Dr Saravana Ramasamy has been elected as a European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) Young Investigator in recognition of his scientific excellence. 

Saravana leads the Integrative Skeletal Physiology group at the MRC LMS, and is one of 30 life sciences researchers selected as EMBO Young Investigators this year. Saravana and his group are interested in exploring the novel functions of blood vessels during development and ageing.

The EMBO Young Investigator Programme supports life scientists who have been group leaders for less than four years and have an excellent track record of scientific achievements. Saravana joins an existing network of 73 current and 384 former members of the programme.

Maria Lepton, EMBO Director, spoke of this year’s awards:

“We are delighted to welcome the new Young Investigators to the EMBO community and look forward to support them in leading and further developing their independent laboratories. These 30 life scientists have demonstrated scientific excellence and are among the next generation of leading life scientists. Their participation in the EMBO Young Investigator Programme will help them in this critical phase of their careers.”

Saravana Ramasamy reflected on his award:

“The EMBO young investigator award recognises the research excellence of my team and provides remarkable training, networking, and collaborative opportunities which will be beneficial in taking our research to the next level. For me, it is a great honour to receive this award and be part of this scientific community.”

EMBO is an organisation of more than 1,800 leading researchers that promotes excellence in the life sciences in Europe and beyond. 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 research environment where scientists can achieve their best work. 

The 2020 group of EMBO Young Investors comprises scientists based in 11 countries. A full list is below:

EMBO Young Investigator	Research interest	Affiliation	Location
Alejo Efeyan	Interplay of nutrients, hormones and human disease	Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO)	Madrid, ES
Andela Saric	Computational biological and soft matter physics	University College London	London, UK
Antoine- Emmanuel Saliba	Single-cell analysis of bacterial infection	Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI)	Würzburg, DE
Benjamin D. Engel	Interplay between organelle form and function	Helmholtz Zentrum München	Neuherberg, DE
Björn Burmann	Structural and dynamical adaptions of protein machines	University of Gothenburg	Gothenburg, SE
Camilo Perez	Molecular mechanism of cell wall membrane proteins	Biozentrum, University of Basel	Basel, CH
Christoph Zechner	Signal processing and heterogeneity in biological systems	Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics	Dresden, DE
Debojyoti Chakraborty	RNA signatures in cell- fate decisions	CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology	New Delhi, IN
Elodie Segura	Biology of human antigen-presenting cells	Institut Curie	Paris, FR
Guoliang Cui	T-cell metabolism	German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)	Heidelberg, DE
Hansong Ma	Genetics of mitochondrial DNA in evolution and disease	Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge	Cambridge, UK
Ines Anna Drinnenberg	Evolution of centromeres and chromosome segregation	Institut Curie	Paris, FR
Julia Santiago	Plant signaling mechanisms	University of Lausanne	Lausanne, CH
Julian Stingele	Maintenance of genome stability	Ludwig- Maximilians- Universität	Munich, DE
Julien Duxin	Mechanisms of DNA repair and DNA replication	University of Copenhagen	Copenhagen, DK
Leila Akkari	Macrophages in cancer	Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI)	Amsterdam, NL
Luca Tiberi	Regulation of neural stem cell and neuron biology in brain disorders and cancer	University of Trento	Trento, IT
Marc Güell	Translational synthetic biology	Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)	Barcelona, ES

Maria Robles	Temporal dynamics of proteins	Ludwig- Maximilians- Universität	Munich, DE
Martijn Luijsterburg	Transcription and DNA repair	Leiden University Medical Centre	Leiden, NL
Mina Gouti	Stem cell modeling of development and disease	Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine	Berlin, DE
Nicholas M. I. Taylor	Mechanism and regulation of transport across the membrane	University of Copenhagen	Copenhagen, DK
Nicholas McGranahan	Cancer genome evolution	University College London	London, UK
Nuria Montserrat	Pluripotency for organ regeneration	Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)	Barcelona, ES
Sam Behjati	Developmental origins of cancer	Wellcome Sanger Institute	Hinxton, UK
Saravana Ramasamy	Integrative Skeletal Physiology	Imperial College London	London, UK
Simon Bekker- Jensen	Molecular details of cellular stress responses	University of Copenhagen	Copenhagen, DK
T anmay Bharat	Structural cell biology of bacterial biofilm formation	University of Oxford	Oxford, UK
Verena Ruprecht	Cell and tissue dynamics	Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)	Barcelona, ES
Yen-Ping Hsueh	Molecular interactions between C.elegans and nematode-trapping fungi	Academia Sinica	Taipei, TW