About Us

We thank you your interest in Pacific Edit. In this section you will learn about Who We Are, Areas of Expertise, What We Do, Why We are Different, and Why Use Pacific Edit. Many of our customer's have expressed their views of Pacific Edit in testimonials.

Who We Are

Principals

Kevin Boru Ph.D., Founder and Managing Editor

Dr. Kevin Boru is the founder and Editing Director of the Company. Since 1988 he and colleagues under his direction have have edited over a thousand biomedical and scientific papers which have been published in essentially all the major journals ranging across the spectrum of fields, from genomics and proteomics through cell biology, immunology, and all aspects of the drug discovery process. He has also given seminars and led training sessions for non-native English speaking scientists to learn not only how to publish in English but also how to engage in the give-and-take of presentation and debate. He has collaborated on science writing projects with a number of the best known biomedical labs in the world today. He is currently engaged in producing a book on the subject of the role of English in shaping the biomedical research process.

Dr. Boru also spent more than eleven years in the international Pharmaceutical Industry, including R&D, the selection and implementation of in-house projects, multinational company-university collaborations, product development, licensing, negotiation and related topics.

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Darin De Stefano, Partner and Administrative Manager

Mr. De Stefano was central in assembling and managing Pacific Edit’s business infrastructure. He has worked for 15 years as a systems analyst and designer, publisher and editor. He engineered the current business systems and manages day-to-day operations as he has since 2004.

Contact Darin De Stefano (email to: edit (at symbol) pacificedit.com)

Staff

Pacific Edit’s staff has advanced degrees from such institutions as University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, Harvard University, University of California at San Diego and other lead universities.

The editors at Pacific Edit will edit, polish, and rewrite any type of document in any field related to biomedical science. All editors are Ph.D. scientists with considerable experience in the writing and editing of manuscripts submitted for publication in peer-reviewed journals. Most have also written grant proposals and reviewed journal articles, and themselves published original research articles in peer-reviewed professional journals.

Our Areas of Expertise

• Medicine & Health Sciences
• Genetics
• Proteomics
• Molecular Biology
• Biochemistry
• Pharmaceutical Science
• Drug Discovery
• Chemistry
• Animal Models
• Others…

What We Do

We specialize in the writing, editing and proofreading of scientific manuscripts for submission to peer-reviewed journals. (See our list of recently edited publications and the journals that have accepted our edited publications)

We also edit and proofread:

• Grant applications
• White papers
• Academic and non-academic manuscripts
• Owner manuals
• Marketing and advertising material

Why We Are Different

• We have extensive experience in interacting and engaging referees of top tier journals.

• The editors have conducted scientific research and have published their own results in leading journals.

• We know the publication process inside and out.

• Both Principals and some of the staff have worked in other countries besides the USA with scientific investigators and have published collaborative research in top tier English language journals.

• We have experts who are knowledgeable and on the fore front of the current research literature and can put your paper in context of the leading work in the field. A report can be developed to show how your manuscript fits with the current research.

Pacific Edit is a unique editing company in terms of our scientific expertise and experience working with non-native English speaking researchers publishing work in top-tier, high-impact biomedical journals.

The difference between having a scientist and a non-scientist as one’s editor makes all the difference in the world.

The non-scientist editor is lost in the “Materials and Methods” technical sections of research papers, for example. And without an understanding of experimental constraints, there is little chance of understanding the experimental results, to say nothing of the larger context in which the experimental narrative is being put forward.


Why Use Pacific Edit

• Our staff has over 100 years combined experience writing, editing and proofreading academic and non-academic manuscripts.

• The publication rate of papers edited by Pacific Edit’s is excellent. To our best estimate, more than 90 percent of the papers we have edited have been accepted and published. (See our list of recent edited publications and the journals that have accepted our edited publications.)

See the testimonials section for more reasons to use Pacific Edit.

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