The Editors of JCI

Sarah Jackson, Science Editor, received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for her research on the function of a cullin-based ubiquitin ligase complex in cell cycle progression. Under the guidance of Yue Xiong, she uncovered a critical role for this complex in the development of T and B lymphocytes using conditional knockout mice. Sarah was thrilled to join the JCI editorial team in March 2012.

Kathryn Claiborn, Science 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.

Ushma S. Neill, Editor at Large, obtained her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University studying pulmonary mechanics and used her Marshall Sherfield Postdoctoral Fellowship at Imperial College, London to study vascular permeability. After 2 years as an editor at Nature Medicine, she joined the JCI in March 2003 as Executive Editor. In May 2012, Ushma became Director of the Office of the President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.