Rolf Apweiler: what I’ve learned

From student helper to EMBL-EBI Director, Rolf Apweiler has shaped the journey of EMBL and bioinformatics for over four decades

Where ‘Sleeping Beauty’ is more than a fairy tale

Kendrew awardee Irma Querques keeps ‘writing’ scientific success stories, and this unique transposon is often at the heart of them

EMBL Hamburg’s ‘origin story’: Kenneth Holmes and the first synchrotron diffraction experiment

This year EMBL Hamburg turns 50 as an official EMBL site. However, EMBL’s connection to the city goes back further than 1975. In fact, EMBO funded experiments and were taking place in Hamburg half a decade earlier, and an ‘EMBL’ laboratory had already been constructed there before the…

Election Results: EAA board Treasurer and Deputy Treasurer

Announcing the results of the 2025 EMBL Alumni Association (EAA) Treasurer and Deputy Treasurer elections

Announcing the 2025 EMBL Alumni Award recipients: Irma Querques and Florent Cipriani

EMBL Alumni Relations in 2024: a year in review

As 2024 draws to a close, we would like to thank alumni for their continued support of EMBL.

Foundations for the Future: EMBL in the 1990s

In the second session of Coffee with EMBL this year, held online on Friday 14 June 2024, EMBL alumni and current staff reflected on the 1990s as part of the “5 decades of EMBL” series, and considered how the culture and innovations of the nineties paved the way for current-day EMBL. Moderator…

Looking back: EMBL in the 1970s and 1980s

A special Coffee with EMBL session celebrated EMBL’s 50th anniversary by inviting alumni to reflect on the organisation’s first two decades

12 moments of philanthropy: #3 Environmental Research Initiative

Showing how smaller donations can be little drops that create big ripples.

Retirees’ Afternoon 2024: reflecting on 50 years of EMBL

On Friday, 22nd March, EMBL Heidelberg hosted the annual alumni Retirees' Afternoon, welcoming back a host of EMBL retirees and pensioners to mark 50 years of EMBL.