(Press-News.org) 3 December 2024 – EMBO announces the selection of 27 life scientists as the newest members of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme. The programme supports young group leaders in Europe and beyond. The new young investigators will start in January, be active members of the programme for four years, and become part of an international network of nearly 800 current and former EMBO Young Investigators, Installation Grantees and Global Investigators. They carry out research across a wide range of life sciences topics from cell and computational biology to immunology and neuroscience.
"EMBO welcomes the new young investigators, a group of exceptional scientists who represent innovation and excellence in their fields. The multidisciplinary EMBO Young Investigator Network that they will join generates many opportunities for forming connections. We are delighted to support this next generation of scientific leaders and the collaborations they will form,” says EMBO Director Fiona Watt.
Networking opportunities for EMBO Young Investigators and their lab members are central to the programme. The young investigators, who receive an award of 15,000 euros, also benefit from training in laboratory leadership and responsible conduct of research, access to core facilities at EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany, and mentoring by EMBO Members. They can apply for additional grants, for example for organizing or travelling to conferences.
Of the 27 new EMBO Young Investigators, 14 are female (52%) and 13 are male (48%). They are based in 10 member states of the EMBC, the intergovernmental organization that funds the EMBO Programmes, and Japan. In total, the programme received 207 eligible applications, and the success rate was 13%. In the framework of the memorandum of cooperation between EMBO and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), scientists funded by certain programmes of JST were eligible apply to the EMBO Young Investigator Programme for the first time in 2024.
The next deadline for applications is 1 April 2025. More information about the programme, including eligibility criteria and the application process, is available online.
New EMBO Young Investigators
Name
Research project
Affiliation
Location
Ilary Allodi
Understanding the role of neural circuit dysfunctions in ALS-FTD pathophysiology
University of St Andrews
St Andrews, UK
Benedetta Artegiani
Enlightening brain and liver biology and disease with novel human-based models
Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology
Utrecht, NL
Thibaut Brunet
Evolutionary origin of animal morphogenesis
Institut Pasteur
Paris, FR
Johan Decelle
Structural and metabolic connection in planktonic cell-cell symbioses
Université Grenoble Alpes
Grenoble, FR
Gautam Dey
Evolutionary cell biology of mitosis and nuclear remodelling
EMBL Heidelberg
Heidelberg, DE
Basil Greber
Structure and function of DNA repair assemblies and cyclin-dependent kinases
The Institute of Cancer Research
London, UK
Itamar Harel
Experimental biology of vertebrate aging and age-related diseases
The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences
Jerusalem, IL
Katharina Höfer
Bacterial epitranscriptomics
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
Marburg, DE
Momoko Ikeuchi
Self-organization of plant cells during organ regeneration
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Nara, JP
Claudia Keller Valsecchi
Gene dosage and sex differences
Institute of Molecular Biology
Mainz, DE
Charlotte Kirchhelle
From edge to organ: how plants shape organs
National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment
Lyon, FR
Eva Kummer
Mitochondrial genome maintenance and gene expression
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, DK
Felix Leroy
Neuronal circuits supporting cognition and social interactions in the mouse
Instituto de Neurociencias
San Juan de Alicante, ES
Gabriel Neurohr
Cell size and crowding homeostasis
ETH Zurich
Zurich, CH
Mor Nitzan
Representation, inference and design of multicellular systems
Hebrew University
Jerusalem, IL
Sylvie Noordermeer
DNA double-strand break repair pathways in health and disease
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, NL
Tomáš Pluskal
Decoding the chemical universe of plants
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
Prague, CZ
Lucia Prieto-Godino
Mechanisms of neural circuit evolution: from molecules to networks
The Francis Crick Institute
London, UK
Julia Qüesta
Epigenetic mechanisms underlying plant developmental transitions
Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics
Barcelona, ES
Johannes Rebelein
Microbial metalloenzymes: characterizing and engineering microbial nitrogenases
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
Marburg, DE
Erdinc Sezgin
Restoring immune fitness through biophysical manipulations
Karolinska Institutet
Solna, SE
Marta Shahbazi Alonso
Mechanisms of self-organization in the early mammalian embryo
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Cambridge, UK
Ralph Stadhouders
Molecular mechanisms underlying lymphocyte memory and dysfunction
Erasmus University Medical Center
Rotterdam, NL
Teresa Thurston
Host pathogen interactions and innate immune signaling
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Agnes Toth-Petroczy
Protein plasticity and evolution
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Dresden, DE
Florian Wilfling
Deciphering autophagosome assembly and cargo selection using correlative cryo-ET
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
Frankfurt, DE
Simone Zaccaria
Investigating metastatic cancer evolution at single-cell whole-genome resolution
University College London
London, UK
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