New EMBL Australia node

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) has created a partnership with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) to set up a new EMBL Australia node at UNSW’s Lowy Cancer Research Centre.

The new node, the UNSW Centre in Single Molecule Science, will focus on the molecular perspectives of complex biological systems and will encompass biophysics, biochemistry, cell biology as well as nanotechnology and nanofabrication.

Two new group leaders will be recruited to the centre over the next 6-12 months. The group leader positions offer stability with five years of funding and the option of extending for a further four years.

The centre forms part of UNSW’s Single Molecule Science Initiative, which is underpinned by new imaging and analysis technologies being developed by Professor Katharina Gaus, group leader at the Centre for Vascular Research at the Lowy Cancer Research Centre and deputy director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging.

“Through this centre, UNSW will join SAHMRI and Monash University in giving outstanding early-career scientists recruited from around the world the opportunity to focus on their research programs here in Australia without funding worries,” said Nadia Rosenthal, EMBL Australia’s scientific head.