Inventas vitam juvat excoluisse per artes Vergilius Aeneid

Loosely translated "And they who bettered life on earth by new found mastery."
(Word for word: inventions enhance life which is beautified through art.)

EMBO membership includes some of the leading researchers in Europe. Forty-eight members have been awarded the Nobel Prize.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008
Harald zur Hausen (EMBO Member) received one half of the prize for his discovery of "human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer" and the other half was awarded jointly to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier (EMBO Member) for their discovery of "human immunodeficiency virus".

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008
Roger Y. Tsien (Associate Member) received one third of the prize "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP".

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007
Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin J. Evans (EMBO Member) and Oliver Smithies. "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"

Aaron Ciechanover (EMBO Member), Avram Hershko (EMBO Member) and Irwin Rose received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004 "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"

Sydney Brenner (EMBO Member), H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston (EMBO Member) received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death".

Kurt Wüthrich (EMBO Member) received one half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002 "for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution".

Congratulations to all.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - EMBO Members

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry