About the editors
About the editors
Chief Editor: Nicola McCarthy, PhD
Nicola has a PhD in Cell Biology from Birmingham University where she researched the mechanisms of chemotherapeutic drug resistance in cells overexpressing anti-apoptotic genes. She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Gerard Evan's lab at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, investigating genes involved in the sensitization of cancer cells to apoptosis. Her subsequent postdoctoral work at Cambridge University addressed death-receptor-mediated apoptosis in the vasculature. Her move to Nature Reviews Cancer in April 2004 allows her to pursue her career-long interest in cancer research and to focus on proliferation and cell death pathways as means to identify novel cancer treatments.
Associate Editor: Sarah Seton-Rogers, PhD
Sarah received her PhD in Cell Biology from Harvard Medical School, where she researched signalling pathways implicated in migration and invasion of breast cancer cells with Joan Brugge. During her time at Harvard, she pursued her interest in scientific communication by completing freelance writing projects for Harvard Medical School's Focus newsletter, The Scientist, and the website breastcancer.org. She then worked for two years as a medical writer at a medical communications agency, where she focused predominantly on hypertension and atherosclerosis and interacted with clinical researchers and pharmaceutical companies. Her continued interest in scientific communication and her desire to return to the field of cancer research brought her to Nature Reviews Cancer in April 2006.
Associate Editor: Gemma Alderton, PhD
Gemma received her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Sussex, where she researched DNA damage and cell cycle signalling pathways and their deregulation in human disease with Penny Jeggo. Having established an interest in cell cycle signalling she worked as a postdoc in John Diffleys� lab at the Cancer Research UK Clare Hall laboratories, investigating the control of the G1/S checkpoint signalling in mammalian cells. In October 2006 she moved to Nature Reviews Cancer to continue her broad interest in pathological cell signalling.
Assistant Editor: Meera Swami, PhD
Meera received her PhD in Molecular Genetics from the University of Glasgow, where she researched the role of DNA repeat instability in Huntington disease with Darren Monckton and Peggy Shelbourne. During this time, she also worked as a science communicator at the Glasgow Science Centre. Following on from her interest in the phenomenon of somatic instability and its relationship to Huntington disease pathology, she then carried out a postdoctoral fellowship investigating genetic modifiers of repeat instability in Vanessa Wheeler's group at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Meera joined Nature Reviews in September 2008.
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