The Belgian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB) is a Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 non-profit organization, concerned with biochemistry

Biochemistry

Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...

 and molecular biology

Molecular biology

Molecular biology is the branch of biology that deals with the molecular basis of biological activity. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...

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The BMB was created, based on an initiative of Marcel Florkin

Marcel Florkin

Marcel Florkin was a Belgian biochemist. Florkin was graduated as a Doctor in Medicine and became a professor of biochemistry at the University of Liège....

, so a Belgian society could join the new International Union of Biochemistry

International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is an international non-governmental organisation concerned with biochemistry and molecular biology...

. The first charter of the society was drafted by Edouard J. Bigwood, Jean Brachet

Jean Brachet

Jean Louis Auguste Brachet was a Belgian biochemist who made a key contribution in understanding the role of RNA....

, Christian de Duve

Christian de Duve

Christian René, viscount de Duve is a Nobel Prize-winning cytologist and biochemist. De Duve was born in Thames Ditton, Surrey, Great Britain, as a son of Belgian refugees. They returned to Belgium in 1920...

, Marcel Florkin, Lucien Massart

Lucien Massart

Lucien Massart was a specialist in the animal and plant enzymology. He was a professor and in 1957 was awarded the Francqui Prize on Biological and Medical Sciences.In 1951, together with Edouard J...

, Paul Putzeys, Laurent Vandendriessche and Claude Lièbecq. The first general assembly was held on 12 January 1952, and the first President of the society was Marcel Florkin, with Claude Lièbecq as secretary and treasurer.

External links

• Belgian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology