EMBO announced that Dr. Mikiko Siomi, a member of The RNA Society of Japan, was elected as one of the New EMBO Associate Member 2018, joining a group of more than 1800 of the best researchers in Europe and around the world. 22 new members (35.5%) are women.

13 researchers living in Japan are searving as EMBO Associate Member.
Shizuo Akira
Piero Carninci
Hiroshi Hamada
Nobutaka Hirokawa
Toshiyuki Nagata
Keiichi Namba
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Mikiko C. Siomi
Masatoshi Takeichi
Tadatsugu Taniguchi
Yoshinori Watanabe
Shinya Yamanaka
Mitsuhiro Yanagida