Celebrating 100 years

2025 marks the 100-year anniversary of The Company of Biologists. We have been celebrating 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 will share 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 are diving into the archives, but will also publish new and original material that is 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.

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Our journey so far

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

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