Twenty-six young investigators join the EMBO community

8 December 2021 – EMBO congratulates 26 life scientists on their selection to the young investigator programme. They will join a network of 130 current and 368 former members of the programme. Starting in January 2022, the new young investigators will have access to a variety of networking opportunities and funding.

“We are pleased to welcome the 26 young investigators to the EMBO community,” says Michael N. Hall, EMBO Director ad interim. “They have already demonstrated scientific excellence despite only recently launching their own laboratories. The EMBO Young Investigator Programme will aid them in taking their career to the next level. We look forward to supporting them during an important phase of their career.”

As part of the programme, EMBO Young Investigators benefit from a variety of networking and training opportunities and have access to core facilities at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. They also receive a financial award of 15,000 euros and can apply for additional grants of up to 10,000 euros per year. The young investigators are active members in the programme for four years.

The EMBO Young Investigator Programme supports life scientists who have an excellent track record and have been group leaders for at least one but less than four years. 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).

Twelve of the new EMBO Young Investigators are female (46%) and 14 are male (54%). This year’s young investigators are based in seven EMBC Member States and the EMBC Associate Member State Singapore. The programme received 194 eligible applications and the success rate was 13%.

The next application deadline is 1 April 2022. More information about the programme, including eligibility criteria and the application process, is available here.

	EMBO Young Investigator	Research Interest	Affiliation	Location
	Anna Obenauf	Therapies for metastatic cancers	Research Institute of Molecular Pathology	Vienna, AT
	Benjamin Schumann	Tools for quantitative glycobiology	Francis Crick Institute	London, UK
	Celine Vallot	Epigenomic evolution of breast cancers	Institut Curie	Paris, FR
	Christian Münch	Mammalian mitochondrial unfolded protein response	Goethe University	Frankfurt, DE
	Clemens Plaschka	mRNA processing and regulation	Research Institute of Molecular Pathology	Vienna, AT
	Danny Nedialkova	Context-specific regulation of protein biogenesis	Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry	Martinsried, DE
	Darío Lupiáñez	3D regulatory landscapes in development and evolution	Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine	Berlin, DE
	David Zwicker	Physical principles of the organization of cellular structures	Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization	Göttingen, DE
	Edda Schulz	Quantitative signal processing by gene networks and cis-regulatory landscapes	Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics	Berlin, DE
	Elvan Böke	Oocyte biology and cellular dormancy	Centre for Genomic Regulation	Barcelona, ES
	Elvira Mass	Developmental programming of the innate immune system	University of Bonn	Bonn, DE
	Felipe Karam Teixeira	Molecular mechanisms controlling and protecting the germline	University of Cambridge	Cambridge, UK
	Florian Schur	Structural biology of cell migration and viral Infection	Institute of Science and Technology Austria	Klosterneuburg, AT
	Gray Camp	Exploring uniquely human development	Roche Institute for Translational Bioengineering Basel and University of Basel	Basel, CH
	Katrin Franke	Tracing visual computations from the retina to behaviour	University of Tübingen	Tübingen, DE
	Lena Ho	Micropeptides in metabolism and immunity	Duke-NUS Medical School	Singapore, SG
	Melanie Hamon	Bacteria mediated chromatin modifications in health and disease	Institut Pasteur	Paris, FR
	Mounia Lagha	Gene expression precision during development	Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier	Montpellier, FR
	Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid	Regulation of haematopoietic stem cell dormancy	Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics	Freiburg, DE
	Ori Avinoam	Dynamic membrane remodelling	Weizmann Institute	Rehovot, Israel
	Pierre-Marc Delaux	Evolution and functioning of plant symbioses	Plant Science Research Laboratory	Toulouse, FR
	Pontus Skoglund	Ancient genomics and human evolution	Francis Crick Institute	London, UK
	Roger Geiger	Systems analyses of anti-tumour T cell responses	Institute for Research in Biomedicine	Bellinzona, CH
	Stefanie Jonas	RNA processing machineries in the nucleus of human cells	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Zurich, CH
	Uri Ben-David	Functional consequences of aneuploidy in cancer	Tel Aviv University	Tel Aviv, IL
	Yonatan Stelzer	Dissecting early embryonic cell-fate decisions at spatio-temporal resolution	Weizmann Institute	Rehovot, IL