Jan Lwe awarded 2007 EMBO Gold Medal
... Awarded annually, the EMBO Gold Medal recognises outstanding contributions of young researchers in the molecular life sciences. Considered the most prestigious award of its kind in Europe, the Gold Medal highlights the achieveme...EMBO Installation Grants help scientists get set up in Europe
... EMBO Installation Grants are financed entirely by the EMBC Member States hosting the grantees. Each scientist will receive 50,000 euro annually for three to five years, giving th...Leading scientists elected to EMBO ranks
... Frank Gannon, EMBO Executive Director said, "EMBO Members are the organisation's most valuable asset and the basis for our international r...Europe's best young group leaders win EMBO support
... The aim is to raise the profile of the young investigators and help them to attract new collaborations and funding. Gerlind Wallon, manager of the programme, explains: "The EMBO Young Investigator Programme offe...EMBO honors triple talents of UK scientist, author, broadcaster
... Why are most of us born with one nose, two legs, ten fingers and twenty-four ribs and some of us not? This fundamental question forms the basis for much of Armand Leroi's c...Frank Uhlmann of London Research Institute wins 'EMBO Gold'
... The EMBO Gold Medal is awarded annually to a young European researcher for outstanding contributions to research in the molecular life sciences. Widely regarded as the most prestigious award of its kind in Europe, the Gold Medal highligh...A 'recent' embosymbiont -- a rare evolutionary example -- offers clues to how plants came to be
Plastids are the photosynthetic engines in all algae and plants, and their origin and spread among eukaryotes, ultimately giving rise to land plants, was fundamental to the evolution of plants and animals on our planet. Plastids, which possess genomes that are distinct from the primary, nuclear genomes of cells, are thought to have arisen from so-called endosymbiosis, in which a cyanobacterium i...Six Central European scientists awarded EMBO/HHMI startup grants
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) have singled out six outstanding Central European scientists to receive the EMBO/HHMI Startup Grants. These awards will help the scientists establish their first independent laboratories in the Czech Republic, Estonia, and Hungary. Selection for the grants is a mark of the highest scientific excellen...Central European scientists awarded EMBO/HHMI startup grants
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) have singled out six outstanding Central European scientists to receive EMBO/HHMI Startup Grants. These awards will help the scientists establish their first independent laboratories in the Czech Republic, Estonia, and Hungary. Selection for the grants is a mark of the highest scientific excellence....Yale cell biologist, Ira Mellman, one of three Americans honored by EMBO
New Haven, Conn. -- ......EMBO elects members annually on the basis of their proven excellence in research. Over 1,200 of Europe's foremost researchers have been recogn...EMBO selects Europe's best young independent scientists
EMBO has singled out 17 European life scientists to receive the support of its prestigious Young Investigator Programme. The annual selection round identifies some of the brightest young minds in Europe providing academic, practical and financial support in the early years of their independent careers. The three-year programme is extremely competitive and selection is a mark of the highest scien...EMBO elects 40 top researchers to its membership
The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) today announces the election of...40 leading life scientists to its membership. Each member has been elected on the basis of...proven excellence in research and joins the ranks of over 1,200 of Europe's foremost...researchers....... EMBO membership elections take place annually. Selection as an EMBO member...recognises the key work being carried...'EMBO Gold' goes to leading diabetes and cancer researcher
Professsor Dario Alessi of the MRC (Medical Research Council) Protein Phosphorylation Unit at the University of Dundee, Scotland is the 2005 winner of the EMBO Gold Medal. Alessi receives the award in recognition of his landmark work in cell signalling. The young scientist's pioneering research on enzymes called "kinases" and their role in inherited disease has provided exciting new insights into...EMBO honours leading Italian and Russian science communicators
Professor Edoardo Boncinelli of the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, Italy is the winner of the 2005 EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences. Boncinelli receives the award in recognition of his outstanding efforts in science communication. Since 1994, the professor of biology and genetics, a founding figure in developmental biology, has published 18 popular science books on...New EMBO/NPG journal - A first in systems biology publishing
"Molecular Systems Biology" represents a first on many levels. The first journal to be dedicated to the emerging fields of molecular systems biology and synthetic biology, it is also the first publication to use pioneering new systems biology technologies in the presentation of articles and data. The journal is also open access another first for EMBO and NPG and an important catalyst for data-sh...EMBO, HHMI join forces to promote brain gain
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the European Molecular Biology Organization want to attract some of the world's most promising scientists to Central Europe. To help them establish their first independent laboratories there, the organizations are launching the EMBO/HHMI Startup Grants three-year awards of $75,000 U.S. annually. ...... The new grants spring from a joint initiative of HHMI...UK scientist and children's author wins EMBO Award for Communications 2004
Fran Balkwill, Professor of Cancer Biology at the Barts & The London, Queen Mary's Medical School, is the 2004 winner of the EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences. Balkwill receives the award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to science communication for children. The cancer researcher has authored 13 children's books that take a novel look at a range of topics from genet...