EMBO elects 56 new Members

11 June 2019 – “EMBO Members are excellent scientists who conduct research at the forefront of all life science disciplines, ranging from computational models or analyses of single molecules and cellular mechanics to the study of higher-order systems in development, cognitive neuroscience and evolution,” says EMBO Director Maria Leptin.

EMBO Members actively participate in the execution of the organization’s initiatives by serving on Council, committees and editorial boards, by evaluating applications for EMBO funding, by mentoring young scientists and by providing suggestions and feedback on activities.

The 48 new EMBO Members reside in 17 Member States of the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC), EMBO’s intergovernmental funding body. The 8 new EMBO Associate Members are researchers currently working in Argentina, Australia, Japan, Singapore and the USA.

Ever since the very first EMBO Council, chaired by Max Perutz, was tasked with selecting and inviting the initial EMBO Members in 1963, new members are nominated and elected by the existing membership. This year, participation in the election process was especially high, with 65% of the eligible existing EMBO Members taking part.

EMBO will formally welcome its new Members and Associate Members at the annual Members’ Meeting in Heidelberg between 29 and 31 October 2019.

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

Selected statistics:

• 48 Members and 8 Associate Members were elected
• newly elected Members reside in 22 countries
• 24 new EMBO members (42.9%) are women

New EMBO Members 2019

Andrea Ablasser Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, CH	Sonja-Verena Albers Universität Freiburg, DE
Roberto Bassi Università degli Studi, Verona, IT	Peter Baumann Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) and Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, DE
Richard Benton University of Lausanne, CH	Judith Berman Tel Aviv University, IL
Melanie Blokesch Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, CH	Wout Boerjan VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Gent, BE
Alain Chédotal Institut de la Vision, Paris, FR	Peter R. Cook University of Oxford, UK
Nynke H. Dekker Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, NL	Andrzej Dziembowski The Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, PL
I. Sadaf Farooqi University of Cambridge, UK	George A. Garinis University of Crete and IMBB - FORTH, Heraklion, GR
Fanni Gergely Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, UK	José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, CSIC / Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, ES
Thomas Gregor Institut Pasteur, Paris, FR and Princeton University, US	Barbara Ann Halkier University of Copenhagen, DK
Birgitta Henriques Normark Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE	Elina Ikonen University of Helsinki, FI
Sten Eirik W. Jacobsen Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE, and University of Oxford, UK	Peter Jonas Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST), Klosterneuburg, AT
Paul Lehner University of Cambridge, UK	Ruth E. Ley MPI für Entwicklungsbiologie, Tübingen, DE
Purificación López-García CNRS / Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, FR	Susan E. Mango University of Basel, CH
Giovanni Marsicano NeuroCentre Magendie, U1215 INSERM and University of Bordeaux, FR	Adèle L. Marston Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh, UK
Roberto Mayor University College London, UK	Ron Milo Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, IL
Garib Murshudov MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK	Marcin Nowotny International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, PL
Lalita Ramakrishnan MRC LMB / University of Cambridge, UK	Katrin Rittinger Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Aurélien Roux University of Geneva, CH	Rickard Sandberg Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE
James Sharpe EMBL Barcelona, ES	Bruno Silva-Santos Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Lisbon, PT
Nicole Soranzo Wellcome Sanger Institute and University of Cambridge, UK	Robert Tampé Biocenter, Goethe University, Frankfurt, DE
Manuel Théry CEA at Hôpital St. Louis, Paris, FR	Miguel Torres Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, ES
James M. Turner Francis Crick Institute, London, UK	Štěpánka Vaňáčová Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University, Brno, CZ
Éric Vivier Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille Luminy, FR and Innate Pharma, Marseille, FR	Julia Vorholt ETH Zurich, CH
Patrick Wincker Genoscope, Evry, FR	Claire Wyart Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM), Paris, FR

New EMBO Associate Members 2019

Frédéric J. de Sauvage Genentech, South San Francisco, US	Yoshihide Hayashizaki RIKEN Preventive Medicine & Diagnosis Innovation Program, Saitama, JP
Eva Nogales HHMI, University of California and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, US	Noriko Osumi Tohoku University, Sendai, JP
Fernando J. Pitossi Fundación Instituto Leloir – CONICET, Buenos Aires, AR	G.V. Shivashankar National University of Singapore, SG
Jennifer L. Stow University of Queensland, Brisbane, AU	Joanna Wysocka Stanford University, US