EMBO welcomes thirty Young Investigators

1 December 2020 – “We are delighted to welcome the new Young Investigators to the EMBO community and look forward to support them in leading and further developing their independent laboratories,” says EMBO Director Maria Leptin. “These 30 life scientists have demonstrated scientific excellence and are among the next generation of leading life scientists. Their participation in the EMBO Young Investigator Programme will help them in this critical phase of their careers.”

The EMBO Young Investigator Programme supports life scientists who have been group leaders for less than four years and have an excellent track record of scientific achievements. They must carry out their research in an EMBC Member State, an EMBC Associate Member State (currently India and Singapore) or in countries or territories covered by a co-operation agreement (currently Taiwan and Chile).

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 variety of networking opportunities for them and their lab members, mentoring by EMBO Members, training in research leadership and management as well as responsible conduct of research, and access to core facilities at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany.

This year’s Young Investigators are based in nine EMBC Member States as well as India and Taiwan. Eleven new EMBO Young Investigators are female (37%) and nineteen are male (63%). The success rate was 14% and the programme received 216 eligible applications.

The next application deadline is 1 April 2021. More information about the programme, including eligibility criteria and the application process, is available at: https://www.embo.org/funding-awards/global-investigators

	EMBO Young Investigator	Research interest	Affiliation	Location
	Alejo Efeyan	Interplay of nutrients, hormones and human disease	Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO)	Madrid, ES
	Andela Saric	Computational biological and soft matter physics	University College London	London, UK
	Benjamin D. Engel	Interplay between organelle form and function	Helmholtz Zentrum München	Neuherberg, DE
	Björn Burmann	Structural and dynamical adaptions of protein machines	University of Gothenburg	Gothenburg, SE
	Camilo Perez	Molecular mechanism of cell wall membrane proteins	Biozentrum, University of Basel	Basel, CH
	Christoph Zechner	Signal processing and heterogeneity in biological systems	Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics	Dresden, DE
	Debojyoti Chakraborty	RNA signatures in cell-fate decisions	CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology	New Delhi, IN
	Elodie Segura	Biology of human antigen-presenting cells	Institut Curie	Paris, FR
	Emmanuel Saliba	Single-cell analysis of bacterial infection	Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI)	Würzburg, DE
	Guoliang Cui	T-cell metabolism	German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)	Heidelberg, DE
	Hansong Ma	Genetics of mitochondrial DNA in evolution and disease	Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge	Cambridge, UK
	Ines Anna Drinnenberg	Evolution of centromeres and chromosome segregation	Institut Curie	Paris, FR
	Julia Santiago	Plant signaling mechanisms	University of Lausanne	Lausanne, CH
	Julian Stingele	Maintenance of genome stability	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität	Munich, DE
	Julien Duxin	Mechanisms of DNA repair and DNA replication	University of Copenhagen	Copenhagen, DK
	Leila Akkari	Macrophages in cancer	Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI)	Amsterdam, NL
	Luca Tiberi	Regulation of neural stem cell and neuron biology in brain disorders and cancer	University of Trento	Trento, IT
	Marc Güell	Translational synthetic biology	Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)	Barcelona, ES
	Maria Robles	Temporal dynamics of proteins	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität	Munich, DE
	Martijn Luijsterburg	Transcription and DNA repair	Leiden University Medical Centre	Leiden, NL
	Mina Gouti	Stem cell modeling of development and disease	Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine	Berlin, DE
	Nicholas M. I. Taylor	Mechanism and regulation of transport across the membrane	University of Copenhagen	Copenhagen, DK
	Nicholas McGranahan	Cancer genome evolution	University College London	London, UK
	Nuria Montserrat	Pluripotency for organ regeneration	Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)	Barcelona, ES
	Sam Behjati	Developmental origins of cancer	Wellcome Sanger Institute	Hinxton, UK
	Saravana Ramasamy	Integrative Skeletal Physiology	Imperial College London	London, UK
	Simon Bekker-Jensen	Molecular details of cellular stress responses	University of Copenhagen	Copenhagen, DK
	Tanmay Bharat	Structural cell biology of bacterial biofilm formation	University of Oxford	Oxford, UK
	Verena Ruprecht	Cell and tissue dynamics	Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)	Barcelona, ES
	Yen-Ping Hsueh	Molecular interactions between C.elegans and nematode-trapping fungi	Academia Sinica	Taipei, TW