Learn from the Editors: Authoring in High-Impact Journals

Fabiola Rivas received her Ph.D. from The University of Chicago, studying mechanisms of T cell co-stimulation with Dr. Tom Gajewski. She was a Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Greg Hannon at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where she studied biochemical mechanisms of RNA interference. She joined the Cell editorial team in 2007, and in 2013 she became the Editor of Trends in Immunology.  She joined Immunity in 2015.

John McConnell is the Editor-in-Chief. He studied clinical microbiology and parasitology at the University of East London, before spending 6 years researching septic-shock-related topics at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London (now part of Imperial College London). He joined The Lancet in 1990, and was a peer-review editor before becoming the first editor of the journal’s website in 1996. In 2001, John McConnell was the founding editor of The Lancet Infectious Diseases. He has been a member of the organising committee of numerous conferences, and has appeared as an expert commentator on BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky News, Al Jazeera, CNBC, CNN, and CCTV America.