Fresh approaches to understanding neurodegeneration
Learn about new EMBO Installation Grantee Gergely Rona, his research on neuronal DNA repair and its effects on neurodegeneration
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Defining DNA replication processes
Learn about new EMBO Installation Grantee Hana Polasek-Sedlackova and her research on the molecular mechanisms driving successful DNA replication
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Ten scientists receive EMBO Installation Grants
The group leaders will establish laboratories in the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Türkiye
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Unravelling mysteries of the mind
Learn about new EMBO Installation Grantee Christina Kyrousi and her research that aims to decode the role of cilia in neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders
DetailsMaria Leptin biography
When it came to finding a new Director of EMBO in 2010, the members of Council were determined to appoint an active researcher. Few can compete with the level of activity of Maria Leptin, a professor at the University of Cologne’s Institute of Genetics. As well as running research teams in both development and immunology,…
DetailsHermann Bujard biography
Hermann Bujard, who led EMBO as Director from 2007-2010, also shares the credit for EMBO coming to Heidelberg in 1973. His experience of working in American laboratories in the 1960s gave him a lifelong determination to provide a better environment for fast-moving subjects such as molecular biology in Germany’s hierarchical university departments. Bujard had switched…
DetailsThe beginnings of The EMBO Journal
The EMBO Journal was started in 1982 when John Tooze was Executive Secretary of EMBO. In the foreword of the very first issue, Tooze and Klaus Weber, then Secretary General of EMBO, quote Francis Crick who wrote a few years earlier that “molecular biology can be defined as anything that interests molecular biologists.” At the…
DetailsFrank Gannon biography
Born in Galway in the west of Ireland, EMBO’s third Executive Secretary Frank Gannon has built a career out of seeing possibilities where others might not see them, for himself and for the organisations he has worked for.‘I’m pretty international,’ he says. ‘I did my PhD in Leicester. After that I went to Madison Wisconsin,…
DetailsEMBO publishes statement on recombinant DNA technology
Almost as soon as recombinant research began to take off in the United States, one of the leading scientists in the field, Paul Berg of the University of Stanford, wrote a letter to the National Academy of Sciences in the United States calling for a moratorium on certain types of recombinant research until guidelines had…
DetailsFoundation of EMBL and appointment of its first Director General, Sir John Kendrew
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory was the idea of prominent scientists such as the American physicist and molecular biologist Leo Szilárd and Nobel Prize winners James D. Watson and John C. Kendrew. Their goal was to create a CERN-like supranational research centre to redress the balance in the strongly US-dominated field of molecular biology. The…
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