{"id":47363,"date":"2025-12-17T11:49:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/?p=47363"},"modified":"2025-12-17T11:49:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:49:18","slug":"embl-alumni-relations-in-2025-a-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/blog\/2025\/12\/embl-alumni-relations-in-2025-a-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"EMBL Alumni Relations in 2025: a year in review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As 2025 draws to a close, we thank alumni\u00a0for their continued connection to EMBL. This year brought leadership transitions, with Peer Bork and Ewan Birney jointly leading EMBL in the interim as the organisation prepared for its next Director General,\u00a0Tony Hyman<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EMBL\u2019s mission remained clear: to advance life sciences\u00a0in Europe in an open and collaborative way, building bridges across communities, countries and disciplines. Alumni engagement has been key to our ongoing delivery of that mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Career development and networking<\/strong>
Alumni continued to engage widely with\u00a0EMBL courses, conferences and community events<\/a>, both in person and online. This year, many former staff joined us at the\u00a02025 Kafatos Lecture<\/a>\u00a0in Trondheim in March, the\u00a0EMBL Grenoble 50th anniversary<\/a>\u00a0celebrations in July, and the Anne Ephrussi Symposium in Heidelberg in September, among other gatherings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volunteering<\/strong>
Alumni expertise enriched these gatherings as speakers, facilitators and organisers. Alumni also played an active role behind the scenes \u2013 for example, by supporting committee work, offering materials to the\u00a0EMBL Archive<\/a>, and providing quotes for EMBL’s web pages and publications. We marked\u00a0five years of alumni mentorship<\/a>, and expanded the Alumni Chats interview series across\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0podcast<\/a>\u00a0platforms. The\u00a0EMBL Alumni Association Board<\/a>\u00a0continued to offer invaluable leadership and representation for the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giving<\/strong>
We are grateful to those who supported philanthropic initiatives this year. Thanks to alumni generosity, the Kafatos Lectures received dedicated support, including a generous personal contribution<\/a>. Other alumni contributed to EMBL\u2019s outreach and education<\/a> activities \u2013 helping strengthen EMBL\u2019s ability to connect the public, policymakers and the scientific community with discoveries that matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Championing<\/strong>
Alumni have continued to champion EMBL far beyond our sites. In 2025, we launched the\u00a0EMBL Alumni LinkedIn page<\/a>\u00a0and a new monthly EMBL news digest, keeping the community informed and celebrating\u00a0alumni driving progress across research, innovation, leadership, and public engagement.\u00a0By keeping their details up to date and staying engaged, alumni help us track their impact and build a stronger global EMBL community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we look ahead, we also take a moment to honour members of our community who passed away this year<\/a>. We are grateful for their lasting contributions to science, to EMBL and to our alumni community, and we remember them fondly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turning to 2026, we look forward to keeping our community informed and involved as EMBL shapes its next Scientific Programme, and we greatly appreciate continued alumni support and engagement with EMBL\u2019s future.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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