Dear SFRR-E members,

First of all, I want to wish you and your families and friends a happy 2026 full of health, happiness and enjoyable science!

The past year has been a very successful year for our Society. The last Bi-Annual SFRR-I Meeting hosted by SFRR-E in Galway, Ireland in June 2024 was organized excellently by Prof. Katarzyna Goljanek-Whysall with a fantastic outcome in terms of science, participations and awards. The conference was able to attract over 400 participants and all the international SFRR Societies were present including, also SFRR-Asia, SFRR-Australasia, and SfRBM besides SFRR-E, and SFRR-I, so it has been a very unique occasion to discuss and coordinate future engagement among all the societies. Thanks to the support of the sponsors and SFRR Societies, we were able to award 20 travel grants for young scientists, 10 Young Investigator Awards and to have over 60 young selected talks with a total of 400 scientific contributions. Of note are the SFRR-E awards given to Prof. Daniela Caporossi (Annual Award), Prof. Juan Sastre (Basic Research Award), Dr. Paraskevi Kritsiligkou (Catherine Pasquier) and Dr. Aphrodite Vasilaki (Leopold Flohe) in addition to the SFRR-I awards to Prof. Giovanni Mann and Prof. Mike Davies (Trevor Slater Award); Prof. Giuseppe Poli (Lester Packer Award), Prof. Enrique Cadenas (Alberto Boveris Award) and Dr. Carlos Henríquez-Olguín (Kelvin & Joanna Davies Rising Star Award).

Galway success would have not been possible without the great effort of Prof.  Goljanek-Whysall. Thank you Kasia!

Now we are looking forward to the next SFRR-E conference that will be held in another exciting place, Mainz, Germany, 3-5 of June, 2026, and will be organized by Prof. Andreas Daiber with the support of Prof. Tilman Grune. Also, this year the scientific program looks superb with several new topics in addition to exciting social events that will help the interaction among all the attendees. Please visit the website for more details (https://www.sfrremainz2026.com)

In addition to Mainz, this year we have also another important bi-annual event, the SFRR-E Summer School organized in Spetses, Greece by Prof. Marzia Perluigi, Prof. Fabio Di Domenico and Dr. Niki Chondrogianni, focused on “Redox Signalling in the physiopathology of the human body” (https://redoxbiochemistry2026.febsevents.org, to be launched soon). The organizers have already secured FEBS support as well and we are sure it will be again a great success, as it has been for the last 20 years. This is a very important meeting where young and senior scientists for one week are able to interact, discuss and develop future projects in a beautiful Greek island in front of the magnificent Saronic Sea! Stay tuned…

It is evident that our Society is growing, especially with new young members, reaching over 650 participants so far, and this success is possible thank to all of you and to the wonderful team of the Executive Committee and the Council (https://www.sfrr-europe.org/index.php/sfrre/council). Without them nothing would have been possible.

Of course, we cannot forget the super exciting ECR subcommittee that have organized over the past year a stimulating series of webinars, together with the successful PhD presentation competition (with over 40 participants) and the mentoring program. They are so active and energetic and are growing with more and more ideas going crazy in their social channels. Thank you!

I would like to congratulate the recipients of the 2025 round of SFRR-E / Oxygen Club of California (OCC) Early Career Researcher (ECR) Fellowships: Vanesa Cepas Lopez, at the University of Turin and the Candiolo Cancer Institute FPO-IRCCS (Italy) and Tim Baldensperger from the University of Vienna, Institute of Biological Chemistry, (Austria), two young scientists that confirm the high scientific level that we have in our Society. Of course, also in this case I want, on behalf of our Society, to thank Prof. Enrique Cadenas for the OCC support.

Moreover, I want to separately highlight the substantial sponsorship that our Society receives from Elsevier and OCC. These sponsorships underpin our activities and contribute to the success of our Annual Meetings together with contributing to the training and formation of new scientists. 

I am sure that together we are and we will grow further in achieving wonderful scientific merits in our stimulating SFRR-E family.

Thank you!
Giuseppe
President SFRR-E

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