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President’s Message

Henry Jay Forman, Ph.D.

I am excited and very pleased by what Keap1-Nrf2 Signaling Pathway: Role in Disease and Pharmacological

happened just a few short weeks ago. Approaches,” “Oxygen in Development and Cancer,” and “Important

Kent Lindeman, Neil Hogg and I had Biological Functions of the Neglected Sources of Reactive Oxygen

a conference call with the Board of Species.” Additional information can be found on SFRBM’s website.

the Federation of American Societies Our early morning Free Radical School will provide introductory

for Experimental Biology after which, material for the sessions on Thursday through Saturday.

our application for membership was
One change I am going to suggest for the future will be the inclusion Henry
unanimously approved by the Board.
of some mini-symposia in the afternoon. I will make this suggestion
So, we are now the 27th member of
FORMAN
because we receive many more excellent suggestions for plenary

FASEB.
sessions than we cannot accommodate. But, we will have to balance

I encourage you to go to FASEB this with the tradition of choosing afternoon sessions from the selected

website, http://www.faseb.org, where abstracts.

you will see that, “FASEB’s mission is
As usual, I will use a bit of my space to write about our journals. Redox
to advance health and welfare by promoting progress and education
Biology is gaining momentum and recognition having published over
in biological and biomedical sciences through service to our member
100 articles that can be found on PubMed. All of the articles in Redox

societies and collaborative advocacy.” We will be represented in Biology are open access. The editors of our new journal are doing an

committees that help legislators develop science policy and advocate
outstanding job of attracting exciting and innovative original research
for increased science funding among other issues that the member
and review articles.
societies agree by consensus. FASEB membership will also enhance

our ability to interact more directly with other scientiic societies Our lagship journal, FRBM will be appointing a new Associate Editor

whose interests overlap with ours. Joining FASEB was one of the as Jack Roberts, one of our leading experts in lipid peroxidation and

ideas that stimulated much enthusiasm during our latest Strategic application of redox biology to clinical problems, will reach the end of

his inal term. Jack has made great contributions to the journal as well
Planning meeting last year.
as to the society. Replacing him will not be easy, but the Publications

As you should already know from the emails you received requesting
Committee with input from the editors will be making an attempt to do
abstract submission, our Annual Meeting will be held this November
so. FRBM continues to publish the most solid original work and best
19-23 in Seattle, and promises to continue our tradition of excellence.
cited review articles in the ield. Several new special reviews issues
A very important pre-meeting workshop on, “Translation of Redox
are in progress, which will be announced shortly.
Methodology from Bench to Bedside - Problems and Solutions,” will

take place on the 19th. This will be followed by the 2014 Lifetime This is my penultimate President’s message and I think it is the shortest

one I have written. Next time however, I will spend a bit more time
Achievement Award Lecture and a special lecture by Mark Gladwin,

who was kind enough to accept our invitation. The four plenary providing a personal perspective on where I see SFRBM going. For

sessions chosen by an outstanding Programming Committee will be now, I wish you all a great summer.

on, “Insights Into Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases,” “The

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