EMBO welcomes 28 new Young Investigators

Heidelberg, 25 October 2017 – EMBO announces today the selection of 28 young researchers as EMBO Young Investigators. They join a network of 47 current and 417 past Young Investigators who represent some of the best up-and-coming group leaders in the life sciences in Europe and beyond.

“It is a pleasure to welcome these outstanding scientists to the EMBO community,” says EMBO Director Maria Leptin. “Between them, they carry out some of the most promising life science research that Europe has to offer, and we look forward to supporting them in their professional and scientific undertakings.”

The new Young Investigators are based in 11 different countries, including two European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC) Associate Member States, India and Singapore.

Selection to the EMBO Young Investigator Programme is recognition of exceptional research and scientific potential. Through the programme, EMBO identifies and supports some of the best researchers under 40 years of age who are in the process of establishing their own laboratory.

During their three-year tenure, EMBO Young Investigators receive a range of benefits, including an award of 15,000 euros and possible additional funds to support the establishment of their first independent laboratories.

Laboratory management and non-scientific skills training as well as PhD courses offer the young group leaders and their students the chance to develop professional skills. The scientists also receive access to core facilities at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, and funding for themselves and their group members to attend conferences.

The next application deadline is 1 April 2018. More information is available at http://www.embo.org/funding-awards/young-investigators

Selected statistics about the EMBO Young Investigators 2017

the programme received 224 eligible applications
with 12.5%, the application success rate was comparable to previous years
39% of new Young Investigators are women
newly elected Young Investigators reside in 11 countries

EMBO Young Investigator	Research interest	Institute	Location
Filipe Cabreiro	Bacteria: macromolecular machines for nutrition and drugs	University College London; Birkbeck University	London, GB
Jeffrey Chao	Imaging mRNAs in single cells	Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research	Basel, CH
Luisa Cochella	Transcriptional and post-transcriptional origins of cellular diversity	Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna BioCenter	Vienna, AT
Katie Doores	Glycosylation in infectious diseases	King's College London	London, GB
Luca Giorgetti	Mechanisms of long-range transcriptional regulation	Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research	Basel, CH
Axel Innis	Ribosome inhibition by nascent or antimicrobial peptides	French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM)	Bordeaux, FR
Nicola Iovino	Epigenetic regulation of fertilization	Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics	Freiburg, DE
Manuel Irimia	Transcriptomics of vertebrate development and evolution	Centre for Genomic Regulation	Barcelona, ES
Sonja Lorenz	Structural mechanisms of ubiquitin signaling	University of Wuerzburg	Wuerzburg, DE
Dahai Luo	Mechanisms of viral infection and host defense	Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University	Singapore, SG
Joao Matos	Mechanisms of genome stability and haploidisation	ETH Zurich	Zurich, CH
Daniel Messerschmidt	Epigenetic reprogramming and its implications in development and disease	Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology	Singapore, SG
Patrick Müller	Quantitative analysis, control, and engineering of embryonic signalling systems	Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society	Tübingen, DE
Elizabeth Murchison	Genetics and evolution of transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils	University of Cambridge	Cambridge, GB
Vladimir Pena	Structural basis of splicing regulation and DNA-based catalysis	Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry	Goettingen, DE
Hendrik Poeck	Cytosolic nucleic acid sensors in tissue homeostasis and cancer immunotherapy	Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich	Munich, DE
Sophie Polo	Epigenome maintenance in response to DNA damage	CNRS; Paris Diderot University	Paris, FR
Magdalini Polymenidou	Molecular pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases	University of Zurich	Zurich, CH
Alvaro Rada-Iglesias	Transcriptional regulation in development and congenital disease	Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne	Cologne, DE
Guadalupe Sabio	p38MAPK signalling pathway	Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC)	Madrid, ES
Schraga Schwartz	Cracking the epitranscriptome	Weizmann Institute of Science	Rehovot, IL
Elena Seiradake	Adhesion G protein-coupled receptor complexes	University of Oxford	Oxford, GB
Arun Shukla	Structure, function and allosteric modulation of G protein-coupled receptors	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur	Kanpur, IN
Noam Stern-Ginossar	Molecular networks of viral-host interaction	Weizmann Institute of Science	Rehovot, IL
Joanna Sulkowska	SPOUT methyltransferase enzymes	University of Warsaw	Warsaw, PL
Dario Riccardo Valenzano	Evolutionary and experimental biology of ageing	Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing	Cologne, DE
Louis Vermeulen	Colon cancer heterogeneity	Academic Medical Center	Amsterdam, NL
Yue Wan	RNA structure and genomics	Genome Institute of Singapore	Singapore, SG