Letter from the President - January 2026

Dear Redox family members,

We are very happy that the 11th SFRR-Asia Biennial Meeting was successfully completed with the strong support from the local and international organizing committee members and all participants. Now Prof. Young-Joon Surh, our excellent President of SFRR-Asia, passes the relay baton in my hands. It is a great honor and pleasure to serve as President SFRR-Asia, but this also requires substantial responsibilities. I am especially grateful for the long-term unconditional support from SFRR-China members and I am lucky to be the representative of you all. Thank you very much for your trust and support. I will do my best to contribute to the advancement and progress of SFRR-Asia.

Herein I cordially thank all the previous Presidents, Secretariat and SFRR-Asia Biennial meeting organizers for their fabulous work, outstanding contribution and dedication to our society. Many thanks to all the Redox-ers and Redox-mates for their great effort and cultivation in redox chemistry, biology and medicine fields to build up and develop our redox cluster. We also highly appreciate the guidance and support of SFRR-International all the way along. After two decades of development with eleven SFRR-Asia biennial meetings, we are delighted to see the significant growth of SFRR-Asia in both the research level and the scale. Now, SFRR-Asia is marching into a new stage with important mission.

In the following two years of my presidency, I would like to work closely with the committee members, previous Presidents and all the regional societies to increase the impact of SFRR-Asia. For this, I will make efforts mainly in the following three aspects. (1) Development of the member society reconstruction: There is a large potential to expand our redox family by both increasing/reactivating the existing membership and recruiting new regional member societies, such as Singapore, Indonesia, Israel, the Philippines. In addition, as young redox scientists are our future, the SFRR-Asia Early Career Researcher (ECR) Committee is going to be set up, and more vibrant scientific activities are expected. (2) Development of Redox subject/field: Concerning the main challenge of redox chemistry, biology and medicine research, I proposed, at the 11th SFRR-Asia Biennial Meeting, seven layers (7L) that could be explored coordinately, aiming "to know, to decode, and to utilize redox" - L1, New technology for precision redox research; L2, Exploring the redox network inside and outside of cells; L3, Biochemical mechanisms of redox, concerning redox modification of biomacromolecules, redox relay, and redox architecture. L4, Redox regulation in organelle function, quality control and cell fate. L5, Redox physiology in development and reproduction and its modulation by environmental challenge. L6, Redox stress in the pathogenesis of various diseases. L7, Precision redox intervention in health management. (3) Development of collaborations: To enhance the intense collaborations among different regional societies of SFRR-Asia, to extend and deepen the interactions with other scientific fields and clinical research, and to enhance international collaborations with SFRR-Asia, SFRR- Australasia, SFRBM, etc.

As discussed in the "Redox Future Perspective Forum" during the 11th SFRR-Asia biennial meeting, we all redox-ers and redox-mates will work together to draw the Redox Road-Map and promote the "International Redox-decode Project" with multidisciplinary global-level collaboration, in both basic and clinical research. Marching together towards one goal through organized exploration may bring breakthroughs in elucidation of redox mystery which will benefit human health.

Let's make great efforts to carry forward the cause and forge ahead into the future!

Sincerely,

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Chang Chen, PhD
President of SFRR-Asia