Board of Advisors

Barbara J. Culliton
Editor in Chief of the Genome News Network (GNN)
Vice President for Publishing at The Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG)

Barbara J. Culliton is Editor-in-Chief of the Genome News Network (GNN), an online news magazine about genomics that is published by The Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG), a not-for-profit policy and research institution in Rockville, Maryland.

An editor and journalist, Ms. Culliton recently shared the National Science Board's Public Service Award, given to the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing for improving the quality of news about science. She has been a member of the CASW Board since 1976.

In 1988, Ms. Culliton was elected to the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences and served for six years on the IOM's governing council. She recently completed two terms as a member of the Board of Overseers of Dartmouth Medical School, and has been an active member of the Board of the Institute of Human Virology since its founding. In addition, she is an advisor to the American Board of Internal Medicine, where she chairs a new committee on Communications for the ABIM Foundation.

Ms. Culliton was a member of the staff of Science from 1972 through 1990, first as a reporter for the News & Comment section, and then as News Editor, overseeing both News & Comment and Research News. In 1991 she joined NATURE Publishing as Deputy Editor of nature, in charge of the journal's editorial operations in North America. During her tenure as Deputy Editor, she oversaw the launch of three new NATURE magazines: NATURE GENETICS, NATURE STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY, and NATURE MEDICINE, of which she was founding editor-in-chief. She has written hundreds of informative and path breaking articles about science and science policy.

From 1990-1998, Ms. Culliton was Times Mirror Visiting Professor and director of the program in Writing about Science at The Johns Hopkins University.

Her freelance writing has appeared in numerous publications including the New Yorker, The New England Journal of Medicine, Daedalus, the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, and the American Journal of Medicine.

Throughout her professional life, Ms. Culliton has been active in science journalism as president of the National Association of Science Writers (1981-1982), and president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (1985-1989). Ms. Culliton, a former member of the advisory committee for the Knight Journalism Fellows at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been a journalism advisor to the Fulbright Scholars program and an advisor to Sound Print, a radio series broadcast on public radio. She also has television experience as a regular panelist on Science Journal, a former production of the Public Broadcasting System.