Boyana Konforti

Boyana Konforti has a extensive career in scientific publishing and research strategy. Boyana currently serves as the Senior Vice President, Open Research, Americas at F1000, where they focus on promoting collaborative partnerships in scientific communication. Previously, they held the position of Director of Scientific Strategy & Development at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and was a Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Boyana also served as the Director of Education & Outreach at the Simons Foundation and was the Chief Editor of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology at Nature Publishing Group. Boyana has held editorial roles at Cell Press and Nature Research (Publishing), where they contributed to expanding the scope and impact of their publications.

Boyana Konforti began their education in 1984 at Stanford University School of Medicine, where they pursued a PhD in Biochemistry. Boyana successfully completed their degree in 1991 under the guidance of Ronald W. Davis in the Stanford Department of Biochemistry. Following this, from 1991 to 1995, Konforti embarked on a postdoctoral fellowship at The Rockefeller University, where they were a Helen Hay Whitney Fellow. During this fellowship, they focused on Mammalian RNA splicing, working closely with M. Magda Konarska as their principal investigator. Konforti then moved to Columbia University in 1995, where they furthered their research as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow. Their work during this period centered on RNA self-splicing, and they collaborated with Anna Marie Pyle as their principal investigator. As of now, there is no information available regarding any additional education or degrees Boyana Konforti pursued after their time at Columbia University.