Many congratulations to Tom Deegan, formerly of the School of Life Sciences in Dundee and now a group leader at the MRC Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh, for his election to the EMBO Young Investigator Programme. Tom is one of 28 new EMBO Young Investigators, who join “a vibrant network of more than 800 current and former EMBO Young Investigators, Installation Grantees and Global Investigators” (https://www.embo.org/press-releases/twenty-eight-group-leaders-become-embo-young-investigators/).