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Professor Grant McFadden Joins PLOS Pathogens as Joint Editor in Chief

PLOS is very pleased to announce that from October 7 2013, Professor Grant McFadden joined Professor Kasturi Haldar as joint Editor in Chief of PLOS Pathogens. Professor McFadden has been associated with PLOS Pathogens from its very beginning in 2005; he became deputy editor in October 2007.

Professor McFadden is based at the University of Florida where his work focuses on how viral pathogens interact with the host immune system.

Dr Virginia Barbour, Medicine Editorial Director for PLOS said “As Deputy Editor, Professor McFadden has been a tremendous advocate for PLOS Pathogens and has been core to developing PLOS Pathogens into the world class journal it is today. We are very pleased to now have him in this position of leadership with Professor Haldar and I Iook forward to working with him and Professor Haldar in the next stage of the journal’s development.”

Professor Haldar said “Grant functioned as a joint Editor in Chief, even as Deputy Editor, so I’m delighted we’ve formalized the situation. The Editorial Board and I would like to thank Grant for all he has done for PLOS Pathogens and look forward to his continuing leadership in the future.”

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