elected to prestigious EMBO
Ira Mellman, Sterling Professor and chair of the Department of Cell Biology, is one of the three Americans elected associate members of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
All told, 40 leading life scientists were elected to EMBO membership this year.
EMBO elects members annually on the basis of their proven excellence in research. Over 1,200 of Europe's foremost researchers have been recognized by EMBO as the very best in their field, and 38 members have received the Nobel Prize. Only 60 investigators outside of Europe have been honored as elected EMBO associate members.
"It is a real honor to be one of the very few U.S. scientists to be recognized by our most distinguished European colleagues by election to EMBO membership," says Mellman. "Science is truly an international endeavor, and I certainly plan to use this connection to further scientific exchange at all levels."
Mellman uses a combination of biochemical, genetic and imaging methods to understand complex functions of cell biology. His work has revealed basic biological mechanisms that regulate the immune responses, particularly how dendritic cells initiate and control all antigen-specific immune responses.
Another area of his research involves cell polarity and asymmetry and the molecular mechanisms that sort, target and transport cell membrane components to their different and appropriate membrane locations in many different types of cells.
A member of the Yale faculty since 1981, Mellman was founding director of Yale's coordinated graduate program in biological and biomedical sciences 19972001. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Immunobiology at the School of Medicine and is an affiliate member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. He was named scientific director of the Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center in 2003.
Among his many honors, Mellman is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and of the Leukemia Society of America, and he has been the recipient of a Swebilius Award, the President's Research Development Award (Leukemia Society of America), and the Yale Science and Engineering Society Medal.
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