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We are proud to recognize the winners of MDPI’s 2021 Travel Awards in the “Medicine & Pharmacology” category for their outstanding presentations and to present them with the prize.

MDPI journals regularly offer travel awards to encourage talented junior scientists to present their latest research at academic conferences in specific fields, which helps to increase their influence.

The winners mentioned below were carefully selected by the journal editors based on an outline of their research and the work to be presented at an academic conference.

We would like to warmly congratulate the Travel Awards winners for the year 2021 and wish them the greatest success with their future research endeavors. MDPI will continue to enhance communication among scientists.

Biomedicines:

• Soheil Saeedi, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Dentistry Journal:

• Shawn Alexander Hallett, University of Michigan, USA

Medicines:

• Claire Albert, Yale University, USA

Pharmaceuticals:

• Raquel Filipa da Costa Viveiros, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
• Patrick Jim Küppers, University Hospital Bonn, Germany

In order to acknowledge our reviewers, who so generously dedicate their time to reviewing papers, and demonstrate diligence, professionalism, and timeliness when reviewing manuscripts, MDPI journals regularly offer outstanding reviewer awards to scholars who participate in the peer-review process.

We are proud to recognize winners for the year 2021 in the “Medicine & Pharmacology” category for their outstanding contributions among extensive competition by presenting them with an Outstanding Reviewer Award.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all of the winners on their achievement. MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Cancers:

• Antonio G. Solimando, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
• Chenghui Li, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA
• Joaquim Carreras, Tokai University, Japan
• Pierfrancesco Franco, University of Turin School of Medicine, Italy
• Laurentiu Pop, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA

Current Oncology:

• Margaret Fitch, University of Toronto, Canada
• Caroline Mariano, BC Cancer Agency, Canada; University of British Columbia, Canada

Healthcare:

• Naser Alsharairi, Griffith University, Australia
• Peter W. Choate, Mount Royal University, Canada
• Qin Xiang Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Journal of Clinical Medicine:

• Giulio Francesco, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
• Sebastian Schnaubelt, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
• Olga Kislitsina, Northwestern University, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, USA

Journal of Personalized Medicine:

• Onofrio Laselva, University of Foggia, Italy
• Ping-Hsun Wu, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
• Vladimir Vladimirov, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
• Mauro Giuffrè, University of Trieste, Italy

Medical Sciences:

• Erika Palmieri, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, USA

Tomography:

• Anjul Khadria, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

The purpose of our Best Paper Awards is to promote and recognize the most impactful contributions published within MDPI journals.

The editors of each journal carefully selected reviews and research papers through a rigorous judging process based on criteria such as the scientific merit, overall impact, and the quality of presentation of the papers published in the journal last year.

We are honored to present the winners in the “Medicine & Pharmacology” category, who were selected amongst extensive competition, and congratulate the authors for their outstanding scientific publications.

MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Antibiotics:

• “Antimicrobial and Synergistic Effects of Commercial Piperine and Piperlongumine in Combination with Conventional Antimicrobials”

by Eunice Ego Mgbeahuruike, Milla Stålnacke, Heikki Vuorela and Yvonne Holm

Antibiotics 2019, 8(2), 55; doi:10.3390/antibiotics8020055

• “Antibiotic Discovery: Where Have We Come from, Where Do We Go?”

by Bernardo Ribeiro da Cunha, Luís P. Fonseca and Cecília R. C. Calado

Antibiotics 2019, 8(2), 45; doi:10.3390/antibiotics8020045

Dentistry Journal:

• “Regeneration of the Periodontal Apparatus in Aggressive Periodontitis Patients”

by Zvi Artzi, Shiran Sudri, Ori Platner and Avital Kozlovsky

Dent. J. 2019, 7(1), 29; doi:10.3390/dj7010029

• “Treatment of Peri-Implant Mucositis with Repeated Application of Chlorhexidine Chips or Gel during Supportive Therapy—A Randomized Clinical Trial”

by Philipp Sahrmann, Cyrill Bettschart, Daniel B. Wiedemeier, Ahmed Al-Majid, Thomas Attin and Patrick R. Schmidlin

Dent. J. 2019, 7(4), 115; doi:10.3390/dj7040115

Healthcare:

• “Two-Year Use of Care Robot Zora in Dutch Nursing Homes: An Evaluation Study”

by Chantal Huisman and Helianthe Kort

Healthcare 2019, 7(1), 31; doi:10.3390/healthcare7010031

• “The Interlinked Rising Epidemic of Insufficient Sleep and Diabetes Mellitus”

by Vijay Kumar Chattu, Soosanna Kumary Chattu, Deepa Burman, David Warren Spence and Seithikurippu R. Pandi-Perumal

Healthcare 2019, 7(1), 37; doi:10.3390/healthcare7010037

Journal of Clinical Medicine:

• “Periodontitis: A Multifaceted Disease of Tooth-Supporting Tissues”

by Eija Könönen, Mervi Gursoy and Ulvi Kahraman Gursoy

Clin. Med. 2019, 8(8), 1135; doi:10.3390/jcm8081135

• “The Immunomodulatory Functions of Mesenchymal Stromal/Stem Cells Mediated via Paracrine Activity”

by Yueyuan Zhou, Yusuke Yamamoto, Zhongdang Xiao and Takahiro Ochiya

Clin. Med. 2019, 8(7), 1025; doi:10.3390/jcm8071025

• “Optimizing Detection of Kidney Transplant Injury by Assessment of Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA via Massively Multiplex PCR”

by Tara K. Sigdel, Felipe Acosta Archila, Tudor Constantin, Sarah A. Prins, Juliane Liberto, Izabella Damm, Parhom Towfighi, Samantha Navarro, Eser Kirkizlar, Zachary P. Demko, Allison Ryan, Styrmir Sigurjonsson, Reuben D. Sarwal, Szu-Chuan Hseish, Chitranon Chan-On, Bernhard Zimmermann, Paul R. Billings, Solomon Moshkevich and Minnie M. Sarwal

Clin. Med. 2019, 8(1), 19; doi:10.3390/jcm8010019

Medicina:

• “Tumor Microenvironment”

by Borros Arneth

Medicina 2020, 56(1), 15; doi: 10.3390/medicina56010015

• “Comparative Epidemiology and Resistance Trends of Common Urinary Pathogens in a Tertiary-Care Hospital: A 10-Year Surveillance Study”

by Márió Gajdács, Marianna Ábrók, Andrea Lázár, and Katalin Burián

Medicina 2019, 55(7), 356; doi: 10.3390/medicina55070356

Pharmaceutics:

• “3D Printed Pellets (Miniprintlets): A Novel, Multi-Drug, Controlled Release Platform Technology”

by Atheer Awad, Fabrizio Fina, Sarah J. Trenfield, Pavanesh Patel, Alvaro Goyanes, Simon Gaisford and Abdul W. Basit.

Pharmaceutics 2019, 11(4), 148; doi:10.3390/pharmaceutics11040148

• “Mathematical Modeling of Release Kinetics from Supramolecular Drug Delivery Systems”

by Constantin Mircioiu, Victor Voicu, Valentina Anuta, Andra Tudose, Christian Celia, Donatella Paolino, Massimo Fresta, Roxana Sandulovici and Ion Mircioiu

Pharmaceutics 2019, 11(3), 140; doi:10.3390/pharmaceutics11030140

The 2021 citation metrics have been officially released in Scopus!

We are pleased to announce that 182 MDPI journals are included, of which:

● 21 journals received their first CiteScore.
● 85% of journals increased their CiteScore from 2020.
● 155 journals (85%) ranked above average, in at least one category.

The following 65 MDPI journals (36%) ranked among the top 25% of journals, in at least one category:

Source: 2021 CiteScores™ (Elsevier)

Date: 15 June 2022
Time: 14:30 (CEST)
Webinar ID: 871 1746 2760
Register here: https://jpm-1.sciforum.net/
Participation fee: None
Language: English
Webinar keywords: radiation, radiotherapy, sensitivity, radiation oncology, biomarkers, cancer, X-rays
Link to related Special Issue: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jpm/special_issues/radiation_cancer

Webinar Chair and Speakers:

Chair:

• Dr. Christophe Badie, Cancer Mechanisms and Biomarkers Group, UK Health Security Agency, Harwell Campus, UK

Speakers:

• Dr. Elisa Placidi, UOC Radioterapia Oncologica, Dipartimento di Diagnostica per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Italy
• Prof. Dr. Susan M. Bailey, Department of Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences, Cancer Biology & Comparative Oncology University Program of Research and Scholarly Excellence, Colorado State University, USA

If you have any questions about this webinar, please contact jpm.webinar@mdpi.com.

We look forward to your participation in this event.

JPM Editorial Office

We are excited to welcome the following recognized researchers, who recently joined the Editorial Board of the Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM, ISSN: 2075-4426):

Name: Dr. Cristian Ripoli
Affiliation: Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome, Italy

Name: Dr. Jeonghyun Ahn
Affiliation: Department of Cell Biology, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA 

Name: Dr. Sheng Ho
Affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Chi Mei Medical Center, Graduate Institute of Medical Science, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan 710, Taiwan

Name: Dr. Ming-Chao Tsai
Affiliation: 1. Division of Hepato-Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung 83301, Taiwan
2. Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 83301, Taiwan

Name: Dr. Erik Wilms
Affiliation: Hospital Pharmacy, The Hague Hospitals, 2545 AB The Hague, The Netherlands

Name: Dr. Sara Bravaccini
Affiliation: IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) “Dino Amadori”, via Maroncelli 40, 47014 Meldola, Italy

Name: Prof. Dr. Giovanni Squadrito
Affiliation: Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, 98100 Messina, Italy

Name: Prof. Dr. Alfredo Berruti
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Specialità Medico-Chirurgiche, Scienze Radiologiche e Sanità Pubblica, Brescia, Italy 

Name: Prof. Dr. Cheng-Hsien Lu
Affiliation: 1. Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung and Chang Gung University 123, Ta-Pei Road, Niao Sung district, Kaohsiung City 83304, Taiwan
2. Department of Biological Science, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung City 80424, Taiwan

Name: Dr. Ceres Fernandez Rozadilla
Affiliation: 1. Grupo de Medicina Xenómica, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2. Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago (IDIS), 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Name: Dr. Francesca Stillitano
Affiliation: Cardiovascular Department, University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU), Utrecht, The Netherlands

Name: Dr. Hui-Hua Hsiao
Affiliation: Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Name: Prof. Dr. Juan J. Salazar Corral
Affiliation: Instituto de Investigaciones Oftalmológicas Ramón Castroviejo, Departamento Oftalmología y ORL, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Name: Dr. Margarida Maria Fernandes Baptista e Silva
Affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Human Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Name: Dr. Sara Llufriu
Affiliation: Center of Neuroimmunology, Laboratory of Advanced Imaging in Neuroimmunological Diseases, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Institut d’Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) and Universitat de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain

Name: Prof. Dr. Won Hyuk Chang
Affiliation: Department of Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine, Center for Prevention and Rehabilitation, Heart Vascular Stroke Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 06351, Korea

Name: Dr. Mircea Tampa
Affiliation: Department of Dermatology, “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania

We wish them every success both in their research and in the development of the journal.

Further details about the Editorial Board can be found at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jpm/editors. 

JPM Editorial Office

We are pleased to announce the list of the Top 10 Cited Papers published in 2020 and 2021 in the Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM, ISSN: 2075-4426):

1. “Wise Management of Ovarian Cancer: On the Cutting Edge”
by Stergios Boussios, Christos Mikropoulos, Eleftherios Samartzis, Peeter Karihtala, Michele Moschetta, Matin Sheriff, Afroditi Karathanasi, Agne Sadauskaite, Elie Rassy and Nicholas Pavlidis

2. “XGBoost Improves Classification of MGMT Promoter Methylation Status in IDH1 Wildtype Glioblastoma”
by Nguyen Quoc Khanh Le, Duyen Thi Do, Fang-Ying Chiu, Edward Kien Yee Yapp, Hui-Yuan Yeh and Cheng-Yu Chen

3. “Applications of Machine Learning Predictive Models in the Chronic Disease Diagnosis”
by Gopi Battineni, Getu Gamo Sagaro, Nalini Chinatalapudi and Francesco Amenta

4. “Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms Affected in ALS”
by Laura Le Gall, Ekene Anakor, Owen Connolly, Udaya Geetha Vijayakumar, William J. Duddy and Stephanie Duguez

5. “A Rare Case of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation Temporally Associated to the COVID-19 Vaccine Administration”
by Vincenzo D’Agostino, Ferdinando Caranci, Alberto Negro, Valeria Piscitelli, Bernardino Tuccillo, Fabrizio Fasano, Giovanni Sirabella, Ines Marano, Vincenza Granata, Roberta Grassi, Davide Pupo and Roberto Grassi

6. “Gallstone Disease, Obesity and the Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes Ratio as a Possible Biomarker of Gut Dysbiosis”
by Irina N. Grigor’eva

7. “A Research on the Classification and Applicability of the Mobile Health Applications”
by Ivan Miguel Pires, Gonçalo Marques, Nuno M. Garcia, Francisco Flórez-Revuelta, Vasco Ponciano and Salome Oniani

8. “The 35th Anniversary of the Discovery of EPR Effect: A New Wave of Nanomedicines for Tumor-Targeted Drug Delivery—Personal Remarks and Future Prospects”
by Hiroshi Maeda

9. “Returning Results in the Genomic Era: Initial Experiences of the eMERGE Network”
by Georgia L. Wiesner, Alanna Kulchak Rahm, Paul Appelbaum, Sharon Aufox, Sarah T. Bland, Carrie L. Blout, Kurt D. Christensen, Wendy K. Chung, Ellen Wright Clayton, Robert C. Green, Margaret H. Harr, Nora Henrikson, Christin Hoell, Ingrid A. Holm, Gail P. Jarvik, Iftikhar J. Kullo, Philip E. Lammers, Eric B. Larson, Noralane M. Lindor, Maddalena Marasa, Melanie F. Myers, Josh F. Peterson, Cynthia A. Prows, James D. Ralston, Hila Milo Rasouly, Richard R. Sharp, Maureen E. Smith, Sara L. Van Driest, Janet L. Williams, Marc S. Williams, Julia Wynn and Kathleen A. Leppig

10. “Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease Early Diagnosis”
by Eva Ausó, Violeta Gómez-Vicente and Gema Esquiva

Further details about the Top 10 Cited Papers can be found at the following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jpm/stats.

JPM Editorial Office

We are excited to welcome the following recognized researchers, who recently joined the Editorial Board of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN: 2075-4426):

Name: Prof. Dr. Ping-Ho Chen
Affiliation: School of Dentistry, College of Dental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, No. 100 Shih-Chuan 1st Road, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan

Name: Dr. Waqar Rashid
Affiliation: Medical School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

Name: Prof. Dr. Richard Rokyta
Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University,  304 60 Pilsen, Czech Republic

Name: Prof. Dr. Marco Aiello
Affiliation: Institute for Architecture of Application Systems Service Computing

Name: Prof. Dr. Xiaomei Cong
Affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

Name: Prof. Dr. Hong-Sheng Wang
Affiliation: College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Name: Dr. Sigve Nakken
Affiliation: Department of Tumor Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Name: Prof. Dr. Jochen Schneider
Affiliation: Department of Medical Translational Research, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

Name: Prof. Dr. Paraskevi Katsaounou
Affiliations: 1. Pulmonary Dept of First ICU Clinic, Evangelismos Hospital, 10676 Athens, Greece
2. School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 10561 Athens, Greece

Name: Dr. Ivo Bokoski
Affiliation: Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Largo A. Gemelli, 00168 Roma, Italy

Name: Prof. Dr. Carmen Burtea
Affiliation: Department of General, Organic and Biomedical Chemistry, NMR and Molecular Imaging Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Mons, Avenue Maistriau 19, Mendeleev Building, B-7000 Mons, Belgium

Name: Dr. Domenico Di Raimondo
Affiliation: Division of Internal Medicine and Stroke Care, Department of Promoting Health, Maternal-Infant, Excellence and Internal and Specialized Medicine (Promise) G. D'Alessandro, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Name: Dr. Norio Yamamoto
Affiliations: 1. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Miyamoto Orthopedic Hospital, Okayama, Japan
2. Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Name: Dr. Lea Bentur
Affiliation: Pediatric Pulmonary Institute, Ruth Children Hospital, Rambam Health Care Center, Haifa, Israel

We wish them every success both in their research and in the development of the journal.

Further details about the Editorial Board can be found at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jpm/editors. 

JPM Editorial Office

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Kenneth P.H. Pritzker has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of “Clinical Medicine, Cell, and Organism Physiology”, Prof. Dr. K. Ray Chaudhuri has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of “Methodology, Drug and Device Discovery”, and Prof. Dr. Enrico Mini has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of “Pharmacogenetics” in the Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM; ISSN 2075-4426). We look forward to their contribution to the continued success of the journal.

Name: Prof. Dr. Kenneth P.H. Pritzker
Affiliation: Professor Emeritus, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, 6 Queens Pk Crescent W, F, Toronto, ON M5S 3H2, Canada
Interests: biomineralization: normal and pathological; pathogenesis of degenerative joint diseases, osteoarthritis; pathogenesis of crystal deposits in tissues; connective tissues as biomaterials; novel biomaterials; biomedical applications of fullerenes; connective tissue neoplasia; ribosomal RNA and its pathology; neoplasia risk assessment using novel biomarkers and histo-/cytomorphometry; ultrasound enabled histologic and cytologic technologies; novel biomarkers for spondylitis and other chronic inflammatory diseases; abiotic stress

Name: Prof. Dr. K. Ray Chaudhuri
Affiliation: Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, The Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, King's College London, Cutcombe Road, London SE5 9RT, UK
Interests: Parkinson's disease; movement disorders

Name: Prof. Dr. Enrico Mini
Affiliation: Department of Health Sciences, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy
Interests: gastrointestinal cancers; tumor drug resistance; biomarkers; pharmacogenetics; pharmacogenomics; translational studies

JPM Editorial Office

On behalf of the Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM, ISSN: 2075-4426), we would like to introduce a new feature, "Editor's choice articles", to highlight outstanding papers published in the journal. The Editor’s choice articles will be selected by the editors, and will include original articles that contain important and impactful findings, as well as review articles that are excellently written. With the introduction of this feature, readers can expect timely and useful highlights of recent articles in the journal, and deserving authors will receive more attention for their excellent contributions. We hope that this feature will enhance your reading pleasure and experience with JPM.

JPM Editorial Office