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EMBO Members Peter B. Becker, of the Adolf Butenandt Institute for Molecular Biology in Munich, has been elected Member of the “Academia Europaea” and the “Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina”. Roberto Di Lauro, has been appointed President of the Stazione Zoologica “Anton Dohrn” in Naples, Italy. Since 1991, Prof. Di Lauro has been a consultant for the Stazione, first as the Head of the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology until 2004 and then as Head of the Group of Animal Genetics. Frank Gannon, Director General of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), was honoured at a symposium on 28 June 2007 to mark the end of his tenure as the EMBO Executive Director. Many EMBO Members were in attendance to pay tribute to Frank and celebrate his achievements over the past thirteen years. Moshe Oren, of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, has been elected as a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, USA. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary has elected Israel Pecht, of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, as an Honorary Member. Nadia Rosenthal, has been appointed Head of the new Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) in Victoria, Australia. Prof. Rosenthal is currently Group Leader and Head of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Outstation in Monterotondo, Italy. A retirement symposium was held from 20-21 September 2007 to honour Robin Weiss of theUniversity College London. “Adventures in Virology and Cancer” was the theme of the two-day event which was attended by 250 participants, including many EMBO Members. EMBO Fellows EMBO Fellow, Gergely Katona, has been appointed Assistant Professor at Göteborg University in Sweden. EMBO Young Investigators Former Young Investigator, Ralf Adams, has been appointed Director of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Muenster, Germany. He was also appointed Head of the Institute’s new "Tissue Morphogenesis" Department. << previous article | next article >> |