Professor Eir\u00edkur Steingr\u00edmsson will commence his initial one-year term as Chair of EMBL Council on 1 January 2020. Elected at the Council\u2019s winter meeting, Prof. Steingr\u00edmsson will be the 16th Chair of EMBL Council, and the first Icelander to hold the position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A vice-chair for the past three years, he is a professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Iceland and has held research positions in Iceland and the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe next year promises to be both exciting and challenging for EMBL Council. The organisation is preparing an ambitious five-year science programme for implementation from 2022, and I am honoured to have been elected Chair of Council at this important moment in EMBL\u2019s history,\u201d Prof. Steingr\u00edmsson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCouncil has already been involved in preliminary discussions with our Director General Edith Heard, and we share her vision for EMBL to deliver even greater societal benefit to member states and globally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
EMBL Council also warmly thanked Professor Patrick Cramer of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in G\u00f6ttingen, Germany, for his leadership as Chair from 2016 to 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
EMBL Council is the senior governance body for the organisation, and is responsible for deciding policy in scientific, technical and administrative matters. Each of EMBL\u2019s 27 member states, two associate member states and one prospect member state is represented on the Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Professor Heard said: \u201cI am delighted with Professor Steingr\u00edmsson\u2019s election, and look forward to working with him and Council as we develop our next programme. The world is facing many challenges and we hope that EMBL can provide a better understanding of the impact that the environment can have on both human and planetary health, and come up with new solutions and discoveries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Council also re-elected Vice-chair Professor Anne Paoletti of France\u2019s Minist\u00e8re de l’Education Nationale, de l’Enseignement Sup\u00e9rieur et de la Recherche, and elected as Vice-chair Professor Peter Becker of the Ludwig-Maximilian University Biomedical Center Munich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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