7 October  2025
   
  
  
    Deeper collaboration between EMBL-EBI and Google DeepMind brings updates to the AlphaFold Database.
    
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY      
  
    2025
    
    science-technologytechnology-and-innovation    
   
         
        
  23 April  2025
   
  
  
    Fifth EMBL Partnership Conference brings together participants from EMBL and partner institutions to explore how AI can drive innovation in One Health. Conference participants discussed opportunities and challenges in advancing AI in life sciences and the role collaboration.
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  14 January  2025
   
  
  
    Memorandum of Understanding between EMBL and ELLIS will drive AI in European life science research, training, and technology. The strategic partnership will promote interdisciplinary training and develop innovative projects that address pressing challenges in human and planetary health.
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  27 November  2024
   
  
  
    EMBL and Nikon have formally broadened their partnership to accelerate development of next-generation microscopy technologies.
    
    EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS      
  
         
        
  15 November  2024
   
  
  
    Yuvarani Masarapu, a junior bioinformatician and doctoral student at SciLifeLab in Stockholm, spent a week with EMBL collaborators, finding solutions to research challenges and expanding her scientific perspective.
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  15 November  2023
   
  
  
    On this date (15 November), 21 years ago, the EMBL, ESRF, ILL, and IBS directors signed a memorandum of understanding to create the Partnership for Structural Biology (PSB) on the European Photon and Neutron (EPN) science campus in Grenoble.
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2023
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  10 November  2023
   
  
  
    A celebratory event at the Maritime Museum Bilbao marked the partnerships that make possible the TREC expedition on land and at sea along the European coast.
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2023
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  24 October  2023
   
  
  
    EMBL gathered together government, industry, and academic researchers to explore how to leverage the power of AI and machine learning to advance research.
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2023
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  6 July  2023
   
  
  
    Through the collaborative framework agreement, EMBL and ZEISS aim to accelerate the development of imaging technology to advance life science research.
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2023
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  28 June  2023
   
  
  
    Starts three-year process toward full membership, opening up new opportunities for mutual exchange and collaboration.
    
    EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2023
    
    embl-announcementslab-matters    
   
         
        
  28 June  2023
   
  
  
    EMBL Rome alumna Urtė Neniškytė returned to her native Lithuania, helping establish the Vilnius University-EMBL Partnership Institute and advance genome-editing technologies there.
    
    PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES      
  
    2023
    
    alumnipeople-perspectives    
   
         
        
  29 May  2023
   
  
  
    The third meeting between EMBL and SciLifeLab communities took place in Uppsala and focused on data science, aiming at further expanding the collaboration
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2023
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  18 April  2023
   
  
  
    Nikon Europe has intensified its engagement with EMBL's Corporate Partnership Programme to support young scientists.
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2023
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  27 January  2023
   
  
  
    New agreement with UN organisation will enable cooperation in the fields of open science, capacity building, and talent development
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2023
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  17 November  2022
   
  
  
    EMBL deepens scientific collaboration, opening the door for greater engagement and opportunities for Malta’s life science community
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  7 October  2022
   
  
  
    EMBL's Partnership Conference highlights the value of its networks, bringing researchers together to build new scientific connections.
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  9 February  2022
   
  
  
    Agreement signed with Latvia’s Biomedical Research and Study Centre will boost academic exchange and collaboration on some of the largest challenges facing human and planetary health.
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  12 January  2022
   
  
  
    A delegation from EMBL has participated in inauguration of a new facility — Incubator House — located in Szeged, Hungary.
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  26 November  2021
   
  
  
    EMBL has taken another step towards strengthening its scientific relationship with Lithuania.
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  5 October  2020
   
  
  
    On 8 September, EMBL and Vilnius University Life Sciences Center signed a framework agreement for the establishment of the VU LSC–EMBL Partnership for Genome Editing Technologies.
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2020
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  4 May  2020
   
  
  
    The Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine has been awarded 210,000 euros. The funds will be used to train the next generation of specialists and research leaders in molecular medicine in the Nordic countries.
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2020
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  24 January  2020
   
  
  
    László Palkovics, Hungarian Minister for Innovation and Technology, visited EMBL Heidelberg
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  22 November  2019
   
  
  
    Crick and EMBL PhDs talk science over coffee
    
    PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES      
  
    2019
    
    people-perspectivesscience    
   
         
        
  28 June  2019
   
  
  
    EIPOD4 will prepare researchers for the increasing interdisciplinarity of scientific career paths
    
    EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2019
    
    embl-announcementslab-matters    
   
         
        
  12 April  2019
   
  
  
    Building bonds between academia and industry
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  11 April  2019
   
  
  
    The Nordic EMBL Partnership directors discuss the value of collaborating across borders
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  8 April  2019
   
  
  
    New head of ORD will build and expand the partnerships that help EMBL achieve its ambitions
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  2 April  2019
   
  
  
    EMBL’s Plamena Markova reflects on the EMBL Partnership Programme
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  26 March  2019
   
  
  
    EMBL begins partnership with Polish centre of excellence for neural plasticity and brain disorders
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2019
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  17 January  2019
   
  
  
    Joining forces to advance training in biomedical research and therapy
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2019
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  5 December  2018
   
  
  
    EMBL partners with the Hungarian Centre of Excellence for Molecular Medicine
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2018
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  20 September  2018
   
  
  
    EMBL and Promega collaborate to train young scientists
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2018
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  11 June  2018
   
  
  
    Roche and EMBL join forces
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2018
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  21 February  2018
   
  
  
    Joining forces for single-cell research
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2018
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  4 January  2018
   
  
  
    EMBL researchers solve a decades-long debate on a key process for brain and embryo-development
    
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY      
  
    2018
    
    sciencescience-technology    
   
         
        
  28 November  2017
   
  
  
    Interview with EMBL’s Joint Heads of Government and EU Relations
    
    LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES      
  
    2017
    
    lab-matterspeople-perspectives    
   
         
        
  6 November  2017
   
  
  
    Aid for Labs is an EMBL-based charity aiming to provide scientific equipment to researchers in need
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  4 October  2017
   
  
  
    How Australia’s associate membership of EMBL empowers scientists and drives collaboration
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2017
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  4 October  2017
   
  
  
    Bernt Eric Uhlin, Director of MIMS, will replace Kjetil Taskén, Director of NCMM
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2017
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  28 August  2017
   
  
  
    Lars Steinmetz. Director of the Life Science Alliance, reflects on the EMBL|Stanford initiative
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  25 July  2017
   
  
  
    NEB joins EMBL’s corporate partnership programme
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2017
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  6 July  2017
   
  
  
    On 29 June, at a ceremony in front of 700 guests, the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB) in Hamburg, was officially opened. At the event on the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) Campus in Hamburg, Helmut Dosch, Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors, presented Head of EMBL Hamburg…
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2017
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  29 March  2017
   
  
  
    Anna Tramontano, bioinformatics pioneer and EMBL alumna, has passed away
    
    LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES      
  
    2017
    
    lab-matterspeople-perspectives    
   
         
        
  29 March  2017
   
  
  
    Janet Thornton reflects on the contributions of EMBL alumna Anna Tramontano
    
    LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES      
  
    2017
    
    lab-matterspeople-perspectives    
   
         
        
  16 February  2017
   
  
  
    Sartorius and EMBL join forces to support advanced training and science education
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2017
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  16 February  2017
   
  
  
    GSK and EMBL have signed an agreement to enhance understanding of disease and drug mechanisms
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2017
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  16 February  2017
   
  
  
    Beamline BM14 in Grenoble shuts down, continues collaboration with India
    
    LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY      
  
    2017
    
    lab-mattersscience-technology    
   
         
        
  15 December  2016
   
  
  
    EMBL scientists use new techniques to describe the architecture of conical HIV capsids
    
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY      
  
    2016
    
    sciencescience-technology    
   
         
        
  24 November  2016
   
  
  
    Exploring what it would take to regrow a lost limb, and what we might learn along the way
    
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY      
  
    2016
    
    sciencescience-technology    
   
         
        
  13 September  2016
   
  
  
    Stephen Cusack looks back on the early days of his collaboration with Anacor developing anti-infectives
    
    LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES      
  
    2016
    
    lab-matterspeople-perspectives    
   
         
        
  12 September  2016
   
  
  
    EMBL and the Hubrecht Institute signed a 5-year partnership agreement
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2016
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  30 August  2016
   
  
  
    Emmanuelle Charpentier sheds light on how CRISPR–Cas9 went from side project to global revolution
    
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY      
  
    2016
    
    sciencescience-technology    
   
         
        
  30 August  2016
   
  
  
    EMBL and ESRF scientists and mechanics work together on upgrade for one of Europe’s big X-ray sources
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  29 August  2016
   
  
  
    EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards – meet the latest honourees.
    
    EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2016
    
    embl-announcementslab-matters    
   
         
        
  14 July  2016
   
  
  
    Study provides insights into workings of new HIV drugs and how virus becomes resistant
    
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY      
  
    2016
    
    sciencescience-technology    
   
         
        
  7 June  2016
   
  
  
    Grenoble-based Partnership for Structural Biology (PSB) renewed for five more years
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2016
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  8 February  2016
   
  
  
    Pioneering target validation collaboration expands to accelerate drug discovery research.
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2016
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  8 December  2015
   
  
  
    Identifying evidence-based relationships between drug targets and diseases.
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2015
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  27 November  2015
   
  
  
    Connecting entrepreneurs and world leaders in genomics to address opportunities and challenges.
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  29 September  2015
   
  
  
    EMBL-Wellcome Genome Campus events collaboration showcases open, application-based science.
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  29 September  2015
   
  
  
    Renewals and reunions: EMBL’s Nordic partners look to the future.
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2015
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  14 September  2015
  ![Tara expeditions docks in London, September 2015, on its way to the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris. [PHOTO: Robert Slowley]](https://www.embl.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1509-tara-london-ib-300x206.jpg) 
  
  
    Tara Oceans research vessel welcomes aboard scientists, policymakers and funders.
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  11 September  2015
   
  
  
    Alumni Rune Linding and Guillermo Montoya join colleagues and peers at the first Danish chapter meeting.
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  7 September  2015
   
  
  
    Genevieve Almouzni and Nicolas Le Novère share their insights at alumni chapter meeting hosted in the UK.
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  12 August  2015
   
  
  
    Leading scientists will gather in Heidelberg this November to discuss the potential of personalised health.
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  28 July  2015
   
  
  
    Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU) with the University of Heidelberg, renewed until 2025.
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2015
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  13 July  2015
   
  
  
    EI3POD: flagship interdisciplinary postdoc programme opens its doors to academia and industry.
    
    EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2015
    
    embl-announcementslab-matters    
   
         
        
  2 July  2015
   
  
  
    Industrial partners and BioStruct-X facility members gather for Workshop at EMBL Hamburg.
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  10 June  2015
   
  
  
    CERN openlab enters a new phase, expanding to include EMBL-EBI and other public research organisations.
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  27 May  2015
   
  
  
    ELIXIR receives major Horizon 2020 funding to ‘EXCELERATE' activities over the next four years.
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  9 April  2015
   
  
  
    Major EU funding for CORBEL, facilitating access to data and biological imaging facilities.
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  6 February  2015
   
  
  
    New way mice starve pathogens raises alternative approach to treatments for anaemia of chronic disease
    
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY      
  
    2015
    
    sciencescience-technology    
   
         
        
  4 February  2015
   
  
  
    New microscopy-based method goes beyond gene sequencing, pinpointing the cause of disease.
    
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY      
  
    2015
    
    sciencescience-technology    
   
         
        
  26 January  2015
   
  
  
    EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards – meet the latest honourees.
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  20 January  2015
   
  
  
    New project aims to speed up detection and response to disease outbreaks using genome technology.
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  8 January  2015
   
  
  
    EMBL-EBI supports relaunch of yourgenome.org, to bring genetics advances to a wider audience.
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  19 December  2014
   
  
  
    Showcasing EMBL at the Congress of the Hellenic Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  15 December  2014
   
  
  
    Third round of calls for joint research projects between EMBL and Luxembourg in 2015
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  11 December  2014
   
  
  
    The day EMBL Hamburg predocs and postdocs invited Nobel Prize Winner Ada Yonath to dinner.
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  28 November  2014
   
  
  
    In two months, 2.3 million diffraction images collected on new, fully automated ESRF/EMBL beamline.
    
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY      
  
    2014
    
    sciencescience-technology    
   
         
        
  27 November  2014
   
  
  
    Workshops, seminars and honorary lectures – strong start for EMBL’s newest associate member state.
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  24 November  2014
   
  
  
    Life Science Nord event reveals how pharmaceutical companies use synchrotrons for their research.
    
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY      
  
    2014
    
    eventsscience-technology    
   
         
        
  11 November  2014
   
  
  
    Alumna Anna Bartosik shares insights and hopes for EMBL's newest prospect member state, Poland.
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  4 November  2014
    
  
    'Big Data to Knowledge' project by UCLA, Scripps and EMBL-EBI to transform protein data to knowledge.
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  3 November  2014
   
  
  
    Unprecedented detail on HIV structure continues virus’ string of surprises.
    
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY      
  
    2014
    
    sciencescience-technology    
   
         
        
  17 October  2014
   
  
  
    EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards - meet the latest honourees
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  17 October  2014
   
  
  
    EMBL Alumna Frieda Glöckner looks back more than four decades to where it all began.
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  2 September  2014
   
  
  
    Research building for interdisciplinary Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB) takes shape.
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  27 August  2014
   
  
  
    Nordic partners focus on "enhancing research enterprise", says Kjetil Taskén
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  6 August  2014
   
  
  
    A rare form of an iron overload disorder kills pancreatic function, Heidelberg scientists find
    
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY      
  
    2014
    
    sciencescience-technology    
   
         
        
  31 July  2014
   
  
  
    Celebrating 50 years of EMBO, 40 years of EMBL and the success of molecular biology in Austria
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  15 July  2014
   
  
  
    Czech delegate Jana Bystřická represents EMBL's 21st member state at her first Council Meeting.
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  10 July  2014
   
  
  
    Anniversary reflections on connections between scientific and political interests.
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  1 July  2014
   
  
  
    EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards - meet the latest honourees
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  1 July  2014
   
  
  
    To photographer Horst Hamann, it's the people, not the science, that make EMBL unique
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  1 July  2014
   
  
  
    Focusing on basic research is crucial for the development of more advanced genetics techniques
    
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY      
  
    2014
    
    sciencescience-technology    
   
         
        
  1 July  2014
   
  
  
    As the Lab turns 40, staff and alumni share 40 things that make EMBL, EMBL
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  1 July  2014
   
  
  
    Busy times for EMBL keep Director of International Relations Silke Schumacher on the move
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  1 July  2014
   
  
  
    Scientists from EMBL's five sites reflect on the opportunities and challenges that might lie ahead
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  25 June  2014
   
  
  
    A new EMBL-EBI biomedical initiative works to determine the best target proteins for new drugs.
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2014
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  16 June  2014
   
  
  
    Teaming up in Ireland to address big challenges in biology
    
    CONNECTIONS      
  
         
        
  16 March  2010
   
  
  
    Today, the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine officially inaugurates the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) in Helsinki. Together with the Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM, University of Oslo) and the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS, Umeå…
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  26 November  2009
   
  
  
    What are the bare essentials of life, the indispensable ingredients required to produce a cell that can survive on its own? Can we describe the molecular anatomy of a cell, and understand how an entire organism functions as a system? These are just some of the questions that scientists in a…
    
    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY      
  
    2009
    
    sciencescience-technology    
   
         
        
  25 August  2009
    
  
    BBSRC has awarded funding to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), based at Hinxton near Cambridge, to permit a dramatic increase in the institute’s data storage and handling capacity. The funding is the first step in developing the existing…
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  3 October  2007
    
  
    Today the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the University of Helsinki, Finland, the University of Oslo, Norway, and Umeå University, Sweden, officially launch their new Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine. The agreement will encourage scientific exchange and collaborations…
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  7 September  2006
    
  
    Today the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science (MEC) officially launch their new joint EMBL/CRG Research Unit in Systems Biology on the campus of the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park. The Spanish…
    
    EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2006
    
    embl-announcementslab-matters    
   
         
        
  10 April  2006
    
  
    Today three research organisations announce the merging of their expertise to fight cardiovascular diseases, which are among the most common health problems and causes of death in the world. The Magdi Yacoub Institute (MYI) at the UK’s Harefield Heart Science Centre, Imperial College London,…
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2006
    
    connectionslab-matters    
   
         
        
  10 January  2006
   
  
  
    On Friday, 13 January 2006, the new Carl-Ivar Brändén Building (CIBB) will be inaugurated on the Polygone Scientifique Campus in Grenoble, France. The CIBB will be operated as a collaboration between major international and national partners based in Grenoble and is a further step in the…
    
    LAB MATTERS      
  
         
        
  18 July  2005
    
  
    The first rate research from the Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU) is now set to continue for the long-term. The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the Medical Faculty of University of Heidelberg, who formed the joint venture in 2002, have announced their plans to initiate a…
    
    CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS      
  
    2005
    
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