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excellence in life sciences Reykjavik Helsinki Oslo EMBO facts & figures & EMBO facts Tallinn Stockholm Copenhagen Vilnius Dublin Amsterdam Berlin Warsaw London Brussels Prague Bratislava Paris Luxembourg Budapest Bern Vienna Ljubljana Zagreb Podgorica Madrid Rome Ankara Lisbon Athens Valletta Jerusalem New Delhi Singapore EMBO facts & figures HIGHLIGHTS CONTACT EMBOEMBO & EMBC facts & figures 2019EMBO Courses & Workshops Membership life scientists from countries were newly elected to EMBO Young Investigators the EMBO Membership. EMBO Installation Grants EMBO Global Investigator Network Long-Term, Short-Term and ¡ve Advanced Fellowships Fellowships EMBO Women in Science were awarded. EMBO facts & figures reportsEMBO on Keynote the implementation Lectures of the EMBC General Pro- EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships, providing better social security gramme entrusted to EMBOGerlind and on Wallon other EMBO activities. EMBO Scientific Publications E Programme Head Bernd Pulverer M to the fellows, were launched. B Maria Leptin Deputy Director Head O EMBO promotes excellence in the life sciences in Europe and beyond. The major goals G Young Investigators and ¢ group leaders were selected as EMBO Young Investigators, and EMBO Director + + ­ O another scientists in the early stages of setting up their of the organization are to support talented researchers at all stages of their careers, LD Installation Grants M laboratories were selected as Installation Grantees. stimulate the exchange of scientific information, and help build a research environ- EDA 2019 L ment where scientists can achieve their best work. Science Policy Projects on governance of research integrity and on technical and policy approaches to mitigate problems arising from tissue culture Since 1964, EMBO has helped young scientists to advance their research, promote cell heterogeneity. Eilish Craddock their international reputationsEMBO and Fellowships ensure their mobility. Courses, workshops,EMBO practi Scientific- Publications Courses & Workshops and Over ¤¤ scienti¡c events were co-funded. Personal Assistant to cal courses and EMBO ScientificDavid Publications del Álamo disseminate the latest researchThomas and offer Lemberger other scientic meetings the EMBO Director training in techniques to maintainProgramme high standards Head of excellence in research practice.Deputy Head + + + Global Activities The EMBO Global Investigator Network providing funding and networking EMBO supports talented researchers, selected through impartial evaluation processes, to young life scientists in Chile, India, Singapore and Taiwan was launched. to allow them to do great science. The wide scientific scope across the full range of life The ¡rst nine life scientists to join the programme were selected. science research coupled with the broad geographical reach of more than 1,800 mem- Awards M. Madan Babu and Paola Picotti were honored with the bers and associate members – some of the best researchers in Europe and around the EMBO Gold Medal. Administration & Financeworld – positions EMBO optimallyEMBO to Science serve Policythe life science community. EMBO Global Activities EMBO and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) Bernhard Huber Michele Garfinkel Bettina Trueb announced Sara Linse as the recipient of the ¤ FEBS|EMBO Women Head Programme Head Head in Science Award. + The European Molecular Biology+ Conference ­­ (EMBC), founded in 1969, is an inter-gov+ - ­ ernmental organization comprising 30 Member States including most of the European EMBC EMBO held a symposium celebrating the ¤th anniversary of the EMBC. Union and some of the neighbouring countries. The EMBC provides, through its General EMBO Press EMBO Scienti¡c Publications continued to shape best practice Programme, a framework for European co-operation in the field of the life sciences. in scienti¡c publishing through its ‘Transparent Process’ Information Support & and contributions to debates about Open Science, preprints EMBC Financial contributions from each Member State carry the General Programme.Resources The ex- and peer review. EMBO Council & Committees EMBO Communications Membership & Elections ecution of the EMBC General Programme is entrusted to EMBO. Both EMBC and EMBO Sophia Hercus Tilmann Kießling Volker Wiersdorff Review Commons Together with ASAPbio, EMBO launched Review Commons, a Assistant are driven by a common commitmentHead to quality research. Their joint activities areHead charac- pre-journal portable review platform which aims at accelerating + terized by quality and encouragement+ of co-operation within the scientific community.+ scienti¡c publishing by offering journal-independent peer review. Complete list of EMBO staff in Heidelberg on pages . table of contents EMBO Fellowships 24 – 73 Preface 4 – 5 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 24 – 41 EMBO actions in 2019 6 – 7 Statistics 24 – 25 EMBC actions in 2019 8 – 9 Awards 2019 26 – 39 Geographical distribution 2019 40 – 41 EMBO Advanced Fellowships 42 facts & figures 2019 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 43 – 73 Statistics 43 EMBC Member States 12 – 13 Awards 2016 44 – 71 Delegates and Advisers 12 Geographical distribution 2019 72 – 73 Financial contributions 13 EMBO Young Investigators 74 – 79 EMBO Council & Committees 14 – 15 Young Investigators 2000 – 2019 74 – 75 EMBO Council 2019 14 Applications and awards 2015 – 2019 76 EMBO Committees 2019 15 Lectures 2019 77 – 79 EMBO Membership 16 – 19 EMBO Installation Grants 80-81 EMBO Members 2019 16 – 18 Installation Grantees 2019 80 EMBO Associate Members 2019 19 Global Investigators 2019 81 EMBO Scientific Publications 20 – 23 EMBO Courses & Workshops 82 – 87 Advisory Editorial Boards & Editors of Practical Courses 2019 82 – 83 The EMBO Journal 20 Workshops 2019 83 – 86 EMBO Reports 21 EMBO | FEBS Lecture Courses 2019 86 Molecular Systems Biology 22 India | EMBO Symposia 87 EMBO Molecular Medicine 23 EMBO Keynote Lectures 88 – 91 Keynote Lectures 2019 88 – 91 EMBO Gold Medal 92 Gold Medalists 1986 – 2019 92 EMBO Women in Science 93 – 95 Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics 93 – 95 EMBO Staff in Heidelberg 96 – 97 EMBO facts & figures 2019 | www.embo.org 3 In this brochure, we report on last year’s EMBO activities and The EMBC continues to pursue the mission of promoting programmes. In 2019, EMBO awarded 184 EMBO Postdoctoral life science across national borders, and has done so for 50 Fellowships (formally, and in the remainder of this report, referred years. As an international and independent association of now to as Long-Term Fellowships) and five Advanced Fellowships. We 30 countries committed to scientific excellence, the EMBC has provided 349 Short-Term Fellowships to researchers at all career made significant contributions to the fostering and funding of stages and from all disciplines across the life sciences. EMBO con- generations of life scientists. tinued to foster scientific discussion and the exchange of knowl- It was a great pleasure to see that the year 2019 ended with edge by providing funding to over 90 scientific workshops and the commitment of the EMBC Member States not only to fund practical courses attended by more than 11,000 scientists. all of the current EMBO Programmes and activities for another A major reform of the EMBO Long-Term Fellowship Pro- five years, but to significantly increase the budget, allowing for gramme was finalized in 2019: The updated scheme replaces a major reform: the conversion of the stipend-based fellowships fellows’ stipends with two-year salaried contracts from their into contract-based fellowships, providing better social security Maria Leptin host organizations that include social security payments as re- Gerrit van Meer and other benefits for the EMBO Fellows. EMBO Director quired by national and local laws and regulations. In this way, EMBC President I thank all EMBC Delegates for their ongoing support, and I we meet young scientists’ increasing need for social security, wish Leszek Kaczmarek, who succeeded me as EMBC President while continuing to give them scientific independence. EMBO at the beginning of 2020, all the best for the continued execution congratulated twenty-seven life scientists on their selection as of the EMBC mission, that of fostering excellence in the life Preface new EMBO Young Investigators. Nine scientists in Chile, India, Preface sciences across Europe and beyond. I am writing this text in spring 2020, a few weeks into the SARS- Taiwan and Singapore joined the newly launched Global Inves- We are increasingly seeing an urgent need to promote science CoV-2 pandemic, which has changed our lives profoundly. A tigator Network, a highly welcome step to tighter cooperation and scientific research beyond national boundaries. Numerous long-unheard political and public call for science as the key to with our partner countries and territories outside Europe. political events and developments in Europe act against solving the crisis is now resonating throughout the world. Together with ASAPbio, EMBO created Review Commons, the foundations of fruitful science and research. Efficient It is encouraging to see a strong movement of the scientific a platform for high-quality peer review of manuscripts before cooperation and close exchange of knowledge irrespective of community to contribute to work on SARS-CoV-2, which has submission to one of 17 partner journals. This multi-journal nationalities, locations and political agendas, is becoming even emerged spontaneously.
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