Let BioSerendipity increase your chances for publication, funding, and promotion:
- Presubmission manuscript and grant assistance
- Preparation (pre-submission evaluation of pitch, focus, strengths, weaknesses, and organization)
- Writing
- Data presentation (data organization, figure compilation, medical illustrations)
- Editing manuscripts, grants, and cover letters
- Coordinating multi-collaborator proposals or manuscripts
- Post submission manuscript and grant assistance
- Consulting on and editing responses to editors
- Consulting on and editing responses to reviewers
- Editing revised manuscripts and grants
- Preparing revised figures
- Writing or editing press releases
- Cover illustrations
- Visual or graphical abstracts
- Assistance with faculty position applications, tenure packages, and award submissions
- Assistance with faculty descriptions, research descriptions, and biographical sketches
- Review, preparation, and editing content for presentations
Most editorial services are provided by founder Nancy R. Gough, Ph.D., former Editor of Science Signaling. In 2023, Allison L. Williams, Ph.D., joined the editorial team. The goal is to not only ensure correct written English, but to help each author present a more competitive, scientifically sound story.
With 7 years of experience as a bench scientist and then 17 years of editorial experience in a multidisciplinary journal, Dr. Gough is familiar with issues that reviewers are likely to find and will critically evaluate the scientific content of the grant or manuscript. Dr. Williams has 8 years of experience in multiple areas of cardiovascular medicine and was previously an editor for Science Translational Medicine.
Author services related to manuscripts and funding proposals serve as a presubmission in-depth review of the preliminary data and proposed studies or the data and interpretation. Assistance at all stages of manuscript preparation from conception to revision are available.
Managing deadline-driven projects is a skill that Dr. Gough honed as the Editor of a weekly journal. Thus, Dr. Gough can also assist in coordinating and collating multi-author proposals and manuscripts, serving as a “project manager” so that you can focus on your research or the parts you need to contribute for the multi-lab project or manuscript.
Dr. Gough worked extensively with scientific illustrators, communicating complex scientific concepts to the artists based on descriptions or sketches provided by scientist authors. With certified scientific illustrator, Heather McDonald, Ph.D., Dr. Gough and BioSerendipity provide compiled figures for submission and scientific illustrations for graphical abstracts, visual abstracts, animations, or summary diagrams.
All projects are estimated separately. Pricing is based on the amount of data, number of figures, length of documents, and requested turn-around time. Quotes can be divided into segments based on work desired, and projects or sections of proposals can be capped at maximum amounts.
Comments from authors who have used the services of BioSerendipity:
“Stephen and I are writing to you to express our utmost gratitude and appreciation for your outstanding editing…” Stephen Chelko, PhD, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Florida State University, and Nazareno Paolocci, MD, PhD, Division of Cardiology in Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
“Nancy provides a comprehensive assessment of the manuscript, beyond editing, her deep understanding of the content presented allow her to reassess your presentation, offering new unbiased insight and critical comments, which are most helpful in improving your manuscript before submission.”– Ze’ev Ronai, Chief Scientific Advisor and Professor, Sanford Burnham Prebys, Medical Discovery Institute
“Nancy is an outstanding Scientist-Editor- In the top 5%. She has played a pivotal role in the success of the Center for Translational Medicine- From her expertise in editing, grant and manuscript writing for submission- a terrific communicator.” – Lopa Mishra, Director Center for Translational Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC
“It was really a pleasure working with Nancy at Science Signaling in the past. She always went further than the usual journal editing process and always tried to make the manuscript more clear for the general reader. So I didn’t doubt to contact her at BioSerendipity to edit my grant proposal. She did a really great job, making it more accessible, clear and with an excellent flow. Her comments and suggestions were spot on and she finished the project right on schedule.” – Marcelo P. Coba, University of Southern California, California
“Having worked with Nancy Gough at Science Signaling in the past, I was very excited to work with her again. Nancy did an incredible job editing my grant. She worked hard to make it easy for me to incorporate her edits and suggestions into my normal LaTeX process. She turned the project around very quickly and was extremely detailed. I’ll be forever grateful to her for catching a critical error that surfaced in a figure.” – Kristen Naegle, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
“Thank you very much for wonderful editing! Your editing is absolutely different from the ones we have ever had, and I really enjoyed reading your suggestions and comments. I am sure that your editing makes our manuscript much improved and convincing.” – Shinya Kuroda, University of Tokyo, Japan
Comments from authors of manuscripts handled by Nancy R. Gough, as Editor of Science Signaling:
“I was so blessed to have Nancy as my editor. Not only did her guidance elevate my paper, but she also went beyond her editorial duties and explained the entire scientific publishing process and how to shape a meaningful message to the reader. I drew on my lessons from Nancy when I wrote subsequent manuscripts and presentations as her explanation of how to cater to the scientific audience resonated with me. I am forever grateful to her for generosity in sharing her considerable expertise for such a comprehensive introduction to the world of scientific publishing and communications.” – Heather Bowling
“It is really a pleasant experience to work with Nancy. She is professional, enthusiastic and very careful. She and her team greatly improved our manuscript.” – Jianhua Xing
“…thank you very much for the excellent editorial work on the manuscript.” – Ron Mittler
“You did a fantastic editing work that will improve the quality of our manuscript.” – Jacques Nunes
“Working with Nancy in the past 10 years has been a success both professionally and personally. Nancy has an amazing gift at interpreting complex data and turning it into a simple and compelling message.” – Youssef Belkhadir
“Your inputs significantly improved the quality of the paper. Without your hard work and great editorial skills, this would have not been possible. It was a pleasure working with you.” and “We also recently got the news that the work has been recognized by New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame to receive Innovators Award in 2009, for the novel cross-disciplinary engineering-biology invention. We believe all this would not have been possible without your great editorial work and professional comments. We are very grateful to you.” – Ali Abdi