EMBO welcomes 24 Young Investigators

22 November 2022 – EMBO is delighted to announce 24 life scientists as the newest members of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme. The programme supports excellent group leaders who have been in independent positions for less than four years and have an excellent track record of scientific achievements.

The new EMBO Young Investigators will join the existing network of 135 current and 390 former members of the programme. They will receive financial and practical support for a period of four years, starting in January 2023.

“EMBO welcomes the new Young Investigators with a sense of excitement and pride,” says EMBO Director Fiona Watt. “One of the most remarkable things about this wonderful community is its diversity of expertise. Participation in the programme supports young group leaders at a critical phase of their careers, providing opportunities to develop their laboratories, learn from one another, and make lifelong connections within a supportive network.”

EMBO Young Investigators receive an award of 15,000 euros in the second year of their tenure and can apply for additional grants of up to 10,000 euros per year. They also benefit from a broad range of practical support, including networking opportunities for them and their lab members, mentoring by EMBO Members, training in areas such as leadership skills and responsible conduct of research, and access to core facilities at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). 

Participants in the EMBO Young Investigator Programme must carry out their research in an EMBC Member State, an EMBC Associate Member State (currently India and Singapore), or in countries and territories covered by a co-operation agreement (currently Taiwan and Chile).

This year’s Young Investigators are based in ten EMBC Member States as well as Singapore. Ten new EMBO Young Investigators are female (42%) and 14 are male (58%). The programme received 177 eligible applications, with a success rate of 14%. More information about the programme, including eligibility criteria and the application process, is available at: www.embo.org/funding/fellowships-grants-and-career-support/young-investigator-programme

New EMBO Young Investigators

	Name	Project title	Affiliation	Country of Institute
	Andreas Boland	Deciphering the molecular mechanisms underlying chromosome segregation	University of Geneva	Geneva, CH
	Andreas Moor	Spatial characterisation of cellular interactions in the tumour microenvironment	ETH Zurich	Zurich, CH
	Arnau Sebe-Pedros	Single-cell genomics and evolution of cell type regulatory networks	Centre for Genomic Regulation	Barcelona, ES
	Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon	Structural cell biology of RNA-binding protein aggregation in neurodegeneration	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology	Cambridge, UK
	Bonnie Murphy	Structure and mechanism of redox and metalloproteins across the tree of life	Max Planck Institute for Biophysics	Frankfurt, DE
	Boyan Bonev	Dissecting epigenome regulation in brain development and evolution	Helmholtz Munich	Neuherberg, DE
	Charlotte Aumeier	Biochemistry and biophysics of dynamic microtubule networks	University of Geneva	Geneva, CH
	Charlotte Scott	Investigating the functional heterogeneity of macrophages in the inflamed liver	Ghent University	Ghent, BE
	Christian Mayer	Single-cell delineation of lineage and genetic identity in the developing brain	Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology	Martinsried, DE
	Daan Swarts	The divergent functions and mechanisms of prokaryotic immune systems	Wageningen University	Wageningen, NL
	Elias Barriga	Integrative approaches to collective cell migration during tissue morphogenesis	Gulbenkian Science Institute	Oeiras, PT
	Franklin Zhong	Innate immunity and pathogen sensing at barrier organs	NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine	Singapore, SG
	Hauke Hillen	Mechanisms of human mitochondrial gene expression	University Medical Center Göttingen	Göttingen, DE
	Lars Velten	Single cell and synthetic genomics of blood formation	Centre for Genomic Regulation	Barcelona, ES
	Lena Pernas	Metabolism of infection	Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing	Cologne, DE
	Mahima Swamy	Intraepithelial T lymphocytes at the forefront of intestinal immunity	University of Dundee	Dundee, UK
	Manuela Hospenthal	Understanding the molecular mechanisms of bacterial natural transformation	ETH Zurich	Zurich, CH
	Mauro Gaya	Outlining the role of IgA in memory instruction	Centre d'Immunologie	Marseille, FR
	Sebastian Falk	Biogenesis and action of small RNAs	University of Vienna	Vienna, AT
	Susan Schlimpert	Molecular mechanisms of life, death and survival in multicellular bacteria	John Innes Centre	Norwich, UK
	Thi Hoang Duong Nguyen	Molecular mechanism and regulation of human telomerase	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology	Cambridge, UK
	Tineke Lenstra	Understanding transcriptional bursting in single cells	Netherlands Cancer Institute	Amsterdam, NL
	Vilaiwan Fernandes	How are developmental processes coordinated to build functional circuitry?	University College London	London, UK
	Yaniv Elkouby	Cell and developmental biology of oogenesis and ovarian morphogenesis	Hebrew University	Jerusalem, IL