{"id":27575,"date":"2006-12-01T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/?p=27575"},"modified":"2023-11-03T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T12:34:00","slug":"matti-saraste-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/blog\/2006\/12\/matti-saraste-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Matti Saraste Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Matti Saraste<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Alumni Association would like to thank all those who have generously donated to the Matti Saraste Fund. Matti, who was a Group Leader and Unit Coordinator of EMBL&#8217;s Structural and Computational Biology Unit (1990- 2001), died in 2001. To commemorate him, and in recognition of his commitment both to science and to EMBL, the Matti Saraste Fellowship Fund was established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aim of the fund, which is administered by the Alumni Association, had originally been to support a student in the EMBL International PhD Programme. While a substantial sum of money has been donated, the total is far short of what is required and it is unlikely that it will increase significantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alumni board members, in consultation with Matti&#8217;s family, have given careful thought to how best to use the money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The majority view, and the option favoured by Matti&#8217;s family, was that a memorial be created in the grounds of the new ATC building, such as a garden. \u2022 A second possibility would be to establish a Matti Saraste Prize or honorary lectureship of \u20ac1,000 per annum in perpetuity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lastly, some board members felt that the best use of the money would still be to pay for a studentship, accepting that this would be a \u2018one off&#8217;, rather than a regular commemoration, due to the limited sum available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The board will make a final decision by holding a vote in January 2007. You are therefore invited to send your comments and suggestions on the best use of the fund to Mehrnoosh Rayner by 5 January 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matti Saraste The Alumni Association would like to thank all those who have generously donated to the Matti Saraste Fund. Matti, who was a Group Leader and Unit Coordinator of EMBL&#8217;s Structural and Computational Biology Unit (1990- 2001), died in 2001. To commemorate him, and in recognition&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-27575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"embl_taxonomy_terms":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/dec06_saraste_l.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27579,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27575\/revisions\/27579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27575"},{"taxonomy":"embl_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embl_taxonomy?post=27575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}