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Patricia Kahn, former EMBL staff scientist from the Structural and Computational Biology Unit, writes about her humbling and rewarding experience working as medical editor of Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). “MSF is known for its medical work after natural disasters, in…
Emmanuel Lacroix works at the cross-section of science and industry, as Senior Director of Global Business Development for UCB, a Brussels-headquartered global biopharmaceutical company. With a PhD from EMBL’s Structural and Computational Biology Unit, Emmanuel began his career in the biopharma…
Since joining the laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) five years ago, former EMBL postdoc and Professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Claudia Bagni, has been appointed Director of the Neurogenetics Program at KU Leuven’s Center for Human Genetics…
In 1976, Talmon Arad joined the EMBL Structural and Computational Biology Unit as a Research Technician for Kevin Leonard, whose task it was to build an electron microscope lab. Talmon had a few years’ experience in this field, and was looking forward to what turned out to be an incredible…
Patricia Rodriguez-Tomé, one of EMBL-EBI’s first recruits in 1994, is now a group leader at the CRS4 in south Sardinia, headed by EMBL-EBI’s first Director, Paolo Zanella. Patricia flew from Sardinia to Rome to meet EMBLers past and present at the staff-alumni gathering at EMBL Monterotondo.…
Matthias Mann met us at the EMBL get-together in Nice to talk about his contribution to the development of mass spectrometry and proteomics, and to the role of EMBL in his career. Tell us about your EMBL days: “I was a bit of an outsider as I came from instrumentation and physics when Wilhelm…
“Let’s not wait until memories have faded and papers be discarded at the end of a career before deciding to save our heritage.” Scientists involved in the molecular biology revolution are aware of the transforming power of their discipline for society and history. Yet, the obsessive…
It’s thanks to EMBL’s IT group that we can maintain contact with alumni via online registrations and updates – an interface which was set up in 2003 by Björn Kindler. Since his departure it has been enhanced by Matthias Helmling to carry out advanced searches and to import the records of all…
To stay in academia, you have to be convinced about the topic you are working on, and be sure that it’s going to motivate you for the next ten to fifteen years.” This was the message from former EMBL Monterotondo group leader Walter Witke at the ‘Where next after EMBL?’ event at EMBL…
The Alumni Association held their thirteenth board meeting on 11 May 2009 at EMBL Heidelberg. This was the first meeting to be chaired by Giulio Superti-Furga, who made it all the sweeter with an original Sachertorte from Vienna! A major item for discussion was the future of the John Kendrew Young…