Dr Jennifer Sargent is currently Deputy Editor of Nature Medicine. She completed her undergraduate degree in biochemistry at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Prior to her doctoral work, Jennifer worked in a microbiology lab at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. She received her PhD from Dartmouth College for her studies on transcriptomics and genetics of scleroderma in Michael Whitfield’s lab. Jennifer did her postdoctoral work with Juan Rivera at the National Institutes of Health, USA. Jennifer has been serving the clinical and scientific communities as a professional editor since 2014. She was an editor at Nature Reviews Endocrinology before moving to The Lancet in 2015. In 2019, she joined the team at Nature Medicine and became Deputy Editor in 2022. Jennifer oversees an editorial team handling cardiology, endocrinology, biotechnology and neurology, in addition to leading the global health and public health portfolios at the journal.