The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology have announced that Lila M. Gierasch, a distinguished faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will be the next editor in chief of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the nonprofit's peer-reviewed journal.
Gierasch's five-year term will begin July 1. She will take the reins from the journal's interim editor, F. Peter Guengerich, a researcher at Vanderbilt University and longtime associate editor who has steered the highly cited journal since July 2015.
Gierasch was an editorial board member for the JBC from 2000 to 2003 and has served on numerous other editorial boards since. She is an expert on protein folding, structure and function, with an emphasis on how proteins fold in vivo. She is strongly committed to interdisciplinary science and to deploying physical and chemical approaches to elucidate physiological mechanisms.
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