Nandita was Publishing Director at Springer Nature, responsible for the Nature Research OA journal portfolio. Previously she was Editorial Director at BMC. Before joining the STM publishing sector, Nandita was a Principal Investigator at the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King’s College London where she led a lab investigating the development of the left-right axis during vertebrate development. She joined King’s after completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the Telethon Institute for Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM) in Milan where she discovered the gene for Opitz Syndrome, a defect of midline development. Nandita has a BA in Chemistry from U. Oxford and a PhD in Molecular Genetics from Imperial College, London.