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 E-Mail Heidelberg/Germany and Cambridge/USA, 4 February 2021 - EMBO Press announces the appointment of immunologist Facundo Batista, PhD, as Chief Editor of The EMBO Journal. Facundo Batista, who is a Professor at Harvard Medical School and the first Associate Director of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge/USA, takes up the appointment with immediate effect. He takes over from Bernd Pulverer, Head of Scientific Publishing at EMBO after a decade in the role, who will lead ...

"We will further sharpen the unique profile EMBO Reports has among the EMBO Press portfolio to ensure the journal optimally serves the scientific community", says Pulverer. "This includes developing the scope, editorial criteria and format of the journal to address its global readership and to engage better with early career researchers. We will hone selection criteria to efficiently share the research that is most valuable to the broader scientific community - such as welcoming orthogonal app...