Core to EMBO is the recognition of excellence. The EMBO Meeting highlights the latest scientific contributions advancing the life sciences. During the conference, an EMBO award presentation will recognize an example of excellence from the life science community.

EMBO Gold Medal 2011 Monday 12 September 18:45 - 19:45 - Yellow Level, Room OE F1 Session chair: Maria Leptin DE Awarded annually, the EMBO Gold Medal recognizes outstanding contributions of young researchers in the molecular life sciences.
The EMBO Gold Medal 2011 has been awarded to Simon Boulton of Cancer Research UK's London Research Institute. He will present a lecture entitled: Controlling recombination in mitotic and meiotic cells For more detail about his achievements, please see the EMBO press release.
Winner of the EMBO Gold Medal 2010: Jason W. Chin from the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB), Cambridge, UK  was presented with the medal at The EMBO Meeting 2010 in Barcelona.