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. You can meet Ushma at: December 16, 2011 New York Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for the Study of Neurological Diseases The New York Academy of Sciences http://www.nyas.org/iPSC January 29 - February 3, 2012 Santa Fe Genetic and Molecular Basis of Obesity and Body Weight Regulation https://www.keystonesymposia.org/Meetings/ViewMeetings.cfm?MeetingID=1171 February 26 - March 2, 2012 Keystone ApoE, Alzheimer's and Lipoprotein Biology https://www.keystonesymposia.org/Meetings/ViewMeetings.cfm?MeetingID=1182 March 26 - 31, 2012 Whistler Cell Biology of Virus Entry, Replication and Pathogenesis https://www.keystonesymposia.org/Meetings/ViewMeetings.cfm?MeetingID=1167 April 22-25 Miami 9th International Podocyte Conference www.podocytemiami.org April 27-29, 2012 Chicago ASCI/AAP annual meeting http://www.the-asci.org/meeting.shtml

	Karen Honey, Science 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.

	Kathryn Claiborn, News and Reviews Editor, received her Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology from the University of Pennsylvania for her work on transcription factor networks and protein stability in pancreatic beta cells in the laboratory of Doris Stoffers. Kathryn first intersected with the publishing side of biomedical science when she served as an intern for the JCI during her graduate work. After a brief postdoc, she was delighted to return to the field, joining the JCI editorial staff in July 2010. You can meet Kathryn at: February 12–17, Banff, Alberta Cancer and Metabolism http://www.keystonesymposia.org/meetings/viewMeetings.cfm?MeetingID=1136 March 4–9, Keystone, Colorado Innate Immunity: Sensing the Microbes and Damage Signals http://www.keystonesymposia.org/meetings/viewMeetings.cfm?MeetingID=1159 March 30 – April 4, Big Sky, Montana Fibrosis: Translation of Basic Research to Human Disease and Novel Therapeutics http://www.keystonesymposia.org/meetings/viewMeetings.cfm?MeetingID=1154

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.