Jessica Polka, Director of ASAPbio and President of Future of Research (FOR)

Jessica is Director of ASAPbio, scientist-driven non-profit working to promote conversations about the effective use of preprints in biology. Currently a visiting scholar at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, MA, Jessica performed postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School; she received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from UCSF and a BS in Biology from UNC-CH. She is president of the non-profit Future of Research and serves on ASCB's Public Policy Committee as well as NAS's Next Generation Researchers Initiative.