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The Company of Biologists is a UK-based charity and not-for-profit publisher that was established in 1925 by George Parker Bidder III with the aim of promoting research and study across all branches of biology. The Company publishes currently five scientific journals: ''Development, Disease Models & Mechanisms, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology'', and ''Biology Open''. As part of its charitable giving, The Company awards grants and travelling fellowships to biologists as well as running a series of Workshops. The Company's current chairman is Dr Matthew Freeman, FRS. ==Brief history== George Parker Bidder III, a prominent zoologist working in Europe during the late 19th and early 20th Century, founded the Company of Biologists in 1925 in a bid to rescue the ailing journal ''The British Journal of Experimental Biology'' (now ''The Journal of Experimental Biology''), which was founded in 1923 by Julian Huxley, Lancelot Hogben, Frances A. E. Crew. Bidder felt that the journal was crucial for this emerging area of biology so turned to friends and colleagues, selling them £5 shares in his newly formed Company of Biologists. Such was the Company’s success that, in 1946, Bidder gifted the ''Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science'' to them, which was later relaunched as ''Journal of Cell Science''. In 1952 the Company became a registered charity and a year later, in 1953, it accepted the gift of a third journal, the ''Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology'' (relaunched in 1987 as ''Development''). In August 2008 ''Disease Models & Mechanisms'' was launched to reflect the increasing importance of model organisms in the understanding of human disease; it is an Open Access journal. In Autumn 2011, The Company launched a 5th journal, ''Biology Open'', an online only, open access megajournal that publishes original research across all aspects of the biological sciences. The Company’s charitable status has the condition that none of the Directors receives any remuneration for their services, so Directors give their time and expertise as part of their contribution to the scientific community. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Company of Biologists」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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