19 February 2025
eLife is pleased to welcome five new appointments to its Board of Directors: Dinesh Natesan, from UC Santa Barbara, US; Kamran Naim, from CERN, Switzerland; Fiona Watt, from EMBO, Germany; Huda Zoghbi, from Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, US; and Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan, from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), India.
These appointments follow the recent announcement of Timothy Behrens as eLife’s new Editor-in-Chief, further supporting the organisation as it pushes ahead in its mission to improve the review and communication of research. Working with the existing members of the Board, they will help determine eLife’s strategic priorities around its publishing, technology and research culture programmes, as well as develop policy and maintain high standards of probity within the organisation.
The new members were selected following an open call to scientists across the world with a proven track record of active leadership and driving positive change. The nominating committee included representatives from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Wellcome, alongside Joanne Hackett, Chair of eLife’s Board of Directors.
“We’re delighted to welcome these exemplary individuals to the eLife Board,” Hackett says. “The collective experiences they bring from across the research and open science spaces, as well as their passion for eLife and the vision we’re working to achieve, made them the clear choice for us. We’re excited to have them with us as we work together towards a fairer and more open future for research communication.”
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