Dr John Inglis is a Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, co-founder of the Laboratory’s preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv, and founding Executive Director and Publisher of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. He also serves as an Advisory Board Member of MIT Press and the Research on Research Institute, and as a director of Life Science Alliance. Dr Inglis has a Ph.D. in immunology from the University of Edinburgh Medical School and was formerly Assistant Editor of The Lancet and founding Editor of Immunology Today (now Trends in Immunology).