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President’s Message

Neil Hogg, Ph.D., Medical College of Wisconsin

After an unprecedented process have volunteered to judge the abstracts this year. This is an industrial

involving open discussion and a vote scale operation that is handled with aplomb by our ever-reliable

of the entire membership, the Society Executive Management.

has now oficially changed its name

to the Society for Redox Biology and While we are currently focused on Boston, we are starting to organize

Medicine. I want to thank everyone SFRBM 2016 in San Francisco. This will be a joint meeting of SFRBM

who participated in this discussion, and our international umbrella organization, SFRRI. The meeting will

both for and against, and exercised be co-chaired by myself and current SFRRI president, Rafael Radi. It
Neil
your right as a member of this society is never too early to start thinking about symposia for this meeting and

to guide its future. I believe this we will be having our usual call for ideas from the membership as soon
HOGG
change is an important and critical as the dust settles on the Boston meeting.

step in rebranding our society and

broadening its appeal. For those of So full-steam ahead for Boston with Workshops, Free Radical School,

you who were not in favor of this professional development sessions, and of course the great science.

change, I hope you will continue to
One inal note for the students, if you are struggling with some of the

support the society and give the new name a chance. We are currently material, do not forget the Massachusetts mantra – you will get a

in consultation with a graphic artist to design a new logo for the society much better grip on it if you take a bit of the air out.

which we hope to launch at the Boston meeting.
Discovery

In October, SFRBM leadership will by taking a trip to DC to plead the
AWARD
case for research to lawmakers. We have meetings lined up with

several legislators and key staff members and we plan to discuss the

state of scientiic research funding and the impact it is having on our

occupation. A recent talk I attended by an AAMC oficer stressed that
Ronald Mason Ph.D. of the National

now is a critical time for us all to remind our lawmakers about the Institute of Environmental Health

importance of biomedical research to the economy and to society at Sciences/National Institutes of Health,

large. There is genuine bipartisan support for research funding but
is SFRBM’s 2015 Discovery Award
there is a lot of work to be done to elevate this issue on their priority
receipent.
list. SFRBM, with assistance from Carney Communications, will be

playing our part.
Dr. Mason will give a featured lecture

at our 22nd Annual Meeting in Boston,

MA on Wednesday, November 18
The feeling of excitement is growing as we ramp up to the Boston
at 6:35 pm titled, “ We Detect Free
meeting. I remember, both as a post-doc and as a PI, the feeling of

anticipation, waiting for the news of ‘poster or podium’ for either my Radicals Not Because it is Easy, But Because it is Hard”.

own abstract or of those from my lab. “Thank you” to those of you who

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