Celebrating 100 years

2025 marked the 100-year anniversary of The Company of Biologists. We have celebrated this important milestone with numerous activities throughout the year, including a unique scientific conference that took place in March.

Sharing scientific knowledge and discoveries has always been at the heart of The Company of Biologists. The Company was set up in 1925 to save The British Journal of Experimental Biology, currently known as Journal of Experimental Biology. During 2025 we have shared content with you from the five journals that we publish today: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open. We dived into the archives, but have also published new and original material related to our anniversary.

100 years into our existence, we do much more than publishing journals. We provide support to societies, conference organisers and individual researchers through our charitable grants and have a keen interest in supporting early-career researchers. We bring people together on our three community websites: the Node, preLights and FocalPlane.

We also organise our own Meetings and Workshops, providing biologists with networking opportunities and a platform to share their latest research. Our anniversary conference in March brought together all our communities and was a true celebration of both biology and biologists.

We would like to thank everyone who celebrated with us throughout the year.

Our journey so far

Discover some of the most important milestones during our 100-year history.