International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB)

ABOUT IUBMB :
The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - founded in 1955 - unites biochemists and molecular biologists in 75 countries and regions that belong to the Union as an Adhering Body or Associate Adhering Body represented by a biochemical society, a national research council or an academy of sciences. The IUBMB is devoted to promoting research and education in biochemistry and molecular biology throughout the world and gives particular attention to promoting opportunities for trainees and providing opportunities in areas where biomolecular sciences are less well developed.

Every three years the IUBMB sponsors an International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Co-sponsorship of these Congresses by Regional Organizations of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has become the norm. These Congresses are major international meetings at which current research in all fields of biochemistry and molecular biology is considered. Thousands of individual research projects are presented in poster sessions and leading investigators from many nations survey their fields and describe their own research in symposia and plenary lectures. From 1992-2016 IUBMB also sponsored IUBMB Conferences, held in the years between the International Congresses. In 2017, Conferences were replaced by smaller Focused Meetings (up to three per year, including Congress years).

The IUBMB organizes or sponsors workshops, symposia and training sessions on biochemical and molecular biological education and provides free textbooks and journals to training institutions in developing nations. The IUBMB also funds short-term fellowships for trainees and early/mid-career biochemists and molecular biologists to travel to other institutions to perform research not possible in their own laboratories. It also provides Travel Fellowships for trainees to attend meetings around the world. Established in 2022, the IUBMB Trainee Initiative, run by trainees and for trainees, engages biochemistry and molecular biology students around the world with activities related to career development, research, and education.

Mission:
IUBMB seeks to advance the international molecular life sciences community by:
• Promoting interactions across the diversity of endeavours in the molecular life sciences
• Creating networks that transcend barriers of ethnicity, culture, gender and economic status
• Creating pathways for junior scientists to fulfil their potential
• Providing evidence-based advice on public policy
• Promoting the values, standards and ethics of science and the free and unhampered movement of scientists of all nations
• Promoting diversity and inclusion in all its activities