Key contacts
Gabor Lamm
Managing Director, EMBLEM
Andrew Leach
Head of Industry Partnerships and Head of Chemical Biology, EMBL-EBI
Jessica Vamathevan
Head of Strategy
EMBL’s new Programme intends to strengthen key innovation and translation activities and expand successful mechanisms to encompass the proposed new research directions.
One of EMBL’s core missions is to actively engage in technology transfer and industry relations as one more way to aim at societal impact. Innovation and Translation at EMBL will expand to encompass the Programme’s new scientific directions. In addition to building a portfolio of innovation and commercialisation activities, EMBL will broaden and advance research collaborations and technology development via new public–private partnerships. Novel training formats, among other new activities, will further develop an EMBL innovation culture, empower the next generation of EMBL fellows, and diversify current instruments for training and knowledge exchange between EMBL and industry partners. Ultimately, the goal is to empower and equip EMBL scientists and staff to be creative, collaborative, and innovative with a willingness to consider and follow through on entrepreneurial opportunities that arise within their research.
“We aim to ensure that the translational potential of the new scientific directions in this Programme and EMBL’s promising inventions and technologies bring further benefits to scientific endeavour and society.”
Edith Heard
EMBL Director General, 2019-2025
Explore the new programme
Training Plans
Internal and external trainings in the new directions
Scientific Services Plans
Expanding and integrating experimental and data services
European Integration Plans
Coordinating efforts within and between our member states
Related activities
Industry relations
We harness EMBL’s entrepreneurial spirit through technology transfer programmes and technology spin-offs.
EMBLEM
We manage a portfolio of more than 1000 inventions and over 450 patents/copyrights from EMBL-scientists, EMBL–alumni and third parties.
EMBL-EBI Industry Programme
A forum for interaction and knowledge exchange for those employed at the forefront of industrial bioinformatics.
Corporate Partnership Programme
The Programme is designed to form and cultivate long-term, fruitful relationships between EMBL and top-class corporate partners.
Open Targets
A freely-available, large-scale, multi-year, public-private partnership that uses human genetics and genomics data for systematic drug target identification and prioritisation.
EMBL Imaging Centre
We provide open access for researchers to cutting-edge imaging technologies integrating methods in the field of electron and light microscopy.
