The Scientist : NewsBlog Print: Bye bye, Donald Kennedy
The Scientist: NewsBlog:
Bye bye, Donald Kennedy
Posted by Alison McCook
[Entry posted at 22nd June 2007 05:54 PM GMT]

Yesterday (June 21), Science editor-in-chief Donald Kennedy announced he was retiring from the journal, after seven years at the helm.

AAAS president David Baltimore is leading a search committee for a new candidate.

Kennedy has steered Science through some tricky waters, to say the least. The journal published, then retracted, one of Woo-Suk Hwang's now-infamous papers on human embryonic stem cell research. In 2002, the journal retracted a controversial paper that suggested the recreational drug Ecstasy predisposed users to Parkinson disease, causing some researchers to demand to see the referees' reports. Kennedy also recently penned an "expression of concern" over a paper that showed two-cell embryos have distinct cell lineages.

But Kennedy was no stranger to hoopla when he took the Science job, having resigned as president of Stanford University after the school became enveloped in controversy over indirect costs.

During his tenure, Science has received an increasing number of submissions, "at a rate of growth rivaling the rate of Chinese economic growth," according to Kennedy.

What do you think about Kennedy's tenure at Science? Tell us here.


 

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Next editor
by Mentorless

[Comment posted 2007-07-07 11:01:39]

In light of the documented failures of scientific responsibility on the part of both search leader and current editor, the following may well be candidates:

Name, degree(s) (professional employers)

Robert C. Gallo, MD (NIH; U Maryland)

Mikulas Popovic, MD, PhD (NIH; NM State U; U Maryland)

Pearson (Trey) Sunderland, III, MD (NIH; ?)

W. French Anderson, MD (NIH; U Sthrn CA; CA prison)

Elizabeth B. Goodwin, PhD (U Wisc; ?)

Jan Hendrik Schon (Bell Labs; ?)

Bertram Batlogg, PhD (Bell Labs; ETH, Zurich)

David Baltimore, PhD (MIT; Rockefeller; MIT; CA Inst Tech)*

Luk van Parijs, PhD (MIT; ?)

Roger J. Pomerantz, MD (Thos. Jeff. U; Johnson & Johnson)

David T. Weaver, PhD (Harvard/Dana Farber; ?)

Moema H. Reis-Soares, PhD (Brazil U)

Thereza Imanishi-Kari, PhD (Tufts)

Henry H. Wortis, MD (Tufts)

Brigitte Huber, PhD (Tufts)

Martin H. Flax, MD, PhD (Tufts)

Herman N. Eisen, MD (MIT)

Gene M. Brown, PhD (MIT)

John M. Deutch, PhD (MIT; DoE; DoD; CIA; MIT)

Phillip A. Sharp, PhD (MIT)*

Paul Berg, PhD (Stanford)*

Robert E. Pollack, PhD (Columbia U)

Gerald R. Fink, PhD (MIT)

Jerome E. Groopman, MD (Beth Israel Deaconess Hosp & Harvard)

Benjamin Lewin, PhD (Cell Press; ?)

Robert M. Rosenzweig, (Assoc. Amer. Univs.)

James E. Darnell, Jr, MD (Rockefeller U)

David Rockefeller

P. Roy Vagelos, MD (Merck & Co., Inc)

Richard M. Furlaud, LLB (Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co.)

Maxine F. Singer, PhD (NIH; Carnegie Inst; ?)

Leonard M. Freeman, MD (Albert Einstein, Montefiore Medical Cntr)

Irwin A. Rose, PhD (Fox Chase Cncr Cntr; UC Irvine)*

Bernard Roizman, ScD (U Chicago)

John Darsee, MD (Emory, Harvard Us; ?)

Eugene Braunwald, MD (Harvard; Brigham & Women's Hosp.)

Robert A. Kloner, MD PhD (Harvard, Wayne State Us; U Sthrn Cal)

Charles D. Bluestone, MD (U Pittsburgh)

Marion Perlmutter, PhD (U Mich)

Richard C. Adelman, PhD (U Mich)

Philip W. Lambert, MD (Case Western Res U; ?)

Jeffrey S. Borer, MD (Cornell/Weill)...

*Note, Nobel laureate





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