Editor-in-Chief of Cell journal.
John Pham was born in the Florida in the late 1970s. Pham obtained his bachelor’s degrees in biochemistry and music at Bates College before earning his Ph.D. at Northwestern. Pham completed post docs at Harvard and Bringham and Women’s Hospital. His research focused on RNA splicing and RNA interference to modify cellular protein production. In 2008, Pham joined the advisory board for Molecular Cell where he improved data transparency and archiving. In 2018, Pham became the Editor-in-Chief of Cell Journal. So far Pham has pushed to expand Cell’s coverage to immunology and genomics. Pham has also improved diversity at Cell, growing the advisory board from 20% to 50% women and reviewers from 18% to 33% women. Pham is an LGBTQ+ activist and has spoken at Elsevier Pride and WorldPride NYC.