J. David Puett, Regents Professor and head of the biochemistry and molecular biology department, has been elected president of the Association of Medical and Graduate Departments of Biochemistry. He is serving as president-elect in 2004 and will serve as president in 2005.
From 2000 to 2002, Puett served as chairperson of the education committee and as a member of the advisory board of the association.
The organization consists of 125 biochemistry departments representing most of the major medical and graduate research universities in the United States with several members from institutions in Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean Islands.