The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that Dr. Vincent M. Rotello will assume the role of Editor-in-Chief of Bioconjugate Chemistry. Rotello is currently the Charles A. Goessmann Professor of Chemistry, with an appointment in the Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Rotello will succeed founding Editor-in-Chief Dr. Claude F. Meares, who has served in this position since 1990 and will retire from the journal at the end of the year. Meares is Emeriti Faculty, Professor of Chemistry, at the University of California, Davis.
Rotello is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (U.K.). He has received numerous awards and honours for his research, including the John Burlew Award in Research from the ACS. Rotello has published over 380 book chapters, articles and reviews including articles in Bioconjugate Chemistry and other ACS journals including ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, ACS Macro Letters, ACS Nano, Biomacromolecules, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Langmuir, Macromolecules, Nano Letters and Organic Letters.
Bioconjugate Chemistry began publication in January 1990. The journal publishes research on all aspects of the joining of different molecular functions by chemical or biological means. This includes, among other topics, the conjugation of antibodies, nucleic acids, lipids, carbohydrates or other biologically active molecules and their analogs with any molecular groups that add useful properties.
