The Massachusetts Medical Society, publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine, has named Dr. Eric J. Rubin as the new editor-in-chief of the Journal and NEJM Group. Dr. Rubin is chair of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and the Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases. The selection of Dr. Rubin was made after a worldwide search conducted by an international search committee. He plans to start in September.
Dr. Rubin began his research work at Harvard College, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in biochemical sciences in 1980. He later earned MD and PhD degrees at Tufts University in 1990 and completed his post-graduate training at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is the Irene Heinz Given endowed professor and chair (since 2018) of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with additional appointments at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is also a Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute.
An author of 147 scientific articles, Dr. Rubin has been an Associate Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine since 2012. He also has served as an editor or editorial board member of the journals Tuberculosis, Current Opinion in Microbiology, PLoS Pathogens, and mBio.
Dr. Rubin succeeds Dr. Jeffrey M. Drazen, who has been the editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine since 2000. Dr. Drazen led the Journal through the publication of many landmark studies and developed policies that led to more transparency in scientific publishing. Dr. Drazen also oversaw the development of NEJM Knowledge+, NEJM Catalyst, NEJM Resident 360, and NEJM 医学前沿.
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