The Transmitter

The Transmitter is an online publication dedicated to neuroscience research news and commentary. Aimed at professionals from across the neuroscience discipline, the website is an editorially-independent publication of the Simons Foundation.^[1]

The Transmitter

Editor-in-chief	Ivan Oransky
Categories	Science journalism
Publisher	Simons Foundation
Founded	November 13, 2023; 18 months ago (2023-11-13)
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	thetransmitter.org

History

Spectrum

In 2008, the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative website debuted a News & Opinion section, which relaunched as Spectrum magazine in 2015.^[2] The online publication was dedicated to new findings in autism spectrum disorder research.^[3] It was funded by the Simons Foundation.^[4][5]

The Transmitter

The Spectrum editorial team founded The Transmitter to expand the publication's neuroscience coverage beyond the autism field; autism stories are covered on The Transmitter within a dedicated Spectrum vertical.^[6] Like its predecessor, The Transmitter is funded by the Simons Foundation but maintains editorial independence.^[1][7] The new website was launched on November 13, 2023, with an announcement at a satellite event hosted by the Simons Foundation during the 2023 Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, D.C.^[7][8]

Editors-in-chief

Editor-in-chief	Editor from	Editor to
Apoorva Mandavilli[9]	2015	2020
Ivan Oransky[10]	2020	–

Leadership

Editorial staff

• Ivan Oransky, editor-in-chief^[11]
• Kristin Ozelli, executive editor^[7]
• Nicholette Zeliadt, managing editor
• Nektaria Pastellas, director of marketing and engagement
• Emily Singer, opinion and community editor
• Brady Huggett, enterprise editor

Contributing editors

• Adrienne Fairhall, professor of physiology and biophysics at the University of Washington
• André Fenton, professor of neural science at New York University
• Daniel Geschwind, professor of neurology at University of California, Los Angeles
• Sheena Josselyn, senior scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children
• Russell Poldrack, professor of psychology at Stanford University
• Nicole Rust, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania
• Joshua Sanes, neurobiologist and founding director of the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University
• Anthony Zador, professor of biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Advisory board

• Deborah Blum, director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Marion Greenup, special advisor for the Simons Foundation Autism Research Institute
• David Gresham, professor of biology at New York University
• Laura Helmuth, editor-in-chief of Scientific American
• Rebecca Jones, senior clinical research scientist at Imagen Technologies
• Robin Marantz Henig, contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine
• Temitayo Oyegbile-Chidi, associate professor of neurology at University of California, Davis
• Jason Penchoff, senior director of marketing and communications at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

See also

• Quanta Magazine, a publication dedicated to science and mathematics also supported by the Simons Foundation