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EMBO Facts & Figures excellence in life sciences Reykjavik Helsinki Oslo Stockholm Tallinn EMBO facts & figures & EMBO facts Copenhagen Dublin Amsterdam Berlin Warsaw London Brussels Prague Luxembourg Paris Vienna Bratislava Budapest Bern Ljubljana Zagreb Rome Madrid Ankara Lisbon Athens Jerusalem EMBO facts & figures HIGHLIGHTS CONTACT EMBO & EMBC EMBO Long-Term Fellowships Five Advanced Fellows are selected (page ). Long-Term and Short-Term Fellowships are awarded. The Fellows’ EMBO Young Investigators Meeting is held in Heidelberg in June . EMBO Installation Grants New EMBO Members & EMBO elects new members (page ), selects Young EMBO Women in Science Young Investigators Investigators (page ) and eight Installation Grantees Gerlind Wallon EMBO Scientific Publications (page ). Programme Manager Bernd Pulverer S Maria Leptin Deputy Director Head A EMBO Science Policy Issues report on quotas in academia to assure gender balance. R EMBO Director + + A Conducts workshops on emerging biotechnologies and on H T cognitive genomics. Gives invited talks at US National Academy E IC of Sciences, International Summit on Human Genome Editing, I H 5 D MAN 201 O N Washington, DC.; World Congress on Research Integrity, Rio de A M Janeiro; International Scienti c Advisory Board for the Centre for Eilish Craddock IT 2 015 Mammalian Synthetic Biology, Edinburgh. Personal Assistant to EMBO Fellowships EMBO Scientific Publications EMBO Gold Medal Sarah Teichmann and Ido Amit receive the EMBO Gold the EMBO Director David del Álamo Thomas Lemberger Medal (page ). + Programme Manager Deputy Head EMBO Global Activities India and Singapore sign agreements to become EMBC Associate + + Member States. EMBO Courses & Workshops More than , participants from countries attend 6th scienti c events (page ); participants attend EMBO Laboratory Management Courses (page ); rst online course EMBO Courses & Workshops recorded in collaboration with iBiology. EMBO Keynote Lectures advancing the life sciences FEBS | EMBO Women in Plant biologist Caroline Dean receives the FEBS | EMBO Administration & Finance EMBO Global Activities EMBO Communications Science Award Women in Science Award. Bernhard Huber Anne-Marie Glynn Tilmann Kießling 2015 Head Programme Manager Head Birmingham The EMBO Meeting Sixth EMBO life science conference in Birmingham, United + + + United Kingdom Kingdom, provides an annual European forum for scienti c 5 – 8 September exchange. EMBO Press In an increasingly competitive publication landscape, the four EMBO scienti c publications – The EMBO Journal, EMBO Reports, Molecular Systems Biology and EMBO Molecular Medicine – EMBC Information Support delivered stable publication rates and stable bibliometric EMBO Council & Committees EMBO Science Policy & Resources indicators. Gitta Bourke Michele Garfinkel Volker Wiersdorff SourceData project: As proof-of-principle, a set of more than Administrator Programme Manager Head , experiments, published in journals, has been + + + successfully processed into the SourceData standard, demon- strating that the information routinely provided by scientists for publication is suf cient. Complete list of EMBO staff in Heidelberg on pages . EMBO facts & figures 2015 EMBO promotes excellence in life sciences in Europe and beyond by recognizing and fostering talented scientists. Since 1964, leading scientists are elected annually to become EMBO Members based on proven excellence in research. Members number more than 1700 today. 84 scientists from the EMBO membership have received the Nobel Prize. EMBO funding, training and networking activities attract thousands of scientists every year, promoting collaboration in all areas of life science research. Four peer-reviewed journals span a broad spectrum of the life sciences and reflect how research is shaping the world. The European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC), founded in 1969, is the intergovernmental funding body for EMBO comprising 27 member states including most of the European Union and some of the neighbouring countries. Both EMBO and EMBC are driven by a common commitment to research at the European level. Their joint activities are characterized by quality and encouragement of co-operation within the scientific community. table of contents EMBO Fellowships 28 – 79 Preface 4 – 5 EMBO Long-Term Fellowships 28 – 51 EMBO actions in 2015 6 – 7 Statistics 28 – 29 EMBC actions in 2015 8 – 9 Awards 2015 30 – 49 Geographical distribution 2015 50 – 51 EMBO Advanced Fellowships 52 facts & figures 2015 EMBO Short-Term Fellowships 53 – 79 Statistics 53 EMBC Member States 12 – 17 Awards 2015 54 – 77 Delegates and Advisers 12 – 16 Geographical distribution 2015 78 – 79 Financial contributions 17 EMBO Young Investigators 80 – 85 EMBO Council & Committees 18 – 19 Young Investigators 2015 80 EMBO Council 2015 18 Young Investigators 2000 – 2014 81 – 82 EMBO Committees 2015 19 Applications and awards 2006 – 2015 83 EMBO Membership 20 – 23 Lectures 2015 84 – 85 EMBO Members 2015 20 – 22 EMBO Installation Grants 86 EMBO Associate Members 2015 23 Installation Grantees 2015 86 EMBO Scientific Publications 24 – 27 EMBO Courses & Workshops 87 – 93 Advisory Editorial Boards & Senior Editors of Practical Courses 2015 87 – 88 The EMBO Journal 24 Workshops 2015 88 – 89 EMBO reports 25 Conferences 2015 89 – 90 Molecular Systems Biology 26 Symposia 2015 91 EMBO Molecular Medicine 27 EMBO | FEBS Lecture Courses 2015 91 Global Exchange Lecture Courses 2015 91 Laboratory Management Courses 2015 92 – 93 EMBO Women in Science 94 – 98 Participation of women in EMBO activities: Statistics 94 – 98 EMBO Gold Medal 99 Gold Medalists 1986 – 2015 99 EMBO Keynote Lectures 100 – 102 Keynote Lectures 2015 100 – 102 EMBO Staff in Heidelberg 104 – 105 EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org 3 preface I am pleased to present EMBO Fellows’ Meeting took place in Heidelberg in June 2015 this report on the activities and was attended by 85 fellows. and achievements of EMBO 23 young scientists were selected as EMBO Young Inves- and its community in 2015. tigators in 2015, joining a community that represents some In its 51st year, EMBO con- of the best young group leaders in the European life sciences. tinued to promote excellence With the same ratio as in the previous year for overall applica- in the life sciences in Europe tions vs. successful applications (13 percent), the Programme and beyond through fostering focused on scientific excellence as the central selection crite- talented researchers during rion. The Young Investigator Meeting has become an estab- critical career steps, promot- lished meeting for this young community. Six sectoral meet- ing scientific exchange and, in- ings, together with a Young Investigators’ PhD course and 39 Maria Leptin creasingly, through contribut- lectures approved for funding and held by EMBO Young Inves- EMBO Director ing to research and debate on tigators complemented this Programme. science policy issues. Eight Strategic Development Installation Grants were The community of EMBO Members remained at the heart awarded in 2015. These grants have proved to be effective of our organization. In 2015, 58 scientists were newly elected at supporting researchers setting up their groups in countries to the EMBO Membership and Associate Membership that looking to improve their research capacity. The Installation comprises about 1,700 scientists. It was a particular pleasure Grantees are integrated into the EMBO Young Investigator to see EMBO Members being awarded the most prestigious Programme and have access to its networking activities. The prizes, including the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Tomas Lin- 2015 grants support these researchers in relocating and setting dahl, and Breakthrough Prizes for Emmanuelle Charpentier up their laboratories in the Czech Republic, in Poland and in and Svante Pääbo. Many Members also served on the various Turkey. committees and boards that enable the EMBO Programmes to EMBO continued to fund a large number of scientific train- do their work. As in previous years, EMBO hosted a Members’ ing events in Europe. In 2015, 94 EMBO Courses & Workshops meeting, a platform to welcome the newly elected Members were held in 24 countries, attracting more than 11,000 interna- with networking opportunities and scientific presentations. tional participants. There were 22 EMBO Laboratory Manage- The year also saw EMBO honour Sarah Teichmann and Ido ment Courses, all of which were oversubscribed. Due to the Amit with the EMBO Gold Medal 2015 and, together with demand for these hands-on courses and the excellent feed- FEBS, Caroline Dean with the 2015 EMBO | FEBS Women in back received, we are working to increase their number. Science Award. With its Global Activities, EMBO increased the global im- The number of Long- and Short-Term Fellowships could be pact of its core programmes. EMBO Global Activities helped kept at a level comparable to the previous year with 252 Long- to establish and develop bi-directional collaboration between Term and 288 Short-Term Fellowships awarded. The annual researchers in the EMBC Member States and partner countries. 4 Preface | Maria Leptin EMBO facts & figures 2015 | www.embo.org To facilitate this, long-term, collaborative agreements have SourceData annotation process is scalable. The community been negotiated with India, Singapore, South Africa and the will soon be invited to take part in testing the curation tool Taiwanese Ministry of Science and Technology. We consider and search interface. these
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