A behind the scenes peek at BioMed Central publishing roles

What is your science background? Ben: My main research interest has always been viruses, which started during my undergraduate degree in virology at the University of Warwick. I then spent four years researching influenza virus for my doctoral research at the University of Reading. After this I moved on to a postdoc position at Imperial College London to test safer smallpox vaccines. Ripu: I have a PhD in human genetics specializing in human diversity and evolution in sub-Saharan African. I also have a Master’s degree in Medical Parasitology and a Diploma in infectious diseases, and while studying for these two degrees, I worked on malaria with the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, based in the Philippines. Chris: During my undergraduate education in Pharmacology at the University of Leeds, I studied a number of biological sciences related topics and worked for a contract research organization testing the preclinical safety of novel chemical entities. I then received a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Surrey, in collaboration with Weill Cornell Medical College. Kalpana: I have a PhD in Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology. The focus of my thesis work was to understand the molecular mechanisms which affect motor neuron differentiation using C. elegans as a model system. Explain what you spend a normal day in your job doing Ben: My current role is as one of three Associate Publishers in the biological sciences team, reporting into the Editorial Direc...
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