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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.