Each member is represented in EU-LIFE by its Director or Scientific Director. The Board of Directors (BoD) is the highest decision-making body of the alliance. The BoD elects two of its members to serve as a Chair and a Co-chair for a period of two years.
Chair
Marta Miączyńska, IIMCB
Co-Chair
Anders H. Lund, BRIC
Directors
Luis Serrano, CRG
Pavel Tomančák, CEITEC
Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, IEO
Christine Durinx, VIB
Dirk Schübeler, FMI
Maria Manuel Mota, GIMM
Claire Rougeulle, Curie
Samuli Ripatti, FIMM
John Vontas, IMBB-FORTH
Maike Sander, MDC
Maria Rescigno, CeMM
David M. Smith, RBI
Simon Cook, Babraham
Edith Heard, Crick
Thijn Brummelkamp, NKI
EU-LIFE Executive Director
Marta Agostinho
Former EU-LIFE Chairs
Mónica Bettencourt-Dias, IGC (2022-2023)
René Medema, NKI (2020-2021)
Geneviève Almouzni, Curie (2018-2019)
Jo Bury, VIB (2016-2017)
Luis Serrano, CRG (2014-2015)
Emeritus directors
Markus Dettenhofer, CEITEC
Jo Bury, VIB
Susan Gasser, FMI
Monica Bettencourt-Dias, IGC
Jonathan Howard, IGC
Geneviève Almouzni, Curie
Alain Puisieux, Curie
Mark Daly, FIMM
Jaakko Kaprio, FIMM
Iannis Talianidis, IMBB-FORTH
Thomas Sommer, MDC
Wolf Reik, Babraham
Michael Wakelam, Babraham
Kristian Helin, BRIC