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Feldberg Prize for Anne Ephrussi
The Head of the Developmental Biology Unit and Director of EMBL’s International Centre for Advanced Training receives the German Feldberg Prize 2022 Prize winner Anne Ephrusi.
Anne Ephrussi has been awarded the German Feldberg Prize 2022 in recognition of her outstanding research. Anne’s scientific work focuses on understanding how RNA molecules are transported and their translation regulated in animal development. In 2007 she was appointed Head of the Developmental Biology Unit at EMBL Heidelberg, and in 2019 she became Director of EMBL’s International Centre for Advanced Training (EICAT). She is an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the Academia Europaea, and the French Academy of Sciences.
Participant from Portugal defines career path and pursues a PhD in medical imaging Silvia Dias Almeida’s visit to EMBL, facilitated by the Scientific Visitor Programme, helped solidify her career plans and set her up for a competitive PhD programme in biomedical imaging. Credit: Hanna de Groot
As a young girl, Silvia Dias Almeida learned resolve from a mother who studied for her own university degree each night after the dinner table was cleared, and then again after she put a young Silvia to bed. Silvia’s mother soon became an agronomic engineer, exemplifying the drive to succeed in science.