‘Chemical Biology’ is the understanding of biological phenomena using chemical tools and its implications in therapeutics. This field has emerged as a major area of interdisciplinary research over the past two decades. Incidentally, the term ‘Chemical Biology’ was first coined by Indian visionaries while “Indian Institute of Experimental Medicine (IIEM)” at Kolkata was rechristened as “Indian Institute of Chemical Biology’ (IICB)” in 1982. Since then, and possibly from unrecorded earlier dates, chemical biology research is being pursued in different national institutes and universities across India. As highlighted in a recently published invited review article in ACS Chem. Biol. on the current scenario of chemical biology research in India (Ref details: xxxxx), India has now a critical number of laboratories pursuing globally competitive research programs in the interface of chemistry and biology.   Many of these chemical biology groups were invited to participate in a recent international conference held at CSIR-IICB, Kolkata during January 27-29, 2013 and it is at that symposium where “Chemical Biology Society (CBS)” in India was informally launched and subsequently registered as a Scientific Society with the Registrar of Societies at Kolkata. The society has already been formally recognized by the International Chemical Biology Society and also a few other National Chemical Biology Societies. Principally, this society was formed: to encourage the research activities in this multidisciplinary area; to create a platform that will foster interactions among Chemists, Biologist, Physicists, Mathematicians and Computer scientists; to encourage creative young minds to pursue research careers in the interface of chemistry and biology; to promote academy-industry research collaborations; and to connect formally the scientists working in this area with large International platforms.