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 medical 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 came to Cold Spring Harbor in 1987 because Jim Watson offered me the chance to expand a small jewel of a publishing program consisting of the annual symposium volumes, a handful of monographs and manuals, and the new journal Genes & Development. Today, the Press has over 50 staff members and an international distribution network. It publishes 6 successful journals, 250 books, and a variety of electronic media, with audiences that include scientists, students and the general public. Our mission is to create editorially excellent information sources and deliver them with the most appropriate technologies, online and in print. These publications contribute significantly to the Laboratory’s financial health and its broad educational goals.

Within the Watson School, it has been my pleasure to act as an academic mentor for six students. I am also a principal in an international HIV/AIDS educational project. My personal publications include the editing of four books, most recently Inspiring Science and (in press) a reconsideration of Charles Davenport’s role in human genetics.education.