The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has announced that Kerry-Anne Rye of the University of New South Wales Sydney, and Nicholas O. Davidson of Washington University in St. Louis will be the next editors-in-chief of the Journal of Lipid Research.
Rye runs the lipid research group at the School of Medical Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine at UNSW Sydney. She has been an associate editor for JLR since 2008. Davidson leads the gastroenterology division and the digestive disease research center at Wash U's medical school and has been an associate editor for JLR since 2011. Their joint five-year term as co-editors will begin January 1.
While JLR already publishes some patient-oriented studies, Rye and Davidson have developed a plan for broadening the scope of the journal to include additional clinical research, including studies examining microbial taxa in lipid homeostasis, lipid mediators in human diseases (including atherosclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, Alzheimer's disease and liver disease), the role of noncoding RNAs in lipid metabolism, and epigenetic regulation of lipid metabolism.
Rye and Davidson will take the reins from the journal's current co-editors, Edward Dennis of the University of California, San Diego, and William Smith of the University of Michigan. Dennis has steered the journal since 2003. For most of that time, Joseph Witztum, also at UCSD, was co-editor. Witztum stepped down in 2016, at which point Smith stepped in to complete Witztum's term.
JLR was founded in 1959 by a group of lipid scientists at the National Institutes of Health. They called their organisation Lipid Research Inc. When the NIH reduced financial support for the group in the late 1960s, the journal's editors began exploring partnerships to sustain the publication.
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