EMBO Installation Grants help nine scientists set up in Europe
Heidelberg, 5 December 2007
Nine talented life scientists will receive the 2007 EMBO Installation Grants, assisting them to relocate and set up their research groups in Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Portugal and Turkey. These nine scientists are the second group of awardees since the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) introduced the scheme in 2006...more

Gender roles and not gender bias hold back women scientists
Heidelberg, 19 November 2007
Traditional roles of women in the home and a negative bias in workplace support result in less career success for women versus men at the same stage of their research careers, determined researchers at the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in a study appearing in the November 2007 issue of EMBO reports...more

Luxembourg joins EMBC as 27th Member State
Heidelberg, 16 November 2007
The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) today announced that Luxembourg has joined its intergovernmental funding body, the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC) ...more

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...more

Eighteen young scientists join EMBO Young Investigator network
Heidelberg, Germany. 22 October 2007
The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) announced today the selection of 18 of Europe’s most talented young researchers as the 2007 beneficiaries of its prestigious Young Investigator Programme.
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Two French Scientists win European Award for Communication.
Heidelberg, Germany. 17 September 2007
French cell biologists Christian Sardet and Ali Saib are joint winners of the 2007 EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences. ...more

Jan Löwe awarded 2007 EMBO Gold Medal
Heidelberg, 30 July 2007
Jan Löwe of the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB, Cambridge, UK) has been chosen as the 2007 winner of the EMBO Gold Medal. ...more

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EMBO welcomes Hermann Bujard Executive Director of EMBO
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007, Nobel Foundation
EMBO Member, Sir Martin Evans, of Cardiff University, receives this award along with Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells. ...more

FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award 2008
Heidelberg, 6 July 2007
Call for nominations
Deadline: 15 August 2007 ...more

EMBC welcomes the Slovak Republic
Heidelberg, Germany, 2 July 2007 ...more

Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) announces the appointment of Dr Frank Gannon as Director General
Dublin, Ireland, 12 February 2007 ...more