Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Diagnostics will be granting the Travel Award to two junior scientists. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Diagnostics Editorial Board.

This award provides financial support for the winners to attend an international conference in the field of medical diagnosis to be held in 2024, in order to hold a presentation, present a poster, or both.

Candidate Requirements:
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students.
– Plans to attend an international conference in 2024 (oral presentation or poster).

Required Application Documents:
– Information of the conference the applicant is planning to attend and the abstract that will be submitted.
– Curriculum Vitae and list of publications.
– Justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words).
– Letter of recommendation from the supervisor, research director, or department head, which also confirms the applicant’s status as a postdoctoral fellow/PhD student.

The winners (two awardees) will each be awarded CHF 500 and a certificate.

Please submit your applications for the Diagnostics 2024 Travel Award online by 31 January 2024. Prizes will be awarded at the end of March 2024 and announced on the Diagnostics website.

Kind regards,
Diagnostics Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Andreas Kjaer, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously offer their time to review the papers submitted to Diagnostics by presenting an award to the reviewers who have demonstrated their dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for Diagnostics.

What are the pre-requisites to be eligible for this award?
All of the reviewers for Diagnostics in 2023 will be automatically included.

Selection Criteria:
– Number of review reports;
– The quality and timeliness of review reports.

What will the winners receive?
There will be two winners this year, and each will receive the following:
– CHF 500;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in 2024 after peer review;
– A certificate.

When will the winners be announced?
The winners will be announced in March 2024 on the journal website.

How can I make myself eligible?
If you have not yet reviewed papers for Diagnostics, but would like to do so, you can register as a reviewer at the following link:
https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

Kind regards,
Diagnostics Editorial Office

Thank you for your continuous support. We regret to inform you that the deadline for announcing the winner of the 2023 Young Investigator Award has been postponed to 29 February 2024.

The editorial office would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Diagnostics is now inviting nominations for the Diagnostics 2023 Young Investigator Award. This prize will be given to one young investigator in recognition of their excellence in the field of medical diagnosis. All nominations will be assessed by an Award Evaluation Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Andreas Kjaer.

The Prize
– CHF 2000;
– Option to publish one paper free of charge in Diagnostics after peer review before 31 December 2024;
– An electronic certificate.

Eligibility and Requirements
– Must have received their PhD no more than 10 years prior to 31 December 2023;
– Must have produced ground-breaking research and made a significant contribution to the advancement of medical diagnosis;
– Candidates must be nominated by senior scientists.

List of Documents for Nomination
– Detailed curriculum vitae, including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants;
– Scanned copy of doctorate certificate;
– Signed nomination letters from two established senior scientists.

Schedule
– Open for nomination: 2 February 2023
– Nomination deadline: 31 October 2023
– Winner announcement: 29 February 2024

How to Submit Nominations
– The nominations must be submitted online.

Contact
Ms. Yomi Sun
Marketing Specialist
Email: [email protected]

kind regards,
Diagnostics Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Diagnostics, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Diagnostics 2022 Travel Award.

The award has been granted to: Dr. Adrien Holzgreve, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Germany; and Nicole Ngai Yung Tsang, a PhD student in the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Kjaer
Editor-in-Chief, Diagnostics

Dear Colleagues, 

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Diagnostics 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021 in Diagnostics were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, four winners were selected. 

Two Reviews:
Epidemiology of Mucopolysaccharidoses Update
By Betul Celik et al.
Diagnostics 2021, 11(2), 273; doi:10.3390/diagnostics11020273 

What Is New on Ovarian Carcinoma: Integrated Morphologic and Molecular Analysis Following the New 2020 World Health Organization Classification of Female Genital Tumors
By Antonio De Leo et al.
Diagnostics 2021, 11(4), 697; doi:10.3390/diagnostics11040697 

Two Articles:
Analysis of Features of Alzheimer’s Disease: Detection of Early Stage from Functional Brain Changes in Magnetic Resonance Images Using a Finetuned ResNet18 Network
By Modupe Odusami et al.
Diagnostics 2021, 11(6), 1071; doi:10.3390/diagnostics11061071 

Detection and Severity Classification of COVID-19 in CT Images Using Deep Learning
By Yazan Qiblawey et al.
Diagnostics 2021, 11(5), 893; doi:10.3390/diagnostics11050893

Each winner will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper in Diagnostics in 2024 after peer review. 

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Diagnostics 2021 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Diagnostics. 

Kind regards,
Diagnostics Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Diagnostics 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Awards. The Diagnostics Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Diagnostics. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Winners:
Prof. Cristoforo Pomara
Department of Medical, Surgical and Advanced Technologies "G.F. Ingrassia", University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Research Interests: criminalistics; forensic autopsy; forensic evidence; forensic law; forensic biology; forensic histopathology; forensic thanatology; forensic toxicology; medico-legal toxicology; forensic genetics; forensic radiology

Dr. Anastasios Karayiannakis
Second Department of General Surgery, "Democritus" University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece
Research Interests: HPB surgery; surgical oncology; laparoscopic surgery; pancreatic cancer

Kind regards,

Prof. Dr. Andreas Kjaer
Editor-in-Chief, Diagnostics

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, we are pleased to announce the winner of the 2020 Diagnostics Travel Awards, Dr. Irina Yanina and Dr. Isha Sharma, who will be supported with 800 Swiss Francs towards their travel expenses to attend an international conference.

Dr. Irina Yanina is a postdoctoral researcher from Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia. Her research focuses on the influence of the coating of fluorescent upconversion nanoparticles by the shell on their toxicity. She will present her work at the The XIX International Symposium on Luminescence Spectrometry and 21st International Symposium on Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence, which will be held in 2022 in Gijón, Spain.

Dr. Isha Sharma is a Research Associate from 303 East Superior Street, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine (FSM), Department of Pathology, Chicago, IL, USA. Her research focuses on a Myo-inositol-fortified diet rescue kidney against diabetic nephropathy. She will present her work at the American Society of Nephrology 2021, which will be held on November 2–7, 2021, in San Diego, CA, USA.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, we are pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Diagnostics Travel Award, Dr. Dimple Chudasama, who will be supported with 600 Swiss Francs towards her travel expenses to attend an international conference in 2018.

Dr. Dimple Chudasama is a postdoctoral researcher from The Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. Her research focuses on liquid biopsy approaches to cancer diagnostics and prognosis, particularly in cancers with poor survival rates such as lung and ovarian cancers. She will present her work at the 3rd EACR conference on the theme “Making it Personal: Cancer Precision Medicine”, which will be held on 5–7 November 2018 in Bergamo, Italy.

It was a very difficult decision with such high-quality applications for the awards, and we would like to thank all the applicants for their participation and all of the Award Committee members for their evaluation of the excellent applications. We congratulate Dr. Dimple Chudasama on her accomplishment.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Kjaer
Chair of the Evaluation Committee
Editor-in-Chief of Diagnostics

We are pleased to announce the winner of the Diagnostics 2016 Travel Award, Dr. Jan Van den Stock, who will be supported with 800 Swiss Francs towards his travel expenses to attend international conferences
in 2016.

Dr. Jan Van den Stock is a clinical psychologist and post-doctoral FWOfellow at KU Leuven, Belgium. His professional track record consists of a combination of research and clinical activities. His research focuses on the behavioral and neural correlates of socio-emotional processing in neurodegenerative disorders. Dr. Van den Stock combined his PhD-track with neuropsychological work in ambulant and residential neurology and psychiatry settings. In 2010, he obtained his PhD (Bodies and background: Contextual influences on perception of emotional body expressions). For his first postdoc term (FWO), he moved back from the Netherlands (Tilburg University) to Leuven and co-founded the laboratory headed by Prof. Dr. Mathieu Vandenbulcke to build on the work of his PhD. He investigated the behavioral and neural underpinnings of emotion and body perception in normal and clinical populations using psychophysical and functional and structural imaging [(f)MRI] techniques. Currently, Dr. Van den Stock is in the fifth year of his post-doc track. He has (co)authored 37 peer-reviewed articles and they are frequently cited (H-index = 15, according to Web of Science) and include recommendation by Faculty of 1000 (http://f1000.com/prime/13339967).

We wish to congratulate Dr. Jan Van den Stock for his accomplishments.