Past presidents
Toni M. Antalis
- 2020–2022
- University of Maryland School of Medicine
Gerald Hart
- 2018–2020
- University of Georgia
Natalie Ahn
- 2016-2018
Steven McKnight
- 2014-2016
Jeremy Berg
- 2012–2014
Suzanne R. Pfeffer
- 2010–2012
Gregory A. Petsko
- 2008–2010
Heidi E. Hamm
- 2006–2008
Judith S. Bond
- 2004–2006
Bettie Sue Masters
- 2002–2004
- Duke University
Robert D. Wells
- 2000–2001
Richard W. Hanson
- 1999
Judith P. Klinman
- 1998
I. Robert Lehman
- 1997
Jack E. Dixon
- 1996
Susan S. Taylor
- 1995
Gordon G. Hammes
- 1994
Martin F. Gellert
- 1993
Elizabeth F. Neufeld
- 1992
Minor J. Coon
- 1991
M. Daniel Lane
- 1990
William J. Lennarz
- 1989
Robert T. Schimke
- 1988
Howard K. Schachman
- 1987
Mary E. Jones
- 1986
Edwin G. Krebs
- 1985
Charles Yanofsky
- 1984
Edwin R. Stadtman
- 1983
Irwin Fridovich
- 1982
Mary Jane Osborn
- 1981
Arthur B. Pardee
- 1980
Frederic M. Richards
- 1979
Mildred Cohn
- 1978
Alton Meister
- 1977
Robert L. Hill
- 1976
Paul Berg
- 1975
Irwin C. Gunsalus
- 1974
Daniel E. Koshland Jr.
- 1973
Albert L. Lehninger
- 1972
Christain B. Anfinsen
- 1971
Eugene P. Kennedy
- 1970
Paul D. Boyer
- 1969
Bernard L. Horecker
- 1968
Konrad E. Bloch
- 1967
Stanford Moore
- 1966
Arthur Kornberg
- 1965
Henry A. Lardy
- 1964
William D. McElroy
- 1963
Phillip Handler
- 1962
Esmond E. Snell
- 1961
Fritz Lipmann
- 1960
Harland G. Wood
- 1959
Severo Ochoa
- 1958
John T. Edsall
- 1957
Herbert E. Carter
- 1956
J. Murray Luck
- 1955
Charles G. King
- 1954
David W. Wilson
- 1953
Henry A. Mattill
- 1952
Vincent du Vigneaud
- 1951
Hubert B. Vickery
- 1950
Carl F. Cori
- 1949
Hans T. Clarke
- 1947–1948
A. Baird Hastings
- 1945–1946
Edward A. Doisy
- 1943–1944
Rudolph J. Anderson
- 1941–1942
William C. Rose
- 1939–1940
Glenn E. Cullen
- 1937–1938
Howard B. Lewis
- 1935–1936
Walter M. Clark
- 1933–1934
Howard C. Bradley
- 1931–1932
Walter R. Bloor
- 1929–1930
Elmer V. McCollum
- 1927–1928
Edward C. Kendall
- 1926
Henry C. Sherman
- 1925
Philip A. Shaffer
- 1923–1924
Donald D. Van Slyke
- 1921–1922
Stanley R. Benedict
- 1919–1920
Carl L. Alsberg
- 1917–1918
Walter Jones
- 1915–1916
Graham Lusk
- 1914
Archibald B. Macallum
- 1912–1913
Lafayette B. Mendel
- 1911
Thomas B. Osborne
- 1910
Otto Folin
- 1909
John J. Abel
- 1908
Russell H. Chittenden
- 1907