Congratulations to Dr. Oleh Khalimonchuk, recently designated as 2025 fellow for ASBMB.
Feb. 17, 2025
The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology today announced that it has named 24 members as 2025 fellows of the society.
Designation as a fellow recognizes commitment to the ASBMB through a history of exceptional and sustained service to the society as well as accomplishments in research, education, mentorship, diversity and inclusion, advocacy and service to the scientific community.
The fellows were selected by the ASBMB Membership Committee, including Rick Page, associate vice president for research and innovation at Miami University and the Membership Committee chair, as well as Chi Fung Lee, assistant professor of cardiovascular biology research at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and the Membership Committee fellows task force chair.
“We are glad to welcome the 24 new ASBMB fellows in the 2025 class,” Lee said. “They have shown remarkable commitment to ASBMB through their sustained service, as well as impactful accomplishments in their professions of research, education, advocacy and service to the scientific community. We are honored to have these colleagues to represent ASBMB. We look forward to their continued contribution as role models and mentors to inspire members of ASBMB.”
This is the fifth year that ASBMB has named fellows. The society will recognize the 2025 class at its annual meeting, April 12–15, in Chicago.
Oleh Khalimonchuk
Oleh Khalimonchuk is a professor of biochemistry and the director of the Nebraska Redox Biology Center at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His lab uses yeast and mammalian cell and roundworm models to study the molecular bases of mitochondrial function and dysfunction as they relate to human disease and aging.
In 2016, Khalimonchuk received a junior faculty for excellence in research award from UNL. He has offered fellowships to Ukrainian scientists during the Russia–Ukraine conflict. He is a member of the ASBMB Meetings Committee and was named a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2022.
Khalimonchuk was nominated by Patricia Kane.
Congratulations to Dr. Edgar Cahoon, recently designated fellow of National Academy of Inventors.
A University of Nebraska–Lincoln biochemist has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.
Edgar Cahoon, George Holmes Professor of biochemistry and director of the university’s Center for Plant Science Innovation, is one of 170 new NAI fellows announced Dec. 10. Fellow status recognizes academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in developing inventions that have tangibly impacted quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.
Cahoon, an internationally recognized expert in plant lipid biotechnology, focuses his work on developing new types of oils that have improved functionalities for food, feed and industrial uses. His research to identify new genes, fatty acid structures and biochemical pathways in plants has generated 36 U.S. patents and improved crops’ nutritional and industrial value and agronomic performance.
Cahoon said his success in translating discoveries to the marketplace reflects the university’s culture of innovation.
“Our Center for Plant Science Innovation and our university has this philosophy of doing great science to make new discoveries and thinking about how we can apply those discoveries to benefit agriculture and society. That’s our strong point,” he said. “I’ve been very fortunate to be able to spend part of my career here at UNL, which has this spirit of innovation and the resources to do great science and make discoveries.”
The accolade highlights Cahoon’s leadership in conducting impact-focused research.
Cahoon has published more than 180 papers that collectively have been cited more than 17,000 times. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society of Plant Biologists and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Cahoon also received the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity honor — one of the University of Nebraska’s most prestigious designations — in 2020.
Cahoon will be honored at the 14th NAI Annual Conference in June in Atlanta, Georgia.
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is among 13 founding institutions of the National Academy of Inventors. Cahoon is the 13th Husker researcher to be named an NAI fellow.
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