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Theodora Bloom

Theodora Bloom PhD has been executive editor of The BMJ since June 2014, and is one of the founders of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MedRxiv, the medical preprint server.

Education

Dr Bloom studied at the City Of London School for Girls (1974-1981) before reading Natural Sciences at Cambridge University (1982-1985). She remained at Cambridge for post-graduate studies in Developmental Cell Biology (1985-89), graduating PhD.

Career

Dr Bloom worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, researching cell-cycle regulation before joining the biology team at Nature as an editor. Her publishing career continued at Current Biology and its siblings Structure and Chemistry & Biology. Theo was closely involved in the birth of the commercial open access publisher BioMed Central, where she remained for several years, ultimately as editorial director for biology. After a spell as a freelance publishing consultant working with a variety of clients, she joined the non-profit open access publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS) in 2008, first as chief editor of PLOS Biology and later as biology editorial director with additional responsibility for PLOS Computational Biology and PLOS Genetics.

Other

Theo served on the boards of NAM Publications (1997-2016) (www.aidsmap.com), Dryad digital repository (www.datadryad.org), and of EMBL-EBI Literature Services (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/services/literature). In 2015 she served on the Genome Canada Data Sharing Policies Advisory Committee.