Maria Leptin was last week appointed the new head of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). She is only the fifth director in the 45-year history of the organization, which has more than 1,300 members.
Leptin, who works on cell shapes and immunity at the University of Cologne, Germany, says that she hopes EMBO will improve connections with India, China and the United States, and that it can influence governments on policy matters such as stem-cell research.
She will move to EMBO's base at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, in January next year.
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For an interview with Maria Leptin, see http://tinyurl.com/Leptininterview
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German molecular biologist to head EMBO. Nature 460, 317 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/460317d
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