Throughout my career I have been an officer of national, regional and international organizations, as for example, the UK Biochemical Society, the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS), which I helped found, and the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB), as General Secret and President. While occupying these offices I help create a number of journals, including the European Journal of Biochemistry ( now the FEBS Journal), FEBS Letters, Trends in Biochemical Sciences ( TiBS),Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry, BioEssays, BioFactors , the FASEB Journal and IUBMB Life. I have been the Editor-in-Chief of several of these.

Our basic principle is that of scientists publishing for scientists, and while we are happy to work with commercial publishers and make use of their business expertise, we insist on owning the copyright and receiving royalties, which over the past 4 decades have brought FEBS, IUBMB and FASEB tens of millions of dollars which are plowed back into science.

Fir my researches and organizing activities I was awarded the CIBA Medal of the UK Biochemical Society, membership of the Royal College of Physicians, the FEBS Millennium Medal and the Fellowship of the Royal Society.