The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that Dr. Alanna Schepartz, the Milton Harris '29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry and professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology has been appointed as the new editor-in-chief to lead Biochemistry, the Society's long-standing, peer-reviewed journal that publishes research at the intersection of biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology. Since 2005, Schepartz has served as an associate editor for the Society's flagship Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), a position she will now relinquish as she assumes her new editorial post.
Schepartz joined the Yale University faculty in 1988, was promoted to associate professor in 1992, to full professor with tenure in 1995, and in 2000 was named the Milton Harris '29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry. She is the first woman to be granted tenure in Yale's Department of Chemistry, and the first female full professor in any physical sciences department at Yale. In 2014, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and is a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and ACS.
Biochemistry, which began publication in 1961, is a premier multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing diverse global research directed toward understanding and characterizing fundamental mechanisms of complex biological phenomena in terms of cellular and molecular structure and underlying chemical function.
Schepartz succeeds Dr. Richard Armstrong, who served as Biochemistry's editor-in-chief from 2004 until his untimely passing in mid- 2015, after which Dr. Charles Sanders, professor of biochemistry and the Aileen M. Lange and Annie Mary Lyle Chair in Cardiovascular Research at Vanderbilt University, headed the journal in an interim capacity while an intensive international search for a successor was conducted by the Society.
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