People & Perspectives Lennart Philipson Award recipient Giulio Superti-Furga discusses the scientific achievements he's most proud of, the importance of entrepreneurship, and why he had his personal genome sequenced.
2024
people-perspectives
Lab Matters EMBL Rome celebrates its 25th anniversary this year – some impressions of the symposium and party organised for staff and alumni to mark this special occasion.
2024
lab-matters
People & Perspectives Cell biologist Hans Clevers will discuss organoids as 'avatars' for human organs in research and medicine at the 2024 Kafatos lecture.
2024
people-perspectives
EMBL Announcements On Friday 4 October 2024 at 18:00 CEST, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam will host the 2024 Kafatos Lecture, delivered by renowned scientist Hans Clevers.
2024
embl-announcements
Connections After Suzanne Eaton’s death, family and friends raised funds for a Kinderhaus playground, providing a joyous way to remember her.
2024
connections
Connections Since 2011, Roland Specker has sponsored the John Kendrew Young Scientist Award, which both supports early-career scientists while also honouring EMBL’s first director general.
2024
connections
Connections At EMBL Rome, an immersive youth training programme is dedicated to, but also inspired by, alumnus Riccardo Cortese, thanks to private donors.
2024
connections
Lab Matters A special Coffee with EMBL session celebrated EMBL’s 50th anniversary by inviting alumni to reflect on the organisation’s first two decades.
2024
lab-matters
EMBL Announcements Two former EMBL scientists have been recognised for their outstanding contributions to research and leadership capabilities in the fields of evolutionary cell biology and molecular medicine.
2024
alumniembl-announcements
Lab Matters A recent success story of the Alumni Mentorship Programme is that of Luis Pedro Coelho, a Portuguese former postdoctoral fellow in the Bork Group, and his mentor Frank Gannon, former EMBO Director and EMBL Group Leader and Senior Scientist.
2023
alumnilab-matters
People & Perspectives EMBL alumnus Roel Wijnaendts looks back at a long career in academic research and entrepreneurship that has left an indelible mark in the fields of instrumentation and optics.
2023
alumnipeople-perspectives
Connections EMBL in Spain 2023 was held in Bilbao on Friday 9 October, hosted at the Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE).
2023
alumniconnections
EMBL Announcements Elena Conti will discuss how cells control the life and death of mRNA molecules at the 2023 annual Kafatos Lecture on 20 October in Munich.
2023
alumniembl-announcements
Science & Technology Elena Conti will discuss how cells control the life and death of mRNA molecules at the next annual Kafatos Lecture on 20 October in Munich.
2023
alumniscience-technology
People & Perspectives Ukrainian scientist Sergiy Avilov uses the microscopy skills and scientific network he built at EMBL in his current role heading the Imaging Facility at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics.
2023
alumnipeople-perspectives
People & Perspectives EMBL Rome alumna Urtė Neniškytė returned to her native Lithuania, helping establish the Vilnius University-EMBL Partnership Institute and advance genome-editing technologies there.
2023
alumnipeople-perspectives
Connections The annual meeting organised by Italian EMBL alumni was held in Turin on 18-19 May, hosted by the University of Turin and the University of Piemonte Orientale (UPO)
2023
alumniconnections
People & Perspectives From biking together while at EMBL to assistant professorships at Heidelberg University, two academics soon formed a union that took them to the United States., into various industry positions, and now to a life with two young children.
2023
alumnipeople-perspectives
People & Perspectives Alumnus Thomas Graf reflects on his time at EMBL, offering an update on his whereabouts and advice for young scientists.
2023
alumnipeople-perspectives
Two former EMBL scientists have been recognised for their outstanding contributions to the fields of science communication and multiple sequence alignment research, respectively.
2023
alumni
More than a hundred scientists from across Spain and Europe met at the Andalusian Centre for Developmental Biology (CABD) for the 2022 “EMBL in Spain” event.
2022
alumni
EMBL´s Inaugural Kafatos Lecture brings outstanding science to the global public. The 2022 lecture will be delivered by EMBL alumnus and distinguished developmental geneticist Denis Duboule and will focus on ‘Evolution and Embryonic Development: The Complex Story of our Dual Origins’.
2022
alumni
Lab Matters 20 secondary school students from all over Italy participated in the fourth edition of Summer in Science at EMBL Rome.
2022
lab-matters
EMBL Announcements Former chair of EMBL Council to take office as the next President of the Max Planck Society in June 2023.
2022
alumniembl-announcements
EMBL Announcements Two former EMBL staff members have been recognised for their outstanding contributions to research in the fields of brain evolution and cancer.
2022
alumniembl-announcements
Connections The GSK Vaccines site in Siena hosted the annual EMBL in Italy event. The hybrid meeting brought together industry leaders, representatives from biotech start-ups, data scientists, and researchers from academia.
2022
alumniconnections
Lab Matters After a two-year break, the summer school organised by Adamas Scienza and EMBL in collaboration with CNR is back. It will take place at the International Research Campus of Monterotondo (Rome) from 13 to 24 June 2022.
2022
lab-matters
Lab MattersScience & Technology Experiences at EMBL Rome led former group leader to establish his start-up in Italy, developing a new generation of gene therapies.
2022
alumnilab-mattersscience-technologytechnology-and-innovation
EMBL Announcements EMBL alumnus Denis Duboule has been selected as the speaker for the inaugural Kafatos Lecture to take place in October 2022.
2021
alumniembl-announcements
Science & Technology An alumnus reflects on the reptile database he started in 1996 while at EMBL. The database helps understand biodiversity issues.
2021
alumniscience-technology
EMBL Announcements A new life sciences lecture series commemorates the legacy of former EMBL Director General Fotis Kafatos for people around the world.
2021
alumniembl-announcements
Science & Technology EMBL alum Lara Urban has developed mobile DNA approaches to monitor impacts upon biodiversity in remote areas of New Zealand and elsewhere.
2021
alumniscience-technology
People & Perspectives EMBL alumnus Angus Lamond reflects on the process of translating the importance of fundamental research – to EMBL and wider society.
2021
alumnipeople-perspectives
Science & Technology A community of scientists is looking at the estimated three billion heart muscle cells in a human heart to better understand heart disease.
2021
alumniscience-technology
People & Perspectives EMBL alumni Ilaria Piazza and Ken Holmes have been recognised for their outstanding contributions, and will receive their awards as part of the celebrations for EMBL World Alumni Day.
2021
alumnipeople-perspectives
Lab Matters EMBL’s EU Green Week event showcased various ways molecular biology research can help solve environmental challenges.
2021
lab-matters
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