These are just a few of the many comments from authors of manuscripts handled by Nancy R. Gough as Editor of Science Signaling or testimonials from clients of BioSerendipity. Over the 17 years as an editor Dr. Gough regularly received feedback from authors who were pleased with the developmental editing provided as part of the manuscript handling process. BioSerendipity clients receive the same expert quality effort.
BioSerendipity Client Feedback
“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, PhD, Chief Scientific Advisor and Professor, Sandord Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (Manuscripts and Grants)
“Stephen and I are writing to you to express our utmost gratitude and appreciation for your outstanding editing of our contribution to [Science Translational Medicine]. We were admired by your thoughtfulness and competence, and feel, after your comments/suggestions, there is much more inner coherence in the logical flow, clarity, and readability in our manuscript. We are very thankful for all that… it has been a great pleasure interacting with you! And we hope to have the chance of having another contribution of us edited/curated by you in the very near future!” – 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 (Manuscript)
“I have worked extensively with Dr. Gough as an editor at Science Signaling and as a consultant. Nancy has an exceptional ability to distill complex ideas and scientific concepts and present them in manner that is extremely easy to follow and understand. I view this as a gift that few scientists possess. Every manuscript, review, or grant that I have worked with Nancy on, the final product is extremely polished and well written, and this is often highlighted by reviewers. In addition, Nancy is a joy to interact and work with, she is highly professional and I give her my strongest recommendation as an editor for manuscripts, grants, and reviews.” – John Brognard, PhD, Earl Stadtman Investigator at National Cancer Institute (Site Visit Report and Manuscripts)
“Impressive work! We are speechless of the high-quality and accuracy of content; thank you so much for your high commitment and outstanding work.” – Amal Alghammas, Head and Senior Editor of the Scientific Publications Office, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (Visual Abstracts, Training, Editing, Scientific Consulting)
“It was a pleasure working with Nancy on a program evaluation and post-award survey for Melanoma Research Alliance’s grants program. The project required a high level of technical knowledge of biomedical science, from basic biology to clinical trials, but also the ability to convey what our grantees achieved in a lay-friendly way. Nancy did a great job with this and met our tight timeline, with regular check-ins along the way. I’d certainly use Nancy for similar projects in the future.” – Kristen Mueller, PhD, Scientific Program Director, Melanoma Research Alliance (Grant Portfolio Analysis, Science Writing)
“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 (Grants)
“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 (Grants)
“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 (Manuscripts)
“I was deeply impressed by Nancy’s editing of my scientific manuscripts. Her editing clarified all ambiguities and highlighted the critical importance of my work. I was quite happy with her beautiful job.” – Kwang-Hyun Cho, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea (Manuscripts)
“Thank you so much again for all your help and flexibility to work around my schedule. This was exactly the help I needed, and I enjoyed working with you a lot!” – Natalia Jura, University of Southern California, California (Grants)
Science Signaling Editor Feedback
“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 (Manuscript author)
“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 (Manuscript author)
“…thank you very much for the excellent editorial work on the manuscript.” – Ron Mittler (Manuscript author)
“You did a fantastic editing work that will improve the quality of our manuscript.” – Jacques Nunes (Manuscript author)
“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 (Manuscript author)
“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.”
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“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 (Manuscript author)
“Thanks again for the thoughtful editorial input – it really did improve the manuscript.” – Lawrence Lum (Manuscript author)
“We are most grateful to you for your kind and insightful editing.” – Eisuke Nishida (Manuscript author)
“We wish to thank you for your valuable editorial comments throughout the reviewing process and the careful and meticulous editing of the manuscript prior to its acceptance. We are certain that, thanks to the superb editing process of the Journal the final product will be readily accessible to a very wide range of readers.” – Joseph (Yossi) Schlessinger (Manuscript author)
“Once again, many thanks for your scrupulous attention to detail. As I also said before, our paper is the better for it.” – Jeremy Thorner (Manuscript author)
“Thank you VERY much for your work with this manuscript: this has been the most remarkably complete editing job I have encountered in over 25 years working in science, and I think the manuscript is significantly improved.” – Erica Golemis (Manuscript author)
“We are very much impressed by your careful and special editing, in particular, to make interpretation easier to biological readers. We greatly appreciate your efforts and time for this, and readability of our manuscript is now much improved.” – Shinya Kuroda (Manuscript author)