Professor Gannon

Biographical note

Frank Gannon was the Executive Director of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in Heidelberg, Germany, Secretary General of the intergovernmental body, the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC). He is a Senior Scientist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), a Senior Editor of EMBO Reports, Associate Editor of The EMBO Journal and of Molecular Systems Biology.
He is currently Director General of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and an EMBO member since 1989.

He obtained a Bachelor of Science from the National University of Ireland, Galway in 1970, a PhD from the University of Leicester, England in 1973, was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Madison Wisconsin from 1973 to 1975, and Charge de Recherche in the University of Strasbourg from 1975 to 1981. From 1981 to 1994, he was Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Director of the Biotechnology Programme and Director of the National Diagnostics Centre at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Research interest

He maintains an active laboratory in Heidelberg that carries out research on the Estrogen Receptor Gene and has over 200 publications to his credit.

Selection of Scientific Awards/Honors/Memberships

Among other positions, Professor Gannon is an Advisor to the Asia Pacific International Molecular Biology Network (AIMBN); Member of the International Advisory Board on the International Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw; member of the Board of the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) University of Queensland, Brisbane, member of the Board of Eurogentec (Belgium); Phenex (Germany); Bimini (Ireland), the Scientific Advisory Board, NUI Galway (Ireland) and the Scientific Advisory Board of Evotec (Germany).

He is an award lecture recipient form the Society of Industrial Microbiology and Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) from the University of Szeged, Hungary.