Corporate Profile

Corporate History

Genedits is a newly formed extension of Cambridge Language Consultants, a company that specialises in providing services pertaining to English language and consulting regarding the clear, logical expression of ideas. We originally incorporated in Cambridge, England in 1993 as Cambridge ESP Consultants, with a view to serving large corporations and banks. At that time our area of operation was mainly South Korea. In 1999 we changed our name and introduced a modified set of services, geared towards the present economic climate. Our prospective clients are individuals in the academic and corporate environments who require specialised, quality and reliable language and consulting services.

We are now a truly international organisation. We provide a worldwide proofreading and editing service, with experienced editors drawn from a number of English speaking countries. We run a study abroad programme for students worldwide in Cambridge, England and Mount Maunganui, New Zealand.

Genedits applies the basic concept of Cambridge Language Consultants to the Life Sciences. We offer our services for all areas of research in the Life Sciences, which includes, but is not confined to, the following:

Clients

We are pleased to include the following institutions among our past and present clients:

Personnel

Our editors are all highly qualified, holding at least a Master's degree in an appropriate discipline, with a PhD being preferred. All have functioned effectively in the academic and corporate worlds and have vast experience of proofreading and editing documents in a wide variety of subjects.

We demand a higher standard still for assessment of logic and the flow of argument and methods of scientific analysis. Our consultants have one of the following two qualifications:

(i) a PhD in Philosophy, specialising in Philosophy of Science, and familiarity with fundamental concepts in a wide range of scientific disciplines.
(ii) a PhD in the Life Sciences, or an MD, or DVM, or a combination of the foregoing.

The Director

Chris Wright founded Cambridge Language Consultants, Genedits' parent company, in 1993 and has many years' experience of designing language programmes, teaching English, consulting, proofreading and editing in Asia. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and Carnegie Scholar and holds a Ph.D. from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. He has taught Philosophy as a Teaching Fellow at Pittsburgh University, a Supervisor at Cambridge University and a Lecturer at Anglia University. In addition, he has given seminars on Wittgenstein and Nietzsche at Yonsei, Ewha and Korea Universities in South Korea. He is a Member of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators, the European Association of Science Editors and the Society for Philosophy in Practice. His research interests include the following: animal cognition; biology and medicine of the guinea pig; and evolutionary theory and its bearing on issues in ethics, political theory, psychology, culture and theories of rational action.

Senior Editors

Sarah Binns qualified as a veterinary surgeon from Cambridge University and trained as an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is a former Fulbright Scholar and Wellcome Trust Training Fellow and holds a PhD from the University of Liverpool and a Masters degree from the University of Illinois. She has worked in clinical veterinary medicine in practice and in academia, and has carried out research in epidemiology at the universities of Liverpool, Exeter, Bristol and Warwick. She has also worked in surveillance of veterinary endemic diseases and zoonoses and is a tutor on the distance learning programme in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene. Sarah has published many scientific papers and has several years’ experience and training as a professional proofreader and copy-editor. She is a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (MRCVS), The Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, the Association for Veterinary Teaching and Research Work, the European Association of Science Editors, and the Society for Editors and Proofreaders. Her major research interests are veterinary epidemiology, the epidemiology of infectious diseases and zoonoses, energy medicine and acupuncture, ethology, animal communication and animal welfare.

Lucy Colegrove-Otero studied Biochemistry at the University of Oxford. She completed the research for her D. Phil., in which she studied the genetic basis of human pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency, in the Genetics Laboratory at the same university. She was then awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied the initiation of protein synthesis in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Upon her return to the UK, she accepted a post-doctoral position at the University of Cambridge, in which she focused on the spatial control of protein synthesis during early development in the toad Xenopus laevis. In addition to her research activities, she has tutored undergraduate students at the University of Oxford in Molecular Genetics and supervised undergraduate courses in Biochemistry, and Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology at the University of Cambridge, where she was a fellow of Girton College. She has extensive experience in the writing and editing of research papers, review articles and grant applications, and has also acted as a reviewer for international journals.

Cathel Kerr originally studied microbiology at Glasgow University and went on to complete a PhD on herpesviruses at Aberdeen University. He then specialised in electron microscopy and continued for a few years in postdoctoral research in Aberdeen. This was followed by a diploma in library and information studies, and after working briefly in medical libraries, he moved into medical and drug information work. He has worked as an indexer for EMBase and other pharmaceutical databases. Apart from being the author of several research papers, he was the news editor of Trends in Microbiology and is a regular news contributor to Lancet Infectious Diseases and Lancet Oncology. He has also previously worked as a copy editor for Springer and the Society for General Microbiology. Apart from editing and wrirting, he currently works with a number of pharmaceutical companies, helping in the production of product literature databases. All of this has given him a good general knowledge of the life sciences, and a full understanding of the publishing process, from basic research through to final publication. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and the Society for General Microbiology.