Humana Press was an American academic publisher of science, technology, and medical books and journals founded in 1976. It was bought by

Springer Science+Business Media Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing. Originally founded in 1842 in ...

in 2006.

History

Humana published more than 100 new books and 25 journals per year with a backlist of approximately 1,500 titles in areas such as

molecular biology Molecular biology is a branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecule, molecular basis of biological activity in and between Cell (biology), cells, including biomolecule, biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactio ...

neuroscience Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions, and its disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, ...

, and

medicine Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ...

. The company was founded in 1976 in Clifton, New Jersey, by Thomas L. Lanigan and his wife, Julia Lanigan, both

chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a graduated scientist trained in the study of chemistry, or an officially enrolled student in the field. Chemists study the composition of ...

s, and published its first book in 1977. The company was acquired by

in the fall of 2006 and continues to publish titles of book series under the Humana Press imprint.Publishers Weekly.
"Springer Buys Humana; Blackwell Adds Brandywine." September 5, 2006.

Selected publications

Book series

* '' Cancer Drug, Discovery, and Development'' * '' Contemporary Cardiology'' * '' Contemporary Endocrinology'' * '' Current Clinical Oncology'' * '' Current Clinical Pathology'' * '' Current Clinical Practice'' * '' Methods in Molecular Biology'' * '' Methods in Molecular Medicine'' * '' Neuromethods''

Journals

* '' Journal of Molecular Neuroscience'' * ''

Neuroinformatics Neuroinformatics is the emergent field that combines informatics and neuroscience. Neuroinformatics is related with neuroscience data and information processing by artificial neural networks. There are three main directions where neuroinformatics ...

'' * '' Stem Cell Reviews and Reports'' * '' Clinical Proteomics'' * '' High Temperature and Materials Science''

References

External links

* {{Authority control Academic publishing companies Publishing companies of the United States Book publishing companies based in New York (state) Publishing companies established in 1976 Springer Science+Business Media imprints 1976 establishments in New Jersey