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Ushma Savla Neill, Executive Editor, obtained her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University with Christopher M. Waters, studying airway physiology and mathematical models of wound healing. After a brief postdoc with Peter H.S. Sporn studying pulmonary eosinophilia, Ushma won the prestigious Marshall Sherfield Postdoctoral Fellowship. As a Sherfield Fellow, she studied the mechanics of vascular permeability with C. Charles Michel at Imperial College, London. Ushma returned to the US in 2001, and after 2 years as an editor at Nature Medicine, she joined the JCI in March 2003.

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