Nancy R. Gough is the Owner and CEO of BioSerendipity (www.bioserendipity.com) and Visiting Scholar at The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. After 17 years with AAAS, Dr. Gough stepped down as the Editor of Science Signaling (a weekly multidisciplinary journal) and launched her company. She is dedicated to helping scientists communicate effectively. She has a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics from the University of Maryland Medical School. After graduating, she joined Johns Hopkins University, first as a postdoctoral fellow, then as a research associate, in the lab of Dr. Douglas Fambrough in the Biology Department. She performed research in cell biology, as well as taught undergraduate and graduate courses. As a former professional editor and now as owner of BioSerendipity, she has decades of experience providing training and guidance on scientific editing, scholarly publishing, and careers in science editing and writing.