EMBO is pleased to announce that ten life scientists have been selected to receive EMBO Installation Grants. The aim of the programme is to support group leaders who are in the early stages of setting up their laboratories and who will move to, or have recently moved to, countries participating in the scheme.
The 2026 grantees’ research spans a wide range of biological processes: from the role of epigenetics in neuronal development to mechanisms in haematopoiesis, genome editing and personalized immunotherapies.
“The Installation Grants help promote international collaboration and facilitate knowledge transfer in EMBC Member States”, says EMBO Director Fiona Watt. “I congratulate this year’s awardees and look forward to welcoming them into the EMBO community.”
Each grantee receives 50,000 euros annually for five years. The funding is provided by the country’s ministry or funding agency and EMBC, the intergovernmental organization of 32 member states that funds the major EMBO Programmes and activities. Funding for this year’s installation grants come from the Ministry of Science and Education of Croatia; the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of Czechia; the Estonian Research Council; the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; the Research Council of Lithuania; the Ministry of Higher Education and Research of Luxembourg; the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland; the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal; and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye.
EMBO Installation Grantees become part of an international network of nearly 900 current and former Grantees, EMBO Young Investigators and Global Investigators.
Benefits include access to networking opportunities, mentoring, training in research leadership and management skills, additional grants for travel and organizing conferences, as well as access to core facilities at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany.
The next application deadline is 15 April 2026.
More information on EMBO Installation Grants, including eligibility criteria and the application process, is available here.
EMBO Installation Grantees
| Name | Research project | Host institute | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Ángel Álvarez-Prado | Translational cancer immunogenomics: towards novel personalized immunotherapies | Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg, LU |
 | Ludwik Gąsiorowski | Evolution of molecular, morphological and physiological complexity in microscopic animals | University of Warsaw, Warsaw, PL |
 | Dávid Kovács | Structural and functional dynamics of the adipocyte proteome | Department of Biochemistry, Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School, University of Szeged, Szeged, HU |
 | Duygu Kuzuoglu Ozturk | Beyond Transcription: A Non-Canonical Role for AR in Prostate Cancer | Sabancı University, Istanbul, TR |
 | Kärt Mätlik | The role of epigenetic mechanisms in neuronal development, function, and ageing | Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, EE |
 | Constantinos Patinios | Pause-Repair-Edit: A New Paradigm for Genome Editing | VU LSC-EMBL Partnership Institute for Genome Editing Technologies, Vilnius, LT |
 | Márton Rózsa | Neurogliaform cells in cortical slow oscillations during sleep and wakefulness | HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, HU |
 | Nina Schmolka | Embryonic blood specification: Unravelling molecular mechanisms in early haematopoiesis | Católica Biomedical Research Centre, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, PT |
 | Marko Šestan | Proust Effect - The memory of smell enhances immunological memory to infections | Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, HR |
 | Matouš Vobořil | Shaping central T cell tolerance by inflammation-related myeloid cells | Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, CZ |
