Dear colleagues, dear SFRR-E members, dear friends,

It has been an honour and a pleasure to serve SFRR-Europe during these last twelve years. I have done my best to contribute to the growth of our Society.

We are delighted to see the significant increase in our membership from 2013, when we started with the sponsorship from Elsevier with only 150 members, to the current membership with almost 600 members. This success has been achieved by a great team’s work involving the SFRR-E Executive Committee, the Council, and more recently the ECR Committee. I would like to give special thanks to our previous Presidents during all this time, Daniela Caporossi, Michael Davies, Giovanni Mann, Josiane Cillard, and Nesrin Kartal-Özer for their excellent work leading the Society as well as to Clare Hawkins as General Secretary, Brigitte Winkloher-Roob and Niki Chondrogianni as Meeting Officers, and Aphrodite Vasilaki and Corinne Spickett as Treasurers for their great work.

The SFRR-E ECR Committee was created in 2022 with Carmen Veith elected as the first Chair serving until June 2024, when Pari Kritsiligkou became Chair of this Committee. All members of this committee, especially Carmen and Pari, have contributed so much to the increase in our membership and to make our society vibrant regularly running very interesting webinars by outstanding young researchers in the redox biology field, mentoring programs as well as disseminating all SFRR-E activities through the social media. Their enormous efforts for the society are very much appreciated.

Many thanks also to those who have organized our excellent Annual Meetings during all these 12 years with such outstanding efforts, starting with Emrah Eroglu and Nesrin Kartal-Özer for Istanbul 2024, Florian Gruber for Vienna 2023; Daniela Caporossi, Claire Remacle, Rémi Willamme, and Frank Breusegem for the joint SFRR-E/POG Meeting Ghent 2022, and Joel Pincemail for his efforts trying to hold that joint meeting in Liège; Bato Korac for Belgrade 2021; Giuseppe Valacchi for Ferrara 2019; João Laranjinha for SFRR-I Lisbon 2018; Tilman Grune for Berlin 2017; Zolt Radak for Budapest 2016; Jan Frank for Stuttgart 2015; Bertrand Friguet and Josiane Cillard for Paris 2014; and Stathis Gonos for Athens 2013. In addition, the extensive dedication by Brigitte Winkloher-Roob to our Annual Meetings during the last years is much appreciated. We cannot forget either the outstanding SFRR-I 2012 Meeting organized by Giovanni Mann and Malcolm Jackson in London. All these meetings leave me with special memories that will remain forever.

I would like also to give many thanks to Niki Chondrogianni, Aphrodite Vasilaki, Daniela Caporossi, Tilman Grune, Lars-Oliver Klotz, and Corinne Spickett for their great contribution to the training of young investigators in our exciting field in the Spetses Summer School.


The SFRR-E website was created in 2012 by our web manager Rodrigo Ribes, who has maintained and improved it during all these years, becoming a few years ago Assistant Secretary of the society and playing a fundamental role handling our membership and supporting all webinars, so I also would like to give special thanks to Rodrigo.

We appreciate the long-term sponsorship from Elsevier and the very valuable help from Anthony Newman, Manon Burger, Lydia Briggs, and Rafael Teixeira, which has underpinned for all our Annual Meetings and our outreach activities. The funding provided by the Oxygen Club of California with the generous support of Enrique Cadenas is also much appreciated and has contributed very importantly to the fellowships to young researchers and to maintain a high quality of our annual meetings. A special memory to our dear friends Lester Packer, John Maguire, and Pierre Cillard.

Next year SFRR-E will host the SFRR-International Biennial Meeting 2025, which is being organized by Kasia Whysall and will be held in Galway, Ireland, on the 3rd-6th June with the theme “The New Era of Redox Biology: from Basic Biochemistry to Redox Omics”. Please remember the deadlines for SFRR-E and SFRR-I/OCC travel awards for students and postdocs to attend this meeting -17th January 2025-, for abstract submission -10th February 2025-, and for early bird registration -20th March 2025-.

I am certain that our Society will be in very good hands with Giuseppe Valacchi as President from January 2025 and Clare Hawkins continuing as General Secretary together with the excellent team composed by Irundika Dias as new Treasurer, Brigitte Winklhofer-Roob and Niki Chondrogianni as Meeting Officers, Giovanni Mann , Michael Davies, and Enrique Cadenas as Scientific Advisors, and the new SFRR-E Council. In addition, the ECR Committee and the new generations to come will ensure a long life for our society.

Finally, I do hope that the new year will bring the end of the wars in Ukraine and Middle East as well as the recovery of the many villages of my region of Valencia that were recently devastated by the severe floods.
It has been a pleasure to collaborate with most of you during all these years, and I do look forward to seeing you again in Galway in June.

With my best wishes for all of you for the special season holidays, and for a very happy New Year 2025!

All the best,
Juan Sastre
Outgoing SFRR-E President