Biochemical Club

By 1913, Wheldale s fame was such that she was one of the first three women (the other two being Ida Smedley and Harriette Chick see Chap. 2) to be elected to the Biochemical Club,43 the forerunner of the Biochemical Society. She was also awarded a Prize Fellowship in 1915 by the British Federation of University Women for her scientific research. 

The interest in the field in Britain alone justified and stimulated the formation of the Mucopolysaccharide Club in 1966, and analogous societies have now been in existence for some time in other countries. European Symposia have been held on the subject of connective tissue research, the proceedings of the second symposium, dealing with the biochemical and pathophysiological aspects, having been published (FI) and republished in a somewhat updated form (F9). Proceedings of an earlier symposium were also published (Q1). 

Dr. Spickett is currently treasurer of the Society for Free Radical Research Europe and a member of the Steering Committee of the International HNE-Club, having been its secretary from 2004 to 2010. She is also very active in European collaborations, and has been a workgroup leader in the COST Actions B35 on lipid peroxidation associated disorders and CMlOOl on chemistry of nonenzymatic protein modification. Dr. Spickett is also a member of the Society for Eree Radical Biology and Medicine, the Biochemical Society, and a Fellow of the Society of Biology. 

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