{"id":2136,"date":"2011-10-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermont.salk.edu\/news-release\/salk-institute-molecular-biologist-inder-m-verma-named-pnas-editor-in-chief\/"},"modified":"2011-10-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T07:00:00","slug":"salk-institute-molecular-biologist-inder-m-verma-named-pnas-editor-in-chief","status":"publish","type":"disclosure","link":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/salk-institute-molecular-biologist-inder-m-verma-named-pnas-editor-in-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"El bi\u00f3logo molecular del Instituto Salk, Inder M. Verma, nombrado editor en jefe de PNAS"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014La Academia Nacional de Ciencias<\/a> (NAS) anuncia el nombramiento de Inder M. Verma<\/a>, Ph.D., como editor en jefe de la Actas de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias (PNAS)<\/em><\/a>, la revista oficial de la NAS. Asumir\u00e1 formalmente la direcci\u00f3n el 1 de noviembre, y la transici\u00f3n al nuevo puesto se llevar\u00e1 a cabo durante varias semanas.\n<\/p>\n

\nAn American Cancer Society Professor of molecular biology in the Laboratorio de Gen\u00e9tica<\/a> at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, Verma was elected to the NAS in 1997 and has served on the Editorial Board of PNAS since 2001.\n<\/p>\n

\n“Dr. Inder Verma is known worldwide for his scientific creativity and for his conscientiousness and fair-mindedness,” said Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences. “He is the ideal person to lead PNAS, an already-premier science journal that continues to improve.”\n<\/p>\n

\nVerma’s research focuses on cancer genetics, inflammation, and gene therapy. His laboratory helped reveal that the aberrant expression of normal cellular genes can lead to cancer. Verma’s team also demonstrated that the enzyme reverse transcriptase produces complementary DNA from messenger RNA, and they were among the first to use a retroviral vector to correct a genetic deficiency. His group later developed lentiviral vectors, now extensively used in a variety of biological settings.\n<\/p>\n

\nVerma, who will succeed current Editor-in-Chief Randy Schekman, has emphasized that PNAS should not be viewed as a closed journal, limited to the privileged few who can bypass a rigorous review process to get their work published. “Direct Submission has gone a long way to diminish this perception, but perceptions last longer than reality,” Verma said. He hopes to accomplish this goal through “continuous rigor in reviewing Direct Submission and Contributed Submissions, promotion of work published by non-NAS members, and educating younger scientists that publication in PNAS is open to all with a fair review process to publish the best science.”\n<\/p>\n

\nAfter receiving a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, Verma performed postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Nobel laureate David Baltimore at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among Verma’s recent honors are the 2010 Pasarow Award in Cancer Research, the 2010 Spector Prize from Columbia University, the 2009 Irwin & Joan Jacobs Chair in Exemplary Life Sciences, the 2009 Outstanding Achievement Award from the American Society of Gene Therapy, the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Association of Indian Scientists in Cancer Research, the 2008 Vilcek Foundation Prize, and the 2007 Cozzarelli Prize. In addition to being a member of NAS, Verma is a member of the Institute of Medicine, American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Third World Academy of Sciences. In 2000, Verma was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Therapy, a journal of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy.\n<\/p>\n

\n“My first paper as an independent faculty member was communicated to PNAS in 1974, which to this day I remember with great pride and a sense of achievement,” Verma said. “Being the Editor-in-Chief of PNAS will allow me to engage more researchers in a common goal of making science more accessible, and hence interesting, to the public.”\n<\/p>\n

\nOne of the world’s most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials, PNAS publishes original research reports, commentaries, reviews, perspectives, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. Coverage in PNAS spans the biological, physical, and social sciences. PNAS publishes weekly in print, and daily online in PNAS Early Edition.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe National Academy of Sciences is a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the general welfare. It was established in 1863 by a congressional act of incorporation signed by Abraham Lincoln that calls on the Academy to act as an official adviser to the federal government, upon request, in any matter of science or technology.\n<\/p>\n


\nAcerca del Instituto Salk de Estudios Biol\u00f3gicos:<\/strong>
\nEl Instituto Salk de Estudios Biol\u00f3gicos es una de las instituciones de investigaci\u00f3n b\u00e1sica m\u00e1s destacadas del mundo, donde un cuerpo docente de prestigio internacional investiga cuestiones fundamentales de las ciencias de la vida en un entorno \u00fanico, colaborativo y creativo. Centrados tanto en el descubrimiento como en la formaci\u00f3n de las futuras generaciones de investigadores, los cient\u00edficos del Salk realizan contribuciones revolucionarias a nuestra comprensi\u00f3n del c\u00e1ncer, el envejecimiento, el Alzheimer, la diabetes y las enfermedades infecciosas mediante el estudio de la neurociencia, la gen\u00e9tica, la biolog\u00eda celular y vegetal, y otras disciplinas relacionadas.\n<\/p>\n

\nLos logros del cuerpo docente han sido reconocidos con numerosos galardones, entre los que se incluyen premios Nobel y la pertenencia a la Academia Nacional de Ciencias. Fundado en 1960 por el Dr. Jonas Salk, pionero en la vacuna contra la poliomielitis, el Instituto es una organizaci\u00f3n independiente sin fines de lucro y un hito arquitect\u00f3nico.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","faculty":[115],"disease-research":[46],"class_list":["post-2136","disclosure","type-disclosure","status-publish","hentry","faculty-inder-verma","disease-research-cancer-biology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSalk Institute molecular biologist Inder M. 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