FEBS - Federation of European Biochemical Societies

Name

FEBS - Federation of European Biochemical Societies

Legal name

Federation of European Biochemical Societies

Website

https://febs.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1964

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Scientific Federation and Academic Publishing Services

NAICS

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (54171), Voluntary Health Organizations (813212)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Life Sciences (Biology, Ecology, Agriculture) Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Academic & Scientific Conferences (MPAGAGAD), Health & Medical Research Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAL)

Keywords

• Scientific journal publishing
• Academic fellowships and grants
• Scientific congress and conferences
• Advanced research training
• Biochemistry society federation

Headquarters

HQ city

Cambridge

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. FEBS Press Journal Publishing: FEBS publishes scientific journals including The FEBS Journal, FEBS Letters, FEBS Open Bio, and Molecular Oncology through a partnership with Wiley. Revenue derives from institutional subscriptions, article processing charges (APCs), and licensing arrangements.
2. FEBS Congress and Events: The organization hosts the annual FEBS Congress and multiple Advanced Courses throughout Europe. Revenue includes registration fees, exhibitor/sponsor fees, and related event services.
3. Membership Dues from Constituent Societies: FEBS serves as an umbrella federation of national biochemistry and molecular biology societies. Member societies contribute to FEBS, which in turn provides support, programs, and services to the broader scientific community.
4. Fellowship and Award Administration: FEBS administers various fellowship programs (Short-Term Fellowships, Ukrainian Short-Term Fellowships, Excellence Awards) funded by the organization and external sources to support researchers in molecular life sciences.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

FEBS is a charitable federation that supports research and education in molecular life sciences through four FEBS Press peer-reviewed journals (The FEBS Journal, FEBS Letters, FEBS Open Bio, Molecular Oncology), the annual FEBS Congress and a calendar of FEBS Advanced Courses, and a portfolio of fellowships, Excellence Awards, prizes, Youth Travel Fund Grants, and early-career meetings (Young Scientists' Forum, FEBS-IUBMB-ENABLE, FEBS Junior Section). Members participate indirectly through national biochemistry and molecular biology constituent societies across Europe and neighbouring regions.

Product overview

FEBS is a charitable organization supporting research and education in molecular life sciences. Its product portfolio consists of journal publishing (FEBS Press Journals: The FEBS Journal, FEBS Letters, FEBS Open Bio, and Molecular Oncology, published with Wiley), large-scale scientific conferences (the annual FEBS Congress), and specialized training (FEBS Advanced Courses including lecture courses, workshops, practical courses, and special meetings). FEBS further supports early-career scientists through Youth Travel Fund Grants, Fellowships (Short-Term, Ukrainian Short-Term, and Long-Term), and Excellence Awards (€100,000 over three years). Community engagement is served via the FEBS Network platform, while the FEBS Advanced Courses Application and Reporting System and FEBS Fellowships Application System provide online portals for programme management. Additional offerings include prizes (The Israel Pecht Award, FEBS Medals, FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award), early-career meetings (Young Scientists' Forum, FEBS-IUBMB-ENABLE, FEBS Junior Section), and advocacy initiatives such as The Milan Declaration.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• FEBS Congress: Large cross-disciplinary conference spanning molecular life science research
• FEBS Advanced Courses
• FEBS Network
• FEBS Excellence Awards
• FEBS Short-Term Fellowships
• FEBS Young Scientists' Forum
• FEBS-IUBMB-ENABLE
• FEBS Junior Section
• FEBS Youth Travel Fund Grants

Products and services

• FEBS Press Journals A portfolio of four peer-reviewed journals (The FEBS Journal, FEBS Letters, FEBS Open Bio, and Molecular Oncology) covering molecular life sciences, biochemistry, and cancer research, co-published in partnership with Wiley for institutional readers, libraries, and researchers worldwide.
• FEBS Congress The annual large cross-disciplinary scientific congress of FEBS, spanning molecular life science research and held in European cities, designed for the FEBS community of researchers, faculty, and trainees (with the 50th edition scheduled for Maastricht, Netherlands, 4–8 July 2026).
• FEBS Advanced Courses Focused scientific lecture courses, practical courses, workshops, and special meetings covering more than 30 advanced topics in molecular life sciences (including ageing, AI, biochemistry, biochirality, cancer biology, cell biology, epigenetics, genomics, immunology, metabolomics, neuroscience, proteomics, RNA biology, structural biology, virology, and more), delivered annually at European venues for molecular life sciences researchers and trainees, with FEBS funding ranging from €20,000 to €40,000 per course.
• FEBS Network The FEBS Network online community platform (network.febs.org) for the molecular life sciences community, featuring posts, profiles, channels, discussion rooms, and resources for early-career scientists and the broader FEBS community.
• FEBS Fellowships A fellowship programme suite for molecular life sciences researchers, including Short-Term Fellowships for short scientific visits (typically 2–3 months) for collaboration and advanced training, Ukrainian Short-Term Fellowships (€12,000 fixed value, visits up to 4 months) for scientists from or displaced from Ukraine, Long-Term Fellowships, and PROBio-Africa and PROBio-LatAm Fellowships for researchers from those regions.
• FEBS Excellence Awards Grant scheme providing €100,000 over three years to support innovative research projects in molecular life sciences and help outstanding early-career group leaders establish and strengthen independent research programmes (covering equipment and consumables but not salaries, stipends, or overheads; applications processed via fellowships.febs.org).
• FEBS Prizes Awards programme recognising outstanding contributions to biochemistry and molecular biology, including The Israel Pecht Award, FEBS Medals, and the FEBS|EMBO Women in Science Award (with the 2026 award to Carola García de Vinuesa).
• FEBS Early-Career Meetings A programme of early-career scientific meetings organised by and for young scientists, including the FEBS Young Scientists' Forum (YSF), the FEBS-IUBMB-ENABLE conferences (e.g., FEBS-IUBMB-ENABLE Conference 2026), and the FEBS Junior Section activities.

Quantifiable outcome

• FEBS Excellence Awards provide €100,000 over three years to support outstanding early-career group leaders
• +2 more outcomes

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Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

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Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Hungarian Biochemical Society (MBKE)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 October 2026The Hungarian Biochemical Society co-organized the 6th Danube Conference on Epigenetics (October 2026, Budapest). The society also awards the Epigenetics Prize through its Epigenetics Section.
• Diamond CongressminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 19 October 2026Conference services partner providing support for the 6th Danube Conference on Epigenetics (October 2026, Budapest).
• HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural SciencesminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 28 October 2024Host venue for the 5th Danube Conference on Epigenetics (October 2024, Budapest). Provides facilities and organizational support for the conference.
• WileycoreTechnology or IntegrationFEBS Press journals (The FEBS Journal, FEBS Letters, FEBS Open Bio, Molecular Oncology) are published in partnership with Wiley, a leading academic publisher. Wiley provides publishing infrastructure, distribution channels, and manuscript submission platforms for FEBS's journal portfolio.
• EMBOcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEMBO co-funds Joint FEBS/EMBO Lecture Courses (up to €30,000) as part of the FEBS Advanced Courses programme. EMBO also partners with FEBS on the Women in Science Award and collaborates on various scientific events and initiatives.
• IUBMB (International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIUBMB co-funds Joint FEBS/IUBMB Advanced Courses (up to €40,000) and provides Trans-YTF (Transcontinental Youth Travel Fund) Grants for participation from outside the FEBS area. IUBMB also collaborates on the FEBS-IUBMB-ENABLE conference and other joint initiatives.
• FEBS Constituent SocietiescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFEBS serves as an umbrella federation of national biochemistry and molecular biology societies across Europe and neighboring regions. These constituent societies represent the membership base and serve as channel partners for distributing FEBS programs and opportunities.
• Society for Free Radical Research - Europe (SFRR-E)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSFRR-E jointly delivers the FEBS Advanced Lecture Course 'Redox signaling in the physiopathology of the human body' (September-October 2026), combining expertise in redox biology research.
• EACR (European Association for Cancer Research)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEACR co-sponsors the Joint FEBS/EMBO Lecture Course 'Cancer research; from fundamental insights to clinical application' (August 2026, Spetses, Greece).

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• Japanese Biochemical Society: The Japanese Biochemical Society is the dominant Asian peer: it publishes its own journals, runs an annual meeting, and supports biochemistry/molecular biology researchers in Japan, serving a comparable role to FEBS in a non-overlapping geography.

Broad incumbents

• American Chemical Society: ACS is the dominant chemistry-adjacent scientific society globally: it publishes 80+ peer-reviewed journals (incl. flagship JACS), runs ACS Fall/Spring meetings, administers major awards and education programs, and operates a much larger publishing and events platform with comparable revenue mechanics.
• European Respiratory Society: ERS is a large European medical society running an annual international congress (one of the biggest in respiratory medicine), publishing the European Respiratory Journal, and administering fellowships and awards with a similar society/events/publishing operating model.
• Biophysical Society: The Biophysical Society is a larger life-sciences society operating the Annual Meeting, multiple peer-reviewed journals, and travel/poster awards. It serves a related but broader scientific community and competes for similar conference attendees and journal authors.
• FASEB - Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology: FASEB is a US federation of 22 scientific societies with the same constituent-society model as FEBS. It runs the FASEB Journal, hosts FASEB Science Research Conferences, and administers awards and training programs across a broader experimental-biology umbrella.

Direct peers

• Biochemical Society (UK): The Biochemical Society is both a FEBS constituent society and a standalone peer publishing Biochemical Journal and Biochemical Society Transactions, hosting its own meetings and awarding prizes. It illustrates the federation member that also operates at FEBS scale.
• EMBO - European Molecular Biology Organization: EMBO is FEBS's closest peer: a pan-European organization supporting molecular life sciences through fellowship programs, lecture courses, publications (EMBO Journal, EMBO Reports, EMBO Molecular Medicine), and the FEBS|EMBO Women in Science Award. The two organizations co-fund Advanced Courses and share scientific leadership.
• EACR - European Association for Cancer Research: EACR is a European cancer-research society that co-sponsors the FEBS/EMBO Lecture Course 'Cancer research; from fundamental insights to clinical application' and operates congresses, travel fellowships, and awards in a molecular life sciences adjacent vertical.
• ASBMB - American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: ASBMB is the US counterpart: a scientific society publishing peer-reviewed journals (Journal of Biological Chemistry, Molecular & Cellular Proteomics), running the annual ASBMB Annual Meeting, administering awards and fellowships, and supporting biochemistry/molecular biology researchers.
• IUBMB - International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: IUBMB is the global umbrella organization of which FEBS is a regional adherent body. It co-funds joint FEBS/IUBMB Advanced Courses (up to €40,000), provides Trans-YTF grants, and runs its own congresses and educational programs in biochemistry and molecular biology.

Market position

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Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

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