European Molecular Biology Organization

The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) promotes excellence in molecular life sciences in Europe by recognizing and fostering talented scientists. Since 1964, leading scientists are elected annually to become EMBO Members based on proven excellence in research. Members number more than 1300 today with a further 80 associate members worldwide. Forty-five scientists from the EMBO membership have received the Nobel Prize. More than half of the EMBO Members are involved in guiding the execution of the many EMBO initiatives offered to life scientists and have a significant impact on the direction of European life sciences.

Leading peer-reviewed journals – The EMBO Journal, EMBO reports and Molecular Systems Biology – span a broad spectrum of topics of molecular biology and reflect how science is shaping the world. A new journal from early 2009, EMBO Molecular Medicine, will publish original research offering molecular insight into the cellular and systemic processes underlying human disease.

EMBO-sponsored training and networking activities impact thousands of scientists every year, promoting collaboration in all areas of molecular biology – within its 27 member states, in Europe and neighboring countries, and worldwide. EMBO is renowned for the quality and funding of these programmes and activities that include EMBO Courses and Workshops, EMBO Long-and Short-term Fellowships, EMBO Young Investigator Programme, EMBO Science & Society Programme, EMBO Installation Grants and EMBO Women in Science.

Annual awards, such as the EMBO Gold Medal and the EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences, recognise significant contributions of European researchers to the advancement of science.

The EMBO Meeting advances the life sciences, attracting around 2000 life scientists to an annual scientific programme full of the latest research across a number of fields.

The EMBO Executive Director is Professor Hermann Bujard.

For more information: http://www.embo.org

See also

*European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
*European Life Scientist Organisation (ELSO)
*Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)
*European Research Area (ERA)

*"Molecular Systems Biology"
*"EMBO Journal"
*"EMBO Reports"
*"EMBO Molecular Medicine"
*"The EMBO Meeting"

External links

* [http://www.embo.org/ EMBO Website]
* [http://www.the-embo-meeting.org/ The EMBO Meeting Website]