European Molecular Biology Organization PRESS RELEASE EMBO recognizes 63 researchers for advances in life sciences HEIDELBERG, GERMANY, this yearʼs election work in countries By their involvement with the 27 OCTOBER 2010 – The European across Europe and become EMBO organizationʼs activities, the selected Molecular Biology Organization Members. Fourteen of those elected researchers will help shape the (EMBO) today announced the work in the United States, Japan and direction of the life sciences in recognition of outstanding research Taiwan and are honoured as EMBO Europe. More than half of the EMBO contributions by 63 life scientists Associate Members. International Members contribute by serving on from 14 countries. The researchers mobility has been key for many of advisory editorial boards of the are awarded the life-long honour of the new members and associate organizationʼs four scientific journals, EMBO membership, joining almost members as they progressed in their mentoring young researchers, 1500 of the worldʼs leading scientific careers, fostering providing expertise to EMBO molecular biologists. innovative and collaborative research programmes and taking the lead on “EMBO Members are the basis globally. new initiatives. Members also for the organizationʼs international The 63 scientists represent a nominate candidates for the annual reputation and our most valuable broad cross-section of research EMBO Gold Medal award. asset,” said Maria Leptin, EMBO covering classical areas of molecular A list of the newly elected EMBO Director. “We welcome this yearʼs biology as well as rapidly developing Members and Associate Members group of exceptional scientists and fields such as systems biology, accompanies this announcement. look forward to their fresh input and neuroscience and cancer biology. They will be welcomed into the ideas to advance the life sciences.” Many of them bridge across a EMBO community at the EMBO Each year, the EMBO number of fields, from biology to Membersʼ Workshop to be held in membership nominates and elects medicine, biochemistry or Heidelberg in autumn 2011. new members based on scientific biophysics. Twelve female excellence. Forty-nine from researchers are recognized this year. European Molecular Biology Organization NEW EMBO MEMBERS 2010 Anna Akhmanova, Netherlands Freddy Radtke, Switzerland Judith Patricia Armitage, United Kingdom Nikolaus Rajewsky, Germany Jürg Bähler, United Kingdom Erez Raz, Germany Yves Barral, Switzerland Carol Robinson, United Kingdom Michael Bate, United Kingdom Giampietro Schiavo, United Kingdom Roland Beckmann, Germany Ton N.M. Schumacher, Netherlands Michel Bornens, France Irmgard Sinning, Germany Nick Brown, United Kingdom Holger Stark, Germany Keith Caldecott, United Kingdom Michel O. Steinmetz, Switzerland Jason W. Chin, United Kingdom Sharon Tooze, United Kingdom Tim Clausen, Austria Miltos Tsiantis, United Kingdom Vincent Colot, France Malcolm White, United Kingdom Maria Pia Cosma, Spain Kenneth H. Wolfe, Ireland Gideon J. Davies, United Kingdom John Wood, United Kingdom Ilan Davis, United Kingdom Arturo Zychlinsky, Germany Stefanie Dimmeler, Germany Patrik Ernfors, Sweden NEW ASSOCIATE MEMBERS 2010 Marie-Anne Felix, France Dominique Ferrandon, France Shizuo Akira, Japan Jiri Friml, Belgium Elizabeth H. Blackburn, United States Rudolf Glockshuber, Switzerland Roger J. Davis, United States Keith Gull, United Kingdom Andrew Fire, United States Douglas Hanahan, Switzerland Jeffrey Friedman, United States Michael Häusser, United Kingdom Elaine Fuchs, United States Karl-Peter Hopfner, Germany Michael R. Green, United States Laurent Keller, Switzerland Thomas M. Jessell, United States Ulrike Kutay, Switzerland Robert Martienssen, United States Karim Labib, United Kingdom Thomas D. Pollard, United States Ernest Laue, United Kingdom Clifford Tabin, United States Thomas Laux, Germany Robert A. Weinberg, United States Elena A. 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