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President’s Message

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

With my irst daffodils starting to

show, Spring is deinitely in the air,

but having lived over 20 years in

Milwaukee Yogi Berra’s famous quote

comes to mind – “it ain’t over till it’s

over”.
Neil

We received 20 strong proposals for

plenary sessions for #SFRBM2015 in HOGG

Boston, and I would like to thank the

Program Committee for their careful

and thorough review. The committee

is currently going through these

evaluations and will have the plenary program put together soon.

The work then passes to the selected session chairs to secure the

speakers and also, of course, to the Chair of the Free Radical School

(Marcie Cole) to put together the educational content. I can announce

that the Pre-Meeting Workshop at #SFRBM2015 will be chaired by

Garry Buettner and Dean Jones and will be titled “Quantitative Redox San Juan, Puerto Rico - site of SFRBM 2017

Biology” (or some paraphrase thereof).

past 5 years. The winner will receive a cash prize and will give a key-
We have been discussing future venues for meetings after 2016 (which
note presentation at #SFRB2015. Please send your nominations to Luis
will be held in San Francisco as a joint meeting with the Society for
Netto, SFRBM Senior Awards Chair, or to SFRBM headquarters.

Free Radical Research International), and we have identiied San

Juan, Puerto Rico as our 2017 venue.

Thank you to everyone who illed out the society name-change survey

we sent out earlier this year. We received over 300 responses with

most (~75%) in favor of a name change. We will hold a membership-

wide vote in April, so please be on the look out for announcements in

emails and social media mid- April.

Finally, we are currently requesting nominations for the SFRBM

“Discovery Award”. This is one of the most coveted awards given by

the society to recognize a seminal discovery in the ield within the

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