMBO Installation Grants
The group leaders will establish laboratories in the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Türkiye
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Unravelling mysteries of the mind
Learn about new EMBO Installation Grantee Christina Kyrousi and her research that aims to decode the role of cilia in neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders
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Fresh approaches to understanding neurodegeneration
Learn about new EMBO Installation Grantee Gergely Rona, his research on neuronal DNA repair and its effects on neurodegeneration
DetailsMaria Leptin biography
When it came to finding a new Director of EMBO in 2010, the members of Council were determined to appoint an active researcher. Few can compete with the level of activity of Maria Leptin, a professor at the University of Cologne’s Institute of Genetics. As well as running research teams in both development and immunology,…
DetailsHermann Bujard biography
Hermann Bujard, who led EMBO as Director from 2007-2010, also shares the credit for EMBO coming to Heidelberg in 1973. His experience of working in American laboratories in the 1960s gave him a lifelong determination to provide a better environment for fast-moving subjects such as molecular biology in Germany’s hierarchical university departments. Bujard had switched…
DetailsThe beginnings of The EMBO Journal
The EMBO Journal was started in 1982 when John Tooze was Executive Secretary of EMBO. In the foreword of the very first issue, Tooze and Klaus Weber, then Secretary General of EMBO, quote Francis Crick who wrote a few years earlier that “molecular biology can be defined as anything that interests molecular biologists.” At the…
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