How Terri Grodzicker transformed Genes & Development [Essays]

Carol Prives Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA Corresponding author: clp3columbia.edu

I have known Terri Grodzicker for over four decades as a colleague and friend. So it is a distinct and personal pleasure to write this deep appreciation of Terri's stewardship of Genes & Development. Terri took over the journal in the late 1980s, after having established a flourishing career as an independent scientist for many years at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, one of the premier institutions in the world. CSHL has the added advantage of sponsoring world-class meetings and courses; this gave Terri the ammunition she needed to ensure that G&D would thrive as a purveyor of the most interesting and rigorous science in the areas that it published. She knew who was doing the most interesting work and had the savvy to establish a network of colleagues and friends who were only too happy to send their work to the journal and, in some cases, to help her by serving as members of the G&D Editorial Board (more on that below). Importantly, it was due to her taste and insight that G&D moved quickly from being on rather shaky ground in the journal hierarchy to one that is among the most prestigious scientific journals.

I have had the opportunity and good fortune to publish many journal articles and reviews in G&D and truly feel that they …

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