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President’s Message

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

As this is my last newsletter message, I be presented to Henry Forman and the SFRRI Trevor Slater Award

would like to say at the outset that it has will be presented to Kelvin Davies. In addition, Parker Antin, who is

been an honor and a pleasure to serve FASEB’s Immediate Past President, will be a guest speaker at our

as the SfRBM President for the last two Closing Banquet. He will share FASEB’s perspective about the future

years. Special thanks to our leadership of science, research and the funding challenges connected with these

— Vice-Presidents and Committee — all topics that are critical to our investigators.

Chairs — as well as all members who

Neil
have volunteered their valuable time We received almost 500 research abstracts by our deadline, which

and energy to make sure that we live signals a very exciting and packed meeting to come.

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up to our tag line that SfRBM is the

“Premier Forum for Redox Research.”
I am pleased to also announce that by the time you read this, SfRBM

will have launched its revamped website. Special thanks to Ting-Ting

As budgetary reality creates an ever- Huang and the Website Committee for their efforts. We have also

increasing competition for meeting attendance, it is essential that refreshed our mission statement to relect our recent name change

and better deine our purpose —
we continue an effort to broaden our base while keeping our culture. SfRBM is a professional organization

We plan much more targeted outreach to take our brand “on-the comprised of scientists and clinicians investigating redox biology, a

road.” The irst such event happened in Chicago this summer where unifying theme in the pathophysiology of human diseases.

Marcelo Bonini and fellow organizers held the irst SfRBM regional

Redox Symposium. It was a well-attended and successful event —
Finally, I would like to express my sincere thanks to Kent Lindeman, Lori

see additional details on page 10 of this issue.
Pearson and the staff at Holland-Parlette Associates for the work they

do for the SfRBM. We put a lot of trust in their team to execute the will

The scientiic program for SfRBM/SFRRI 2016, our 23rd Annual Meeting, of society members, remove much of the logistic and organizational

to be held in San Francisco in November is now set. Remember, this burden from elected leadership, and, most importantly, to help us put

is a special joint meeting with the Society for Free Radical Research on excellent scientiic meetings. In my experience, they have always

International co-chaired by myself and SFRRI president Rafael Radi.
gone the extra mile.

In addition to the cutting-edge science that will be delivered over Thanks for your support over the last two years. I look forward to

the four-day meeting, two special award lectures will be given by seeing many of you in San Francisco in a few short weeks. 

past SfRBM presidents. SfRBM’s Lifetime Achievement Award will

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