EMBO announces newest elected members

7 July 2020 – “The new Members have contributed to the success of research in the life sciences in Europe and around the world,” said EMBO Director Maria Leptin. “As EMBO Members they can help to shape the future through EMBO’s work to support talented researchers, bring ideas together, and promote an international research environment conducive to excellent science.”

EMBO Members actively participate in EMBO initiatives, for example by serving on EMBO Council and committees, by mentoring young scientists, or supporting activities such as the promotion of sound science policy. Members also guide and support the organisation in ensuring the highest quality in the selection of future members, postdoctoral fellows, and courses and workshops.

The 52 new EMBO Members reside in 18 Member States of the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC), EMBO’s intergovernmental funding body. The 11 new Associate Members are currently based in Australia, Canada, Chile, India, Japan, Singapore, and the United States. The new Members carry out research across a broad range of life science disciplines, including neuroscience, plant biology, cell biology, signal transduction, development, molecular medicine, immunology, and many more.

EMBO’s tradition of recognising outstanding life scientists as Members dates back to 1963, when an initial group of 150 Members were selected by EMBO’s Council. Since then, EMBO Members have been invited to nominate and elect exceptional researchers to join the community, which now exceeds 1,800 Members and Associate Members. Elections for EMBO Members are held annually. The new EMBO Members join a growing list of renowned researchers elected before them, which includes 88 Nobel laureates.

An online directory listing all EMBO Members, their affiliations and areas of expertise is available at people.embo.org.

Selected statistics

• 63 researchers have been elected to the EMBO Membership – 52 Members and 11 Associate Members
• Newly elected Members are based in 25 different countries
• 44% of new Members are women

New EMBO Members 2020

Gregor Anderluh National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, SI	Alexander Aulehla EMBL, Heidelberg, DE
Eva Bártová Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, CZ	Patricia Bassereau Institut Curie, Paris, FR
Filippo Del Bene Institut de la Vision, Paris, FR	Caroline Dive Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, University of Manchester, UK
Fiona Doetsch Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH	Wolfgang Driever Universität Freiburg, DE
Paul Flicek EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK	Alain Goossens VIB - UGent (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology - Ghent University), Ghent, BE
Berthold Göttgens Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, UK	Eva R. Hoffmann University of Copenhagen, DK
Thorsten Hoppe University of Cologne, DE	Ursula Klingmüller German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, DE
Pierre-François Lenne Developmental Biology Institute of Marseilles (IBDM), FR and Turing Center for Living Systems (CENTURI), Marseilles, FR	François Leulier Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon (IGFL), FR
Kathryn S. Lilley University of Cambridge, UK	Guillermina López-Bendito Instituto de Neurociencias, UMH-CSIC, San Juan de Alicante, ES
Jean-Christophe Marine VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, BE	Sascha Martens Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna, AT
Maria Dolores Martin-Bermudo Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, ES	Ana Martin-Villalba German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, DE
Sophie G. Martin University of Lausanne, CH	Brian McStay National University of Ireland, Galway, IE
Raphaël Mercier Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, DE	Felix Naef Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, CH
Serena Nik-Zainal University of Cambridge, UK	Caren Norden Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, PT
Dónal O'Carroll Centre for Regenerative Medicine, UK and Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh, UK	Giles Oldroyd The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK and Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge, UK
Uta Paszkowski University of Cambridge, UK	José R. Penadés Imperial College London, UK
Anna Philpott University of Cambridge, UK	Mariana G. Pinho Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, PT
Karel Říha CEITEC Masaryk University, Brno, CZ	Pere Roca-Cusachs University of Barcelona, ES and Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya (IBEC), Barcelona, ES
María Carla Saleh Institut Pasteur, Paris, FR	Yardena Samuels Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, IL
Anne Simonsen University of Oslo, NO	Jan Steyaert VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE
Katja Sträßer Justus Liebig University, Giessen, DE	Eörs Szathmáry Centre for Ecological Research, Tihany, HU
Christopher G. Tate MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK	Luis Teixeira Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, PT
Aurelio A. Teleman German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, DE	Matthias H. Tschöp Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, DE
Beatrice Vallone University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Rome, IT	Danijela Matic Vignjevic Institut Curie, Paris, FR
Dolf Weijers Wageningen University, NL	Sara A. Wickström, University of Helsinki, FI
Eske Willerslev University of Cambridge, UK and University of Copenhagen, DK	Marta Zlatic MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK and University of Cambridge, UK

EMBO Associate Members 2020

Sumantra Chattarji National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, IN	Job Dekker Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, US
Anne-Claude Gingras Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Toronto, CA	Christian Gonzalez-Billault Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, CL
Noboru Mizushima University of Tokyo, JP	Akihiko Nakano RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, Saitama, JP
Jodi Nunnari University of California, Davis, US	Mitinori Saitou Kyoto University, JP
Geraldine Seydoux Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, US	Peter M. Visscher Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, AU
Hongyan Wang Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, SG