EMBO Gold Medal

EMBO Gold Medal
outstanding contributions to the life sciences
Sponsor	European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
Date	1986
Reward	€10,000
Official website	www.embo.org/funding-awards/gold-medal

The EMBO Gold Medal is an annual award of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) given to young scientists for outstanding contributions to the life sciences in Europe.^[1] Laureates receive a medal and €10,000 and are invited to receive the award and present their research at the annual EMBO Meeting^[2] and to write a review published in The EMBO Journal. Medallists can only be nominated by Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization.

EMBO Gold Medallists

Previous EMBO Gold Medal awardees include^[1]

• 2015 Sarah Teichmann, UK and Ido Amit, IL
• 2014 Sophie Martin, CH^[3]
• 2013 Thijn Brummelkamp, NL^[4]
• 2012 Jiří Friml, BE^[5]
• 2011 Simon Boulton, UK
• 2010 Jason W. Chin, UK^[6]
• 2009 Olivier Voinnet, FR (revoked in January 2016)^[7][8]
• 2008 James Briscoe, UK^[9]
• 2007 Jan Löwe, UK
• 2006 Frank Uhlmann, UK^[10]
• 2005 Dario Alessi, UK
• 2004 María Blasco, ES^[11]
• 2003 Anthony Hyman, DE^[12]
• 2002 Amanda Fisher, UK
• 2001 Matthew Freeman, UK^[13]
• 2000 Christof Niehrs, DE^[14] and Daniel St. Johnston, UK^[15]
• 1999 Konrad Basler, CH^[16]
• 1998 Adriano Aguzzi, IT^[17]
• 1997 Dirk Görlich, DE^[18]
• 1996 Enrico Coen, UK
• 1995 Richard Treisman, UK
• 1994 Paolo Sassone-Corsi, IT
• 1993 Jim Smith, UK
• 1992 Carl-Henrik Heldin, SE
• 1991 Patrick Stragier, FR^[19]
• 1990 Erwin Wagner, AT^[20]
• 1989 Hugh Pelham, UK
• 1988 Antonio Lanzavecchia, IT^[21]
• 1987 Barbara Pearse, UK
• 1986 John Tooze, DE

References

1. Anon (2014). "EMBO Gold Medal". Heidelberg: European Molecular Biology Organization. Archived from the original on 2014-08-28.
2. Anon (2014). "The EMBO Meeting". European Molecular Biology Organization. Archived from the original on 2014-12-18.
3. EMBO Gold Medal 2014 awarded to Sophie Martin
4. Thijn Brummelkamp receives the EMBO Gold Medal 2013
5. EMBO Gold Medal 2012 awarded to Jiří Friml
6. Chin, J. W. (2011). "Reprogramming the genetic code". The EMBO Journal 30 (12): 2312–2324. doi:10.1038/emboj.2011.160. PMC 3116288. PMID 21602790.
7. "EMBO takes back Voinnet’s award, investigates other awardee who just lost a Nature Genetics paper". retractionwatch.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-15.
8. Butler, Declan (2015). "Leading plant biologist found to have committed misconduct: CNRS researcher Olivier Voinnet suspended for two years after manipulated images discovered in his work". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2015.17958.
9. Briscoe, J. (2009). "Making a grade: Sonic Hedgehog signalling and the control of neural cell fate". The EMBO Journal 28 (5): 457–465. doi:10.1038/emboj.2009.12. PMC 2647768. PMID 19197245.
10. Uhlmann, F. (2007). "What is your assay for sister-chromatid cohesion?". The EMBO Journal 26 (22): 4609–4618. doi:10.1038/sj.emboj.7601898. PMC 2080813. PMID 17962808.
11. Blasco, M. A. A. (2005). "Mice with bad ends: Mouse models for the study of telomeres and telomerase in cancer and aging". The EMBO Journal 24 (6): 1095–1103. doi:10.1038/sj.emboj.7600598. PMC 556402. PMID 15775986.
12. Hyman, A. A. (2005). "Boveri revisited". The EMBO Journal 24 (6): 1104–1110. doi:10.1038/sj.emboj.7600583. PMC 556395. PMID 15775989.
13. Freeman, M. (2002). "MEDAL REVIEW: A fly's eye view of EGF receptor signalling". The EMBO Journal 21 (24): 6635–6642. doi:10.1093/emboj/cdf679. PMC 139099. PMID 12485984.
14. Niehrs, C. (2001). "MEDAL REVIEW: The Spemann organizer and embryonic head induction". The EMBO Journal 20 (4): 631–637. doi:10.1093/emboj/20.4.631. PMC 145408. PMID 11179208.
15. St Johnston, D. (2001). "MEDAL REVIEW: The beginning of the end". The EMBO Journal 20 (22): 6169–6179. doi:10.1093/emboj/20.22.6169. PMC 125742. PMID 11707389.
16. Basler, K. (2000). "EMBO Gold Medal 1999. Waiting periods, instructive signals and positional information". The EMBO Journal 19 (6): 1168–1175. doi:10.1093/emboj/19.6.1169. PMC 305657. PMID 10716916.
17. Aguzzi, A. (1998). "Grafting mouse brains: From neurocarcinogenesis to neurodegeneration". The EMBO Journal 17 (21): 6107–6114. doi:10.1093/emboj/17.21.6107. PMC 1170937. PMID 9799220.
18. Gorlich, D. (1998). "Transport into and out of the cell nucleus". The EMBO Journal 17 (10): 2721–2727. doi:10.1093/emboj/17.10.2721. PMC 1170612. PMID 9582265.
19. Stragier, P (1991). "Dances with sigmas". The EMBO Journal 10 (12): 3559–66. PMC 453087. PMID 1935888.
20. Wagner, E. F. (1990). "EMBO medal review. On transferring genes into stem cells and mice". The EMBO Journal 9 (10): 3024–32. PMC 552026. PMID 2209535.
21. Lanzavecchia, A (1988). "Clonal sketches of the immune response". The EMBO Journal 7 (10): 2945–51. PMC 454675. PMID 3053159.