Vanderbilt’s Van Kaer to serve as deputy editor of Journal of Immunology

Luc Van Kaer, Ph.D.

Vanderbilt’s Van Kaer to serve as deputy editor of Journal of Immunology

Luc Van Kaer, Ph.D., professor of Microbiology and Immunology, was recently named deputy editor of the Journal of Immunology.

Van Kaer's five-year term as one of 10 deputy editors for the journal was effective July 1.

He previously served as an associate editor for the journal from 2002 to 2006 and as a section editor since 2006.

As a deputy editor, Van Kaer will make editorial decisions about approximately 400 papers per year, handle rebuttals from authors, nominate manuscripts for the “In This Issue” section of the journal, and suggest topics and authors for the “Brief Reviews” and articles for the “Pillars of Immunology” sections of the journal.

Founded in 1916, the Journal of Immunology is published by the American Association of Immunologists and is one of the most cited publications in biomedicine.