I learned to write manuscripts as a PhD student at UCSD and postdoc at Salk Institute, a skill I leveraged into my current job as a full-time grant and scientific manuscript writer. As a student, I worked in neuronal gene expression but acquired extensive experience preparing basic science or translational grants and papers about cancer, immunotherapy, and chromatin remodeling, among other topics, at City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in LA and then freelance (see My Bio). 

• In 2024, clients requested help on manuscripts related to topics as diverse as AML or ovarian cancer therapies, how proteasome activity modulates T cell exhaustion, regulation of nucleosome positioning, and super-enhancer activity.
• Clients asked for help on papers submitted to: Blood, JBC, Cancer Cell, Cell Metabolism, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Science, Science Advances, Cancer Gene Therapy, and Cell Death & Disease, among others. I also edited review articles submitted to journals Cancer Science. 
• I helped prepare multiple NIH grant proposals (R01, R03, R35, R21), plus DoD grants and proposals submitted to private funders including the ACS, V Foundation, St. Baldrick's and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
• I assisted in drafting promotion packages, job applications, meeting abstracts, DEI material and nomination letters. Most significantly, I helped craft persuasive and successful rebuttal letters accompanying resubmissions. 
• Already on my 2025 calendar are an R01 proposal and a manuscript resubmission.​

I have editing experience in molecular and cell bio fields. Also, many of my clients are MDs conducting research published in basic science or translational journals. But please note: I have less experience editing highly clinical material, such as clinical trial reports. So if you are aiming a paper at JAMA or NEJM, I will need to know more about it before accepting that assignment.

See FAQs page for details about sending a manuscript for editing.