IUBMB Life is the flagship journal of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and is devoted to the rapid publication of the most novel and significant original research articles, reviews, and hypotheses in the broadly defined fields of biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, and molecular medicine. The journal publishes interdisciplinary, basic to translational research and covers all fields in the life science at every level of organization:
Research communications are original research articles that present new findings of unusually high importance, which provide major new functional insights in biology. Critical Reviews are short, concise, and sharply focused reviews of current hot topics in the biological sciences. Critical Reviews and Hypotheses Papers make new specialized areas highly accessible to all scientists and develop novel insights and approaches for future research. Articles that integrate several biological disciplines, or successfully relate basic biology to human pathology or medicine, are especially encouraged.
 
Examples of topics of interest are:
 
·         Autophagy
·         Biomolecular interactions, signaling networks, systems biology
·         Cell cycle, cell growth, cell differentiation, Cell death
·         Cell signaling and regulation
·         Chemical biology
·         Computational biology
·         DNA replication, repair, and recombination
·         Development biology,
·         Epigenetics, chromatin structure and function
·         Gene expression
·         Gene, nucleic acid, protein and cell therapy
·         Genome engineering
·         Immunology, Immunotherapy and vaccines
·         Membrane processes, cell surface proteins and cell-cell interactions
·         Metabolism
·         Methodological advances (experimental and theoretical)
·         Microbiology
·         Microbiome, microbiota
·         Molecular genetics
·         Nuclear organization
·         Omics technology
·         Post-translational modifications, proteomics
·         Molecular basis of disease
·         Regenerative medicine
·         RNA processing, structure and functions of non-coding RNAs, transcription
·         Sorting, spatiotemporal organization, trafficking
·         Structural biology
·         Synthetic biology
·         Systems biology
·         Stem cells
·         Translation, protein folding, chaperones, protein degradation and quality control
·         Virus
 
IUBMB Life is committed to the rapid publication of high-impact research findings for the scientific communities of the 65 nations represented within the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Consistent with the ideals of the IUBMB, all papers are published on the basis of exceptional scientific merit, originality, and wide biological significance.

Editor-in-Chief
Angelo Azzi
Vascular Biology Laboratory, Office 622, JM USDA-HNRCA at Tufts University, 711 Washington St., Boston, MA 02111. Phone: 617-556-3271, Fax: 617-556-3224.
Editorial Assistant: Yesim Negis
 
 
Editor-in-Chief
William J. Whelan
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (M823), University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, P.O. Box 016129, Miami, FL 33101-6129. Phone: 305-243-6267, Fax: 305-324-5665.
Editorial Assistant: Sandy Black
 
 
Editorial Board
Sidney Altman - Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Werner Arber - Biozentrum, Basel, Switzerland
Joerg R. Aschenbach - University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Javier Avila - University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain
Alberta Azzi - University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Antoni Barrientos - University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Catherine Baugé - Université de Caen, Caen, France
Frederick Bellinger - University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA
Francesco Bonomi - University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Steve L. Britton - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Peter Buchwald - University of Miami, FL, USA
Rikhia Chakraborty - Texas Childrens Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
Bhaskar Chetnani - Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Maija Dambrova - Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Riga, Latvia
Jozef Dulak - Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Toren Finkel - Cardiology Branch, NHLBI, Bethesda, MD, USA
Debora Foguel - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Flavia Fontanesi - University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Feng Gong - University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Efstathios Gonos - National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece
Michael W. Gray - Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Joan Guinovart - University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Sung Nim Han - Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Robert Huber - Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Juergen Kopitz - Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Alberto R. Kornblihtt - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alicia Kowaltowski - Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Alexander Levitzki - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalam, Israel
Paola Maroni - Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, IRCCS, Milan, Italy
Armando Parodi - Fundación Instituto Leloir, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Anthony Pegg - Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
Matthew A. Perugini - LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Roberta Ricciarelli - University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Terry K. Smith - University of St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
Bhattacharjee Sonali - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY USA
John Speakman - The University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Avadhesha Surolia - Indian institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Santos Susin - INSERM, Paris, France
Naoyuki Taniguchi - Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan
Neil Turner - University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Luis Villacorta - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Jose Viña - Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Sandhya S. Visweswariah - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Michael Walsh - University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
A.H.J. Wang - Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Kurt Wüthrich - The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
Jeongbin Yim - Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Dan Zhao - Wake Forest School of Medicine, Wake Forest, NC, USA
Hui Zheng - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Jean-Marc Zingg - University of Miami, Miami, USA