EMBO recognizes 63 researchers for advances in life sciences

Heidelberg, Germany, 27 October 2010 – The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) today announced the recognition of outstanding research contributions by 63 life scientists from 14 countries. The researchers are awarded the life-long honour of EMBO membership, joining almost 1500 of the world's leading molecular biologists.

"EMBO Members are the basis for the organization's international reputation and our most valuable asset," said Maria Leptin, EMBO Director. "We welcome this year's group of exceptional scientists and look forward to their fresh input and ideas to advance the life sciences."

Each year, the EMBO membership nominates and elects new members based on scientific excellence. Forty-nine from this year's election work in countries across Europe and become EMBO Members. Fourteen of those elected work in the United States, Japan and Taiwan and are honoured as EMBO Associate Members. International mobility has been key for many of the new members and associate members as they progressed in their scientific careers, fostering innovative and collaborative research globally.

The 63 scientists represent a broad cross-section of research covering classical areas of molecular biology as well as rapidly developing fields such as systems biology, neuroscience and cancer biology. Many of them bridge across a number of fields, from biology to medicine, biochemistry or biophysics. Twelve female researchers are recognized this year.

By their involvement with the organization's activities, the selected researchers will help shape the direction of the life sciences in Europe. More than half of the EMBO Members contribute by serving on advisory editorial boards of the organization's four scientific journals, mentoring young researchers, providing expertise to EMBO programmes and taking the lead on new initiatives. Members also nominate candidates for the annual EMBO Gold Medal award.

A list of the newly elected EMBO Members and Associate Members accompanies this announcement. They will be welcomed into the EMBO community at the EMBO Members' Workshop to be held in Heidelberg in autumn 2011.

NEW EMBO MEMBERS 2010

Name	Institute	Country
Anna Akhmanova	Erasmus Medical Center	Rotterdam, NL
Judith Patricia Armitage	University of Oxford	Oxford, UK
Jürg Bähler	University College London	London, UK
Yves Barral	ETH Zurich	Zurich, CH
Michael Bate	University of Cambridge	Cambridge, UK
Roland Beckmann	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	Munich, DE
Michel Bornens	Institut Curie	Paris, FR
Nick Brown	The Gurdon Institute & University of Cambridge	Cambridge, UK
Keith Caldecott	University of Sussex	Sussex, UK
Jason W. Chin	MRC LMB	Cambridge, UK
Tim Clausen	IMP	Vienna, AT
Vincent Colot	Ecole Normale Supérieure	Paris, FR
Maria Pia Cosma	CRG, Barcelona	Barcelona, ES
Gideon J. Davies	University of York	York, UK
Ilan Davis	University of Oxford	Oxford, UK
Stefanie Dimmeler	Goethe University	Frankfurt am Main, DE
Patrik Ernfors	Karolinska Institute	Stockholm, SE
Marie-Anne Felix	CNRS & Ecole Normale Supérieure	Paris, FR
Dominique Ferrandon	IBMC	Strasburg, FR
Jiri Friml	VIB / Gent University	Gent, BE
Rudolf Glockshuber	ETH Zurich	Zurich, CH
Keith Gull	University of Oxford	Oxford, UK
Douglas Hanahan	ISREC	Lausanne, CH
Michael Häusser	University College London	London, UK
Karl-Peter Hopfner	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	Munich, DE
Laurent Keller	University of Lausanne	Lausanne, CH
Ulrike Kutay	ETH Zurich	Zurich, CH
Karim Labib	Paterson Institute for Cancer Research	Manchester, UK
Ernest Laue	University of Cambridge	Cambridge, UK
Thomas Laux	University of Freiburg	Freiburg, DE
Elena A. Levashina	IBMC	Strasburg, FR
Carlos López-Otín	University of Oviedo	Oviedo, ES
Zachary F. Mainen	Gulbenkian Science Institute	Oeiras, PT
Andreas Radbruch	Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin	Berlin, DE
Freddy Radtke	ISREC	Lausanne, CH
Nikolaus Rajewsky	MDC for Molecular Medicine	Berlin, DE
Erez Raz	Center for Molecular Biology of Inflammation - ZMBE	Munster, DE
Carol Robinson	University of Oxford	Oxford, UK
Giampietro Schiavo	Cancer Research UK London Research Institute	London, UK
Ton N.M. Schumacher	NKI	Amsterdam, NL
Irmgard Sinning	University of Heidelberg	Heidelberg, DE
Holger Stark	Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry	Göttingen, DE
Michel O. Steinmetz	Paul Scherrer Institut Biomolecular Research,	Villigen, CH
Sharon Tooze	Cancer Research UK London Research Institute	London, UK
Miltos Tsiantis	University of Oxford	Oxford, UK
Malcolm White	University of St Andrews	St Andrews, UK
Kenneth H. Wolfe	Trinity College Dublin	Dublin, IE
John Wood	University College London	London, UK
Arturo Zychlinsky	Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology	Berlin, DE

NEW ASSOCIATE MEMBERS 2010

Name	Institute	Country
Shizuo Akira	Osaka University	Osaka, JP
Elizabeth H. Blackburn	University of California	San Francisco, US
Roger J. Davis	HHMI, University of Massachusetts Medical School	Worcester, US
Andrew Z. Fire	Stanford University School of Medicine	Stanford, US
Jeffrey Friedman	HHMI, Rockefeller University	New York, US
Elaine Fuchs	HHMI, Rockefeller University	New York, US
Michael R. Green	HHMI, University of Massachusetts Medical School	Worcester, US
Thomas M. Jessell	HHMI, Columbia University	New York, US
Robert Martienssen	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	New York, US
Thomas D. Pollard	Yale University	New Haven, US
Clifford Tabin	Harvard Medical School	Boston, US
Robert A. Weinberg	Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT Department of Biology	Cambridge, US
Chi-Huey Wong	Academia Sinica	Taipei, TW
Shinya Yamanaka	CiRA, Kyoto University	Kyoto, JP

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