New EMBO Members are elected annually in recognition of their contributions to scientific excellence. Their selection is a tribute to their research and achievements.
"I am delighted by the addition of 58 outstanding scientists to our membership. I would like to congratulate them and welcome them to the EMBO community", EMBO Director Maria Leptin stated. "By serving the principles of excellence and integrity through their views and actions, they make invaluable contributions to science and society."
The newly elected members and associate members are:
New EMBO Members 2016
- Adam Antebi
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany - M. Madan Babu
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom - Laure Bally-Cuif
Institut de Neuroscience Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, Franc, and Institut Pasteur, Paris, France - Mohamed Bentires-Alj
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland - Michael Brand
Center for Regenerative Therapies, TU Dresden, Germany - Dana Branzei
IFOM, Istituto FIRC, Milan, Italy - Frank Buchholz
UCC, TU Dresden, Germany - Ana I. Caño-Delgado
Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Barcelona, Spain - Jason S. Carroll
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom - Andrew P. Carter
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom - Agnieszka Chacinska
International Institute of Mol. & Cell Biology in Warsaw, Poland - Kristina Djinovi?-Carugo
Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Austria - Óscar Fernández-CapetilloCentro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO), Madrid, Spain, and Karolinska Institute,
Stockholm, Sweden - Darren Gilmour
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany - Ian A. Graham
University of York, United Kingdom - Manajit Hayer-Hartl
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany - Carl-Philipp Heisenberg
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST), Klosterneuburg, Austria - István Katona
Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary - Jan O. Korbel
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany - Pekka Lappalainen
University of Helsinki, Finland - Helder Maiato
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Cellular (IBMC), Porto, Portugal, and Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S), Universidade do Porto, Portugal - Marcos Malumbres
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO), Madrid, Spain - Fatima Mechta-Grigoriou
Institut Curie, Paris, France - Maria M. Mota
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal - Daniel J. Müller
ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Eugene Myers
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany - Ove Nilsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
- Ruth H. Palmer
Gothenburg University, Sweden - Jane E. Parker
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Köln, Germany - Matthieu Piel
Institut Pierre Gilles de Gennes, Institut Curie/CNRS, PSL University, Paris, France - Simona Polo
IFOM, The FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milano, Italy - Hans-Reimer Redewald
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany - Claire Rougeole
CNRS / Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France - Raffaella Santoro
University of Zurich, Switzerland - Uwe Sauer
ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Hans R. Scholar
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, Germany - Melina Schuh
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany - Roberto Solano
Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB), Madrid, Spain - Francois Spitz
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France - Didier Stagner
Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany - Kate G. Storey
University of Dundee, United Kingdom - Peter ten Dijke
University Medical Centre, Leiden - Pavel Tomancak
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany - Ian Tomlinson
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, United Kingdom - Jernej Ule
The Francis Crick Institute and UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom - Antonella Viola
Università di Padova, Italy - Douglas J. Winton
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom - Gulnara Yusupova
Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC), Illkirch, France - Xiaodong Zhang
Imperial College London, United Kingdom - Juleen R. Zierath
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
New Associate EMBO Members 2016
- George Fu Gao
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, and Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China - Hiroshi Hamada
RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan - Marc W. Kirchner
Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States - Timothy J. Aitchison
Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States - Huck-Hui Ng
Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore - Virginijus Siksnys
Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius University, Lithuania - Hong Wu
Peking University, Beijing, China - Xiaowei Zhuang
HHMI, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
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