Richard Sever
Senior Lecturer
MA, University of Oxford, 1992
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1996
[email protected] | (516) 422-4005
My undergraduate degree was in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford. I switched to Cambridge for my PhD, researching gene regulation at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. My PhD focused on regulation of AP1 and other transcription factors by signal transduction pathways, in particular MAP kinase cascades. I also tutored undergraduates who were studying molecular cell biology as part of the Cambridge Natural Sciences Tripos.
I then trained as a scientific editor, working first at Current Opinion in Cell Biology and then Trends in Biochemical Sciences. I went on to become Executive Editor of Journal of Cell Science at The Company of Biologists, where I also helped modernize and develop their publication program. I joined 黑料吃瓜资源 (CSHL) in 2008 as an editor at CSHL Press and was appointed Assistant Director in 2012. At CSHL Press, I launched and edited the journals Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology and Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine and served as Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. I also edited several books, including the textbook Signal Transduction and the handbook Career Alternatives for Biomedical Scientists.
My experience in science publishing and research convinced me that the research communication system could be improved and that sharing findings more quickly would benefit everyone. So in 2013 I co-founded the preprint server to facilitate this and later in 2019 to help bring the approach to clinical research. The servers became essential resources for researchers and played critical roles during the pandemic.
I am now Chief Science & Strategy Officer at , the non-profit organization we set up to operate and . I鈥檓 also a faculty member at CSHL and teach classes in science communication at Cold Spring Harbor School of Biological Sciences.
All Publications
2 Jul 2024 | Nature Reviews Cancer
Hindle, Samantha; Sever, Richard;
29 Feb 2024 | PLoS Biology | 22(2):e3002502
Avissar-Whiting, Michele; Belliard, Frédérique; Bertozzi, Stefano; Brand, Amy; Brown, Katherine; Clément-Stoneham, Géraldine; Dawson, Stephanie; Dey, Gautam; Ecer, Daniel; Edmunds, Scott; Farley, Ashley; Fischer, Tara; Franko, Maryrose; Fraser, James; Funk, Kathryn; Ganier, Clarisse; Harrison, Melissa; Hatch, Anna; Hazlett, Haley; Hindle, Samantha; Hook, Daniel; Hurst, Phil; Kamoun, Sophien; Kiley, Robert; Lacy, Michael; LaFlamme, Marcel; Lawrence, Rebecca; Lemberger, Thomas; Leptin, Maria; Lumb, Elliott; MacCallum, Catriona; Marcum, Christopher; Marinello, Gabriele; Mendonça, Alex; Monaco, Sara; Neves, Kleber; Pattinson, Damian; Polka, Jessica; Puebla, Iratxe; Rittman, Martyn; Royle, Stephen; Saderi, Daniela; Sever, Richard; Shearer, Kathleen; Spiro, John; Stern, Bodo; Taraborelli, Dario; Vale, Ron; Vasquez, Claudia; Waltman, Ludo; Watt, Fiona; Weinberg, Zara; Williams, Mark;
Oct 2023 | PLoS Biology | 21(10):e3002234
Sever, Richard;
7 Mar 2023 | Acta Medica Portuguesa
Sever, Richard; Carvalho, Thiago;
6 Mar 2023 | Nature Methods
Sever, Richard;
Jan 2023 | Nature | 613(7944):415
Sever, Richard;
27 Jan 2022 | Center for Open Science
Polka, Jessica; Puebla, Iratxe; Pattinson, Damian; Hurst, Philip; McDowell, Gary; Sever, Richard; Lemberger, Thomas; Avissar-Whiting, Michele; Cohen, Philip; Ross-Hellauer, Tony; Stein, Gabriel; Shearer, Kathleen; Stone, Clare; Yan, Victoria;
18 Jan 2022 | Current Medical Research and Opinion | :1-3
Sever, Richard;
10 Nov 2020 | Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) | 324(18):1903-1905
Krumholz, Harlan; Bloom, Theodora; Sever, Richard; Rawlinson, Claire; Inglis, John; Ross, Joseph;
21 Jul 2020 | Center for Open Science
Beck, Jeffrey; Ferguson, Christine; Funk, Kathryn; Hanson, Brooks; Harrison, Melissa; Ide-Smith, Michele; Lammey, Rachael; Levchenko, Maria; Mendonça, Alex; Parkin, Michael; Penfold, Naomi; Pfeiffer, Nicole; Polka, Jessica; Puebla, Iratxe; Rieger, Oya; Rittman, Martyn; Sever, Richard; Swaminathan, Sowmya;