Cell Chemical Biology is a Cell Press journal publishing research and review content of exceptional interest for the chemical biology community. Launched in 1994 under the title Chemistry & Biology, the journal was the first to recognize the growing importance of investigations done at the interface of chemistry and biology, and its mission has always been to support and promote chemical biology and conversation and collaboration between chemical and life sciences.
Cell Chemical Biology strongly encourages submission of articles that provide significant conceptual advancement of broad general interest to both chemists and biologists. We are especially interested in papers that combine the use of chemical tools to perturb, visualize, and measure biological systems and properties and offer unique insights into molecular mechanism or physiology. We also encourage submissions that are focused on method development for basic life sciences or that have practical impact of either clinical or biotechnological nature. Some additional types of research that we consider within our scope are studies of metabolism and physiology; enzyme mechanism and natural product biosynthesis; generation, distribution, and function of small molecule-protein conjugates such as post-translational modifications; mechanism of resistance to small molecules by viruses/bacteria/cancer cells/organisms; intra- and intercellular and intra- and interspecies communication mediated by small molecules; and chemical biology of lipids, sugars, and nucleic acids. Finally, large-scale studies enabled by the use of chemistry-based technology, such as proteomics, lipidomics, metabolomics, and glycomics, are also within our scope, as well as synthetic and systems biology work when inspired and supported by chemical tools or aimed at engineering biological systems to perform a new type of chemical transformation.
Cell Chemical Biology Mission Statement
We publish, support, and promote chemical biology, a unique discipline that harnesses power of chemistry to deliver profound insights into biological function, and develop solutions for life sciences, biotechnology, and human health. Our mission is to publish review and research content that pushes biology and our ability to study it forward and to have editorial reputation for integrity, responsiveness, fairness, and friendliness. 

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Editor
Dan Nomura, PhD
Dan Nomura is an associate professor in the Departments of Chemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, and Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also an associate adjunct professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at UCSF. He currently directs the Novartis-Berkeley Center for Proteomics and Chemistry Technologies. He earned his BA in Molecular and Cell Biology and PhD in Molecular Toxicology at UC Berkeley and was a postdoctoral fellow at The Scripps Research Institute in chemical physiology before returning to Berkeley as a faculty member in 2011. Among his honors are selection as a Searle Scholar, American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award, and the Department of Defense Breakthroughs Award. Research in Dan’s laboratory is focused on using chemoproteomic and metabolomic platforms to discover new targets and small molecules for disease therapy. Dan became an Editor of Cell Chemical Biology in 2018.
Eranthie Weerapana, PhD
Eranthie Weerapana is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Boston College. She received her BS from Yale University, and her PhD from MIT, where she worked with Professor Barbara Imperiali, investigating glycosyltransferases involved in N-linked glycosylation in the gram negative bacterium Campylobacter jejuni. She then performed postdoctoral studies at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, where she worked with Professor Benjamin F. Cravatt to develop chemical-proteomic methods to investigate reactive cysteines in complex proteomes. Her interdisciplinary research program focuses on applying mass-spectrometry methods to identify regulatory cysteine residues in the human proteome and chemical biology approaches to develop covalent small-molecule modulators for these cysteine-mediated protein activities.
Reviews Editor
Bridget Wagner, PhD
Bridget Wagner is the director of pancreatic cell biology and metabolic disease in the Chemical Biology and Therapeutic Sciences Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she is also an institute scientist. Her group's research focuses on the chemical biology of diabetes, with the aim of identifying small molecules capable of increasing pancreatic beta cell number and function, toward the ultimate goal of discovering new therapeutic approaches for diabetes. Wagner received an A.B. from Harvard College and her Ph.D. from the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, working with Stuart Schreiber on developing probe-discovery efforts in an academic setting. Wagner has had an instrumental role in the development of the Broad Chemical Biology Program from its inception in 2003. She is a recipient of the 2008 Type 1 Diabetes Pathfinder Award from the NIH and a Transformative Research Award from the NIH in 2016. 
Associate Editor
Mishtu Dey, PhD
Mishtu Dey is the in-house Editor of Cell Chemical Biology and also holds an appointment as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Iowa. Most recently, she was on the faculty in the University of Iowa's Department of Chemistry, where she developed a federally-funded research program in metalloenzyme structure-function and chemical biology of key metabolic pathway enzymes. She left on good terms pre-tenure to relocate to Boston for personal reasons. She received her PhD in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay followed by postdoctoral research in mechanistic enzymology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Michigan. She then continued her postdoctoral studies as an HHMI research scientist at MIT in structural enzymology. She is also the in-house Editor of Structure.