Lithuanian Science Researcher Virginijus Siksnys Elected as New EMBO Member
Heidelberg, 23 May 2016 - EMBO today announced that 58 researchers in the life sciences were newly elected to its membership. 50 of the scientists reside in 13 different countries in Europe; eight Associate Members were elected from China, Japan, Lithuania, Singapore and the United States.
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.”
An online directory with all existing and new EMBO Members can be found at people.embo.org.
The newly elected members and associate members are:
New EMBO Members 2016
Adam Antebi
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, DE
M. Madan Babu
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Laure Bally-Cuif
Institut de Neuroscience Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, FR & Institut Pasteur, Paris, FR
Mohamed Bentires-Alj
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, CH
Michael Brand
Center for Regenerative Therapies, TU Dresden, DE
Dana Branzei
IFOM, Istituto FIRC, Milan, IT
Frank Buchholz
UCC, TU Dresden, DE
Ana I. Caño-Delgado
Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Barcelona, ES
Jason S. Carroll
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Cambridge, UK
Andrew P. Carter
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Agnieszka Chacinska
International Institute of Mol. & Cell Biology in Warsaw, Poland
Kristina Djinović-Carugo
Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, AT
Óscar Fernández-Capetillo
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO), Madrid, ES & Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, SE
Darren Gilmour
EMBL, Heidelberg, DE
Ian A. Graham
University of York, UK
Manajit Hayer-Hartl
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, DE
Carl-Philipp Heisenberg
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST), Klosterneuburg, AT
István Katona
Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, HU
Jan O. Korbel
EMBL, Heidelberg, DE
Pekka Lappalainen
University of Helsinki, FI
Helder Maiato
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Cellular (IBMC), Porto, PT & Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S), Universidade do Porto, PT
Marcos Malumbres
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO), Madrid, ES
Fatima Mechta-Grigoriou
Institut Curie, Paris, FR
Maria M. Mota
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, PT
Daniel J. Müller
ETH Zurich, CH
Eugene Myers
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, DE
Ove Nilsson
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, SE
Ruth H. Palmer
Gothenburg University, SE
Jane E. Parker
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Köln, DE
Matthieu Piel
Institut Pierre Gilles de Gennes, Institut Curie/CNRS, PSL University, Paris, FR
Simona Polo
IFOM, The FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milano, IT
Hans-Reimer Rodewald
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg, DE
Claire Rougeulle
CNRS / Université Paris Diderot, Paris, FR
Raffaella Santoro
University of Zurich, CH
Uwe Sauer
ETH Zurich, CH
Hans R. Schöler
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, DE
Melina Schuh
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, DE
Roberto Solano
Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB), Madrid, ES
François Spitz
Institut Pasteur, Paris, FR
Didier Stainier
Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, DE
Kate G. Storey
University of Dundee, UK
Peter ten Dijke
University Medical Centre, Leiden, NL
Pavel Tomancak
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, DE
Ian Tomlinson
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK
Jernej Ule
The Francis Crick Institute & UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK
Antonella Viola
Università di Padova, IT
Douglas J. Winton
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Gulnara Yusupova
Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC), Illkirch, FR
Xiaodong Zhang
Imperial College London, UK
Juleen R. Zierath
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE
New Associate EMBO Members 2016
George Fu Gao
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CN & Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, CN
Hiroshi Hamada
RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, JP
Marc W. Kirschner
Harvard Medical School, Boston, US
Timothy J. Mitchison
Harvard Medical School, Boston, US
Huck-Hui Ng
Genome Institute of Singapore, SG
Virginijus Siksnys
Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius University, LT
Hong Wu
Peking University, Beijing, CN
Xiaowei Zhuang
HHMI, Harvard University, Cambridge, US
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