Heidelberg, 20 November 2018 - EMBO has selected 26 life science researchers within their first four years as group leaders to become EMBO Young Investigators. They join an active network of 102 current and 314 past Young Investigators and will receive support from EMBO during the foundation of their first independent laboratory.
"The accepted candidates have all shown outstanding promise in their early careers and impressed our selection committee with both the quality of their current work and their proposals for future research," says EMBO Director, Maria Leptin. "We look forward to supporting them in establishing their own research groups."
The EMBO Young Investigator Programme identifies recent group leaders with a proven record of scientific excellence and offers them access to a range of benefits during their four-year tenure. These include an award of 15,000 euros, with the potential for additional funding, mentorship by a senior scientist from the community of EMBO Members, access to training in leadership skills and responsible research practices, as well as networking opportunities.
Additional benefits provided by the Programme include the use of core facilities at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, and travel grants for the Young Investigators and their research groups to attend conferences.
The 2018 group of Young Investigators comprises scientists based in 11 countries, including two European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC) Associate Member States: India and Singapore.
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Find the fulllist with all new Young Investigators here: http://embo.org/news/press-releases/2018/embo-welcomes-twenty-six-new-young-investigators
The next application deadline is 1 April 2019. More information is available at http://www.embo.org/funding-awards/young-investigators
Selected statistics about the EMBO Young Investigators 2018
- The Programme received 195 eligible applications
- 13% of applications were successful; a proportion that is consistent with previous years
- 42% of the new Young Investigators are women.
EMBO is an organization of more than 1800 leading researchers that promotes excellence in the life sciences. The major goals of the organization are to support talented researchers at all stages of their careers, stimulate the exchange of scientific information, and help build a European research environment where scientists can achieve their best work.
For more information, visit http://www.embo.org