Twenty-seven life scientists become EMBO Young Investigators

13 November 2019 – They join a network of 129 current and 340 former Young Investigators, and will begin their four-year programme tenure in January 2020. During this time EMBO will provide financial and practical support as well as networking opportunities for the Young Investigators and their lab members.

“Each of the new Young Investigators has demonstrated their ability to carry out research at the highest level, and it is a pleasure to welcome them to the EMBO community,” says EMBO Director Maria Leptin. “The first years as an independent researcher can be a particularly challenging time in a scientist’s career, and we look forward to supporting these twenty-seven researchers in establishing their independent careers.”

EMBO Young Investigators are researchers under the age of 40 who are within their first four years as group leaders and have a proven record of scientific excellence. As part of the programme they will have access to a wide range of benefits to support them at this stage of their careers.

Benefits include networking opportunities, training in leadership skills and responsible research practices, and access to core facilities at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. Young Investigators may also seek mentorship from a senior scientist in the community of EMBO Members. They each receive an award of 15,000 euros in the second year of their four years’ tenure, and can apply for further funding and travel grants to attend conferences.

The Young Investigators selected this year are based in 13 countries and represent 15 different nationalities from Europe and beyond. The programme received 229 eligible applications this year. The success rate of 12% is similar as in previous years.

The next application deadline for the programme is 1 April 2020. More information can be found at https://www.embo.org/funding-awards/young-investigators/apply

	EMBO Young Investigator	Research interest	Institute	Location
	Alexey Amunts	Principles of protein synthesis and folding in organelles	Stockholm University	Solna, SE
	Tuncay Baubec	Function and regulation of epigenetic patterns	University of Zurich	Zürich, CH
	Petter Brodin	Shaping of human immune systems by environmental influences early in life	Karolinska Institute	Solna, SE
	Cécile Charrier	Mechanisms and human-specific regulations of synaptic development and plasticity	Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale, INSERM / PSL Research University	Paris, FR
	Bert De Rybel	Unravelling plant vascular development	VIB / Ghent University	Ghent, BE
	Daniele Fachinetti	Impact of centromeric DNA on centromere formation and integrity	Institut Curie	Paris, FR
	Elif Nur Firat-Karalar	Spatiotemporal regulation of the centrosome-cilium complex	Koç University	Istanbul, TR
	Yaron Fuchs	Harnessing stem cell apoptosis for tissue regeneration	Technion	Haifa, IL
	Paul Guichard	Architecture and assembly of the centriole	University of Geneva	Geneva, CH
	Martin Guilliams	Tissue signals and transcription factors driving Kupffer cell differentiation	VIB / Ghent University	Ghent, BE
	Edouard Hannezo	Physical principles of biological systems	Institute of Science and Technology Austria	Klosterneuburg, AT
	Ping-Chih Ho	Immunometabolic editing in facilitating immune evasion in melanomas	University of Lausanne / Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research	Lausanne, CH
	Jan Philipp Junker	Systematic analysis of variability and plasticity in vertebrate development	Max-Delbrück-Centrum	Berlin, DE
	Siddhesh Kamat	Chemoproteomics and metabolomics approach to enzyme function annotation	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research	Pune, IN
	Wanda Kukulski	How molecular architectures of cellular membranes contribute to function	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology	Cambridge, GB
	Madeline Lancaster	Development of human brain size and complexity	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology	Cambridge, GB
	Prisca Liberali	Self-organization during organoid formation	Friedrich Miescher Institute	Basel, CH
	Martin Loose	Self-organization of protein systems	Institute of Science and Technology Austria	Klosterneuburg, AT
	Jean-Léon Maître	Mechanics of mammalian development	Institut Curie	Paris, FR
	Sebastian Marquardt	Rules and roles of long non-coding RNA transcription	Copenhagen University	Copenhagen, DK
	Bjørn Panyella Pedersen	Molecular mechanisms of transmembrane metabolite uptake	Aarhus University	Aarhus, DK
	Randall J. Platt	Interrogating complex disease mechanisms and cellular behaviours with CRISPR	ETH Zürich	Zürich, CH
	Hayley Sharpe	Cell signalling by receptor tyrosine phosphatases	Babraham Institute	Cambridge, GB
	Fran Supek	Variability in mutational processes across genome regions and individuals	Institute for Research in Biomedicine / Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats	Barcelona, ES
	Marvin Tanenbaum	Gene expression dynamics in single cells	Hubrecht Institute	Utrecht, NL
	Barbara Treutlein	Reconstructing organ development using single-cell genomics	ETH Zürich	Zürich, CH
	Joseph Yeeles	Mechanisms of eukaryotic chromosome replication	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology	Cambridge, GB