Alex Toker, professor of pathology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, will begin his term Oct. 1.

He made seminal contributions to the field of DNA repair and served for decades as a leader at the National Institutes of Health.

She will be one of two official tweeters for the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's annual meeting in April.

She will be one of two official tweeters for the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's annual meeting in April.

The program, now in its second year, was created to achieve two chief goals: demystify the peer-review process and train the next generation of journal leaders. Each junior associate editor will serve a two-year term.

She studied plasma lipoproteins, inflammation and innate immunity in atherosclerosis and was a champion of women in science.

Lila Gierasch, the 11th editor of the journal, will complete her five-year term in June.

The ASBMB’s new executive director, Steve Miller, is a society veteran but eager to make his mark.

An interview with NYMC dean Marina K. Holz, who studies a rare disease that affects women of childbearing age.

These K99/R00 awardees will receive individualized coaching and networking and presentation opportunities tailored to their needs.

A two-day virtual event will highlight the science preserved within and enabled by the resource over the past 50 years. We talked to PDB co-founder Helen Berman about what attendees can expect.

They will use the awards to conduct research in academic laboratories in the United States and Canada.

ASBMB Today staffers select their favorites.

Since earning her Ph.D. in 2012, she’s been a clinical research coordinator, a consultant, a medical writer and, now, a supervisor for a team of regulatory experts.

Nominations of those who have made outstanding contributions to the field through research, teaching or service are due Jan. 4.

MOSAIC program will provide individualized coaching, networking and presentation opportunities tailored to scholars’ needs.

One of the strangest things we ever did when I was in the newspaper business was print papers nobody would receive.

Chasing the structure of a histone’s N-terminus tail. Highlighting the role of lipids in mediating endoplasmic reticulum structure. Defining the components of a bacteria’s biofilm matrix. Researchers tackle these tasks and more in our latest roundup…

With its Early-Career Reviewer Board, the Journal of Biological Chemistry offers postdocs and new investigators a structured path for developing peer-review skills and learning about the scholarly publishing process.

To mark this health observance, we're sharing research about the influence of genetics and environment on disease onset and findings related to autoimmunity and inflammation.

Awards, promotions and more. Find out what's going on in the lives of ASBMB members. 

June 27 is National HIV Testing Day. See a snapshot of HIV/AIDS research as it stands today taken from ASBMB's journals.

May is National Stroke Awareness Month. While it’s true that we can do some things to reduce our risk of stroke, these days the emphasis is on recognizing stroke early so that the effects can be minimized.

Each April, the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health and its partners observe National Minority Health Month.

In observance of National Kidney Month, Angela Hopp offers some personal reflections, kidney trivia and a collection of stories and research from the ASBMB.

Kerry-Anne Rye and Nicholas O. Davidson plan to broaden the editorial scope to include more clinical research.

Canada’s top science adviser, appointed in 2017 by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, spent most of her career as a heart researcher and university professor.

Why are people with chronic kidney disease at high risk of heart failure? Can a pathogen avoid a host antibody by grabbing it? Why do some cancer cells love sugar and eschew fiber? Read about these topics and more in our roundup.

How amino acids determine cells’ responses climate change. How genes cause bile acid diarrhea. And how trypsin trips up researchers studying alternative splicing. Read about these topics and more in our roundup of recent papers from the Journal of B…

Alcohol plus hepatitis B raises cholesterol. A chemical cocktail reprograms mouse cells. Prion protein does more than wreak havoc. Read about these topics and more in our roundup of recent papers from the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the Journa…

The Journal of Biological Chemistry's technical editor helps authors finesse their titles and abstracts.

John Bowden of the National Institute of Standards and Technology discusses a new paper in the Journal of Lipid Research about a lipidomics comparison study performed by 31 labs in the U.S. and abroad.

In this 2017 interview, Kenneth Gibbs explains that it’s possible to diversify the workforce within a single tenure cycle. The solution is in hiring decisions.

Daniel Jarosz at Stanford University expands the concept of prions.

A summer program at the National Institutes of Health exposes Native American students to biomedical research.

This is the last part in a three-part interview series with Kenneth I. Maynard of Takeda Pharmaceuticals International Inc. about what it takes to launch a career in industry.

Angela Hopp guides scientists on how to get their published papers to a wide audience.

This is the second in a three-part series of interviews with Kenneth I. Maynard of Takeda Pharmaceuticals International Inc. about what it takes to launch a career in industry.

This is the first in a three-part series of interviews with Kenneth I. Maynard of Takeda Pharmaceuticals International Inc. about what it takes to launch a career in industry.

Natalie Ahn talks about about her background and involvement with the society.

While this letter is addressed to press officers who won’t promote research papers that cannot be embargoed, it raises an important issue that scientists should understand.

Where Dave R. Wilson grew up in rural New Mexico, opportunities for upward mobility – and, well, even neighbors – were few and far between.

Learn how to work with your institution’s communicators and with reporters to tell the world about your research.

Texas A&M professor recognized for methods used to elucidate the dynamics and functional mechanisms of complex molecular machines.

Daniel Herschlag won the 2010 ASBMB William C. Rose Award.

John Tesmer is a research associate professor at the Life Sciences Institute and the department of pharmacology at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Ruedi Aebersold, a pioneer in proteomics and systems biology, received ASBMB's Herbert A. Sober Lectureship in 2010.