Nature Medicine
"Dr. João Monteiro is the Chief Editor of Nature Medicine, one of the top medical journals worldwide. He leads an international team covering news, opinion and research across the entire landscape of medical research. He has spoken about medicine, science and publishing at many international conferences, and has championed efforts to raise ethical standards and transparency in the reporting of translational and clinical research. João cares about supporting young investigators, creating opportunities to make scientific publishing more inclusive, and harnessing the potential of scientific research to reduce health inequalities globally.
Dr. Monteiro obtained his medical degree at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, where he also earned a PhD degree studying Treg function and loss of tolerance to self-antigens in autoimmune diseases. Afterwards, he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from The Pew Charitable Trust and joined the lab of Ron Germain, at the National Institutes of Health in the USA, studying in vivo dynamics of the immune responses. He has been serving the scientific community as a professional editor since 2013, first at Cell as the senior for immunology and translational medicine, and since 2017 at the helm of Nature Medicine. He is a core member of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and an advisor to the European Union PREPARED initiative to accelerate research in times of crisis, without sacrificing ethics and integrity.
"Dr. João Monteiro is the Chief Editor of Nature Medicine, one of the top medical journals worldwide. He leads an international team covering news, opinion and research across the entire landscape of medical research. He has spoken about medicine, science and publishing at many international conferences, and has championed efforts to raise ethical standards and transparency in the reporting of translational and clinical research. João cares about supporting young investigators, creating opportunities to make scientific publishing more inclusive, and harnessing the potential of scientific research to reduce health inequalities globally.
Dr. Monteiro obtained his medical degree at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, where he also earned a PhD degree studying Treg function and loss of tolerance to self-antigens in autoimmune diseases. Afterwards, he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from The Pew Charitable Trust and joined the lab of Ron Germain, at the National Institutes of Health in the USA, studying in vivo dynamics of the immune responses. He has been serving the scientific community as a professional editor since 2013, first at Cell as the senior for immunology and translational medicine, and since 2017 at the helm of Nature Medicine. He is a core member of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and an advisor to the European Union PREPARED initiative to accelerate research in times of crisis, without sacrificing ethics and integrity.