CSSP Member Profile: Judith Bond

It isn't just the YWCA that has noticed Judith Bond is an outstanding woman.

This CSSP board member is professor and chair of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Penn. She also serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Biological Chemistry and immediate past president of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Bond received her bachelors in science from Bennington College in Vermont in 1961, followed by masters and doctorate degrees in biochemistry and physiology from Rutgers University in 1962 and 1966. She did postdoctoral work at Vanderbilt University until 1968, then joined the faculty of the department of biochemistry at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University. She moved to Virginia Tech as professor and head of the department of biochemistry and nutrition in 1988, then on to her current position in 1992.

Bond has a sustained interest in graduate education, having trained a plethora of masters and doctorate students. She has trained 18 postdoctoral fellows.

Bond's service includes membership on the NIH Biochemistry Study and sitting on the NIDDK Advisory council of the NIH . She was elected president of the Association of Medical and Graduate Departments of Biochemistry, the Council of the International Proteolysis Society and the Council of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She was named YWCA Outstanding Woman in Science and Health in Virginia in 1989, Virginia's Outstanding Scientist in 1988, and was an NIH MERIT awardee. Her research on proteolysis, and particularly on unique and complex metalloproteases called meprins, has been funded continuously by the NIH for 30 years. She is an advocate for funding of fundamental, investigator-initiated research, the globalization of science and the next generation of scientists.