The EMBO Gold Medal is an annual award of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) given to young scientists for outstanding contributions to the

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in Europe. Laureates receive a medal and €10,000 and are invited to receive the award and present their research at the annual EMBO Meeting and to write a review published in ''

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''. Medallists can only be nominated by

EMBO Member Membership of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) is an award granted by the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in recognition of "research excellence and the outstanding achievements made by a life scientist". , 88 EMB ...

EMBO Gold Medallists

Previous EMBO Gold Medal awardees include * 2022 Prisca Liberali, CH * 2021 Andrea Ablasser, CH * 2020 , BE, and , DE * 2019

M. Madan Babu M. Madan Babu is an Indian-American computational biologist and bioinformatician. He is the endowed chair in biological data science and director of the center of excellence for data-driven discovery at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ...

, UK, and

Paola Picotti Paola Picotti (born 1977) is an Italian biologist who is Professor for Molecular Systems Biology at ETH Zürich. She is Deputy Head of the Institute for Molecular Systems Biology. Her research investigates how the conformational changes of protein ...

, CH * 2018 , CH, and Melina Schuh, DE * 2017

Maya Schuldiner Maya Schuldiner is an Israeli biologist working at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her research focuses on organelles, using high-throughput screening and imaging techniques to discover the functions of proteins in yeast. She received the EMB ...

, IL * 2016 , CH, and Ben Lehner, ES * 2015 Sarah Teichmann, UK, and Ido Amit, IL * 2014

Sophie G. Martin Sophie Geneviève Elisabeth Martin Benton is a Swiss biologist who is Professor and Director of the Department of Fundamental Microbiology at the University of Lausanne. Her research investigates the molecular processes that underpin cellular fus ...

, CH * 2013 , NL * 2012 , BE * 2011

Simon Boulton Simon Joseph Boulton is a British scientist who has made important contributions to the understanding of DNA repair and the treatment of cancer resulting from DNA damage. He currently occupies the position of Senior Scientist and group leader ...

, UK * 2010 , UK * 2009

Olivier Voinnet Olivier Voinnet (born 1973) is a French biologist and professor of RNA biology at the ETH Zurich. Voinnet obtained his PhD in 2001 in England in the group of David Baulcombe and later obtained a position as an independent group leader at the CNR ...

, FR (revoked in January 2016) * 2008

James Briscoe James Briscoe One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: is a senior group leader at the Francis Crick Institute in London and editor-in-chief of the journal ''Development (journal), Develop ...

, UK * 2007

Jan Löwe Jan Löwe (born 14 July 1967) is a German molecular and structural biologist and the Director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK. He became Director of the MRC-LMB in April 2018, succ ...

, UK * 2006 Frank Uhlmann, UK * 2005 Dario Alessi, UK * 2004 María Blasco, ES * 2003

Anthony Hyman Anthony Hyman (17 April 1946 – 19 December 1999) was a British academic, writer, broadcaster, and Islamicist. Anthony Hyman was a son of the author, journalist, and film writer Alan Hyman (1910–1999). His siblings were the author Mira ...

, DE * 2002

Amanda Fisher Dame Amanda Gay Fisher is a British cell biologist and Director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) London Institute of Medical Sciences at the Hammersmith Hospital campus of Imperial College London, where she is also a Professor leading the ...

, UK * 2001 , UK * 2000 , DE and , UK * 1999 Konrad Basler, CH * 1998 , IT * 1997 , DE * 1996

Enrico Coen Enrico Sandro Coen (born 29 September 1957) is a British biologist who studies the mechanisms used by plants to create complex and varied flower structures. Coen's research has aimed to define the developmental rules that govern flower and lea ...

, UK * 1995

Richard Treisman Sir Richard Henry Treisman (born 7 October 1954) One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: is a British scientist specialising in the molecular biology of cancer. Treisman is a director o ...

, UK * 1994 Paolo Sassone-Corsi, IT * 1993 Jim Smith, UK * 1992 Carl-Henrik Heldin, SE * 1991 , FR * 1990 Erwin Wagner, AT * 1989

Hugh Pelham Sir Hugh Reginald Brentnall Pelham, (born 26 August 1954) is a cell biologist who has contributed to our understanding of the body's response to rises in temperature through the synthesis of heat shock proteins. He served as director of the Med ...

, UK * 1988 Antonio Lanzavecchia, IT * 1987

Barbara Pearse Barbara Mary Frances Pearse Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (born 24 March 1948, Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, England) is a British biological scientist. She works at the Medical Research Council (UK), Medical Research Council Laboratory of Mol ...

, UK * 1986

John Tooze John Tooze FRS (16 May 1938 – 19 May 2021) was a British research scientist, research administrator, author, science journalist, former executive director of EMBObr>EMBC director of research services at the Cancer Research UK London Researc ...

, DE

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EMBO Gold Medallists

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