ASBMB members

A dedicated space for our community to honor and remember ASBMB members who have passed and celebrate their impact.

In memoriam: Alan G. Goodridge

Alan G. Goodridge, a longtime associate editor of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, died August 8 at age 88. He had been an American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology member since 1971.

In memoriam: Michael J. Chamberlin

Michael J. Chamberlin, an editorial board member of the Journal of Biological Chemistry and a pioneer in the study of transcription, died on November 1 at age 88. He was an American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology member for nearly 60 years.

In memoriam: Rodney E. Harrington

Rodney E. Harrington helped clarify how chromatin's physical properties and DNA structure shift during interactions with proteins that control gene expression and was an ASBMB member for 43 years.

In memoriam: Walter A. Shaw

He is the namesake for the Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator Award in Lipid Research and founded Avanti Polar Lipids.

In memoriam: Joel Habener

He discovered GLP-1, which helped pave the way for transformative diabetes and obesity therapies, and he was an ASBMB member for 25 years.

In memoriam: Richard Wolfenden

He was an enzymologist whose work helped spur the development of ACE inhibitor drugs and has been an ASBMB member since 1967.