John Nickerson currently Professor and Vice-Director for Research in the Ophthalmology Department at Emory University, which he joined in 1991. Preceding that he was a Biologist at the National Institutes of Health for ten years. He received a BS in biology from MIT in 1974 and a PhD in Human Genetics and Cell Biology from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1980. He has served on Emory University's Library Policy Committee since 2007 and chaired the committee from 2009-2012. He is Editor-in-Chief and Founding Editor of Molecular Vision, a peer-reviewed primary science journal covering topics in vision sciences and ophthalmology. The journal began in 1995, making it among the first web-based journals. It is available Open Access and without any charges to the authors, and one of only a handful of "Diamond Access" journals available in the world. The journal publishes about 300 full research articles and considers more than 800 manuscripts annually.