Humana Press

Humana Press

Founded	1976
Founder	Thomas L. Lanigan and Julia Lanigan
Defunct	2006
Successor	Springer Science+Business Media
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Totowa, New Jersey
Publication types	Books and journals
Nonfiction topics	Science, technology, and medical
Official website	www.springer.com/humana

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 in 2006.^{[citation needed]}

Humana published more than 100 new books and 25 journals per year^[when?] with a backlist of approximately 1,500 titles^[when?] in areas such as molecular biology, neuroscience, and medicine.^[1]

The company was founded in 1976 in Clifton, New Jersey, by Thomas L. Lanigan and his wife, Julia Lanigan, both chemists, and published its first book in 1977. The company was acquired by Springer Science+Business Media in the fall of 2006 and continues to publish titles of book series under the Humana Press imprint.^[2]

• 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

• Journal of Molecular Neuroscience
• Neuroinformatics
• Stem Cell Reviews and Reports
• Clinical Proteomics
• High Temperature and Materials Science

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