Mark Patterson

Mark Patterson started his career as a researcher in genetics before moving into scientific publishing in 1994 as the Editor of Trends in Genetics.  After a few years at Nature, where he was involved in the launch of the Nature Reviews Journals, he moved to PLoS in 2003.  Mark helped to launch several of the PLoS Journals and was also one of the founders of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.  In November 2011, Mark was appointed as Managing Executive Editor of eLife - a new open access journal supported by the Max Planck Society, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Wellcome Trust.