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European organization of 2,000+ researchers that promotes excellence in the life sciences and helps to build a thriving research environment

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EMBO celebrates its 60th anniversary! Browse through the history and achievements of an organization that today comprises more than 2,000 leading life scientists promoting excellence in the #LifeSciences in Europe and beyond
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EMBO is pleased to announce the 64 new #EMBO Members and Associate Members. Congratulations and welcome! Find out more at:
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A fund has been established in Suzanne Eaton's memory, with the desire to honour her as a scientist, mentor, and friend. The Suzanne Eaton Memorial Fund will support young scientists in exploring topics outside their core area to further their research.
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We're excited to announce that 27 life scientists have been selected as this year's EMBO Young Investigators @EMBO_YIP . Congratulations! More information:
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“I hope to use my EMBO membership to organize cross-disciplinary events, build further collaborations, and spread the word about the work we are doing,” says new #EMBO Member @OdedRechavi . Read about his work @TelAvivUni :
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EMBO announces the election of 69 new members and associate members who join the EMBO community of more than 2,000 leading life scientists in Europe and beyond
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52 Members and 11 Associate Members have been newly elected and join the community of the EMBO Membership. They boast a large range of accomplishments, with candidates elected based on scientific excellence and pioneering research. Read more at
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EMBO is pleased to announce that thirty life scientists have been selected as EMBO Young Investigators:
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We're sad to hear of the passing of Sydney Brenner, one of the founding #EMBOMembers . "Of course in the early days we knew everyone already, because the whole of molecular biology began as a very tiny, worldwide group." from 'EMBO in perspective'
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Congratulations to EMBO Associate Member Katalin Karikó @kkariko on being awarded, together with Drew Weissman, the @NobelPrize for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
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Calling for #solidarity , EMBO is launching a list of #lifescientists across Europe and beyond who are able to offer assistance to researchers displaced from #Ukraine . Consider adding yourself to the list.
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EMBO launches the New Venture Fellowships. In memory of Suzanne Eaton, these fellowships will help early career life scientists explore topics outside their current area to pursue a new research direction: . Apply by 1 June:
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EMBO announces the launch of a pilot scheme to support Open Access #OA publication by life scientists performing their #research in #India .
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Flexible #childcare grants are now available at the 90+ scientific meetings EMBO supports each year. They can be used for: >babysitter >childcare facility >accompanying carer >child travel ... More information:
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26 scientists have been selected to join the EMBO Young Investigator Programme @embo_yip , an initiative that supports excellent young group leaders in the early stages of their independent careers
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EMBO announces an update of its programme fostering excellent postdoctoral researchers on their path to an independent research position. The updated EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme replaces fellows’ stipends with two-year salaried contracts from their host organisations...
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It’s a pleasure to announce our 56 new EMBO Members and Associate Members. Congratulations and welcome to EMBO! Full list of new #EMBOMembers :
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“I feel very proud that I become an #EMBO Member. For me it is a recognition of my basic research and its repercussions outside of my field,” says new EMBO Member Francisco Mojica. Read about his #CRISPR discovery & research @UA_Universidad : #EMBOMembers
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EMBO welcomes 26 new Young Investigators! These young group leaders join the active @EMBO_YIP programme where funding, training and networking opportunities are available. See anybody you know? Join us in saying “congratulations”
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Help scientists who are stranded outside the US as a result of the recent immigration ban #ScienceShelters
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Anne Ephrussi wins the @FEBSnews | EMBO Women in Science Award 2024. Congratulations! Today, on International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we recognize her achievements with this award. #WomenInScience #IDWGIS #11Feb @embl
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Announcing the new EMBO Core Facility Fellowships! This new scheme will support international training exchanges between scientists and technicians working at core research facilities:
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“It’s a big honour to become an #EMBO Member, and it also means that the research we are doing in the lab is internationally recognized,” says new EMBO Member Gaia Pigino @GaiaPigino . Read about her research on #cilia @humantechnopole : #EMBOMembers
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EMBO is delighted to announce 11 winners of the 2023 Installation Grants, which provide multi-year funding for principal investigators to establish and grow their research groups in participating countries. #funding #LifeSciences
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Congratulations to this year’s EMBO Gold Medal recipients: Sarah-Maria Fendt @FendtLab at @CMN_VIB and @KU_Leuven and Markus Ralser @RalserLab at @ChariteBerlin and @TheCrick !
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EMBO announces 24 life scientists as the newest members of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme. The programme supports young group leaders who have an excellent track record of scientific achievements.
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EMBO is pleased to announce that eight scientists have been awarded Installation Grants. The 2020 grantees will establish laboratories in Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Turkey. Congratulations!
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Eight life scientists in India, Singapore, and Taiwan join the EMBO Global Investigator Network. Congratulations and welcome! Read more: #LifeSciences #ScienceIsGlobal
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We are pleased to announce 62 leading life scientists as new EMBO Members and Associate Members. Congratulations and welcome to EMBO! #EMBOMembers
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Extended scooping protection: @ReviewCommons will require manuscripts to be posted on a preprint server before transfer to a journal. In return 17 partner journals offer scooping protection from the date of posting the preprint. Details at the new RC blog
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“Plants are often overlooked, but we all heavily depend on them, and there are still a lot of things we do not know about how they work or sense their surroundings,” says @JSC_Cellsensing , new #EMBO_YIP . Get to know more about her work @unil :
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Ten life scientists are welcomed to the EMBO Global Investigator Network, which provides access to the EMBO networking and training activities
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Statement on resignation of Mauro Ferrari from the @ERC_Research Presidency The ERC is playing a decisive role in accelerating research on SARS-CoV-2. The flexibility of the funds allocated by the ERC and the outstanding... Read the full statement:
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We're happy to announce this grant from HHMI ( @HHMINEWS ) to EMBO for the continued operation and development of @ReviewCommons . The grant secures the ongoing ability of Review Commons to operate at no cost to authors and promote preprint peer-review
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A warm welcome to the 28 new members of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme @EMBO_YIP
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Congratulations and a warm welcome to the six new EMBO Installation Grantees! They will establish their labs in the Czech Republic, Poland, Portugal, and Turkey. Read more: #LifeSciences #ResearchFunding
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“Switches between fields sometimes happen completely by serendipity,” says structural biologist Julia Mahamid, who receives the EMBO Gold Medal 2023. Read the full interview: #LifeSciences @EMBLHeidelberg @embl
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Focus on cellular mechanisms of neurodegenerative disease: Meet new EMBO Global Investigator Baskar Bakthavachalu @BBakthavachalu
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Congratulations to the first 9 EMBO Global Investigators! We're pleased to announce these life scientists joining the Global Investigator Network. Read more: @EMBO_YIP
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Learn about #funding opportunities for #lifescientists #postdocs in #Germany at an info event in ' #Berlin on 7 May. Register at @ChariteBerlin @berlinnovation
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Elly Tanaka from @IMPvienna received the 2020 FEBS|EMBO #WomeninScience Award for outstanding scientific contributions, but also for inspiring female scientists: Who would you nominate for the 2021 award? Let us know by 15 October:
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Our call for applications to the EMBO Young Investigator Programme is now open! Apply by 1 April or help us spread the word to life scientists who have been a group leader between 1 and 4 years. @EMBO_YIP
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Congratulations to this year’s EMBO Gold Medal recipients: Madan Babu @m_madan_babu @MRC_LMB and Paola Picotti @ETH_DBiol @ETH_en !
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It's our pleasure to announce Madan Babu @MRC_LMB as the new Chief Editor of @MolSystBiol ! “I am delighted to take up this post at a journal that so strongly and successfully represents the systems biology community." Read the announcement: @EMBOPress
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Together with @ASCBiology , we announce Cell Bio Virtual 2020, an online ASCB/EMBO meeting. Abstract submission is open for those intending to give talks. We hope the virtual event will enable even more scientists around the globe to participate:
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Sarah-Maria Fendt @FendtLab : “The award highlights that our research on metabolism and metastasis formation is important. I hope that junior female researchers will look at this award and say, ‘this is what I can achieve.’” @CMN_VIB @KU_Leuven
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“Most of my group are focused on basic research, but at the same time genome editing presents an opportunity to make our science directly applicable to society,” says @Debojyoti_C , one of the 30 new @EMBO_YIP . Get to know more about his work @IGIBSocial :
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A distinctive new look for EMBO: with a newly launched website, we unveil our new visual appearance: #scicom
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Fiona Watt receives the 2024 @ISSCR Achievement Award. The EMBO Director is awarded for her seminal work with skin stem cells
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EMBO is delighted to announce that nine life scientists have been selected as EMBO Global Investigators. Congratulations!
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“Becoming an EMBO Associate Member is a great recognition of the work my group is doing: I am deeply honoured,” says new #EMBO Associate Member Keiko Sugimoto @K_Sugimoto_Lab . Read about her work @riken_en :
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“The international agenda of EMBO is important, today more than ever before.” Read the interview with Fiona Watt, the incoming EMBO Director:
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Congratulations to EMBO Member Svante Pääbo on receiving the 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine.
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BREAKING NEWS: The 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”
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Congratulations to the three winners of this year's #NobelPrize in Physiology and Medicine, particularly to #EMBOMember Sir Peter Ratcliffe!
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BREAKING NEWS: The 2019 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”
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Announcing the recipient of the FEBS|EMBO Women in Science Award 2020: Elly Tanaka @IMPvienna @viennabiocenter . Congratulations Elly! Read more here: @FEBSnews #womeninscience
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Are you a young scientist and plan to enter a new research field? You can now apply for the #EMBO New Venture Fellowship! Next application deadline: 7 November 2022. #funding #lifesciences
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Open call for applications @EMBO_YIP ! Are you a group leader in the life sciences in the early stages of establishing an independent lab? Apply now to become an EMBO Young Investigator or Installation Grantee:
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“Being part of the @EMBO_YIP puts me amongst a network of scientists, provides opportunities for mentorship and collaborations, and facilitates access to some of the best research infrastructures for me and my team.” Elif Nur Fırat-Karalar @kocuniversity
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Today @EMBO and @EMBOPress are making their journals’ finances public. We want to provide transparency and clarity about what it costs to publish articles in high quality, selective journals. Read the whole statement: #OpenAccess #OpenAccessWeek #PlanS
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EMBO adds activities to its programmes and launches new funding schemes for researchers in or going to one of nine countries. Read more at #ResearchFunding @EMBO_YIP @EMBOFellows
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EMBL Director General Edith Heard and EMBO Director Maria Leptin respond to the current proposal on the Multiannual Financial Framework, expressing their concern over proposed cuts to the Horizon Europe programme. Read the open letter here:
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EMBO and FEBS announce Molly Stevens of @imperialcollege as the recipient of the FEBS|EMBO #WomenInScience Award 2021. Congratulations! @FEBSnews
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EMBO Solidarity Grants supporting life scientists displaced by armed conflicts are stipends for researchers to start, continue or finish their PhD thesis; for post-doctoral researchers; and for research stays in the participating countries. #Ukraine
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EMBO Director Fiona M. Watt, elected in 2019, is among the newly inducted international @theNASciences members. The US National Academy of Sciences recognises distinguished achievements in research.
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Fiona M. Watt of @EMBO has made important discoveries about tissue stem cells, with applications for healing wounds and inflammatory skin disorders. Watch the livestream of her induction to the National Academy of Sciences: #NAS159
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We’re delighted to announce the 9 scientists who have been awarded EMBO Installation Grants! Congratulations!
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Call for applications: The EMBO Lab #Sustainability Award recognizes new and significant contributions to the development of sustainable wet and dry labs with a focus on their environmental impact. Apply by 15 March.
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We’re supporting 10 new Installation Grantees in setting up their labs. Welcome to EMBO, @compGenomics , S Aksu, @claudia_bank , SA Dogan, S Erkek, @ania_karnkowska , S Kir, L Piatkowski, @SchwarzerGnoto & M Szymanski!
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Seeing is believing: Ahead of her talk at #CellBio2022 , read the interview with @priscaliberali , winner of the EMBO Gold Medal. The molecular cell biologist talks about her research, inspiration and work-life balance
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"It's an incredibly exciting time where we are integrating data and building detailed atlases of individual organs," says Sarah Teichmann @teichlab , @FEBSnews | EMBO #WomenInScience Awardee 2023, about her research @sangerinstitute . Read the interview:
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ICYMI, we updated the EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships: Fellows’ stipends are replaced with two-year salaried contracts from their host organizations. Leadership training and networking opportunities are still included. More information: @EMBOFellows
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The EMBO Journal and EMBO Reports will switch from encouraging to applying #OpenAccess to all published papers. Papers published in @EMBOPress journals will include source data and data availability sections. Data and #preprint -citation will be encouraged.
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Babysitter, creche, bringing a childminder, flying in grandparents to your home.... if you and your partner would like to attend the same EMBO-funded meeting, our flexible #childcare #grants have got you covered. Find out more here:
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Head to room 253B at #cellbio2023 for the EMBO Gold Medal presentation to, and lecture from, Julia Mahamid, described by @mpgpresident as "the star of in situ structural biology in her generation"
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"I like working on hard, intellectually interesting problems and developing the methods to solve them." An interview with Elly Tanaka, this year's winner of the FEBS|EMBO Women in Science Award:
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Prize for publication of negative findings in neuroscience launched by ECNP Great contribution to encouraging reporting of negative results by the whole scientific community
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