The Editors of JCI

Contact the Editors by e-mail: editors@the-jci.org

	Ushma Savla Neill, Executive Editor, obtained her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University with Christopher M. Waters, studying airway physiology and mathematical models of wound healing. After a brief postdoc with Peter H.S. Sporn studying pulmonary eosinophilia, Ushma won the prestigious Marshall Sherfield Postdoctoral Fellowship. As a Sherfield Fellow, she studied the mechanics of vascular permeability with C. Charles Michel at Imperial College, London. Ushma returned to the US in 2001, and after 2 years as an editor at Nature Medicine, she joined the JCI in March 2003.

	Brooke Grindlinger, Science Editor, completed her Ph.D. in microbiology at the School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences at the University of Sydney, Australia, with Stuart J. Cordwell and Ian Humphery-Smith. A member of the laboratory that coined the term “proteome”, Brooke utilized comparative proteomics to study the pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. During this time Brooke also studied briefly with Norberto A. Guzman at the R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute in Raritan, New Jersey, and participated in the development of popular science segments for the Australian national television program A Current Affair. Brooke joined the JCI as Science Editor in August 2002.

	Karen Honey, News & Reviews Editor, received her Ph.D. from Oxford University, United Kingdom for her work in the laboratory of Herman Waldmann on the mechanisms of monoclonal antibody-induced transplantation tolerance. Karen continued her interest in immunology during a four year postdoc at the University of Washington with Alexander Rudensky, where she studied the role of the lysosomal proteases cathepsin S and cathepsin L in antigen presentation to CD4⁺ T cells and NKT cells. After a two and a half year spell back in the United Kingdom as an editor of Nature Reviews Immunology, Karen returned to the US to join the JCI in August 2006.

Editors of JCI From left, Gary Koretzky, Deputy Editor, Morris Birnbaum, Deputy Editor, Laurence Turka, Editor in Chief, Stephen Emerson, Deputy Editor, and Ushma Neill, Executive Editor.