11 February 2024 – EMBO and FEBS are delighted to announce that Anne Ephrussi, emerita of EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, is the recipient of this 12 months’s FEBS | EMBO Ladies in Science Award. It celebrates excellent feminine life scientists, recognizing their analysis achievements and contribution to a selected self-discipline over the previous 5 years in Europe. The awardees are inspiring position fashions who assist pave the way in which for future generations of ladies in science.
11 February 2024 – EMBO and FEBS are delighted to announce that Anne Ephrussi, emerita of EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, is the recipient of this 12 months’s FEBS | EMBO Ladies in Science Award. It celebrates excellent feminine life scientists, recognizing their analysis achievements and contribution to a selected self-discipline over the previous 5 years in Europe. The awardees are inspiring position fashions who assist pave the way in which for future generations of ladies in science.
“It’s a large honour and most humbling to obtain the FEBS | EMBO Ladies in Science Award. This recognition is actually because of the quite a few vibrant scientists—lab members and colleagues—with whom I’ve had the nice fortune to work, every with their very own concepts and expertise, their beneficiant and open minds,” Ephrussi says. “I’m profoundly grateful for having had the privilege of finishing up publicly funded elementary analysis and contributing to coaching generations of younger scientists at EMBL. It has additionally been tremendously stimulating and satisfying collaborating in quite a few actions of EMBO through the years.”
Ephrussi receives the award for elucidating mechanisms of mRNA transport from the location of transcription to particular areas inside polarized cells and the regulation of translation. She spent most of her profession engaged on a single Drosophila gene referred to as oskar. Her latest analysis revealed that the transition of oskar ribonucleoprotein granules from the liquid to the stable section is essential for his or her position in embryonic growth. She additionally confirmed that the transport of oskar mRNA to its right location on the pole is achieved by switching from dynein- to kinesin-mediated transport alongside microtubules.
EMBO Director Fiona Watt says: “I wish to congratulate Anne on this well-deserved award. Her dedication to high-quality analysis and coaching is inspirational.”
Along with her analysis, Ephrussi is honoured for excelling in mentoring younger scientists in addition to overseeing scientific coaching, conferences, training and public engagement. She demonstrated her dedication to coaching life scientists in any respect levels of their careers by her management of the EMBL Worldwide Centre for Superior Coaching from 2005 to 2023. Ephrussi is extremely revered within the worldwide neighborhood of RNA biologists and supported it by serving on a number of committees and advisory boards. She has been an EMBO Member since 1995 and was a member of EMBO Council.
“Anne has been a task mannequin not just for scientific efficiency but additionally for her dedication to institutional enterprise and training. In all these elements, she has been a pacesetter whereas on the identical time remaining a humble individual with nice and real human qualities,” says EMBO Member Denis Duboule, a professor at Collège de France, Paris, and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
The FEBS | EMBO Ladies in Science Award 2024, consisting of 10,000 euros and a bronze statuette, can be offered to Ephrussi on the 48thFEBS Congress in Milan, Italy, the place she’s going to give a plenary lecture on 3 July 2024.