Nektarios Tavernarakis, Professor of the Medical School of the University of Crete and Chair of the Foundation for Research and Technology- Hellas (FORTH), was unanimously elected President of the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC), for a four-year term starting in January 2025. He is the first Greek to hold this position, having been the country’s scientific representative at the EMBC since 2022. In this capacity, he contributed to Greece joining, in 2023, the Installation Grants program of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), which provides funding for young scientists, who wish to settle in the country.
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