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| Formation | 1911 |
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| Legal status | Not-for-profit organisation |
| Purpose | Advancing molecular bioscience |
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Membership | Over 4,600 |
Chief Executive | Kate Baillie |
Main organ | Biochemical Society Council |
| Affiliations | FEBS |
| Website | Biochemical Society |
The Biochemical Society is a learned society in the United Kingdom in the field of biochemistry, including all the cellular and molecular biosciences.
It currently has over 4,600 members, 80% of which are in the UK. It is affiliated with the European body, Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS). The Society's current President (2023) is Professor Dame Julia Goodfellow. [1]
The Society's headquarters are in London.
The Society was founded in 1911 by Benjamin Moore, W.D. Halliburton and others, under the name of the Biochemical Club. It acquired the existing Biochemical Journal in 1912.
The Society's name changed to the Biochemical Society in 1913.[ citation needed ]
In 2005, the headquarters of the society moved from Portland Place to purpose-built offices in Holborn.[ citation needed ]
In 2009, the headquarters moved again to Charles Darwin House, near Gray's Inn Road.[ citation needed ]
Past presidents include Professor Ron Laskey, Sir Philip Cohen, and Sir Tom Blundell.
The Society makes a number of awards, nine annually and others either biennially or triennially, to acknowledge excellence and achievement in both specific and general fields of science. The awards comprise of the Morton Lecture, the Colworth Medal, and the Centenary Award. [2]
The Society's wholly owned publishing subsidiary, Portland Press , publishes a magazine, The Biochemist, and several online academic journals:
The Society's flagship publication, the Biochemical Journal, celebrated its centenary in 2006 with the launch of a free online archive back to its first issue in 1906.
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Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, FRS was a German-British biologist, physician and biochemist. He was a pioneer scientist in the study of cellular respiration, a biochemical process in living cells that extracts energy from food and oxygen and makes it available to drive the processes of life. He is best known for his discoveries of two important sequences of chemical reactions that take place in the cells of nearly all organisms, including humans, other than anaerobic microorganisms, namely the citric acid cycle and the urea cycle. The former, often eponymously known as the "Krebs cycle", is the sequence of metabolic reactions that allows cells of oxygen-respiring organisms to obtain far more ATP from the food they consume than anaerobic processes such as glycolysis can supply; and its discovery earned Krebs a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953. With Hans Kornberg, he also discovered the glyoxylate cycle, a slight variation of the citric acid cycle found in plants, bacteria, protists, and fungi.
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