On Being an Associate Editor

Being a researcher, being an editor, being an author.

With me, it happened in the beginning of the last decade (1990). When the post of editor of the unit's periodical became vacant, the Director, like most Directors, looked around him in search of his best friend or his worst enemy. He picked me for one of those two reasons, which one of them I have not found out. But it really does not make that much of a difference given the size of the problem...

The many lives of an (associate) editor.

The role of editor of a journal attracts the vision of a scholar isolated in an ivory tower selecting "la crème" of the submitted papers, with no other preoccupations that the scientific rigour. This, is of course, only one of the many roles - or, as this editorial calls them, lives--of an editor. The essential skills are many and more complex, and an editor will encounter many problems that ar...

Meet Our Associate Editor

Associate editor: Sharona Gordon

The JGP is pleased to announce that Sharona Gordon, associate professor of physiology and biophysics at the University of Washington, has become an associate editor. Sharona has held a Jules and Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professorship and served with distinction on many national and institutional committees, including the National Institutes of Health/CSR Neurotransmitter Transp...

Meet Our Associate Editor

Dr. Gaetano Santulli is a physician scientist (cardiologist) working at Columbia University Medical Center in New York (NY). He earned his MD and PhD from the University of Naples “Federico II”, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University. He has expertise in both clinical and basic research. His research interests include heart failure [1-3], diabetes mellitus [4, 5], adrenerg...