The Company of Biologists
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| Founded | 1925 |
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| Founder | George Parker Bidder III |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | Cambridge |
| Publication types | Academic journals |
| Nonfiction topics | Science |
| Official website | www |
The Company of Biologists is a UK-based charity and not-for-profit publisher that was established in 1925 by George Parker Bidder III with the aim of promoting research and study across all branches of biology. The Company publishes currently five scientific journals: Development, Disease Models & Mechanisms, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, and Biology Open.
As part of its charitable giving, The Company awards grants and travelling fellowships to biologists as well as running a series of Workshops.
The Company's current chairman is Dr Matthew Freeman, FRS.
George Parker Bidder III, a prominent zoologist working in Europe during the late 19th and early 20th Century, founded the Company of Biologists in 1925 in a bid to rescue the ailing journal The British Journal of Experimental Biology (now The Journal of Experimental Biology), which was founded in 1923 by Julian Huxley, Lancelot Hogben, Frances A. E. Crew.
Bidder felt that the journal was crucial for this emerging area of biology so turned to friends and colleagues, selling them £5 shares in his newly formed Company of Biologists. Such was the Company’s success that, in 1946, Bidder gifted the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science to them, which was later relaunched as Journal of Cell Science.
In 1952 the Company became a registered charity and a year later, in 1953, it accepted the gift of a third journal, the Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology (relaunched in 1987 as Development).
In August 2008 Disease Models & Mechanisms was launched to reflect the increasing importance of model organisms in the understanding of human disease; it is an Open Access journal.
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