As a scientist with a passion for scientific communication and incredible scientific curiosity, my scientific expertise spans basic research to translational medicine.
I am an Adjunct Associate Professor at George Washington University and at Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health. In June 2022, I joined St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where I am the Manager of Research Communications for the Blue Sky Kinase Initiative of the Department of Structural Biology.
In 2017, I launched BioSerendipity to provide freelance science and medical writing, scientific editing, and scientific consulting services. In addition to working with scientists throughout the world on research publications, research descriptions, and grant applications, I have worked with press offices, publishers, journals, nonprofit associations, and government agencies. I also developed a series of editorial training classes for new journal editors and scientific communication classes for researchers. I am a member of the Council of Science Editors (CSE), the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), and the National Association of Science Writers (NASW).
I hold a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics from the University of Maryland Graduate School through the School of Medicine. For 7 years, I worked as a researcher studying cellular trafficking and function of lysosomal membrane proteins and serving as an instructor at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Biology. I spent 17 years as a professional editor for Science Signaling, a multidisciplinary scientific journal about all aspects of molecular, cellular, and organismal regulation.
I joined the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in January 2000 as an Associate Editor for Science‘s STKE and was promoted to Managing Editor in the spring of 2000 and then to Editor in 2006 in preparation of the re-titling of the journal to Science Signaling in 2008. In 2017, I stepped down as the Editor of Science Signaling to start Bioserendipity, LLC. Links to content that I have authored and videos that I have made for AAAS are provided below along with my CV, which has the details of my professional experience and education.