Richard Sever

Richard Sever is Chief Science and Strategy Officer at openRxiv, the non-profit organization that runs the preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv, which he co-founded. Richard studied Biochemistry at Oxford University, before receiving a PhD in molecular biology from Cambridge. He then trained as an editor, working first at Current Opinion in Cell Biology and then Trends in Biochemical Science. He later became Executive Editor of Journal of Cell Science at The Company of Biologists, where he played an important role developing their publication program. Richard moved to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in 2008 and was appointed Assistant Director of CSHL Press in 2012. He launched and edited several journals at CSHLP, as well as a variety of textbooks, handbooks, and history of science books. Richard co-founded bioRxiv in 2013 and medRxiv in 2019. The servers have become essential resources for researchers, and openRxiv was established as independent non-profit to oversee them in 2025.