EMBO announces new members for 2013

Heidelberg, 21 May 2013 – EMBO announced today that 52 outstanding researchers in the life sciences were newly elected to its membership. Forty-three of the researchers reside in Europe and neighboring countries and are accompanied by the election of nine Associate Members from Canada, China, India, Japan and the United States. The EMBO membership currently comprises around 1600 life scientists.

"Our members are the basis for the international reputation of our organisation," EMBO Director Maria Leptin said. "We have been building our network of members for almost 50 years and the EMBO membership is the foundation for our future growth and achievements. I look forward to the fresh input and ideas that the new EMBO members will bring to the organisation."

The most recent scientists to join the EMBO membership come from 15 different countries and include 16 female scientists.

EMBO Members make invaluable contributions to the organization by providing suggestions and feedback on the activities of EMBO. They serve on selection committees for EMBO programmes and mentor young scientists. Their input has helped to promote excellence in life sciences since 1964.

Newly elected members and associate members are:

NEW EMBO MEMBERS 2013

Asifa Akhtar	Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, DE
Luis Aragón	MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, London, UK
Herwig Baier	Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Munich, DE
Buzz Baum	MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, London, UK
Anne Bertolotti	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Michael Boutros	German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) & University of Heidelberg, DE
Frank Bradke	German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, DE
Elena Cattaneo	University of Milan, IT
Christoph Dehio	Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH
Luciano Di Croce	Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, ES; Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, ES
Marileen Dogterom	FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, NL
Gérard Eberl	Institut Pasteur, Paris, FR
Anne Eichmann	Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, Collège de France, Paris, FR; Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, US
Isabel Fariñas	University of Valencia, ES
Deborah Fass	Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, IL
Eileen Furlong	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, DE
Roger Goody	Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, DE
Piet Gros	Utrecht University, NL
Ramanujan Hegde	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Anne Houdusse	UMR 144, CNRS, Institut Curie, Paris, FR
Andrew Jackson	MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, UK
Roland Lill	Institute of Cytobiology, University of Marburg, DE
Kaspar Locher	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Nicholas Luscombe	Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, UK; University College London, UK
Paloma Más	Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Barcelona, ES
Matthias Merkenschlager	MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, London, UK
Daniel Metzger	Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Illkirch, FR
Gioacchino Natoli	IEO - European Institute of Oncology, Milan, IT
Ketan Patel	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK; University of Cambridge, UK
Fiona Powrie	Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, UK
Rosario Rizzuto	University of Padova, IT
Iris Salecker	MRC National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), London, UK
Peter Scheiffele	Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH
Petra Schwille	Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, DE
Peter Šebo	Institute of Microbiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR), Prague, CZ
Lars Steinmetz	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, DE
Françoise Stutz	University of Geneva, CH
Anu Suomalainen-Wartiovaara	Biomedicum, University of Helsinki, FI
Shahragim Tajbakhsh	Institut Pasteur, Paris, FR
Nicholas Talbot	University of Exeter, UK
Kostas Tokatlidis	Institute of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, Glasgow, UK; IMBB-FORTH, Heraklion, GR
John van der Oost	Wageningen University, NL
Wolfgang Zachariae	Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, DE

NEW ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

Bonnie L. Bassler	Howard Hughes Medical Institute & Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, US
Eugene V. Koonin	National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Bethesda, US
Jiayang Li	Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CN; Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, CN
Satyajit Mayor	National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, IN
Ruslan M. Medzhitov	Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, US; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, US
Andre Nussenzweig	Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, US
Yoshinori Ohsumi	Frontier Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, JP
Yigong Shi	School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, CN
Nahum Sonenberg	McGill University, Montreal, CA

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