Biomolecules 2021, 11(2), 278; https://doi.org/10.3390/biom11020278 - 14 Feb 2021
Best Paper Award
Dear colleagues,
The editorial team would like to congratulate the winners of the 2020 Biomolecules Best Paper Awards, who were chosen by a selection committee chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Vladimir N. Uversky.
The following papers have won the first and second awards in the 2020 Biomolecules Best Paper Awards:
Article Papers:
First Award:
Critical Assessment of Methods to Quantify Biofilm Growth and Evaluate Antibiofilm Activity of Host Defence Peptides
Biomolecules 2018, 8(2), 29; https://doi.org/10.3390/biom8020029
Second Award:
Improving the Activity of Trp-Rich Antimicrobial Peptides by Arg/Lys Substitutions and Changing the Length of Cationic Residues
Biomolecules 2018, 8(2), 19; https://doi.org/10.3390/biom8020019
Review Papers:
First Award:
Antimicrobial Peptides: Diversity, Mechanism of Action and Strategies to Improve the Activity and Biocompatibility In Vivo
Biomolecules 2018, 8(1), 4; https://doi.org/10.3390/biom8010004
Second Award:
DOT1L and H3K79 Methylation in Transcription and Genomic Stability
Biomolecules 2018, 8(1), 11; https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/8/1/11
The winners will each receive a certificate and an additional bonus as follows:
– First Award: 300 CHF + one free publication in Biomolecules
– Second Award: 200 CHF + one free publication in Biomolecules
The free publication will be eligible for 1 year.
Please join us in congratulating the winners of the 2020 Biomolecules Best Paper Awards.
We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for their continued support of Biomolecules.
Biomolecules 2020 Best Paper Award
Eligibility and Requirements
– All papers published in Biomolecules will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Valency and Binding Affinity Variations Can Regulate the Multilayered Organization of Protein Condensates with Many Components
Modulation of the Antioxidant Defense System by Exogenous l-Glutamic Acid Application Enhances Salt Tolerance in Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.)
Biomolecules 2021, 11(4), 587; https://doi.org/10.3390/biom11040587 - 16 Apr 2021
Heme Oxygenase-1 Signaling and Redox Homeostasis in Physiopathological Conditions
Biomolecules 2021, 11(4), 589; https://doi.org/10.3390/biom11040589 - 16 Apr 2021
Beyond the GFAP-Astrocyte Protein Markers in the Brain
Biomolecules 2021, 11(9), 1361; https://doi.org/10.3390/biom11091361 - 14 Sep 2021
Winner
Marcel Bach-Pages
FENIX Group International, LLC, Reading, PA 19601, USA
Ryuji Hamamoto
National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
Agnes S. Klar
Tissue Biology Research Unit, Department of Surgery, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Rossella Talotta
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, AOU Policlinico G. Martino - Italy
Winner
Tohru Minamino
Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 1-3 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Vera Sitnikova
Department of Applied Optics, ITMO University, St.-Petersburg 197101, Russia
Gerhard Liebisch
Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
Barbara Klajnert-Maculewicz
Department of General Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, 90-236 Lodz, Poland
Winner
Hans J. Vogel
Biochemistry Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/8/2/19
Suzana K. Straus
Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/8/1/4
Shona Murphy
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RE, UK
paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/8/1/11
Robert E.W. Hancock
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Microbial Diseases and Immunity Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/8/2/29
Winner
Matthew R. Chapman
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/7/4/75
Laurence Goossens
Univ. Lille, ICPAL, EA 7365—GRITA—Groupe de Recherche sur les formes Injectables et les Technologies Associées, 3 rue du Pr. Laguesse, F-59000 Lille, France
paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/7/1/3
Yuri Motorin
IMoPA UMR7365 CNRS‐UL, Biopole Lorraine University, 54505 Vandoeuvre‐les‐Nancy, France；Next‐Generation Sequencing core facility, FR3209 BMCT CNRS‐UL, Biopole Lorraine University, 54505 Vandoeuvre‐les‐Nancy, France
paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-
Mario Mörl
Institute of Biochemistry, Leipzig University, Brüderstraße 34, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/7/2/35
Winner
Shahrokh F. Shariat
Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY 10065, USA
paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/6/3/37
Goran Šimić
Department of Neuroscience, Croatian Institute for Brain Research, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb 10000, Croatia
paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/6/1/6
Arthur J. L. Cooper
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/6/2/16
Claude M. Wischik
Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK；Medical Research Council Cambridge Brain Bank Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK
paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273
Michele T. Pritchard
Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA；Department of Pathology, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
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