|
1 January 2012
Sir Venki Ramakrishnan knighted in New Year’s Honours List
Professor Ramakrishnan, an honorary member of the Biochemical Society, was made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year’s Honours List.
17 November 2011
Christine Winterbourn wins New Zealand’s top science award
New Zealand’s top science and technology honour, the Rutherford Medal, has been awarded to a woman for the first time.
2 August 2011
Society member new director for the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit
Professor Dario Alessi FRS, FRSE , has been appointed Director of the Medical Research Council’s (MRC) Protein Phosphorylation Unit at the University of Dundee. He will succeed the current Director, Sir Philip Cohen, in April 2012.
6 July 2011
Society members elected to Academy of Medical Sciences
Two members of the Biochemical Society are among the latest group of distinguished scientists to be elected to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
11 June 2011
Sir Hugh Pelham in Queen's Birthday Honours List
Dr Hugh Pelham, a member of the Biochemical Society, was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours list announced on 10 June 2011.
9 June 2011
Society member honoured by Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
The Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons has awarded Soraya Shirazi-Beechey Honorary Associateship of the Royal College.
20 May 2011
Society members elected to Royal Society
Two members of the Biochemical Society are among the latest group of distinguished scientists to be elected to the Royal Society of London.
9 May 2011
Biochemical Society members elected to NAS
Two members of the Biochemical Society have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
20 April 2011
EMBO Gold Medal 2011 awarded to Dr Simon Boulton
Groundbreaking research on DNA repair, genome integrity and cancer
3 March 2011
Professor Marta Cascante wins ICREA Academy Award
Professor Marta Cascante (University of Barcelona) has been named as one of the winners of the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) awards for excellence in research.
28 February 2011
Biochemical Society Awards in 2012
The Society is pleased to announce the following award winners:
7 February 2011
Stephen S Chang Award for 2011
Member Colin Ratledge, Emeritus Professor in Biological Sciences in the University of Hull, UK, has been awarded the prestigious Stephen S Chang Award for 2011 by the American Oil Chemists' Society.
4 January 2011
Biochemical Society Members in New Year's Honours List
Two members of the Biochemical Society were recognized in the Queen's New Year's Honours list announced on 31 December 2010.
21 December 2010
Professor Philip Kuchel named Executive Director of Singapore BioImaging Consortium
On 15 December 2010 Professor Philip Kuchel took over from Professor Sir George Radda, the founder of the Singapore BioImaging Consortium (SBIC), as its Executive Director.
17 December 2010
Sharon Stack named Professor of Biochemistry and Director of Harper Cancer Research Institute
7 December 2010
David Komander selected for EMBO Young Investigator Programme
David Komander (MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology, Cambridge) has been selected for the EMBO Young Investigator Programme. These outstanding young group leaders are selected annually by EMBO members for their high research standards.
19 October 2010
Society medal designer on the money
Natasha Ratcliffe, who designed the Biochemical Society Early Career Research Award medal, has been picked from nearly 30,000 entries in a Royal Mint public competition to design 50p coins commemorating the Olympics and Paralympics.
18 June 2010
'High fives' all round as the Biochemical Journal breaks the Impact Factor 5 barrier!
In the latest data released by ISI (2009 Journal Citation Reports © Thomson Reuters) the Biochemical Journal's Impact Factor has increased to 5.155.
15 June 2010
Queen's Birthday Honours list
The Society congratulates Professors D. S. Latchman and D. Smith, who received OBEs in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
24 May 2010
Society members inducted into science ‘Hall of Fame’
Three members of the Biochemical Society have been elected Fellows of The Royal Society of London.
21 May 2010
Three Society members inducted into science's ‘Hall of Fame’
Three members of the Biochemical Society have been elected Fellows of The Royal Society of London.
23 April 2010
Sir Paul Nurse to be next President of the Royal Society
The Council of the Royal Society has agreed to nominate Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse to be the new President of the Royal Society, it was announced today. Sir Paul is a member of the Biochemical Society.
19 February 2010
Mind the gap
In December 2009, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President and the White House Open Government Initiative launched a public consultation on Public Access Policy.
27 January 2010
BS Member Trevor Penning to Receive NPA Award
4 January 2010
Biochemical Society Member in Honours’ list
The Society sends its congratulations to Professor Charles Roland Wolf, a member of the Biochemical Society honoured in the New Year’s Honours’ list.
21 December 2009
The 2009 Rosalind Kornfeld Award from the Society for Glycobiology
The Society for Glycobiology has announced that the 2009 Rosalind Kornfeld Award is jointly awarded to Mary Catherine Glick and Roland Schauer.
9 November 2009
BJ paper tops most-cited list
A paper from Sir Philip Cohen and his co-workers in Dundee was recently named as the most-cited article in cell biology by a European research group over the period 1996-2007 in a recent issue of Lab Times .
28 October 2009
EMBO welcomes 66 leading life scientists as members
The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has announced the election of 66 leading life scientists to its membership, 6 of them from the Biochemical Society.
3 September 2009
Society for Reproduction and Fertility sign membership agreement with Portland Customer Services
Portland Customer Services (PCS) is pleased to announce that it will be providing Association Management services on behalf of the Society for Reproduction and Fertility (SRF).
27 August 2009
Call for Nominations
To celebrate the Biochemical Society’s centenary in 2011, you are invited to nominate a colleague for the prestigious Centenary Awards.
|
|
| |
| Copyright © 2012 Biochemical Society. No part of this site including images and text may be reproduced without express written permission from the Biochemical Society |
|
|
|
|
|
search our archive
