Hugh Blackbourn

Hugh Blackbourn is Senior Publication Manager at HighWire Press. Previous roles include Head of Publishing for the Wellcome Trust, responsible for all web and print publications profiling the Trust's activities. While there, helped formulate the proposal that would become eLife, a collaboration involving the Wellcome Trust, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Max Planck Society.

Prior to the Wellcome Trust, Publisher at Nature Publishing Group, and led the Nature Reviews collection of journals, later heading up Nature Life Sciences. A biologist by training, with a PhD from Reading University followed by postdoctoral research at both Reading and Cambridge University.