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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.
3 August 2009
BS members honoured by Queen and Royal Society
Two members of the Biochemical Society have been awarded Royal Medals from the Royal Society.
7 July 2009
Professor Pete Downes appointed new Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dundee
Professor Downes, a member of the Biochemical Society and chair of its Policy Committee, is currently Vice Principal and Head of the College of Life Sciences at the University.
2 July 2009
Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, Kt, FRS
The University of Leicester has conferred a Distinguished Honorary Fellowships on Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys. This is the highest accolade the University can award.
16 June 2009
Queen's Birthday honours for BS members
The Biochemical Society offers its congratulations to the following members honoured in HM The Queen’s 2009 Birthday Honours List:
12 May 2009
BJ editor elected to The National Academy of Sciences
The Society congratulates Shizuo Akira, director of Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, and an editor of the Biochemical Journal, who has been elected a foreign associate of The National Academy of Sciences.
7 April 2009
Society president in line for BBSRC job
Professor Sir Tom Blundell FRS, president of the Biochemical Society and Sir William Dunn Professor and Head of School of Biological Sciences at Cambridge University, has been selected as the preferred candidate to become Chair of the BBSRC.
3 April 2009
Fresh face for Biochemistry Society
The new Biochemistry Society website is now live! See it here.
16 March 2009
Biochemical Society Awards in 2010
The Society is pleased to announce the following award winners:
20 January 2009
Victor Darley-Usmar
Congratulations to Professor Victor Darley-Usmar, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who has been made president of the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine (formerly The Oxygen Society).
4 December 2008
Dame Jean Thomas and Sir Martin Evans made honorary members of the Biochemical Society
The Biochemical Society was pleased to welcome two new honorary members last night: Dame Jean Thomas and Sir Martin Evans.
4 November 2008
John E. Ladbury
Congratulations to John E. Ladbury (formerly of UCL) who has been appointed as the Edward Rotan Distinguished Professor in Cancer Research at the M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
8 July 2008
Douglas Kell new Chief Executive of the BBSRC
The Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills has announced the appointment of Professor Douglas Kell as the next Chief Executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
19 June 2008
Biochemist Society member in Queen’s Birthday Honours List
We are pleased to announce that Society member Professor John Richard Coggins, FRSE, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
20 May 2008
Society member inducted into science ‘Hall of Fame’
Dario Alessi, Deputy Director of the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit and Professor of Cell Signalling in the College of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee, has been elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of London.
26 March 2008
BJ Deputy Chair is recipient of prestigious award in plant biology
Steve Huber (USDA-ARS, University of Illinois) is the 2008 recipient of the Lawrence Bogorad Award for Excellence in Plant Biology Research from the American Society of Plant Biologists.
2 January 2008
New Year’s Honours for Biochemical Society members
The Biochemical Society would like to congratulate its members who were honoured in the New Year’s Honours list.
2 November 2007
New Chair for the Biochemical Journal
Peter Shepherd will take up the post of Chair of the Editorial Board in January 2008 when George Banting retires after 4 years in the role.
1 November 2007
New Editor-in Chief for Clinical Science
R.Clinton Webb will become Editor-in-Chief from January 2008 when Anna Dominiczak stands down after 4 years in the post.
28 September 2007
European Science Foundation has first female Chief Executive
The European Science Foundation announced that Professor Marja Makarow will succeed Dr. John Marks to be its Chief Executive, making her the first woman to take the top post in the ESF’s 33-year history.
16 August 2007
Biology of the Cell Young Investigator Awards
At the 5th International Conference of Aquaporin held at Nara, Japan (13 - 16 July 2007) Biology of the Cell Young Investigator Awards were presented to the following:
14 August 2007
Biochemical Journal Young Investigator: Teresa Neumaier
11 July 2007
Biochemical Journal Young Investigator: Susan Schwab
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