eLife has announced that Jeff Settleman, Head of Oncology Research at Calico Life Sciences LLC, has joined the open-access journal as Senior Editor for Cancer Biology. A specialist in molecularly targeted cancer therapeutics and personalised cancer medicine, Settleman will work with other Senior Editors, primarily Charles Sawyers (Memorial Sloan Kettering) and Sean Morrison (UT Southwestern Medical Centre), and a team of Reviewing Editors in the journal's bid to help accelerate discovery within cancer research.
Established by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Max Planck Society and Wellcome - and now backed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation - eLife has a mission to help scientists take research forward more efficiently by operating a platform for research communication that encourages and recognises the most responsible behaviours in science.
eLife is best known for its collaborative approach to peer review: referees discuss reports openly with one another before taking a decision, and authors are sent a single decision letter that explains the revisions they need to make to have their paper accepted. The journal aims to publish work of the highest standards in all areas of the life and biomedical sciences, including conceptually important advances in all areas of cancer biology. eLife is also a partner in the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology, an initiative to independently replicate selected results from a number of high-profile papers in the field.
After receiving his PhD in Genetics from Yale University in 1989, Settleman continued his career in academia until 2010, when he joined Genentech as the Senior Director of Discovery Oncology. His role involved overseeing efforts to identify and validate targets for oncology drug discovery and to discover predictive biomarkers for new cancer therapies. He later joined CalicoLabs as Head of Oncology Research in April 2015.
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