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EMBO welcomes fifty leading scientists as members
Heidelberg, 14 November 2007

The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) announced today the election of 50 leading scientists to its membership. These new EMBO Members join a community of over 1,300 members in Europe and more than 80 associate members worldwide.

Election as an EMBO Member is a tribute to the significant contribution to the advancement of science made by each of these researchers. EMBO elects new members annually on the basis of scientific excellence.

The latest scientists to join EMBO come from 16 different countries and represent a broad cross-section of the worldwide molecular life sciences community. Forty-two of the new members are based in Europe and neighbouring countries, while eight distinguished scientists from Australia, India and the USA receive the special honour of associate membership.

“EMBO Members contribute in numerous ways to the organisation’s activities and are integral to our international reputation for promoting excellence in molecular biology. We welcome these 50 exceptional scientists to the EMBO community and look forward to their input,” said Hermann Bujard, EMBO Executive Director.

Once elected, EMBO Members provide scientific input to the organisation, may participate in committees that guide the execution of EMBO activities, have the opportunity to mentor young scientists and may nominate candidates for the annual membership elections. Their valuable contribution maintains the high standards of scientific excellence EMBO has upheld since its foundation in 1964.

New EMBO Members and Associate Members are invited to present on their research and to network with other EMBO Members at the 2008 EMBO Members Workshop – Frontiers of Molecular Biology to be held in Tampere, Finland from 5 to 8 September.

2007 EMBO members
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Name Institute Country
Reuven Agami Division of Tumour Biology, Netherlands Cancer Institute Amsterdam, NL
Uri Alon Dept. of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, IL
Naama Barkai Dept. of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, IL
Claudio Bordignon DIBIT, San Raffaele Scientific Institute Milan, IT
Nils Brose Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine Goettingen, DE
Antony Carr MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex East Sussex, UK
Mario de Bono MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge, UK
Maria Dominguez Alicante Institute of Neuroscience Alicante, ES
Måns Ehrenberg Molecular Biology Program, Uppsala University Uppsala, SE
Peter Fraser Laboratory of Chromatin and Gene Expression, The Babraham Institute Cambridge, UK
Steven Gamblin Division of Molecular Structure, NIMR London, UK
Cayetano Gonzalez Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) Barcelona, ES
Guido Grandi Novartis Vaccines, Chiron SpA Siena, IT
Ueli Grossniklaus Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich Zurich, CH
Nouria Hernandez Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne Lausanne, CH
Douglas R. Higgs Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine Oxford, UK
Frank C.P. Holstege Dept. of Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht, NL
Marja Helena Jäättelä Danish Cancer Society Copenhagen, DK
Edith Yvonne Jones Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics Oxford, UK
Juha Kere Dept. of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institute Stockholm, SE
Jane Langdale Dept. of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford Oxford, UK
Thomas Langer Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne Cologne, DE
Bruno Lemaitre Global Health Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, CH
Ottoline Leyser Dept. of Biology, University of York York, UK
Alfonso Martinez Arias Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK
René Medema Dept. of Medical Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht, NL
Frauke Melchior Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology Goettingen, DE
László Nagy Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Debrecen Debrecen, HU
Bernd Nilius Laboratory of Ion Channel Research, KU Leuven Leuven, BE
Tom Owen-Hughes Division of Gene Regulation and Expression, University of Dundee Dundee, UK
Vassilis Pachnis Division of Molecular Neurobiology, NIMR London, UK
Stefano Piccolo Dept. of Medical Biotechnologies, University of Padova Padova, IT
Sheena E. Radford Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds Leeds, UK
Benedita Rocha Necker Institute, INSERM Paris, FR
Ben J.G. Scheres Dept. of Biology, Utrecht University Utrecht, NL
A. Francis Stewart Biotechnological Centre of the Dresden University of Technology Dresden, DE
Boris Turk Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Jozef Stefan Institute Ljubljana, SI
Victor Tybulewicz Division of Immune Cell Biology, NIMR London, UK
C. Peter Verrijzer Dept. of Biochemistry, Erasmus University Medical Centre Rotterdam, NL
Olivier Voinnet Institute of Plant Molecular Biology (IBMP) Strasbourg, FR
Gabriel Waksman Institute of Structural Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College London, UK
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute Cambridge, UK
Associate Members
Jerry McKee Adams The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Victoria, AU
Suzanne Cory The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Victoria, AU
Charles Anthony Dinarello University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Denver, US
Michael Karin Department of Pharmacology, University of California La Jolla, US
John Mattick Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland Brisbane, AU
Pier Paolo Pandolfi
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center
 Boston, US
K. VijayRaghavan National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Bangalore, IN
Carl Wu Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute Bethesda, US