2022 EMBL Alumni Awards Winners announced
Two former EMBL staff members have been recognised for their outstanding contributions to research in the fields of brain evolution and cancer.
Alumni News
EMBL in Italy event held at GSK Vaccines in Siena
The GSK Vaccines site in Siena hosted the annual EMBL in Italy event on 26-27 May 2022. The hybrid meeting brought together industry leaders, representatives from biotech start-ups, data scientists, and researchers from academia.
Meet the next Head of EMBL Grenoble
Kristina Djinović-Carugo was appointed as the next Head of EMBL Grenoble
Break the bias – an interview with Louise Mullany
This year, the theme for International Women’s Day, celebrated on 8 March, is ‘Break the bias’. We caught up with Louise Mullany, Professor in Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham in the UK, to explore what bias in science looks like and how to address it.
Academia, industry, or somewhere else?
New analysis of EMBL alumni highlights an evolving career landscape with a wide range of opportunities for early-career life scientists.
Investing in Italy by translating EMBL expertise to the market
Experiences at EMBL Rome led former group leader to establish his start-up in Italy, developing a new generation of gene therapies Technologies and methods developed for fundamental research are often considered to be solely for academic purposes – aimed at building knowledge instead of…
EMBL Alumni Relations in 2021: a year of growth
We’d like to share our deepest gratitude for the support given to EMBL by its alumni in 2021 — as members of the EMBL Alumni Association and, where relevant, as volunteers, ambassadors, participants and donors.
Denis Duboule Selected as Inaugural Kafatos Lectures Speaker
EMBL alumnus Denis Duboule has been selected as the speaker for the 2022 inaugural Kafatos Lectures, which aims to bring groundbreaking, relevant science to the general public annually.
Together, We Can Make a Difference
Those who have worked for EMBL know the enormous power of its people, its ethos and its way of doing things.
Addressing the biodiversity crisis with 12,000 reptiles – or one database
An EMBL alumnus reflects on the database he started as a graduate student 25 years ago at EMBL