The Company of Biologists and the British Society for Developmental Biology: a model partnership

For more than 47 years, The Company of Biologists has supported the British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB), enabling them to award travel bursaries so that early- and mid-career researchers can attend scientific conferences and training courses both in the UK and abroad. In return, the Society helps increase the visibility of the Company and its journals to the research community. Over the past decades, this partnership has significantly strengthened, playing a key role in shaping the strong and close-knit developmental biology community in the UK. In this Perspective, we guide you through the founding of the BSDB and its early relationship with the Company, the evolution of the Company's financial support to the Society and how this relationship helps the international research community.