Dr. Poirazi joins 65 other outstanding researchers who have been newly-elected to the organisation which promotes excellence in the life sciences. There are currently 1700 EMBO members and more than 59 Nobel laureates amongst the membership.
The goals of EMBO are to support talented researchers at all stages of their careers and help build a European research environment of scientific excellence. Dr. Poirazi received this extremely prestigious election as a recognition of her dedicated, longstanding efforts and seminal findings on the role of dendrites in neuronal computations and learning/memory functions.