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

[citation needed] Humana published more than 100 new books and 25 journals per year[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.