Marja Makarow named Chief Executive of ESF

EMBC President, Professor Marja Makarow, has been appointed to be the next Chief Executive of the European Science Foundation, making her the first woman to take the top post in the science organisation’s 33-year history. She will start in her 5-year position in Strasbourg, France, at the beginning of 2008.   

Over the past decade, Makarow has served a number of national and intergovernmental research funding and research performing organisations in Europe. For the past four years, she has been President of EMBC and will leave the organisation at the end of this year. In Finland she is a member of the National Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy reporting to the Ministries and Parliament. She is currently Vice-Rector for Research and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Helsinki.

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