John R. Inglis
Executive Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Ph.D., University of Edinburgh Medical School, 1976

email inglis@cshl.edu, phone (516) 367-8823, fax (516) 367-6857

I graduated from Edinburgh University Medical School with a Ph.D. in immunology and joined the editorial staff of the distinguished weekly journal The Lancet. Three years later, I founded a new monthly review journal, Immunology Today (now Trends in Immunology) and edited it for seven years while helping start other, similar journals. I also wrote articles on biomedicine for The Guardian newspaper and New Scientist magazine, including the first British story about the emergence of HIV/AIDS. I am a principal investigator on an international AIDS educational project and an editor of four books, most recently Inspiring Science and a reconsideration of Charles Davenport’s role in human genetics.

I came to Cold Spring Harbor in 1987 because Jim Watson offered me the chance to develop a publishing program from a small jewel: the annual symposium volumes; monographs and manuals that had helped get molecular biology established; and the new journal Genes & Development. Today, the Press has over 50 staff and publishes five journals, 200 books, and a variety of electronic media for science professionals, students and the general public. Editorial excellence combined with new technologies make them valuable information tools for science education.